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, and my safe place to escape to. I gravitated to Oregon after a summer road trip with my to-be-husband, and it has become our second home. Here we felt good to raise our children, consciously, drug and alcohol-free. When our children were young, we both agreed we needed therapy to not repeat the harmful parenting patterns of corporal punishment that we both received. Therapy not only helped me understand my blind spots, but also how I was a (COA) child of an alcoholic parent exacerbated by their traits of undiagnosed borderline & covert narcissistic personality disorder. If you relate and want to learn more about how this affected you, this two part goverment study is an excellent read: Personality Subtypes in Adolescent and Adult Children of Alcoholics.

I made an amazing best friend in elementary school who’d eventually introduce me to psilocybin (aka the magic mushroom), the Summer before High School. This was so life-changing to be filled with wonder, questions, the pround presence of divine was all so new to me. This was the very beginning of my awakening to the spiritual world that I didn’t believe in before this eperience. I didnt think a great creator would also create so much suffering and pain It was my last year of HS when I was invited to participate in a peyote ceremony that would be an initiation to completely transform my life from one of depression and dissociation to 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 female pioner in serving mother medicine. She owns and operates the Spirit Vine Ayahuasca Retreat Center, which are trans-denominational ceremonies for all walks of life. It was at her healing retreat that my passion for spiritual development and journeying with psychedelic plant medicine was ignited. It was during a ceremony where I saw my future progression, seeing my daughter before she was born, and learning one of my purposes was psychedelic facilitation. Aya has been my ancestral healer, as with all telepathic 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 wounds and trauma.

After getting my BS in Kinesiology, Human Movement Studies, and working as a Physical Therapy Aide practicing upledger’s CranioSacral Therapy Technique, I also studied herbal plant medicine. 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 healing from Don Alverto Taxo, 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, I micro-dosed psilocybin to deal with the stress that came with all of the division. Fast forward to October of 2022 when I began Innertrek; I’ve since graduated and have been licensed by the state of Oregon to be a state-licensed practitioner of Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy. I’m also an Educator at The Changa Institute, and I’m teaching 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 50 wonderful people in their 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 no matter what. 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 this is not the right modality.