About

VALERIA MCCARROLL
PHD, LMFT

As a poet-writer, priestess, guide, artist, and mother,

my path is an interdisciplinary weaving that reflects a love of Beauty.

Initiated into the healing arts and expanded states of consciousness at a young age, I speak and teach internationally on the topics of psychedelics, somatics, nondualism, and social justice.

My formal training includes licensure as a

marriage and family therapist (2014), a doctorate in psychology (2020), a certificate in psychedelic therapies and research (2016), as well as thousands of hours of study and practice in a variety of therapeutic and spiritual traditions.

Today, I teach critical courses on psychedelic humanities to students at the California Institute of Integral Studies.

My passion lies in developing transformational containers that bridge the transpersonal and the somatic. I have developed and taught curriculum for the training of psychedelic guides, as well as having been an ethical consultant in the synthesis of ethical codes and navigating rupture and repair processes.

My practice is a living commitment to the unlearning of internalized systemic oppression. I ground my work in contemporary antiracist, ecofeminist, and neuroqueer theory, weaving the scientific and the spiritual into an embodied expression operationalized around consent.

Trained in circle practices, I am a Council facilitator whose background in body-based mindfulness provides a seminal seedbed for my work.

My offerings are a prayer for individual and collective freedom and liberation.

As a perpetually-apprenticing

Midwife of Soul

I have studied with different elders and teachers in traditions of the sacred arts, including contemporary and indigenous psychedelic lineages, the kabbalistic Tree of Life and Visionary Cosmology, Shaiva Tantra and hatha yoga, Rosa Mystica, the 13 Moon Mystery School, Usui Reiki, and craniosacral bodywork.

I bow to the Indigenous peoples of the Coastal Miwok and the Southern Pomo tribes of Northern California, upon whose unceded ancestral homelands I live.

I recognize the living interdependent relationship between the land which I am blessed to call home and the lifeblood that flows through my veins.

As such, I acknowledge that systems of Traditional Indigenous Knowledge have been stewarded for thousands of years in the face of the forces of colonization and oppression.

I offer my allyship and commitment to the sovereignty of Indigenous peoples worldwide. May my work in the world be a reflection of the wisdom of interbeing.

Mu’k-am Ka ‘I-ni’iko. In Miwok,

We are all family.

For more information, please see whose land you are on and the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

“I dreamed I was a butterfly, flying
in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder, am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?”

–Chuang Tzu

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About

VALERIA MCCARROLL
PHD, LMFT

As a poet-writer, priestess, guide, artist, and mother,

my path is an interdisciplinary weaving that reflects a love of Beauty.

My formal training includes licensure as a

Today, I teach critical courses on psychedelic humanities to students at the California Institute of Integral Studies.

As a perpetually-apprenticing

Midwife of Soul

I bow to the Indigenous peoples of the Coastal Miwok and the Southern Pomo tribes of Northern California, upon whose unceded ancestral homelands I live.

Mu’k-am Ka ‘I-ni’iko. In Miwok,

We are all family.

“I dreamed I was a butterfly, flying
in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder, am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?”

–Chuang Tzu

let's connect

About

VALERIA MCCARROLL PHD, LMFT

As a poet-writer, priestess, guide, artist, and mother,

my path is an interdisciplinary weaving that reflects a love of Beauty.

My formal training includes licensure as a

Today, I teach critical courses on psychedelic humanities to students at the California Institute of Integral Studies.

As a perpetually-apprenticing

Midwife of Soul

I bow to the Indigenous peoples of the Coastal Miwok and the Southern Pomo tribes of Northern California, upon whose unceded ancestral homelands I live.

Mu’k-am Ka ‘I-ni’iko. In Miwok,

We are all family.

“I dreamed I was a butterfly, flying in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder, am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?”

–Chuang Tzu

let's connect

VALERIA MCCARROLL
PHD, LMFT

“I dreamed I was a butterfly, flying
in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder, am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?”