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.

My PhD in Transpersonal Psychology (completed in 2024) 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 took 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.

Recently I heard someone mention a croning ceremony, and something ignited in me. I realized we have no rites of passage for women entering our wise years—no rituals, no roadmaps, no acknowledgment of all we have gathered and the power available in this passage.

For the past four years, my husband Chris, our dog Lieba, and I have been living a semi-nomadic life in a camper and boat, exploring this country's natural treasures and embodying the freedom and sovereignty that Cronehood makes available. This lifestyle isn't just how I live—it's part of the message: your third act is yours to design.

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 in Virginia, West Virginia, and starting in 2027, the Bahamas.

I'm not here to fix you. I'm a teacher who facilitates transformation—an academic with street-tested grit, an entrepreneur who understands both building and burning down. 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.