Twain Gonzales, PsyD
Licensed Clinical Psychologist
Newtown PA
My first priority when working with clients is to develop a safe and caring relationship. This is essential for creating a safe space. This is especially true when working with powerful plant medicines like psychedelics when we are at our most vulnerable. Psychedelics have the potential to shift our old stuck thought patterns and mend our deeply wounded hearts and spirits. I have worked with diverse populations over the years, and I understand the various and unique challenges that each of us face.
By creating a safe space, powerful and healing journeys may occur. These journeys may be accompanied by wonder and joyful experiences or even challenging and difficult experiences that help us release our old traumas. Occasionally, ancestral and generational healing may occur. Sometimes individuals may have a mystical experience or a profound insight that was not available during ordinary states of consciousness.
These medicines can tap our inner spirit and wisdom. My role is to guide you, listen to you, and to encourage you to take deeper risks that otherwise may not be available.
Psychedelic therapy is one of the most deeply and transformative processes I have experienced in recent years, including the 30 years of practicing in the field of psychology. Regarding my professional biography, my initial experience was as a group psychologist at Thomas Jefferson Hospital in the department of geropsychiatry. During that time, I also developed a private practice working with the LGBTQIA+ community in Philadelphia. I also served as clinical director at Voyage House (a nonprofit agency serving at-risk youth). After relocating to Delaware, I worked at Delaware Technical Community College (DTCC) in various roles such as Disability Specialist, Threat Assessment Coordinator, Personal Counselor, and Coordinator of the career counseling center. While at DTCC, I was honored with the Delaware Governor's Award in 2000 for my service to individuals with disabilities.
Before leaving Delaware and returning to Bucks County I worked as the Senior Psychologist in Delaware's correctional system serving the men’s prison population by conducting parole and pardon evaluations, mental health assessments, and developing and implementing treatment plans.
Upon returning to Pennsylvania in 2018, I worked for the Law School Admission Council as a Disability Specialist while maintaining a private practice with adults, seniors, and individuals from the LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC communities. More recently it had been my privilege to serve on the board of directors of NOVA (Network of Victims Assistance of Bucks County) whose mission is to support, counsel, and empower victims of sexual assault and other serious crimes in Bucks County.