“As I digest the past 3 months, I have more time to reflect on what this training meant to me. I've been in many training programs and this one had a unique flavor to it. I noticed how the small and down to earth component to it is something I appreciate and makes my system feel safe. The understanding of dissociation, the nervous system and the somatic release that is dying to happen has been super insightful. The personal examples that you all shared with us helped me learn one of the most important things I am getting out of this: that showing up as me, Lucia, is great. I don't have to pretend to be more proficient, knowledgeable and have more answers than the ones I have. I simply need to follow the client and care for them. There is an expansive quality about being with someone that I love. I've sat for a few people these past couple of weeks and have loved the experience.”

Lucia LPC, 2021

“Innate Path's training is so much more than a clinical overview of holding space in the psychedelic therapeutic container. This training is very experiential and the modality has been transformative for both me personally and my clients. I have always been drawn to trainings where I get to learn through my own personal therapeutic growth and see other participants heal and grow rather than intellectually take in a conceptual model, and Innate Path offers this in such a beautiful way. Clients who I see using this model have experienced benefits ranging from gaining sobriety for the first time in decades, eliminating dissociative episodes, healing trauma which then allows them to show up with much more spacious kindness in their relationships, and more!”

Aaron LPC, 2021

“As someone who defaults to sharing vulnerability, being in the role of the "client" during the innate path training felt natural and easy; and I felt held by both the instructor and cohort members. What surprised me about my own process was how the waves of deep grief and despair felt satisfying, and literally changed how I occupy my body.”

Diane LPC, 2022

“I took the Innate Path training and found it to be enriching to both my personal and professional life. During the training, I found myself digging into parts of my psyche that I didn't know were there. I had developed so many skills to be an adult and present in a certain way that some things were long buried. I believe that medicine assisted psychotherapy is actually the cutting edge in terms of healing and personal growth. The teachers in the program also inspired me throughout the program to trust myself in things I was already doing with clients like welcoming their whole experience to sessions, speaking about consent and the value of it and validating their own coping mechanisms. Now, that I have completed the training, I am working to bring Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy to select clients who I work with who I believe will benefit from it. It is a good tool in my toolbox to use with anyone who has trauma and wants to go deeper into their mind to safely examine and heal their wounds.”

Marcy LPC, 2022

"Innate Path's experiential approach to psycholytic therapy training has been invaluable in my work with clients and has totally revitalized my individual personal growth work. The theoretical framework [body, mind, spirit], paired with the opportunity to experience therapy as a client & witness others’ therapy sessions, allowed me to digest & embody the content in a way that simply wouldn’t otherwise be possible purely via lecture or discussion. Since the training, I’ve noticed that my container for holding others experiences has undoubtedly widened and I have been continually reminded that my ability to help others grow and heal in medicine spaces hinges on my ability to do the same. IP also provided me with a community of like-minded practitioners that have supported me personally & professionally, for which I’m forever grateful.”

Lee LPC, 2021

“The Innate Path training is a definitive introduction to one of the most substantive therapeutic modalities currently being used in the Psychedelic space. The relational, somatic, and multiplicity based stance taught within the training is specific and powerful. The training has created a toolkit that will be with me throughout my career and forever changed the way I look at ketamine & cannabis.”

Clayton MSW Student, 2022

“The Innate Path training has been life changing both professionally and personally. I've always been interested in psychedelics for healing, and chose the Innate Path training because of the focus on the experiential aspect. The model that was taught was so different from previous training I have done as a therapist, but it made so much sense to me, and has proved very effective and groundbreaking for my clients. The instructors, and community at Innate Path are nothing short of amazing, and when anyone asks me for a recommendation for other psychedelic therapists in the area, or for a training program for therapists, I don't hesitate to share about Innate Path's training and community. I wish I could do the training every year!”

Hannah LPC, 2022

“The experiential model of being in the client’s seat was very impactful in the Innate Path training. I became connected to my body, emotions, intuition, and innate healer in ways that I hadn’t before. I was also highly impacted by being seen in such a vulnerable state and held with safety and empathy by the therapist and the other participants. Being supported in my own sessions and witnessing other participants’ sessions brought a felt sense of connection and healing. I am so grateful for this training and community.”

Betsy RN, 2022

“As a patient, the therapist allowed me to be in control of my experience, while also facilitating an experience that helped me to get at the deeper, stickier parts that had been inaccessible on my own. My therapist was active in helping me explore relational and somatic aspects of my experience without being overly directive. I felt safe and supported enough to go to some very vulnerable, hard places and come out the other side feeling lighter and clearer about what I need.

The training left me feeling confident about offering this mode of therapy to clients who can benefit and how to utilize it in ways that are purposeful and meaningful. I've since worked with practitioner's who were trained in other models, and I specifically appreciate the way Innate Path taught me to integrate relational aspects of work, both in terms of transference and countertransference, but also parts and attachment-focused work within the client (rather than the client being left to navigate the journey without therapeutic facilitation, which can be overwhelming, frightening, and non-therapeutic for many clients).”

Laura PhD, 2021

“When I first signed up for this training I had no intention of actually doing this work with clients. I knew a little about the method and was just doing it for my personal growth and healing. After observing the sessions of others, and having my own unique experiences, I ended the training with excitement to bring this work to my clients. I saw first-hand how medicine-assisted therapy can help get people out of the mind-traps we can get into and move into the somatic awareness of what is held deeply within. The results can include big shifts in awareness and profound healing. I'm grateful for this experience!”

