I work with people navigating significant life transitions—serious illness, loss, career upheaval, the search for meaning in life's second half—through life coaching, psilocybin facilitation, mindfulness training and end-of-life doula support.
My approach is built on a specific conceptual framework integrating Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), existential psychotherapy, Buddhist mindfulness practice, and complex adaptive systems theory. These traditions converge on a shared insight: that growth happens not by eliminating difficult experiences, but by changing your relationship to them.
I work in two ways. For some clients, I'm the primary practitioner—guiding the full arc from preparation through psilocybin journey through integration, alongside ongoing life coaching. For others, I serve as the psilocybin specialist within a larger care team. If you're already working with a therapist, physician, or other provider, I bring deep knowledge of the neuroscience underpinning each phase of the psilocybin experience, the common psychological and emotional patterns that arise, and the phase-specific support that makes the difference between a powerful experience and lasting change. I collaborate closely with your existing providers to ensure coordinated, informed care throughout the process.
For Clients Already Working with a Therapist or Physician
Many of the people I work with come to psilocybin facilitation while already engaged in therapy, medical treatment, or both. In these cases, my role is specific: I'm the person who understands what happens during a psilocybin journey at both the neurological and psychological level, and who can guide you through preparation, the experience itself, and early integration—while your therapist or physician continues to hold the larger therapeutic relationship.
This means I coordinate directly with your existing providers. Before we begin, I work with your care team to understand your treatment context, flag any contraindications, and align on goals. During preparation, I help you build the skills—present-moment awareness, emotional openness, willingness to let difficult material surface—that make a journey productive rather than merely intense. During the journey itself, I provide attuned, grounded facilitation informed by the neuroscience of what psilocybin actually does in the brain and body. And during integration, I help you begin to articulate and stabilize insights before handing that work back to your primary provider for deeper processing.
For Therapists and Other Providers
If your client is interested in psilocybin-assisted work, I'm happy to consult with you about what the process involves, what your role can be, and how we can coordinate to serve your client well. Many therapists tell me they're curious about psilocybin but uncertain about what their involvement should look like when a client pursues it. I've written about this directly—my blog post So Your Client Wants a Psilocybin Journey: What Therapists Need to Know is a good starting point—and I welcome direct conversation about how we can collaborate.
(Sliding scale pricing and limited pro bono services available.)
Most people come to coaching because something has shifted — or needs to. A diagnosis. A career that no longer fits. A relationship in transition. The disorienting stretch of midlife where the old map stops working. A loss that has rearranged everything.
Whatever the specifics, the experience is often the same: you can't see the path clearly, and the ground keeps shifting under your feet.
My coaching work is built on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and informed by existential psychotherapy. In practical terms, that means I help you develop psychological flexibility — the ability to stay present with difficult thoughts and feelings, stay connected to what actually matters to you, and take effective action even when the internal weather is rough.
This isn't advice-giving, and it isn't therapy. Coaching is a collaborative, forward-looking process focused on building skills, clarifying values, and translating insight into action. If you're working with a therapist, coaching complements that relationship — I focus on the "what now" and "where next" while your therapist holds the deeper clinical work.
I work with:
People facing life-altering conditions — and their caregivers — who need support navigating the practical, emotional, and existential dimensions of serious illness
Adults in major life transitions: career change, retirement, divorce, loss, or the search for meaning and purpose in life's second half
Young adults finding direction: identity, vocation, and the challenge of building a life that reflects who you actually are
Couples seeking deeper connection, including those preparing for or integrating psilocybin experiences together
For clients who are also doing psilocybin work — whether with me or through another facilitator — coaching provides the ongoing container that helps journey insights translate into lasting change. Preparation and integration don't happen in a single session. They happen across a relationship.
Sliding scale: $50–$150/hour. I offer flexible scheduling and online sessions.
Psilocybin-assisted experiences can catalyze profound shifts in perspective, emotional processing, and self-understanding. But the experience alone isn't the work — it's what happens before and after that determines whether those shifts become lasting change.
