Michele is passionate about the healing potential of non-ordinary states of consciousness. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor Associate, an Oregon Qualified Mental Health Professional, an author, cognitive behavioral hypnotherapist, and Fluence-trained, licensed psilocybin facilitator with a Master of Science in psychology. She is also a certified end-of-life doula, breathwork coach and reiki practitioner. Born in Singapore, Michele lived in Perth (Australia), Sulawesi (Indonesia), London, Boston, and Hong Kong, before relocating to Portland, Oregon in 2021. She specializes in life transitions, conscious aging, infertility and childlessness, parenthood clarity, creativity, codependency, addiction, third culture identity issues, and intergenerational, cultural, and religious trauma. Before working in mental health, she was a journalist for media outlets like Al Jazeera, Dwell, AFAR, CNN, Psychologies, Harper’s Bazaar and The Wall Street Journal. She is also a biographer and fiction writer whose stories have been published in two collections, and in literary magazines and anthologies in the US, Canada, Hong Kong, and Singapore. As a writer, she believes that having a deeper understanding of our personal stories can help us explore our life’s meaning and purpose, and better navigate times of change. Her approach is person-centered, existential, spiritual, holistic, and culturally responsive. She aims to always establish an environment of safety and trust with her clients, and is guided by a desire to help each individual discover how to experience more freedom, peace, and joy in their lives.
Why we need to alter our consciousness
The importance of altered, or non-ordinary states of consciousness in the evolution of humanity.
Mushroom therapy for depression and anxiety
How psilocybin helps with depression and anxiety.
What do I need to know before having psilocybin-assisted therapy?
If you’re considering psilocybin-assisted therapy, here are some things you might want to know.
How many psilocybin therapy sessions should I have?
What to consider when planning for more than one session of psilocybin assisted therapy.
How psilocybin affects the Default Mode Network
A look at how psilocybin reboots the Default Mode Network to improve symptoms of depression and anxiety.
Why you need screening, preparation, and integration for psilocybin therapy
The importance of psychedelic harm reduction, preparation and integration with psilocybin-assisted therapy.
Psychedelics and ego death
What does ego death and ego dissolution feel like during a psychedelic journey?
Psilocybin therapy and unity consciousness
How feeling connected to all things during psilocybin therapy can change you.
How psilocybin therapy can help with grief
Using psilocybin to process grief and loss.
Psilocybin and Asian identity work
If you’re part of the Asian diaspora, psilocybin therapy can help you work through challenging cultural identity issues.
How psilocybin therapy can help with religious trauma
What is religious trauma and how can psilocybin therapy help you work through it?
How integration can help maintain your psychedelic afterglow
The value of integration after psychedelic journeys.
How psychedelics can increase cognitive liberty
Are you really thinking for yourself? Psychedelics like psilocybin can help you become aware of how cultural conditioning has influenced your thought life.
How I was dismantled by the goddess on my first psilocybin journey
Insights from my first therapeutic psilocybin experience.
How psilocybin therapy can help with OCD
Studies suggest that psilocybin-assisted therapy may be effective in the treatment of OCD.