Elizabeth Arnold, PhD, MEd
Coach, Psychedelic Integration Therapist, Artist, Mother
Newburgh NY
As a Coach, i provide clients with a stable container for the huge growth potential inherent in therapeutic psychedelic work.
When someone engages with a non-ordinary state of consciousness, the insights and comprehensions are often non-verbal. The usual 'language' we use in traditional psychotherapeutic dialogue may not successfully express and communicate the experience.
As a result, I work with many artists and musicians. As well, many people who don't believe themselves to be 'artistic' at all have latent creative potentials just waiting to emerge as authenticity is unlocked through this form of spiritual work and rebirth.
Dr Arnold holds a PhD in Clinical Psychology from Columbia University Teachers College, and an EdM in Counseling and Consulting Psychology from Harvard University (HGSE).
She has layered onto this more traditional western education by apprenticing and immersing in indigenous medicine traditions. In the Amazon river basin this has involved working within Shipibo-Conibo and Ashaninkan family lineages in Peru, and A'i Cofan traditions in Ecuador. In 2023, in Gabon, Dr Arnold was initiated into the female path "Mabanji-Boumba" within the Bwiti tradition of the sacred root bark Iboga, returning to clinical practice in the Hudson Valley north of NYC, integrating the metaphysical landscapes of plant medicines back into daily life.
These deep and personal experiences with the spiritual and alchemical dimensions of healing allow her to create and maintain a stable container for others to engage in a process of transformation.
Dr Arnold is a mixed-media collage and installation artist. Her development as a visual artist has been pivotal in bridging these transitions between radically different cosmologies, a medium for spiritual experiences to be integrated, given 'form' and then shared.
* I do not provide substances or guided journeys.