InnerTrek Team

InnerTrek offers an all-star team of administrators, educators, and advisors who represent a variety of disciplines, backgrounds, and perspectives.

Esteemed guest instructors also join from around the world in support of the effort.

Lead Educators

  • Jason is a seasoned therapist in private practice in Seattle, where he incorporates a deeply humanistic and psychospiritual outlook, informed by a strong core of ethics. Jason has served as lead supervisor with the Zendo Project and has over 15 years of experience in psychedelic facilitation and education in a variety of capacities. He trained in Core Energetics and has a second degree black belt in Aikido.

  • Emma is a somatic trauma therapist, a psychedelic-assisted therapist, and a psychedelic educator, organizer, and leader who focuses on increasing ethics, trauma-informed care culture, and pro-liberation practices in organizations and in psychedelic facilitation work. She previously co-founded the American Psychedelic Practitioners Association and has taught around the country about consent and trauma-informed care practices in psychedelic services.

  • David is an entrepreneur, executive coach, and licensed psilocybin facilitator. His work focuses on helping people live more intentionally and in closer alignment with their values. After a successful entrepreneurial career, David now designs and leads multi-day psilocybin retreats. He has facilitated hundreds of individual and group experiences, with particular expertise in group facilitation and retreat design.

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  • Elyse is a licensed transpersonal psychotherapist, retreat leader, and psychedelic facilitator. Her work blends somatic, eco-psychological, and mindfulness-based approaches to healing. She runs a private practice and also serves as Director of Operations and retreat leader for the nonprofit Right To Heal. Elyse’s work reflects a steadfast commitment to ethics, safety, and helping clients reconnect with themselves and the earth.

Practicum Facilitators

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  • Leonie’s love of being with the forest, rivers, and ocean led her as a young woman to immerse herself into Earth-based spirituality and plant medicine. She studied with some of the great teachers of that time. From these roots she has developed and facilitated programs, professional education, and retreats that center on the art of experiential learning. Leoni is also a Registered Nurse who has assisted women through birth and new parenting for over 35 years. She graduated from InnerTrek’s faciitator training in 2024.

  • Henry, an InnerTrek graduate, is a licensed psilocybin facilitator, shamanic practitioner and hypnotist. He is well versed in the philosophy of perennial wisdom which he uses to guide his clients through the process of awakening. He believes that everyone can learn to connect to their intuition. Henry offers his clients a variety of tools to ignite this process: psilocybin journeys, psychedelic integration, breath work, hypnosis and intuitive counseling.

Administration and Support

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  • Nate was an advisor to Oregon’s Ballot Measure 109 (Psilocybin Services Initiative) and was a founding member of the Craft Cannabis Alliance and the campaign to create interstate adult-use cannabis commerce to accelerate the end of the drug war. He currently facilitates the Plant Medicine Healing Alliance. Along with his brother Aaron, Nathan founded East Fork Cultivars in 2015. He also serves on the Oregon Cannabis Association’s Board of Directors as its Vice Chair and the Co-Chair of its Political Action Committee. He is a leader in Oregon’s political community and served as a Senior Policy Advisor to the Mayor.

  • Alex is a senior operations strategist with nearly two decades of experience helping high-growth organizations build stronger systems, teams, and customer experiences. Her background spans SaaS, tech, and service-focused companies, where she has supported global teams and helped mission-driven founders bring structure to complex ideas. Alex is known as a strategic integrator who turns vision into practical systems that support clarity, sustainable profit, and long-term growth.

  • Nikia is an operations and executive associate with experience supporting administrative, operational, and marketing workflows across multiple industries. She has been working with InnerTrek since October 2024, helping students and staff stay organized and providing essential behind-the-scenes support. Known for her adaptability, attention to detail, and ability to step in quickly around time-sensitive needs, Nikia brings a steady, flexible, and solutions-focused approach to operational support.

Leadership Team

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  • Tom, a seasoned psychotherapist, is Founder and Executive Director of InnerTrek. He was the architect of Oregon’s Measure 109 and led the 2020 campaign to establish Oregon’s unprecedented statewide Psilocybin Services Program. He served as the Chair of Oregon’s Governor-appointed Psilocybin Advisory Board during its pivotal first year, and also established the Sheri Eckert Foundation, a leading philanthropic provider of access to psilocybin training and services through a variety of innovative programs.

  • Lisa is an InnerTrek graduate, a state-licensed facilitator in Oregon and Colorado, and InnerTrek’s Director of Operations. She is also a community developer and seasoned digital artist with over 20 years of experience in digital strategy and relationship management. Throughout her career, Lisa has developed local, national, and international organizations, produced over 500 interactive women-centered events, and was a passionate and impactful advocate for Oregon’s successful 2020 Psilocybin Services Initiative.