Peggy Dippen is a mindfulness based psychedelic guide, longtime public educator, Courage & Renewal® Facilitator, Real Dialogue Specialist™, yoga teacher, and community builder passionate about fostering greater love, gratitude, and compassion for self, others, and the world. Peggy completed  mindfulness-based psychedelic guide training through the Center for Medicinal Mindfulness in Boulder, Colorado. She is the founder of Mindful Journey Work LLC and co-facilitates a growing monthly psychedelic integration circle that brings together participants from across the United States and beyond. Her work emphasizes ethical integration, embodied awareness, creativity, compassion, and the importance of finding supportive community along the path of healing and awakening.

Julie Coffey, MS, LCMHC, is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor in private practice working with children, teens, and adults. For more than 26 years, she has worked at the intersection of mental health, family systems, and domestic and sexual violence. Her approach is relational and collaborative, integrating evidence-based therapies to help clients deepen self-understanding, reconnect with their resilience, and create meaningful change. Julie completed certification in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy through the Integrative Psychiatry Institute (IPI) in Colorado in 2024 and currently provides ketamine-assisted psychotherapy in both office and home settings.

Wanda Handel, MSN, is a holistic RN and psychedelic practitioner specializing in transformational experiences utilizing breathwork, voice and embodied practices, sound healing and reiki, and the cultivation of relationship with nature and plants. She builds a bridge between science and other ways of knowing with 30 years of experience in Nursing and Neuroscience and training in traditional earth and plant medicines. She is certified as a Psychedelic Practitioner from The Synthesis Institute and as a Breath and Voice Practitioner from the Anima Healing Institute. Wanda operates a private wellness coaching practice Animari Wellness.

Rachel Lamagna, MS, LCMHC, holds a master’s degree in psychology and is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor as well as a board member with SPARK. She has experience with group therapy, couples counseling, and long-term analysis. Rachel has an integrative approach to therapy and feels committed to helping her clients find intention and purpose so that they may see a path toward decreased suffering. This commitment, along with a recognition of the limitations of modern psychiatric drugs and therapeutic treatment, brought Rachel to pursue a deeper understanding of psychedelics as medicine. She has been working in the field for 18 years.

Kaitlyn Lindsay, MA, LCMHC is a licensed clinical mental health counselor in private practice, dedicated to walking alongside women as they navigate the profound transitions of life. She is deeply passionate about supporting women across the lifespan—from the transformative landscape of perinatal mental health to the sacred process of soul discovery.
In her clinical work, Kaitlyn provides a grounded space for the complex layers of grief and offers specialized support in psychedelic-assisted therapy and integration. She views healing as an integrative journey, helping her clients weave together their deepest experiences to reclaim a more authentic sense of self.
Beyond the therapy room, Kaitlyn is a mother and a writer, roles that continually inform her perspective on resilience and the human heart. She is a firm believer in the restorative power of nature and finds her own balance by putting her hands in the dirt, connecting to the earth as a source of grounding and renewal.

we have an opening for a licensed medical clinician passionate about advancing this grassroots effort to help shape Vermont’s psychedelic ecosystem. If you are interested in joining the SPARK in Vt Board of Directors, email us at sparkinvt.org@gmail.com.

Atara Jaffe is a Naturopathic physician and certified Death Doula licensed in Vermont and  Washington state at Stowe Natural Family Wellness, where she serves as Director of IV Therapy. Her philosophical approach to medicine is patient-centered, where provider and patient work as a partnership to achieve the individual’s physical and mental wellness goals. She completed her undergraduate degree in Environmental Studies and Psychology, and graduated from the National University of Natural Medicine in Portland, OR with a Doctorate in Naturopathic Medicine. She completed a 2-year Naturopathic Oncology residency at AIMS Institute in Seattle, WA,  where she served as chief resident and director of IV training. Her training encompassed integrative cancer care, ketamine assisted psychotherapy and primary care. 
Atara’s areas of passion and focus include oncology, palliative and end-of-life care, psychedelic-assisted therapy, and somatic medicine modalities such as manipulation and craniosacral therapy. In her free time, Atara teaches Hebrew, enjoys hiking and the outdoors, being creative and exploring spirituality. 

Ginger Cloud, MC, LCMHC, LADC, PATP is a Vermont licensed mental health and addictions counselor, as well as a certified psychedelic therapy provider through the Integrative Psychiatry Institute of Boulder, Colorado. Ginger teaches ketamine and psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy at the University of Vermont (UVM), and is enrolled in the Integrative Health Science PhD Program at UVM. She maintains a small private practice, specializing in ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, consultations, and psychedelic integration services.