Full Bio:

Hi, I’m Tracey! I’m married to my soul mate husband Justin of 21 years, and together we have two amazing adult children! We live in the Pacific Northwest with our son who’s attending The University of Oregon this Fall. Our daughter lives in Florida and works as a corps de ballet dancer for Miami City Ballet. Originally I grew up in West Marin County California, surrounded by lots of beautiful wooded nature. The forest trails were my saving grace, my safe place and refuge. I also learned a lot about nature from my Dad, an amateur mycofile who was used as a resource for David Aurora’s book, “All That The Rain Promises And More.” I gravitated toward Oregon after a summer road trip with my husband, and it’s since become our true home. When our children were young, we both realized we needed therapy to not repeat the generational trauma of harmful parenting patterns due to emotional immaturity and corporal punishment. Therapy not only helped me understand my blind spots, but also how being a child of an alcoholic (COA) shaped my faulty self percetpion. If you want to learn more about the resulting 5 personality types, scapegoats, etc., here’s an excellent two-part government study: Personality Subtypes in Adolescent and Adult Children of Alcoholics. I must gieve a disclaimer that in my years of doing this: Alcohol is the hardest of all drugs to quit, so I may need to refer you to a rehab center using Ayahuasca or an Ibogaine clinic if habot is daily/severe. San Pedro or Peyote may also be helpful and we could discuss on our meetings.

My healing journey started with a best friend, I found in elementary school. She’d had the complete opposite upbringing of myself. She was smart, calm, respectful, honest, and emotionally regulated. She had no trouble focusing or dyslexia (as I did), but was valedictorian of our middle school (And High school as well). I spent as much time as I could learning from her since I looked up to her as a role model. She’d eventually introduce me to psilocybin, the magic mushroom during the Summer before High School. This introduction was so life-changing! It was all so new to me to be filled with wonder and the profound presence of the divine. It would be the very beginning of my spiritual awakening. As a high schooler I experimented with pot a handful of times, but it never really agreed with me. I also tried pure MDMA once which was amazing, only to try it again and find out it was not that, but something that almost killed me. However, I consistently drank and developed an alcohol use disorder (AUD), which went completely unnoticed or acknowledged, as did my underlying depression. It wasn’t until the end of my last year of High School when I was invited to a peyote ceremony that would be an initiation to completely transform my life from one of depression and dissociation to self-love and self-actualization.

I went to college in Santa Barbara and then San Francisco. In 2003, before graduating from SFSU, I traveled to Manaus brazil, partaking in one of the first group ayahuasca ceremonies led by Silvia Polovoy, a psychotherapist pioneering healing with nature’s strongest hallucinogenic medicine. She now owns and operates the Spirit Vine Ayahuasca Retreat Center, which offers trans-denominational ceremonies for all walks of life. It was at her healing retreat that my passion for spiritual development and psychotherapy with plant medicine was ignited. It was during a ceremony when I saw my daughter before she was even born, and also witnessed myself facilitating a psychedelic retreat. Aya has been my ancestral healer, as with all telepathic portal medicines the most important part of resolving life’s problems is one’s intention going into the journey. It’s been my dream for two decades to be able to finally legally help people get answers, resolving and healing their traumas, big and small.

I got a BS in Kinesiology, Human Movement Studies, and worked as a Physical Therapy Aide practicing upledger’s CranioSacral Therapy & Somatic Emotional Release Technique. After some time spent with Juliette de Baïracli Levy, I was inspired to go to naturopathic medical school. My husband and I moved to Portland Oregon where I was to attend, but instead, I became a Clinical Herbalist. I attended The Traditional School of Western Herbalism (aka Vital Ways Institute) and discovered I could help countless people overcome acute and chronic ailments, that conventional medicine failed to resolve. I’ve worked in informal settings, wellness departments, and medical clinics. Healing with plants, fungi, cacti, and ayahuasca has been a lifelong path on the journey to becoming a facilitator of psychedelic medicine- for those stuck in their path. I have also attended several workshops at The Foundation for Shamanic Studies with Michael Harner and Sandra Ingerman. I also had the honor of receiving a shamanic cleansing from healer Don Alverto Taxo, who was given the highest honor of Master Iachak by the Shamanic Council of South America.

In 2007 my husband and I went to visit Paul Stamets for his Stamets Cultivation Seminar to learn how to grow medicinal mushrooms. Growing mushrooms is a passion, so throughout the pandemic we taught ourselves to grow mushrooms for micro and macrodosing. Fast forward to October of 2022 when I began Innertrek Psilocybin Training Program; I’ve since graduated and have been licensed by the state of Oregon to be a state-licensed practitioner of Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy. Simultaneously I was a psychedelic Educator at The Changa Institute, graduating the very first facilitators in Oregon. I taught the skills of Preparation, Individual and Group Facilitation, as well as Integration coaching and support.

Since getting my license in 2023, I’ve served over 150 wonderful people in their healing and personal growth. To be a trusted witness to what clients discover about themselves is the highest honor and joy. I love helping people feel safe to be in their feelings, that have otherwise been suppressed or numbed out with addictions. While we can not repair what others have done, it is our responsibility to heal ourselves. Mushrooms have always aided our emotional and spiritual maturation, repairing our relationship with ourselves and therefore our loved ones. This has been done historically in community ceremonies because people rarely heal in isolation. If you are in need of some healing, please reach out so we can figure out the best course of action, even if psilocybin is not the right modality for you.