For coaching clients, psilocybin facilitation is integrated into our ongoing work together. Preparation builds on the self-awareness and skills you've already been developing. Integration weaves journey insights back into the values and goals we've been exploring. The psilocybin session becomes one powerful episode within a longer arc of growth.
For clients who are primarily working with a therapist or physician, I serve as the psilocybin specialist within your existing care team — bringing deep knowledge of the neuroscience and common psychoemotional patterns of each phase, and coordinating closely with your providers throughout the process.
Basic | Sliding scale: $1400 to $2500*
Preparation: 2 Hours (no mindfulness training)
Journey Administration: 4-5 Hours
Experience Integration: 1 Hour (coaching and non-directive coaching)
* Add $125 for doses ≥35mg. Excludes Service Center fees and psilocybin product costs.
Payment Terms:
10% non-refundable deposit due before first preparation session
Remaining balance due 3 days before administration
Service center fees paid directly to the center 3 days prior
Psilocybin product fees paid to the service center on the day of administration
Share your journey with loved ones or like-minded individuals. Our group sessions offer a unique opportunity for collective growth and connection, with the added benefit of cost reduction.
Contact us to design a group experience that aligns with your goals and values.
The Liberation Intensive is the most immersive way to work with me. It's a five-week program designed for people ready to commit seriously to inner work — combining the two practices that share the deepest neurological and psychological overlap: meditation and psilocybin. The program includes:
Daily guided meditation practice throughout the five weeks
Two psilocybin sessions, spaced to allow integration between them
Cohort-based support — you'll work alongside others going through the same process
Education grounded in neuroscience and psychology — understanding what's happening in your brain and body, not just your subjective experience
Ongoing coaching and integration woven throughout
This isn't a retreat or a one-off experience. It's a sustained container for change. The daily meditation practice builds the attentional skills that make psilocybin sessions more productive — both meditation and psilocybin quiet the brain's default mode network and produce overlapping shifts in self-referential processing. Doing them together, in a structured sequence, is more powerful than either alone.
The cohort structure adds something individual work can't: the experience of being witnessed by others who are doing the same difficult, transformative work. That shared context deepens accountability and normalizes the disorientation that serious inner work inevitably produces.
For more on the neuroscience behind combining meditation and psilocybin, see my blog post Compass and Vehicle: How Meditation and Psilocybin Inform Each Other.
Contact me to discuss whether the Liberation Intensive is right for you and to learn about upcoming cohorts.
There is no transition more profound — or more universally feared — than dying. And yet, when met with presence, understanding, and genuine companionship, the final stage of life can be one of its most meaningful.
I work with individuals and families navigating the end of life — not to manage death or make it comfortable in some clinical sense, but to accompany people through what I understand to be one of life's most significant threshold experiences. My approach is informed by existential psychotherapy's recognition that confronting mortality can catalyze deep shifts in perspective — not only for the person who is dying, but for everyone around them.
What this looks like in practice:
Advance care planning — helping you and your loved ones articulate wishes, make decisions, and prepare practically and emotionally for what's ahead
Creating space for meaning — honoring your values, relationships, and what matters most as life narrows toward its close
Presence and support for family — active listening, guidance through the emotional terrain of anticipatory grief, and help understanding what's happening at each stage
Coordination with medical and hospice providers — ensuring your doula support complements your medical care rather than conflicting with it
I bring INELDA training and over a decade of firsthand caregiving experience — guiding loved ones through terminal illness, chronic conditions, and final goodbyes. This isn't abstract for me. It's work I came to through my own life before I came to it professionally. Sliding scale: $50–$150/hour.
I'm a life coach, licensed psilocybin facilitator, and end-of-life doula — not a therapist or physician. My services are designed to complement, not replace, professional medical and psychological care. If you're currently working with a healthcare provider, I coordinate closely with your care team. If you're not currently working with one and I think you'd benefit from it, I'm happy to help with referrals.
Questions? 503-512-0729 or michaelk@mindstreamwellness.net