Becoming a Psychedelic Practitioner: Ask Us Anything with Elemental Co-founders

What’s really involved in facilitating a mushroom journey? How could ketamine therapy help my clients? How do I know I’m truly ready to step into medicine stewardship?

If you’re curious about offering legal psychedelic services, but have questions – this free webinar is for you. Join Elemental Co-founders, Dori Lewis, LPC and Dr. Shannon Hughes, as they answer your queries on anything related to the path of psychedelic facilitation, their approach to training and education at Elemental Psychedelics, and whatever else you’d like to know!

This is also an opportunity to get to know the faces behind Elemental and what drives them to provide psychedelic training programs rooted in safe practice, ethical stewardship, and honoring your unique gifts as a practitioner.

Whether you are a clinical professional, wellness practitioner, or just curious about the path, we’d love for you to join us.

About our Co-founders

Dori Lewis (she/her) is a licensed psychotherapist, clinical supervisor, and co-founder of Elemental Psychedelics. She is also the owner of Reflective Healing Center in Fort Collins, Colorado, a psychotherapy group practice and licensed healing center specializing in psychedelic-assisted therapy, including ketamine and psilocybin, as well as integration therapy and transpersonal psychotherapy. She is a licensed Natural Medicine Clinical Facilitator in Colorado and serves as a clinical consultant in mushroom medicine work. With over a decade of clinical experience, Dori integrates transpersonal psychology, depth-oriented therapy, and psychedelic-assisted modalities within a relational framework that centers the therapeutic alliance. She has facilitated over 200 psilocybin sessions and numerous group ceremonies, bringing both clinical rigor and experiential depth to her work. She is also the first author of the forthcoming book The Psychedelic Mushroom Integration Workbook: Nurturing Growth, Healing, and Transformation with Psilocybin.

Shannon Hughes (she/her) is a researcher, educator, and community organizer. She is a co-founder and Program Director of Elemental Psychedelics, a women-led training organization that centers education, experience, and ethics in psychedelic care. As a former tenured professor, Shannon has published on the sociopolitical context around psychoactive drugs, the drug testing process, and users’ first hand experiences with psychiatric and psychedelic medicines. In 2017, she co-founded a Colorado-based non-profit, The Nowak Society, with a mission to build and organize psychedelic communities - particularly professional communities - to give voice to the essential values and pressing issues of the psychedelic movement in Colorado. Shannon is a grant writer for Yarrow Collective and provides programmatic support for new initiatives. In her private practice, Shannon blends spirituality with inner guidance coaching and psilocybin mushroom journey work. She is also co-author of the forthcoming book The Psychedelic Mushroom Integration Workbook: Nurturing Growth, Healing, and Transformation with Psilocybin.