The SoundMind Psychedelic Facilitators Membership Program

Hi! Welcome to our Membership Portal.

Requirements to apply for our membership program include:

• Having taken our Foundations of Psychedelic Therapies (if you haven’t taken it yet, you may still apply here) or being a therapist or clinician (or accepted to grad school) if you have not taken the course

• Interest in Psychedelic Facilitation with an intention of potentially engaging in this work down the road

• Interest in ongoing community building and support

The cost of membership is $35/month. You can cancel at any time. If you are able to donate more than $35/month to help us grow, please use this link to go to the monthly donation portal.

Membership includes:

• Approximately once-per-month online teaching sessions with leaders in the psychedelic field

• Ability to ask questions and interact with these leaders

• Community support with ongoing programming

• Access to the meeting recording that stays up for 2 months

• There will be more as well, join us on this journey! All activities are optional - the main goal of this program is to keep you connected.

Note: If $35/month is cost-prohibitive for you, please email us at info@soundmind.center so we can come up with an individualized plan for you.
Also note: if you are a clinician or facilitator and have not yet taken our Foundations of Psychedelic Therapies, you may opt to apply to membership anyways. Applying isn’t a guarantee of acceptance.

Our former guests:

Rodney Garcia (Church of the Eagle and Condor)

Rodney Garcia is a Curandero and ceremonial practitioner of the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition (PMT). He also is an apprentice of the Shipibo Ayahuasca and Master Plant tradition working under Enrique López Fasanando, at Inkan Kena Centro Espiritual in the Peruvian Amazon. Rodney holds a Medical Doctorate specialized in Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine. He is a licensed and Board Certified Anesthesiologist practicing in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His passions for medicine, health, and wellness extend beyond Anesthesiology and the operating room and are expressed through various western medicine modalities including Lifestyle and Integrative Medicine, as well as Body, Mind, and Spiritual practices.

Spiritual, medical, and food sovereignty are of vital importance to him and, in alignment with this overarching approach to integral health, Rodney established and co-owns a regenerative, permaculture farm and homestead in the high desert environment of central New Mexico. Rodney and his partner are in the process of establishing a Ceremonial retreat and Wellness Center in Mexico, in the town of Tomatlan. The Center will serve as a traditional medicines practice and plant medicine educational center for the local communities and international visitors.

CRISTIE STRONGMAN, MHC-LP

Cristie works with individuals, couples, and groups utilizing a humanistic approach to focus on the whole individual and stress concepts such as free will, self-efficacy, and self-actualization. She advocates for improving the understanding of neurodiversity in mental health, specifically for BIPOC populations in the mental health care system. Rather than concentrating on dysfunction, Cristie strives to help people see their life’s ongoing journey as an endless source of wisdom and draw on internal strengths with innovative methods. Her specialty lies in helping clients with ADHD, learning disabilities, anxiety, depression, PTSD, relational issues, low-self-esteem, and loss of purpose.

Cristie completed a dual Masters degree in Counseling Psychology at Columbia University as well as a Masters in Latin American and Caribbean Studies, where her studies focused primarily on ritual and urban shamanism. She is a trainee of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) in MDMA-assisted psychotherapy. Cristie is currently working with MAPS on an FDA approved clinical trial study, as an investigator and co-therapist, examining whether MDMA-assisted therapy can help heal the psychological and emotional damage caused by sexual assault, war, violent crime, and other traumas. She is also a trainer to other professionals in psychedelic integration and psychedelic assisted-therapy. She is trained in cultural competency to work specifically with diverse minority populations, and is a fierce ally to LGBTQ+ folks. Cristie is bilingual and can also conduct sessions in Spanish.

Emma Knighton, MA, LMHC, RYT

I hold a M.A. in Counseling Psychology from Bastyr University, a Graduate level certificate in Psychedelic Assisted-Therapies and Research from The California Institute of Integral Studies, and a Master’s level certificate in Holistic Health from St. Catherine University. I am also a registered yoga teacher. My therapeutic approach encompasses the integration of therapy, yoga, and psychedelic practices. My work with clients is based in learning safe embodiment, deep listening to self and intuition, and curiosity into the possibility of the present moment. My work has taught me that trauma shows up in many forms, and that our bodies and consciousness have the ability to teach us what our minds may have difficulty accessing and expressing.

My personal practice with altered consciousness states has been integral to my own trauma healing and personal growth. Meditation, Holotropic Breathwork, and psychedelic medicine work provide me a space to enter the depths of my subconscious and connect to resources inside and outside of myself. I hold sacred my relationships with the many facets of self and the greater sense of collective love consciousness, for these are my greatest teachers.

Pierre Bouchard, MA, LPC

Pierre Bouchard is a Licensed Professional Counselor with a private ketamine practice in Boulder, CO. He specializes in blending somatics, embodiment, attachment theory, and trauma therapy with ketamine-assisted psychotherapy. A graduate of Naropa University (in Contemplative Psychotherapy), he has trained in several somatic psychotherapy modalities, most recently the Hakomi Method under Melissa Grace, and currently, in Ido Portal’s movement system. He supervises therapists around ketamine work. He has maintained a meditation practice for 20 years, and in his spare time, works as a vinyl DJ.

Brian Pilecki, PhD

Dr. Brian Pilecki is a clinical psychologist at Portland Psychotherapy that specializes in the treatment of anxiety disorders (OCD, generalized anxiety, social anxiety, panic disorder), trauma and PTSD, and matters related to the use of psychedelics. He completed a post-doctoral fellowship at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and practices from an orientation based in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). Brian also has extensive experience in the areas of mindfulness and meditation, and incorporates them into his therapy with clients. He is an active researcher and has published on topics such as anxiety disorders, mindfulness, and the relationship between theory and practice in psychotherapy. At Portland Psychotherapy, Brian is also involved in research in the use of psychedelics for the treatment of mental health problems.