Dori Lewis
MA, MEd, LPC-S
dori@elementalpsychedelics.com
I am a co-founder of Elemental Psychedelics and the owner-operator of Reflective Healing Center in Fort Collins, CO, a psychotherapy group practice and licensed healing center that specializes in psychedelic therapy using ketamine, psilocybin mushrooms, integration therapy, transpersonal psychotherapy, and providing clinical supervision. I am a licensed Natural Medicine Clinical Facilitator in Colorado, Clinical Director at Elemental Psychedelics, and a clinical consultant for mushroom medicine work.
As a clinician in practice for 10 years, I blend transpersonal psychology, depth work, and psychedelic-assisted therapy within a model that centers the therapeutic relationship. To date, I have stewarded over 100 ketamine therapy sessions, more than 200 mushroom sessions, and numerous group ceremonies.
I have also developed a mentor relationship with an elder from the Zapotec lineage in Oaxaca, Mexico, from whom I learn about the tradition of mushroom medicine. Using my clinical background, personal psychedelic experience, and shamanic training, I strive to bridge traditional counseling practice with the transpersonal and existential realms.
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Through Elemental Psychedelics and Reflective Healing Center, I offer a model of psychedelic training, education and clinical stewardship that attempts to invite others to bridge western thought with traditional wisdom. Through my work, I seek to honor the mystical and relational components that are at play in psilocybin and other psychedelic healing modalities.
Previously, I served as a faculty member for the Psychedelic Research and Training Institute where I taught about ethics, ceremony, and cultural appropriation to mental health professionals learning about ketamine-assisted therapy. I went on to develop and lead both Elemental’s ketamine-assisted therapy training and mushroom facilitator training. As an educator and trainer, I have delivered a number of talks for the professional psychedelic community through the Nowak Society and other guest lectures, including the importance of psychedelic facilitator ethics through the lens of existential shadow work as a main stage speaker at the Emergence Festival in 2022. Most recently, I am first author on the forthcoming book “The Psychedelic Mushroom Integration Workbook: Nurturing Growth, Healing, and Transformation with Psilocybin."
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As interest in psychedelic medicine continues to grow, I feel it is the responsibility of those who have a voice in our professional and psychedelic communities to stay informed and intercept and challenge disinformation and questionable ethical practices that are being put out into the public arena. I've been featured on numerous podcasts and am always seeking opportunities to educate the public and other professionals about the shadow aspects of mushroom medicine work and the urgent need for strong ethics and good boundaries in this realm. Presently, I am developing a specialization in supporting people who have been harmed in psychedelic spaces, including anything from egregious ethical violations to subtle boundary violations that result in negative or harmful impact to participants.
Our own training program, Elemental Psychedelics, is the latest birthing: a women-led training center providing training through a feminine lens by guiding facilitators to tap into their own unique offerings and their own sense of right relationship in the psychedelic space.