Meet the Team

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Amber Cress, LPC, is a U.S. Coast Guard veteran and Licensed Professional Counselor based in Texas. She is passionate about helping people heal from trauma, reconnect with themselves, and create meaningful change in their lives. Amber works with individuals preparing for or integrating psychedelic experiences. Through Internal Family Systems (IFS), EMDR, and somatic practices, she guides clients to move beyond survival and step into self-empowered wholeness.

Joseph DeLorenzo is a therapist and researcher whose work explores the intersections of trauma, consciousness, and meaning-making. Practicing across multiple states in the U.S., while exploring multiple states of consciousness, Dr. Lorenzo brings a transpersonal perspective to his work with adults navigating PTSD, OCD, and other mental health challenges.

Alongside his clinical work, Joseph researches communication across altered and non-ordinary states of consciousness, with a particular interest in experiences described as telepathic communication. His work reflects a broader commitment to investigating consciousness with openness, rigor, and respect for the complexity of subjective human experience.

Billy Evans, PSC, is a U.S. Navy veteran and graduate-level student at the University of Southern California (USC) in social work, with an extensive background as a peer support counselor, bringing a grounded, compassionate presence to his work supporting veterans and first responders navigating trauma, PTSD, moral injury, chronic pain, and substance use challenges. Through his work as a Coach and Support Staff member, Billy has extensive experience supporting individuals in integrating health and wellness, translating meaningful and often challenging experiences into lasting personal growth and behavioral change. Known for his authenticity, emotional maturity, and ability to build trust, he approaches each person with curiosity, dignity, and respect. Billy’s work is rooted in genuine human connection, careful listening, accountability, and the belief that meaningful healing happens when people feel truly seen and supported.

Jovanny Jones is a U.S. Army veteran, executive coach, and business professional whose work bridges military service, leadership development, and personal transformation. After serving multiple deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, Jovanny navigated his own transition from military life and ultimately transformed those experiences into a commitment to helping others grow through periods of challenge and change. He earned his master’s degree in business from the University of Southern California (USC) and has spent years coaching CEOs, executives, and other high-performing professionals throughout the Los Angeles area, helping them strengthen leadership, clarify purpose, and navigate the personal demands that often accompany positions of significant responsibility. His approach draws not only from formal business education and executive coaching, but from the lived experience of service, adversity, transition, and reinvention. 

Aliya Martinez, LCSW, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, clinical supervisor, administrator, and training facilitator with a professional foundation rooted in trauma-informed, person-centered, and recovery-oriented care. As a California BBS-approved Clinical Supervisor, she brings experience supporting both clients and developing clinicians across diverse therapeutic settings. Aliya has completed certification in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy and Research as well as MAPS training, with additional certification in Sex Therapy currently in progress. Her clinical approach integrates harm reduction, crisis intervention, mindfulness and DBT, CBT, Motivational Interviewing, and principles of Applied Behavior Analysis. Across her work, Aliya emphasizes diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice while creating care that respects each individual’s experiences, identity, autonomy, and goals.

Alon McKlveen is a Clinical Mental Health Counseling graduate student at Northwestern University and Research Associate specializing in psychedelic-assisted approaches, mindfulness, and nature-based mental health interventions. As part of her clinical training, she facilitates ketamine preparation and integration support within an interdisciplinary treatment setting. Her research focuses on ecopsychology, stress reduction, and the psychological benefits of nature-based interventions. Alon also serves on the board of the Georgia Association for Psychedelic Therapy, contributing to psychedelic education, program development, and advocacy.

Fritz Olivier is a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, meditation practitioner, and educator who brings a grounded, accessible approach to mindfulness and contemplative practice. Of Haitian heritage and raised in Jamaica, New York, Fritz began practicing martial arts as a child, laying an early foundation in discipline, awareness, and the mind-body connection. Following his transition from military to civilian life, he deepened his meditation practice and began teaching individuals and groups practical techniques to cultivate presence, manage stress, and develop greater awareness in everyday life. Having worked with both veterans and frontline healthcare professionals, Fritz understands the unique demands placed on people whose lives and careers involve service, responsibility, and exposure to high-stress environments.  Now based in Florida, Fritz remains deeply committed to service while embracing the roles he values most as a dedicated father, husband, friend, and fellow veteran.

Robert Patterson is an international psychotherapist who brings an integrative, deeply human approach to healing, drawing on transpersonal psychology, Jungian thought, Celtic spiritual traditions, and years of experience supporting people across the lifespan. Based in Ireland, Robert holds a certificate in transpersonal therapy grounded in Celtic Shamanism and is currently completing his training as a Jungian analyst. His work is informed by an appreciation for the symbolic and often unseen dimensions of human experience; how story, relationship, spirituality, culture, and meaning-making can shape how people understand themselves and navigate periods of transition.

Adrian Scharfetter, PhD, LMFT, CST-S, is a U.S. Army veteran, psychotherapist, AASECT-certified sex therapist, and researcher whose work explores consciousness, relationships, intimacy, and peak experiences. As a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (CA #113824), Adrian specializes in sex therapy, men’s health, couples work focused on connection and intimacy, kink and BDSM, mindfulness-based practices, and trauma and PTSD. He brings a strong background working with Veterans and Veteran-specific concerns, with particular attention to trauma and identity, relationships, sexuality, and attachment. Dr. Scharfetter's approach brings these areas together to support individuals and couples in developing greater self-understanding, meaningful connection, and psychological well-being.

Ryan “Sully” Sulligan is a U.S. Marine Corps veteran and peer support counselor, drawing on his experience as a combat veteran and former law enforcement officer to bring a unique combination of service, resilience, and lived experience to his work. Following multiple combat deployments and a career in law enforcement that included being injured in the line of duty, Sully developed a deeply personal understanding of the challenges that can accompany trauma, high-stress professions, and major life transitions. He now specializes in coaching and facilitating individual and group experiences centered on healing, transformation, connection, and resilience. His approach is rooted in authenticity, peer connection, accountability, and the belief that healing is strengthened through shared experience and genuine human connection.

Jessica Tansing is a graduate-level nursing student at Georgetown University with a strong background in psychology, neuroscience, and clinical research that supports her work with the veteran community and her efforts to advance innovative approaches to mental health care. Her experience spans psychedelic medicine research, trauma-informed retreat support, psychopharmacology, and military health research, including work with Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. Jessica has contributed to the development of outcome measures, data collection and analysis, and peer-reviewed research examining emerging approaches to trauma, brain injury, and mental health conditions. Alongside her research, she has direct experience supporting veterans during psychedelic medicine retreats and integrating trauma-informed coaching principles into client care. Her interests in psychedelic-assisted therapy, mental health technology, and plant science reflect a broader commitment to developing thoughtful, evidence-based approaches that bridge emerging science with compassionate mental health care.

Jazzy Wong, LCSW, is a therapist practicing in Hawaiʻi and living on the Big Island. Her work centers on supporting individuals navigating trauma, relational distress, and significant periods of transition. Jazzy has completed formal training in psychedelic-assisted therapy through the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) and the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). She continues to support individuals who legally access psychedelic-assisted therapy in countries where these approaches are permitted, offering thoughtful preparation, integration, and therapeutic support surrounding these experiences.

At the heart of Jazzy’s work is an extraordinary capacity for warmth, compassion, and genuine human connection. Colleagues and clients describe Jazzy as a "human silver lining," a steadfast beacon of love and support who helps others find hope, meaning, and resilience even in life’s most challenging chapters.