Carson Kivari

Over my combined 17 years of education and practice I’ve enjoyed the privileged passion of learning the patterns of our nervous systems. Old traumatic residue is carried as a ‘body memory,’ long detached from the original source of pain. …And so despite your best self-care, you may experience anxiety and numbness like a mysterious poltergeist in your house. “Why do you haunt me still?” Working with me means answering the hero’s call to explore dark caves and deep oceans, releasing traumatic stress through a shared journey into the brain and body. If you are human, it is certain you have felt the pain of abandonment, rejection and betrayal. This being the case, it is my goal to guide you from the pain of aloneness to the relief of connection and the astonishing realization that you were never broken in the first place. Perhaps to our shared delight, the great medicines of our ancestors are now more readily available to support the healing journey. While trauma-informed counselling resonates deeply with me, the sacred plants and psychedelic compounds at our hands may offer one of the most direct and sincere means of releasing old pain known on earth. Myself and my clinical team would be glad to explore your appropriateness for psychedelic medicine, as well as to help plan and integrate trips.