Gerard A. Artesona      

Associate Marriage and Family Therapist #92274 (Supervised by Cathy Diamond,  MFC# 30727)

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    The Island: Recovering Self, Culture and Place through Plant Medicine

    A professor of mine in undergrad once told me that if we did know where we were from, we would never know where we were going. Here I share about ancestral healing and the use of plant medicine as a means of reintegrating into my culture.

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    Personal Healing with Ayahuasca Helped Me Be a Better Psychotherapist

    True soundness of mind transcends intellectual concepts. This piece details parts of my own healing journey which have been vital to the restoration of my wellbeing and the formation of an experiential therapeutic perspective. 

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    Psychedelic Integration With A Religious Leader

    I knew little of the mental health unique needs of religious leaders prior to this therapeutic encounter. Here I describe my experience of helping a Christian Pastor restore their relation to  faith through the use of psychedelic integration therapy. 

    © 2023 by Gerard A. Artesona                                                                                                                       Background Image by Natalia Muñoz Paraliticci, Digital Collage, 2015