Alyona is an integrative psychotherapist, ritualist, psychedelic guide, and group facilitator devoted to living a life that blooms with radiant compassion and service to the sacred. 

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Her calling towards exploring the mystical realms and embodying a vocation within the healing arts was precipitated by personal suffering and familial hardship in her formative years. As an immigrant child, leaving her homeland of Ukraine and moving to the west coast of Canada at the age of seven, she was confronted with having to inhabit a tender and unfamiliar space of liminality and loss. This life-altering event and mythic thread of living on the edge, prophesised a way of being in the world that would be uncovered by traveling through the inner wild landscapes of consciousness and the outer terrains of this wondrous earth. Required by the powers of Destiny to recognize home and belonging not as a geographical place, but rather, as a way of living on the edges of convention, Alyona now senses her rootedness within the unfolding and ever-evolving path of her heart and soul. 

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In her professional life, Alyona has embodied the role of the wounded healer for over 15+ years, working as a dementia caregiver, a social worker in prisons and with the homeless, a career counselor, and in the past five years as the co-founder of A Healing Bridge with her beloved husband, Alexandre.  

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Through A Healing Bridge, Alyona offers soul-nourishing support and empowerment for seekers (individuals, couples & groups) on the psycho-spiritual journey, and is passionate about exploring the areas of sexuality, eros and spirituality; intimacy, love and relationships; grief, loss and death; power, shadow and conflict; ancestral reconnection and remembrance; and transformation through the intentional use of psychedelics and plant medicines. Her style and approach is best suited to individuals who are engaging in self-inquiry, are seeking greater authenticity in their relationships, have a calling to deepen in spiritual/ancestral practice, and feel inspired to commit to the life-long quest of healing, becoming, and thriving.

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Her most notable trainings include a Bachelor’s degree in Social Work with a Child Welfare Specialization from the University of Victoria; 2-year post-graduate specialist training in Holistic Counselling & Psychotherapy through the Metavision Institute; 4+ years of training with Grof Holotropic Breathwork & Transpersonal Psychology; Ceremony and Rites of Passage Global Training with Katie Asmus and Haaweatea Holly Bryson; 3-year apprenticeship in Psychedelic Therapy Training (now called Ecstatic Mysticism) through the AWE Foundation; and over 13+ years of in-depth work (ceremonies, dietas, and initiations) with various medicine-carriers specializing in healing methods with master plants and shamanic technologies in Australia, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, and Mexico. Alyona has been traditionally initiated in both the Missoku and Mabanji branches of the Bwiti tradition in Gabon, Africa and honors her teachers and elders of this path. She has been engaging in regular therapy, mentorship and supervision with Niyati Evers for the past 3+ years. 

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In addition to her work with A Healing Bridge, Alyona serves as the Visionary Program Director, and also facilitates both online and in-person for Ecstatic Mysticism, a project from the AWE Foundation since 2023. She lives in the Sacred Valley of Peru with her life-partner, Alexandre, dog-soulmate, Nala, and trickster cat, Hampi where she offers online sessions and workshops, and in-person ceremonies and retreats to individuals from all around the world.

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​Alyona is passionate about co-creating and co-leading radical spaces which tend to the longings and needs of her community and nurture the places that she is in relationship with. If you would like to collaborate with Alyona, please reach out by visiting the contact page.

 

To learn more about Alyona’s approach to healing and soul-work, please visit the Holistic Psychotherapy page or the Psychedelic & Plant Medicine Integration page.