"Again and again
Some people wake up...
They have no ground in the crowd

And they emerge according to broader laws
They carry strange customs with them 
And demand room for bold gestures. 
The future speaks ruthlessly through them.
And they change the world." 
~ Rainer Maria Rilke

As an integrative psychotherapist, group facilitator, community-tender, ritualist & ceremonialist, Alexandre is in service to the remembering of the essential wisdoms, practices, and initiatory processes for ripening into mature adulthood, such that living culture may emerge to carry future generations. With an eclectic therapeutic, ancestral, and musical background, he meaningfully weaves together his roots serving as a multidisciplinary practitioner.

Originally born in Mauritius with a creole-diasporic ancestral heritage and raised as a first-generation immigrant in Australia, Alexandre has always felt a calling to remember, and weave, the roots of ancestral wisdom within the unique context of these modern times. After experiencing the 'soul-quake' of a spontaneous spiritual emergence in his mid-20s, an embodied realization emerged through the cracks: that there exist profound ways of knowing and transformative dimensions to life (both inner and outer) that conventional models of emotional and psychospiritual health are significantly disconnected from. As a result of a decade of immersion and training within integrative and transpersonal - as well as earth-based, animist, and shamanic paradigms - his sacred activism involves tending the fertile edges of human-becoming and bridging worlds. 

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Among many lineages, his approach is predominantly influenced from his Holistic Psychotherapy training at the Metavision Institute (rooted in Arnold & Amy Mindell's Process-oriented Psychology); his 4 years of experiential training and apprenticeship with Grof Holotropic Breathwork & Transpersonal Psychology; 5+ years apprenticing in, and facilitating, grief-work (from the lineage of Francis Weller); his 3-year comprehensive training and initiation in Psychedelic Medicine & Transpersonal Psychology through the AWE Foundation; and over 10 years of receiving teachings and transmissions from plant-teachers (through dietas) and various medicine-keepers across Peru, Australia, Ecuador, Colombia, and Mexico. 

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Through A Healing Bridge, Alexandre offers support and mentoring to individuals and couples from around the world in his private practice and also facilitates group containers and retreats (in collaboration with his beloved wife, Alyona, as well as other dear colleagues from around the world). He provides a sanctuary for seekers of diverse backgrounds to become more intimate with themselves and their relations (human and non-human), reclaim their innate gifts and embodied aliveness lost from soul-wounds / experiences of suffering, and strengthen their connection to their path of walking authentically in service to the world. His integrative and emergent approach to psycho-spiritual maturation is a great fit for those who are already engaged in, and desire to go deeper into, the vital inner, outer, and relational work required for meaningful change - who resonate with earth-based, soul-oriented, shamanic, spiritually-rooted, experiential paradigms, and feel inspired to engage in the organic (and often slow, non-linear & long-term) process of authentic ripening. 

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At the heart of his work, Alexandre's passion is to bridge the intersections between transforming developmental wounds and ancestral trauma, working reverently with extraordinary states of consciousness and the art of ritual and ceremony, and inquiring into the psychospiritual process of soul-initiation into authentic adulthood (and thus, elderhood). His main areas of focus are psychedelic and plant-medicine ceremonial and therapeutic work (including preparation, ceremonial/session facilitation, and integration); the terrain of grief, dying, and death; intergenerational healing and ancestral connection; spiritual emergence & initiatory/liminal experiences; relational intimacy & romantic love; sexuality & eroticism; and the wisdom of dreams and shadow-work.

Alexandre has co-facilitated grief-work with, and mentored alongside, elder Francis Weller, and draws much inspiration from his mentoring relationship with poet, Jaiya John. He is a part of the facilitation and admissions team for AWE's Ecstatic Mysticism 3-year initiatory program, and has been involved with their sacred activism work of preserving ancestral knowledge and mystical traditions of indigenous communities. Alexandre also practices vegetelismo (Amazonian plant-spirit shamanism) and is in an avid apprenticeship with Master Plant Teachers, particularly Tobaco (Nicotiana Rustica) and various teacher trees, under the Mamancunawa lineage - which deeply informs his work and life in general. As a writer, he is in the process of completing a Master of Arts (MA) in Integrative Psychedelic Therapy through Ubiquity University, and delighted to be in the process of birthing his first book of poetry. He lives in the Sacred Valley of Cusco, Peru, with his wife, Alyona, and dearest dog and cat, Nala and Hampi. 

For more on Alexandre's approach to transformational soul-work, visit any of the following pages: Holistic Psychotherapy, Couples therapy, or Psychedelic & Plant-Medicine Integration.