Mika

My love for the earth guides all I am and all I offer. Through one-on-one sessions, mentorship, ceremonial containers and wilderness-based initiatory encounters, I foster embodied, relational, and creative ways of being and knowing that transform suffering into joy, despair into empowerment, and isolation into communion.

My work is informed by decades of experience supporting healing through ceremonial work with sacred plants, alongside studies in a weave of disciplines: Ecopsychology, Earth-based Wisdom Ways, Psychedelic Therapy, and Depth and Transpersonal Psychology. The practices that keep me in balance—yoga, writing, music, trail running, and ecstatic dance—continue to convince me of the importance of embedding consciousness-expanding ritual in a web of modalities for embodied integration. As a practitioner in the Santo Daime—a syncretic Amazonian entheogenic religion—all I share is grounded in the animist cosmovision alive in forest medicine traditions, and held in a network of accountability to mentors in Brazil.

I am committed to reciprocity with the wisdom-keepers who tend earth-based lineages, and solidarity with all movements for indigenous sovereignty. A deep bow to the Coast Salish tribes who are the original stewards of the land I call home. This work is gender-identity and poly-affirming, and rooted in decolonial, anti-racist, feminist and neuro-queer theory.

I speak English and Spanish and offer all services at a sliding scale for people with marginalized identities and limited resources.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

  • PhD student in East-West Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies (currently enrolled)

  • MA in East-West Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies (May 2025)

  • Inner Trek’s Psilocybin Facilitator Certification program (March 2023)

  • 8 Limbs Yoga Centers Teacher Training (2015)

  • Vancouver Film School Digital Design Program (2005)

  • Esalen Institute Massage Certification Program (2001)

  • Ida Rolf Institute, Rolfing Trainings 1 & 2 (2001)

  • Naropa University, BA in Ecopsychology and Creative Arts Therapies (1999)