Expanded states first took me with a spontaneous mystical experience in my early twenties. Soon after I came across psychedelics and later meditation. I did a PhD in Religious Studies to deepen my understanding, and I’m still working with what I learnt from that. I became professionally involved with psychedelics in 2020 when I joined The Synthesis Institute as Director of Ecopsychology. In 2021 I became a Learning Mentor for the first cohort of students in the Synthesis Psychedelic Practitioner Training. I accompanied the students on their ten-day psychedelic retreat in the Summer of 2022 and then joined the Synthesis Retreat Team as a Co-lead Facilitator. I remained in this job until the final retreat in Spring 2023. I was awarded the Synthesis Psychedelic Practitioner Training Certificate in 2023. I'm a member of the Institute of Psychedelic Therapy, a guest lecturer on the PGCert Psychedelics: Mind, Medicine, and Culture at the University of Exeter and have trained as a Research Therapist with Beckley Psytech.