Chelsea Rose Pires, M.A., LMFT

Chelsea Rose (she/her) graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles Honors College with a B.A. in psychology in 2007, and received her master’s degree in Integral Counseling Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies in 2012. She has a passion for harm reduction as a therapeutic and practical approach to drug use and abuse prevention. Chelsea has worked with the Zendo Project, providing psychedelic peer support at events around the world, since 2013. Chelsea also manages the reagent drug testing kit program at DanceSafe, a public health organization focused on safety in the night life community. Additionally, she worked with and supervised the Crisis Response Team in Nevada County for a decade, supporting clients who come into the emergency room in psychiatric crisis. She lives in the Sierra foothills of California with her three children, four kitties and their Basenji pup named Mochi.