Nicole Sylvestre, MA, LPC

Nicole is a Licensed Professional Counselor who has worked in the psychedelic space since 2010, and has a private practice dedicated exclusively to psychedelic work. Nicole has extensive, integrative training and experience in the healing arts. She is grateful to be one of the few therapists fully certified to practice MDMA psychotherapy through the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). She had the privilege of working as a therapist for the Phase 3 MDMA and PTSD study. Additionally, she holds certifications as a Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Provider through the Integrative Psychiatry Institute, an Acudetox Specialist utilizing an ear acupuncture protocol, and as a Level 1 AEDP therapist. She has also trained in hands-on somatic trauma resolution with the Somatic Training Institute and the Pathways for Healing School. She dedicated 3 years to studying core shamanism in a professional shamanic practitioner training, and continues to pursue learning and apprenticeship in an earth-centered, indigenous shamanic lineage from Belize. This tradition focuses on non-psychedelic plant medicine, shamanic bodywork, and abdominal massage techniques. Nicole’s training also includes studies in parts work, attachment repatterning, Gestalt, Chi Nei Tsang, yogic traditions, functional nutrition, folk herbalism, and Buddhist psychology. Along with her private practice, Nicole has assisted various psychedelic therapy training programs as a trainer and group facilitator. Nicole is passionate about offering this work because she has experienced its benefits from the inside out. Psychedelic therapy has helped her find the health, freedom, clarity, and ground that seemed far out of reach for her in the past. Psychedelic therapy truly works and she is so grateful to be able to offer it to others.