Dr. Signi Goldman is board certified Psychiatrist and psychotherapist in private practice. She is a certified provider for Psychedelic Assisted Therapies and Research through the California Institute of Integral Studies and has completed training through the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). She has practiced in multiple clinical settings, both in hospital systems and alternative treatment centers, and integrates these approaches into an individualized, evidence-based practice. Her extensive knowledge of research-based use of psychedelics in medicine informs Concierge Medicine and Psychiatry’s Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy program for Mental Health.

Dr. Goldman has been practicing outpatient Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy for many years and has more recently focused on teaching and training in this field through her video teaching series and Certificate Program.

In addition, Dr. Goldman is a trained Rites of Passage guide through the Rites of Passage Council in Asheville, NC and has a profound respect for the intersection of psychedelic medicine, nature-connection, and indigenous, ceremonial ways of healing.

Dr. Sandra Newes, aka Sandy, is a Licensed Psychologist with over 25 years of clinical experience. She is a highly experienced psychedelic-assisted psychotherapist and specializes in anxiety, chronic stress, trauma and recovery. She has provided Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy through Concierge Medicine and Psychiatry since 2019 and brings a deeply trauma informed and resiliency focused approach to the work.  She was originally certified through the   Living Medicine Institute’s Certificate program, and she is the co-founder of the current training program.  She has also participated in training through the Polaris Institute, Chacruna Institute, the PRATI institute, MAPS, and others and is a member of the Boston Psychedelic Research Group.

Dr. Newes participates in speaking engagements, publications, training workshops, and educational training on the intersection of nature connection, trauma and mental health nationally and internationally. She is past Chair of the Therapeutic Adventure Professional Group (TAPG) of the Association for Experiential Education (AEE) and also offers training to staff at therapeutic and experiential programs.  She also studies earth-based medicine traditions, ancestral medicine, rites of passage, and has a deep appreciation for how ceremony and ritual, nature connection, and ancient wisdom traditions support healing. 

Elizabeth Graves, Ph.D., LCMHC-S, is a trained provider of Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy using Ketamine through the Living Medicine Institute’s Certificate Program. She is a practicing psychotherapist in Asheville, NC, where she specializes in working with people who have life-threatening illness, terminal illness, or clients suffering complicated bereavement, grief, and loss. She previously served ten years as a faculty professor at Appalachian State University and Western Carolina University, engaged in research and training of clinical mental health counselors while maintaining her private practice, Caledonia Counseling & Consulting. Prior to this, she spent 10 years working with children and adolescents in rural Appalachian schools, 5 years as a child/adolescent/family therapist in psychiatric hospitals, crisis mental health assessment specialist in the emergency department, and as a therapist in a community mental health center for adjudicated adolescents. Currently, she works as a spiritual director (C.S.D., Sursum Corda/Shalem, 2006), LCMHC supervisor (2010), Yoga Teacher (2013) and MINT Member Motivational Interviewing trainer (2014). She graduated from The Conscious Dying Institute’s Sacred Passage Doula Program in 2020 and finds the work of companioning those in the dying process over the threshold of life the most sacred work she does. Elizabeth’s loves include kids, canines, and the woods.

Dr. Kat Houghton is a Ph.D. psychologist, Forest Bathing guide, eco-therapist and certified Rites of Passage guide. She is engaged deeply in the evolution of human consciousness in the context of the natural world.

Kat gained her Ph.D. designing and implementing programs for children with autism in underserved communities. She simultaneously co-founded and ran a digital health company which delivers leading edge mobile mental health interventions to those who would otherwise have little or no access to treatment (ilumivu).

Since participating in the water protection movement at Standing Rock in 2016, Kat has been involved in climate activism. Her focus is on community rights to local self-governance and the Rights of Nature – giving legal standing to ecosystems. She co-founded an Asheville based non-profit, Community Roots, in 2017 to tackle these issues locally. She delivered a TedX talk on the Rights of Nature which you can watch here: https://www.ted.com/talks/kat_houghton_the_rights_of_nature.

Kat lives on a forest farm in the Southern Appalachian Mountains where she nurtures mushrooms and woodland medicinals and offers transformational forest bathing, soul-tending retreats, and personalized coaching.

Luke is a naturalist, teacher, rewilder, mentor, and survivalist. He is founder and director of Holistic Survival School in Asheville, NC, offering intensive immersion programs in nature connection and ancestral and indigenous living skills to help clients remember their connection to the natural world.

