Episode 327: DORI LEWIS Psychedelics for Healing & Transformation

Dori Lewis is a licensed psychotherapist, clinical supervisor, and co-founder of Elemental Psychedelics.

She is also the owner of Reflective Healing Center in Fort Collins, Colorado, a psychotherapy group practice and licensed healing center specializing in psychedelic-assisted therapy, including ketamine and psilocybin, as well as integration therapy and transpersonal psychotherapy. 

Dori is a licensed Natural Medicine Clinical Facilitator in Colorado and serves as a clinical consultant in mushroom medicine work.

With over a decade of clinical experience, Dori integrates transpersonal psychology, depth-oriented therapy, and psychedelic-assisted modalities within a relational framework that centers the therapeutic alliance. She has facilitated more than 100 ketamine sessions, over 200 psilocybin sessions, and numerous group ceremonies, bringing both clinical rigor and experiential depth to her work.

In this episode, Tara and psychedelic therapist Dori Lewis explore psilocybin and MDMA for trauma and PTSD, unpacking Trump’s new executive order, iboga vs. ibogaine, and how to approach mushroom medicine safely and integratively.

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CHAPTERS:

00:00 – Dori’s bio (psychedelic therapist)

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03:35 – Why this is a timely mushrooms episode: Trump executive order and future of psychedelic medicine (MDMA, psilocybin, ibogaine, LSD)

05:25 – Host’s family trauma, PTSD, and how MDMA helped her deepest wounds

08:18 – MDMA trials for veterans, attachment trauma, and why “inner healing intelligence” matters

12:01 – Iboga vs ibogaine, risks, medical oversight, and whole‑plant vs extracts (cannabis, synthetic psilocybin)

24:38 – Dori’s personal history with mushrooms, early bad trip, MDMA/LSD, and learning to work safely with psilocybin

42:09 – Mushrooms as “clarity”: onion‑layer healing, trusting the medicine, and mindset shifts over many journeys

51:30 – Client success & how to work with Dori

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