who am i?
Welcome, I’m Spencer.
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For over a decade, I worked in international development, collaborating with grassroots leaders across more than 100 countries. But behind that professional drive, I was quietly unraveling. In 2019, the accumulated weight of burnout, PTSD, anxiety, and depression led to a complete collapse.
My path back to life—my coming home to myself—began when I stopped trying to survive a world that wasn't built for me and started tuning inward. By embracing my neurowild self (hello, AuDHD!) and experiencing the profound care of psychedelic and natural medicines, I contacted a vital truth: healing happens when we learn to connect with and trust the innate wisdom held within our own bodies.
I continue to walk this path because being human is beautiful, brutal, and complex. Through expanded states of consciousness, the heavy stories and trauma we carry may finally be given permission to be seen, felt, softened, thawed, and moved.
Spencer, looks at camera with a soft closed-mouth smile, hair up in a bun with a white headband catching the untamed flyaways, right ear tattoo showing, wearing a sage green athleisure quarter-zip.
A Sanctuary for Transformation
I offer a creative sanctuary of care and curiosity for those whose current lives can no longer sustain their souls. This work is not about "fixing" you. You are not broken. It is a sacred process of remembering—your story, your gifts, your rhythm, and your raw authenticity.
In our work together, every single part of you—the heartbroken, the weird, the angry, the exhausted, the messy, and the brilliant—is entirely welcome.
Healing is...
Personal. Political. Messy. Revolutionary.
Sometimes excruciating. Often radiant. Always sacred.
Because healing can tear you apart and piece you back together in unexpected ways, I don't show up as a rigid, detached expert. I show up as a whole human—with deep tenderness, lived experience, and an unwavering respect for your unique self.
My job is to hold hope for the change you crave, serving as a grounded anchor so you don’t have to navigate the wild topography of healing alone. Together, we will nurture a space for the parts of you that are ready to be remembered, felt, reclaimed, and rooted again.
If you are feeling ready, or even just curious to explore what your body already knows how to heal, I am here.
With love,
Spencer
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I sing to my houseplants and fully accept a future overrun by them
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My love of public libraries is ‘HU-NORMOUS’*
*credit to my 4-year-old neighbor for this awesome word -
AuDHD
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Queer, she/her/hers
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Building LEGOs soothes my mind
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Ask me about my totally rational fear of hippos…they can run 35mph!
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Aspiring ultra trail runner (completely unrelated to above hippo fear...)
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Currently on repeat: Arooj Aftab’s Vulture Prince. I’m obsessed.
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Will hyperfocus on rehabbing & learning folk instruments; current project(s):
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button accordion
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fiddle
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random fun stuff
Spencer, age 4 in photo, stands looking at camera in the middle of a backyard - holding tight to a kids Fisher-Price lawn mower on her right side while dressed in red rainboots, blue tie-dye shorts and a dark purple shirt and purple brimmed hat.
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Natural Medicine Facilitator in Training license in the State of Colorado (NMIT.0000052)
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Elemental Psychedelics Psilocybin Mushroom Facilitator Training, 150 hours, completed 2025
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Innate Path, Practitioner Training with psycholytic doses of psychedelics for healing, 2023
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Psychedelics & Pain Symposium, 2025
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DMT Facilitator Training, Apprenticeship 2025
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Neurodivergent Cannabis Conference, April 2024
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Neurodivergent Psychedelic Conference, 2024
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Cannabis & Autism - From Theory to Application, Dr. Miyabe Shields, 2023
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Introduction to Psychedelic Autism, Aaron Orsini, Autistic Psychedelic Community, 2023
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Psychedelic Care for Neurodivergent Clients, Justine Lee, Autistic Psychedelic Community, 2024
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Neurodivergent Psychedelic Conference, Autistic Psychedelic Community, 2023
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International Development & Social Change/Social Entrepreneurship, Clark University, BA
Education,
Trainings &
Communities of Practice
The foundational stuff
Everyone is my teacher. Truly. From my 2.5-year-old neighbor to my 90-year-old grandmother, the trees and the bees and all animate beings. i welcome the process of learning and unlearning. I hold deep gratitude for my foundational perspectives to the work, teachings, storytelling and activism of: Dr. Nick Walker’s Neuroqueer offerings, Dr. Devon Price’s Neurodiversity advocacy work, Dr. Jenn Mullan’s Decolonizing Therapy work, Anishinaabe and Ojibwe, and Métis Nation wisdom and my ancestral relationship to the land now called Isle Royale, waters and spirits of Lake Superior, Gitchee Gumee, bell hooks, somatic therapy, the many friends and colleagues in refugee, asylee and immigrant rights work, internal family systems, parts work therapy, adrienne marie brown, Andrea Gibson, transpersonal psychology, Sarah Hendrickx, Buddhism, Quakerism, Audre Lorde, Ruth King’s rage work, global community health praxis, Shira Hassan, attachment/touch work, Dr. Miyabe Shields, Aaron Orsini and the Autistic Psychedelic Community, the Emerald Podcast, Healing Justice Lineages and the work of Cara Page and Erica Woodland, and many many more whose lives have left an indelible mark on mine. Thank you.
Spencer, stands looking at camera surrounded by nature, hands in front pockets of green pants, long brown hair down, legs crossed with brown loafers rocking the ultimate grandpa-core look.