Luke learned his skills working at a primitive wilderness therapy program in the West Desert of Utah.  With over 500 days on the trail, Luke has mentored hundreds of people in the wilderness and witnessed how connecting with the earth teaches us vital life lessons and brings growth, health, and vitality to life.

Luke demonstrated his primitive skills and survival abilities as a recurring cast member on the Discovery Channel’s shows, “Naked and Afraid” and “Naked and Afraid XL”, where he survived for 21 and 40 days in the wilderness.  

Luke is trained in Holistic Counseling, Shadow work, and Trauma-informed breathwork. He facilitates deep nature connection groups through the Deep Remembering immersion program.

Dave is a trained provider of Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy using Ketamine through the Living Medicine Institute’s Certificate Program. He is a therapist in private practice in Asheville, NC, holds a BA Degree in Philosophy, an MSW Degree and a Certificate in Artistic Blacksmithing. His clinical background is grounded in Psychoanalytic Oriented Psychodynamic Psychotherapy with complimentary training in body-oriented models of psychotherapy and trauma processing. Prior to earning his MSW, Dave spent years as a Certified Addiction Counselor and has a strong understanding of addictions and their relationship to trauma. He has focused most of his 35+ year clinical career on treating Traumatic Stress in adults. He is a Certified Consultant in EMDR and has advanced training in Internal Family Systems (IFS), Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and HeartMath BioFeedback. His passion for learning drew him to study Attachment, Structural Dissociation and Polyvagal Theories which inform his work. In 2019 he began formal training through MAPS to provide MDMA Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy for Complex PTSD. While awaiting FDA approval to use MDMA and other psychedelics for psychotherapy, Dave has acquired skills to provide Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy through the Living Medicine Institute’s Certificate Program and taken Ketamine/ Psychedelic trainings from Polaris Institute, Center for Self Leadership, EMDR International Association and other providers. Finally, Dave is a mycophile, synthesizer lover and Artist Blacksmith. He loves creating music to facilitate trauma processing, and he forges psychologically themed metal sculpture which speaks of trauma and healing.

Will Hamilton, Ph.D. is a Clinical Neuropsychologist practicing for over a decade in Asheville NC. He primarily provides Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Internal Family Systems to those struggling with chronic medical conditions and trauma. He also strongly emphasizes compassion training and self-regulation through polyvagal interventions. He has been offering psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy since 2019 and is certified through The Living Medicine Institute’s Certificate Program to offer psychotherapy with ketamine. He has also trained in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy through the Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) as well as Fungi Academy’s Sacred Space Holder Program in facilitation of group experiences with psychedelic medicine.

As a long-term yogi of over 25 years, Will has studied qi gong, breathwork, yoga, Pragmatic Buddhism, Zen, Tibetan essence traditions, and Western esoteric systems. As a teacher at Buddhist Geeks and Asheville Yoga Center, he offers workshops related to Meditation and Neuroscience, Chronic Pain Management, and Yoga for Hypermobile Bodies. He is also developing the Ketamine Assisted Mindfulness Program (KAMP) in a retreat setting to help maximize ketamine’s therapeutic impact while using other therapeutic modalities. He has special interest in helping long-term contemplative practitioners towards direct experiences of awakening and the integration of those experiences, helping train the open-hearted embrace of the Self through the door of compassion, and reducing the fear of death by the conscious practice of dying with the assistance of psychedelics.  He believes the sense of being at home is available in all circumstances, and you can sometimes catch him feeling at home playing music, exploring nature, or on one of his many travel adventures.

Jennifer Beeghly, Psy.D, is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist in North Carolina, Tennessee, and is also provides telepsychological services and temporary in person psychological services via the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact (PSYPACT). Dr. Beeghly completed an APA accredited internship at the W.G. (Bill) Hefner Veterans Affairs Medical Center (Hefner VAMC) in Salisbury, NC and her post-doctoral training at the VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System in Murfreesboro and Nashville, TN. She was previously employed by the VAMC and has been serving Veterans and their families for 14 years. In addition to serving Veterans and their families, she has served as a combat medic in Iraq.

She is a trained provider of Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy using Ketamine through the Living Medicine Institute’s Certificate Program. She has completed the Basic Certification in Clinical Hypnosis through the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis (ASCH). She uses hypnosis to treat psychological and medical conditions, including smoking cessation, weight loss, irritable bowel syndrome, and anxiety.

She has also obtained certifications in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I), Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), Prolonged Exposure (PE), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Chronic Pain (CBT-CP), Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy (IBCT), and Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality-Individual and Group Model.