About Andrea - Psychedelic Practitioner for Women Entering Their Power Years

 Twenty-five years ago, everything I'd known was destroyed. Career, family, identity—the scaffolding of my entire life collapsed. In the wreckage, I had two choices: stay broken or rebuild from the ground up. I chose the latter. What followed were years in the Warrior archetype—fighting systems that failed women and transmuting pain into purpose. I didn't know then that I was on an archetypal journey. I just knew the only way out was through.

Twenty-five years ago, everything I'd known was destroyed. Career, family, identity, the scaffolding of my entire life collapsed. In the wreckage, I had two choices: stay broken or rebuild from the ground up. I chose the latter. What followed were years in the Warrior archetype, fighting systems that failed women and transmuting pain into purpose. I didn't know then that I was on an archetypal hero's journey. I just knew the only way out was through.

My PhD in Transpersonal Psychology gave me the framework to understand what I'd been living. I could see the trajectory: Maiden to Mother to Warrior to Alchemist to Queen to Crone. I'd been walking this path my entire adult life.

At 59, I had my first psychedelic journey, wanting to enter the third act of my life with my eyes wide open. What emerged was an existential crisis, a revelation that shattered my relationship with meaning itself. The integration work that followed taught me what I now teach others: sometimes the medicine doesn't give you answers. It gives you better questions.

When I consider entering these wisdom years, I realize we have no rites of passage for women at this powerful time of life...no rituals, no roadmaps, no acknowledgment of all we have gathered and the significance of this passage.

Now, as a certified psychedelic practitioner and microdose specialist, I walk alongside fellow travelers as an educator and guide through sacred passages. I facilitate experiences online, and in-person on the water of Virginia, the mountains of West Virginia, and starting in 2027, the Bahamas.

I'm a teacher who supports personal growth, an academic with street-tested grit, an entrepreneur who understands both building and burning down, a wife, mother, daughter, friend who is presence embodied love. Together, we journey through the Mother Threshold and into the power years with intention, medicine, education, and archetypal maps for territory no one prepared us to navigate.