Cedar Mathias, RCC, SEP
Counsellor, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, and Psychedelic Therapist
Ladysmith BC
Exploring the realms of plant medicines and psychedelics can be a profoundly transformative. Psychedelics, especially when explored therapeutically, can open us to new insights and understandings about ourselves, our relationships, and the very nature of life itself. Expanded states of awareness can help heal our deepest wounds when explored with support, safety, awareness, and intention. However, these experiences can also be confusing, disorienting, emotionally intense, and even overwhelming. You don’t have to walk this path this alone.
As a grounded and experienced guide, I’m here to support you through the key phases of preparation and integration, as well as through a therapeutic journey. Preparation sets the foundation for a meaningful and safe experience while integration makes sense of your experiences with care and intention, and helps you orient to the changes you seek. Please feel free to reach out directly for more information on how I might support you.
With over three decades of experience in working with psychedelics, my experiencing and training spans a diverse range of modalities and traditions. I have had the privilege of sitting in and assisting many different types of expanded-state ceremonies, and my spiritual path has led me to explore Christian Mysticism, Celtic Shamanism, Indigenous Teachings, and the Priestess Path. While much of my experience has been in intentional and ceremonial contexts, I have taken additional clinical trainings in this field to support my lived experience. Some of the most influential trainings have been my Masters in Counselling Psychology, the Somatic Experiencing program which has given me expertise in working with trauma, and Regulating Touch with focuses on early developmental trauma and attachment wounds.
I work from a holistic approach that supports change and growth through attending to the mind, body, emotions, and spirit. I believe that by coming into relationship with your authentic self, you can connect to your inner wisdom and power to heal. I bring a gentle curiosity and a capacity to hold the light in the darkest of depths, offering a safe space where you can reflect, expand, and explore your inner world in order to reconnect to your strengths, values, and sense of wholeness.
I offer individual clinical counselling and somatic therapy, both in-person and virtually. I offer preparation and integration support, as well as support for full medicine journeys. I also offer daylong group psychedelic experiences for men and women, and 4-day medicine retreats just for women.