Sara Gael

Psychedelic therapist, educator, and organizational leader. 15 years of experience in the psychedelic field. Expertise in senior leadership, multi-medicine therapy, peer support, & community movement-building.

Co-Founder and Lead of Strategic Development at Memoru Center for Visionary Healing Arts. I provide mentorship, consulting, and strategic support to organizations and individuals in the psychedelic ecosystem.

I worked at the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) for 10 years, where served as Director of Harm Reduction, overseeing the work of the Zendo Project and scaling harm reduction services to 4 continents and bringing peer support to over 6,000 individuals. Originator of the Entheogeneration Speaker Series at Burning Man.

I served as an Investigator/Therapist for Lykos Therapeutics Phase 2, Phase 3, and MT-1 clinical trials researching the safety and efficacy of MDMA-Assisted Therapy for PTSD and have served as a Lykos Educator and Associate Supervisor.

I am the Lead Facilitator and founding Course Director for the Integrative Psychiatry Institute Psychedelic Assisted Therapy Training, overseeing a global faculty of over 30+ esteemed mental health experts, developing over 300 hours of curriculum, and delivering quality education to over 2,000 students.

I served as the appointed harm reduction advocate representative on the Denver Psilocybin Mushroom Policy Review Panel and spearheaded the MAPS Denver First Responder Psychedelic Crisis Assessment and Intervention Training.

I am a mystic and animist at heart and bring a spirit-centric lens to my work. I hold a Masters degree in Transpersonal Psychology with a focus on Nature-Based Therapy from Naropa University. I believe that psychedelics are their own sovereign sentient beings, and support individuals who wish to partner with them from a place of humility and reverence. I believe in the potential of psychedelics as catalysts for individual, community, and collective healing and the need to responsibly and ethically steward these medicines into mental health and society. I am committed to equitable access for historically and currently marginalized communities.

I come from mixed white/latina/genízaro ancestry and was raised in Northern New Mexico. Central to my own healing journey has been connection to land and the natural world. I have held a relationship with psychedelics for over 25 years.