Michelle LPC, 2021

“Innate Path is a critically valuable and unique training — it’s foundations involve modalities which are powerful, rare, and specialized. Being trained in the masters of Contemplative Psychotherapy/Buddhist Psychology, in Somatic Experiencing as well as Gestalt — and several well-known large dose ketamine therapy trainings which generally take a much less relational and active approach to this work — I can say that Innate Path is unique in its approach. Nowhere else will you be exposed to trauma-specific training from a contemplative/Buddhist psychology and somatic lens, which brings in working directly with severe trauma and the nervous system in such a robust manner. I have actually brought the Innate Path training principles into my non-psychedelic somatic work: by willing to challenge the rote axioms of many approaches to trauma, I have been able to facilitate much deeper, faster access to clients' internal healing systems. The training brings in some of the best elements of many modalities which would be inaccessible if done separately. As an adjunct to the large-dose psychedelic trainings, this program allows for exponentially deeper and broader skill-sets, capacities for being with clients' experiences, and a way of working with the nervous system, body and client's history which is often needed to avoid bypassing wounding. There is not just one way to engage psychedlic medicines or somatic work, and this training provides a rare approach I have yet to see in any contemporary training.”

Joel LPC, 2022

“The Innate Path training offers both professional training in working with clients as well as the first person experience of being the client in a medicine session. The emphasis on the body and the somatic experience offers a deep way to access and heal trauma, old conditioning and in finding new ways of being in the world. An additional benefit for me was all the wonderful personal connections in our cohort.”

Julian LPC, 2022

“I did months of due diligence before choosing a direction for my Psychedelic Assisted Psychotherapy training. At the last minute, after leaning toward another provider, I switched to Innate Path, and I'm SO glad I did! I was swayed by the focus at Innate Path on people-centered, experiential learning including opportunities to do my own work. There's certainly plenty of important scientific information to be learned regarding psychedelic therapies, and that's what drove my initial search. But I realized that the scientific information is available in abundance on the Internet, podcasts, online seminars, national conferences, and research journals. What I really needed that I couldn't get elsewhere was personal, practical, hands-on learning about how best to help the clients sitting in my office. Innate Path offered that through a small-group cohort experience that nurtured trust and acceptance within the group. Based on a foundation of honest, reciprocal caring, I felt completely comfortable sharing my own process, and the processes of others. I felt cradled in safe hands throughout the process while feeling deeply connected with others in the cohort (with whom I still remain in contact). As a licensed therapist for almost 30 years, I've had plenty of opportunity for self-reflection, so I was pleasantly surprised when my own experiences at Innate Path had such profound and immediate positive impacts on my relationships with myself and others. Since graduating from Innate Path, I've continued my own KAP work, trading services with others in my cohort, an instructor, and other local professionals. I've integrated KAP into my practice, consistently holding one or two KAP sessions each week.”

Paul LMFT, 2021

“The training at Innate Path offers the finest combination of theory and practical application of assisted psychedelic psychotherapy. All the instructors not only walk the walk but want you to walk it with them. They offer a safe, honest, and open space to explore and learn with others and your own process. This pioneering program provides the support, experience, and guidance you need when stepping into the psychedelic therapeutic space. I couldn't recommend it more!”

Sonja, Yoga Teacher/Author - 2021

“This training has truly been revolutionary for me. Innate Path is an extraordinary group of diverse professionals who possess a unique blend of confidence and humility in their finely tuned crafts of instruction and facilitation.The Innate Path model has greatly expanded my horizons of what's possible in the realms of healing and integration. The hands-on, experiential approach to somatic processing therapy, using a psycholitic dose, has undeniably been a breakthrough. It's not only transformed the way I understand trauma but has also deeply impacted how I serve and support others, as well as propelled me past points of stuckness in my own personal healing journey.

I've participated in numerous plant medicine ceremonies, explored altered states, meditated, and ventured through various therapy modalities since I was 14, none have left as profound an imprint as Innate Path's approach. There’s no going back now; I feel I have entered a deeper and broader level of working with trauma, the nervous system, psychedelics, and integration. Witnessing and personally experiencing authentic healing within this context has been nothing short of revelatory. Jen is remarkable. The cohort model is great, as it fosters strong bonds and a true sense of healing in community. The practitioners are wonderful, and they deliver this training with a seamless blend of wisdom, humor, and grace, enriching the entire experience. I am profoundly grateful to now be part of this community of like-minded individuals, all dedicated to the path of healing and service.”

Mike, Facilitator, 2023

"Innate Path is a hidden gem in the world of psychedelic assisted therapy training.  What Innate Path offers is a grounding in experiencing and doing expanded state therapy in a relationally and verbally engaged way.  To me, this is the way to go for therapists who want to continue to do short-form therapy in which they play an active relational role, but the focus is on guiding the client to engage with their own body and unconscious during sessions.  I am not a sitter of day-long, minimally interactive inner journeys with psychedelics, but with the KAP and CAP work I've learned to do at Innate Path, I can easily deepen the psychotherapy and art therapy I'm already doing to more effectively help my clients heal and grow.  A major focus of the Innate Path curriculum is the way psycholytic ketamine and cannabis gently but powerfully reveal the dissociative mechanisms we all unconsciously engage in in the body to protect us from the raw pain of traumas, big and small.  Despite attending many trainings on trauma, I had never understood the scope of this truth and how important it is to work with if we want to help truly heal and not just band-aid. In sessions as participants and witnesses, we learned first-hand how "associating to the dissociation" can help us do the profound work of recovery and transformation. I feel so lucky to live close to this rare in-person, small group, experiential program. Interacting in person with others also experiencing the profound work of just 5 KAP or CAP sessions with the excellent instructor/facilitators at IP was important integration experience for us as "clients" and great training in integration work for us as PAT trainees.  I went in with hopes of learning how to marry the embodied work of psychedelic-assisted therapy and the depth-oriented verbal and arts-based therapy I've been doing, but came out with so much more."

Valerie LPC, ATR-BC, 2024