Background

Terri Gilbert, PhD

While I started out as a neuroscientist and scientific educator, my path moved toward understanding consciousness and facilitating the ways it can inspire meaningful change.

Possessing a unique blend of scientific training to understand the complexity of how the brain works within non-ordinary states of consciousness, I also delved into a variety of trainings focused on the spiritual aspects of this work, including shamanism, psychedelic space holding and integration, and exploration into mythology and end of life.

I now work with individuals to facilitate their journey toward evolution.

You can find my professional background below, or learn about My Story here.

SPIRIT

Shamanic Training with Michelle McKinney of Northwest Healing and Intuitive Arts
My shamanic training loosened my grip on a strictly materialist worldview and brought me into a lived relationship with the spirit realm—so inner experience becomes something that can be listened to, not just met with criticism.
VITAL program in Integrative Psychedelic Studies (created by Psychedelics Today)
Specializing in spiritual emergence and group fields
The Vital program gave me the confidence to work with psychedelic and other transformational experiences from preparation through integration. This training allowed me to explore and tend non-ordinary states of consciousness that move beyond the individual into shared or transpersonal space.
Landmark Worldwide
Attuning to the needs of large groups to support insights & breakthroughs
Working deeply with how people create their worlds through language taught me how to hold charged spaces — which is why I can stay grounded when things get intense, messy, or real.
Mytho-Somatic Storytelling
Looking at the world from a mythic and animism perspective
Mythic Body is teaching me how story, body, ritual, and lived imagery shape how we experience ourselves and the world, so we reconnect to meaning, instinct, and embodied presence beyond purely psychological or intellectual frameworks.
Staying present, compassionate, and steady when things are tender, uncertain, or coming to an end.
- Singing with the Threshold Choir
- Hospice Training
- Sandra Ingerman’s A Shaman’s Approach to Death as a Rite of Passage
Learning to hold space around death — through hospice training, Threshold singing for the dying, tending my own loved ones, and a shamanic view of death as a transition — taught me these skills.