About.
I am a licensed clinical psychologist and Natural Medicine Clinical Facilitator in Training working in private practice at Tethered Healing Center in Colorado (virtual, in-person) and California (virtual). I also supervise and teach at Sage Integrative Health, a Bay Area holistic psychedelic clinic. I have been working in the psychedelic field for a decade. I most recently served as a lead psilocybin therapist on the UCSD phantom limb pain clinical trial from 2022-2024. I specialize in the assessment and treatment of PTSD, anxiety, and depression. I am a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP) and am trained in relational depth work, psychedelic-assisted therapy, and numerous evidence-based PTSD interventions. I am on faculty for Sage Integrative Health’s Psychedelic Practitioner Training Program where I teach about trauma in the body and somatic approaches, ritual magic and ceremony, and integration. I supervise psychedelic-assisted therapists in training as well. I enjoy volunteering my time mentoring minority trainees, have led numerous diversity related efforts across several institutions, and give regular invited talks, presentations, and workshops.
I prioritize working from a decolonized framework and after a decade of clinical work, I believe mind-body-spirit integration is the path to wholeness. I focus on offering healing that involves both deep excavation and confrontation of one’s psyche and somatic processing of traumatic wounds, ultimately leading to a remembering of a more authentic, complex self and reclaiming of one’s life in the interconnected web of nature. I am a proponent of both naturopathic and allopathic healing approaches. I am very committed to my own personal growth, healing, and development, as it allows me to continuously deepen how I work with people. I regularly take time for personal retreat and prioritize a balanced life.
In addition to my work with my clients, I enjoy homesteading, doing vipassana meditation and sadhana, hiking with my partner through the Rocky Mountains, sketching, and painting. I love reading historical non-fiction and way too many books on consciousness, Jungian depth analysis, and spirituality. I also dabble in herbalism and enjoy wildcrafting and making my own tea blends for my community. The bedrock of my spiritual path is pluralistic, tantric, animistic, and pagan.
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San Francisco VA Health Care System / Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco
APA-Accredited Advanced Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in PTSD (2019-2020)
Post 9/11 Integrated Care Clinic, PTSD Clinic
San Francisco VA Health Care System / Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco
APA-Accredited Clinical Residency (2018-2019)
Rotations: PTSD and Substance Use Team, Dialectical Behavior Therapy Team, PTSD Clinic, Women’s Clinic, Neuropsychology, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Team
Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Center for Anxiety and Traumatic Stress Disorders (2017-2018)
Depression Clinical and Research Program (2016-2017)
Outpatient Ketamine Clinic
Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital
Outpatient Mental Health Clinic, PTSD Team (2016-2017)
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Ambulatory Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Clinic, Department of Psychiatry (2015-2016)
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Neuropsychological Assessment Center (2015)
May Institute Community Mental Health Clinic
Crossroads Day Treatment Program for serious mental illness (2014-2015)
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Dr. Samadhi began providing post-IV ketamine integration in 2015 at MGH, where she received training on psychedelic integration for people recovering from treatment-resistant depression.
Dr. Samadhi completed Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) training through Polaris Insight Center in 2020 and participated in a yearlong ketamine experiential group for clinicians at Polaris. She received further training at Sage Integrative Health and has since participated in weekly ketamine consultation group at Sage Integrative Health. She has been providing KAP for 5 years.
Dr. Samadhi completed the MAPS MDMA-Assisted Therapy Training Program in August 2021.
Dr. Samadhi trained and served as a psilocybin therapist for the phantom limb pain UCSD clinical trial from 2022-2024. She also trained other trial therapists and helped develop the facilitation approach.
Dr. Samadhi completed the UC-Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics Facilitation Certificate Program. She was part of the inaugural cohort for this 9-month long intensive training for a cohort of advanced practitioners. The cohort's program was centered on psilocybin facilitation and integration with special emphasis on the spiritual praxis of this work.
Dr. Samadhi also has a Psilocybin Facilitation Training Certificate of completion from the Naropa Center for Psychedelic Studies/Memoru.
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Kathy Kain’s Advanced Touch Skills Training for Trauma Therapists (87 hours)
Modules 1-3, December 2025 - June 2026
Somatic Experiencing (3 Year Certification)
Beginning Level I, May 6-9, 2022, Beginning Level II, July 22-25, 2022, Beginning Level III, November 4-7, 2022. Faculty Instructor: Ariel Giarretto, LMFT. Assistant Faculty: Shideh Lennon, PhD
Intermediate Level I, March 3-6, 2023, Intermediate Level II June 9-12, 2023, Intermediate Level III, October 20-23, 2023. Faculty Instructor: Ariel Giarretto, LMFT. Assistant Faculty: Shideh Lennon, PhD
Advanced Level I, July 11-16, 2024, Intermediate Level II November 1-6, 2024, Faculty Instructor: Dave Berger, MFT, PT.
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Dr. Samadhi has received rigorous, extensive training in the following evidence-based therapies in both civilians and veterans:
Prolonged Exposure for PTSD
Cognitive Processing Therapy for PTSD
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for Depression, Panic Disorder, and Social Anxiety Disorder
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder
Acceptance Based Behavioral Therapy for Generalized Anxiety Disorder
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For over 7 years, Dr. Samadhi was rigorously trained in psychiatric diagnostic assessment. She served as an independent diagnostician for numerous NIH-funded and/or FDA-approved clinical trials including MAPS’ phase II and III MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy for PTSD clinical trials. Dr. Samadhi has been trained in administering the following structured and semi-structured clinician-administered diagnostic interviews:
Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale for DSM-5 (CAPS-5)
Mini-International Neuropsychiatric Interview (MINI)
Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV and DSM-5 (SCID), and SCID for Personality Disorders (SCID-PD)
Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale (CSSRS)
Dissociation Subtype PTSD Interview (DSPI)
Hamilton Depression and Anxiety Rating Scales (HAM-D, HAM-A)
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International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies
Anxiety and Depression Association of America
American Psychological Association
Association for Contextual Behavioral Science
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Theravada Buddhism Vipassana Meditation with Heidi Bourne
Medicine Mandala Apprenticeship at Rio Cosmico with Yaya Erin Rivera Merriman
Awakening Women’s Temple Facilitation Training Program with Chameli Ardagh
Skakta Tantra and Kaula Lineage with Laura Amazonne
Vajrayana Buddhism with Jennifer Welwood