Sara Gael, M.A., LPC

Sara Gael is a psychedelic therapist, educator, and licensed natural medicine facilitator. She lives in Boulder, CO. Sara has been working in the psychedelic field since 2012. Her expertise includes senior leadership, multi-medicine therapy, peer support, and community movement-building. Sara provides mentorship and consulting to organizations and individuals in the psychedelic ecosystem. She worked at the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) for 10 years, where she served as Director of Harm Reduction and led the development and international expansion of the Zendo Project, providing psychedelic peer support services and training across four continents

Sara served as an Investigator, Lead Educator, and Associate Supervisor for Lykos MDMA-Assisted Therapy for PTSD clinical trials. She was the founding Course Director for the Integrative Psychiatry Institute Psychedelic Assisted Therapy Training, overseeing a global faculty of over 30+ esteemed experts, developing over 300 hours of curriculum, and delivering education to over 2,500 students.She served as the appointed harm reduction representative on the Denver Psilocybin Mushroom Policy Review Panel and spearheaded the MAPS Denver First Responder Psychedelic Crisis Assessment and Intervention Training. She served as the Program Lead for The Ohio State University Center for Psychedelic Drug Research and Education Psychedelic Emergency, Acute, and Continuing Care Education (P.E.A.C.E.) Program.

Sara is a mystic and animist at heart and brings a spirit-centric lens to all her work. She holds a Masters degree in Transpersonal Psychology with a focus on Nature-Based Therapy from Naropa University. She believes that psychedelics are their own sovereign sentient beings, and supports individuals who wish to partner with them from a place of humility and reverence. She believes in the potential of psychedelics as catalysts for individual, community, and collective healing and the need to responsibly and ethically steward these medicines into mental health and society. She is committed to equitable access for historically and currently marginalized communities. Sara comes from mixed white/Latina/Genízaro ancestry. Central to her own healing journey has been connection to land and the natural world. Sara has spent over 25 years in relationship with psychedelic medicines through community and ceremonial contexts and approaches this work from a lived experience lens.