Steward Your Psychedelic Healing
Inner Healing.
Outward Change.
Education and resources to help you navigate psychedelics with clarity and confidence, and translate meaningful experiences into lasting change.
Psychedelics can open the door.
We help you walk through it.
Explore how psychedelic healing can create lasting change in how you live, relate, and contribute.
Embodied Psychedelics
Psychedelic Stewardship is an education organization helping people navigate psychedelics with greater knowledge, clarity, and responsibility.
We provide education and resources across the psychedelic journey, from making informed decisions about whether and how to engage, to preparing for experiences and translating their potential into lasting change.
We help bridge psychedelic insight and everyday life, supporting change that extends beyond the individual into relationships, communities, and society.
Individuals
Approach psychedelics with greater clarity, support, and intention so the insights gained can be meaningfully applied.
Couples & Families
Support for partners and family members in understanding and navigating the relational impact of psychedelic experiences.
Practitioners & Organizations
Consulting and training for practitioners, clinics and organizations seeking to build stewardship into their care models.
Sara Gael, MA LPC
Founder, Psychedelic Steward
15 Years Shaping the Psychedelic Field
I’m Sara Gael, MA, LPC, a psychedelic therapist, educator, and facilitator who has spent more than 15 years working across psychedelic research, therapy, professional training, harm reduction, and public education.
I spent a decade at the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), where I served as Director of Harm Reduction and led the work of the Zendo Project.
I served as a therapist in Phase 2 and 3 clinical trials of MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD, a Lead Educator and Associate Supervisor for Lykos Therapeutics, and as the Founding Course Director for the Integrative Psychiatry Institute’s Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Training.
The Foundations of Psychedelic Stewardship
Over the course of my career, I have spent 10,000+ hours supporting people during psychedelic experiences. I’ve trained more than 8,000 individuals, including peer supporters, psychedelic therapists and facilitators, and first responders.
Again and again, my work has brought me back to the same question:
How do we best engage with psychedelics so that personal healing translates into meaningful, lasting change in how we live, relate, and contribute to our communities and the world?
I founded Psychedelic Stewardship to help answer that question. This organization brings together decades of experience to give people the knowledge and resources to navigate psychedelic healing with greater clarity, confidence, and responsibility.
I believe psychedelics can be powerful catalysts for healing and transformation, but that realizing that potential requires more than the experience itself. It requires thoughtful engagement, preparation, support, and attention to how what we learn during these experiences actually takes root in our lives, relationships, and communities.
A Little More About Me
I live in Boulder, CO, on the ancestral lands of the Ute, Cheyenne, and Arapaho peoples, with my husband, toddler, and our canine creature.
I come from mixed white, Hispano, and Genízaro ancestry and was raised within a multicultural family in Northern New Mexico.
I have spent more than 25 years in relationship with psychedelic medicines across community, ceremonial, and healing contexts. I have been blessed with many mentors, teachers, and lineage keepers along this path.
I am an animist and believe that psychedelics hold their own unique intelligence, calling us into relationship with intention, humility, respect, and care. My approach is deeply informed by transpersonal and liberation psychology, ancestral healing, the natural world, and my own healing path.
Join the Stewardship Circle
Conversations, education and resources for navigating psychedelic healing with greater knowledge, intention, and responsibility.
Explore what it means to carry psychedelic experiences into how you live, relate, and contribute in the world.
Join the Psychedelic Stewardship Newsletter for grounded guidance along your journey.
The Psychedelic Stewardship Framework
Psychedelic Stewardship creates educational, relational, and institutional infrastructure that supports responsible psychedelic engagement across clinical, community, and cultural contexts.
We work across the following four domains:
Self
preparation, session, long-term integration
Society
relationships, families, and relational systems
Sphere
contribution, purpose, and collective healing
System
education & training, institutional design
Respecting
Experience and Tradition
We respect different backgrounds, lineages, cultures, and traditions. We listen, learn, and act from a place of respect and humility.
Accountability Alongside
Access
As access to psychedelics expands, so must education, preparation, and accountability.
Responsible
Growth
We value meaningful impact over speed or scale. We move at the speed of safety.
Begin Within. Go Beyond.
A psychedelic experience can open new possibilities for healing, growth, and change. Learn how to work with your experience so that what you discover becomes part of how you live, relate, and move through the world, long after the journey itself is over.
