Meet Our Team
Please note that PLC does not endorse, provide or engage in illegal activity. We provide community care spaces, resources, and education.
Djinn Thompson (she/her)
Djinn has over 20 years of experience with psychedelic plants and has been supporting clients in a professional capacity for over a decade. Djinn specializes in working with survivors of childhood trauma, those with treatment-resistant depression, and issues related to LGBTQ identities. Djinn came out as a nonbinary trans person in 2017. She is currently pursuing a Masters Degree in Social Work. Djinn was previously the host of the Psychedelic Parenting Podcast under their birth name, and has been a speaker on psychedelics and family life at multiple conferences, both in the US and abroad.
Syre Oñi Saniyah (he/him)
As a Black, queer, gender expansive, polyamorous, and kinky healing practitioner Syre (he/him) is passionate about working with those who are traditionally marginalized/pathologized/othered in society and underrepresented in help seeking environments. He practices from a liberation centered intersectional/multidimensional feminist perspective with the goal of collaborating with folx toward embodied liberation. Syre is fully invested in living a passion filled and expansive life. He is committed to energy work and psychedelic medicine as a path toward liberation and healing intergenerational wounds. Syre is also a Will Worker and Pleasure Advocate and believes that harnessing the energy of pleasure toward the manifestation of change in accordance with Will is central to his healing path. Syre completed training in the MDMA assisted psychotherapy program with the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). He graduated with a Master's Degree in Organizational Psychology from Columbia University and a Ph.D in Counseling Psychology from Fordham University in New York City. Syre has been a fully licensed psychologist since 2010. He is a Registered Yoga Teacher (Hatha & Kemetic), a Liberation Coach, a Level II Ra Sekhi Kemetic Energy Medicine Practitioner, as well as a Usui/Holy Fire Reiki Master. Syre is also the founder of Liberation Reiki, a path of Reiki that centers the energetic intergenerational healing of BIPOC and queer folx.
Kulkiran Nakai (they/she)
Kulkiran Nakai is a licensed clinical psychologist who is a fat, neurodivergent, Desi-American queer femme that practices therapeutic, spiritual healing work with individuals of marginalized, intersecting identities on Anishinaabe territory in Ypsilanti, Michigan. They have a passion for inner-child and ancestral healing while dismantling injected systems of oppression through the use of psychodramatic group practices and the support of plant-medicines.
Ayyur Sutherland (they/them)
Ayyur Sutherland is a queer, transmasculine, white-bodied therapist, whose passion is to serve the cause of Love and Liberation. They live on Anishinaabe land, currently known as Ypsilanti, Michigan, where they are in private practice. Ayyur is humbled to have had the privilege of working with Ayahuasca, Psilocybin, Cannabis, and MDMA, all of which have catalyzed their healing journey.
Ayyur is committed to the unlearning and healing of intergenerational trauma and insidious injected settler colonialism/white supremacy. They are eager to continue to do this work in community with other white-bodied individuals working toward collective liberation with plant medicines and MDMA, while holding themselves accountable to People of the Global Marjority.
Micah Saniyah (xe/them/their)
Micah Saniyah earned their Master’s Degree in Social Work and graduate certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies from Eastern Michigan University in 2016. Xe enjoys working with LGBTQIA+ clients, as well as individuals exploring issues related to self-worth, perfectionism, ADHD, trauma, depression, anxiety, whiteness and white-body supremacy. Xe is also a polyamory and kink-aware therapist. As a queer, non-binary, white person, xe is passionate about understanding embodied white supremacy and settler colonialism, engaging in healing practices to unlearn intergenerational and current patterns of dominance and violence. Xe is driven by a deep desire to engage in this work themself and to co-create spaces with other white folks in which they may collectively heal their white supremacist parts.
Preston Lopez (he/they)
Preston Lopez is a queer therapist of color residing on the ancestral and unceded land of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe, also known as Oakland, CA. As an activist, Preston has spent time organizing for environmental justice, sharing in the work of a just transition to a sustainable, equitable society. As a therapist, Preston supports folks in exploring, healing, and liberating themselves from the internalization of oppressive systems as well as supports folks through preparation and integration of intentional psychedelic use. As a poet, he channels the experience of being queer and brown into words and rhythm as a means to connect and resonate with his community. The intentional use of psychedelics has been an integral part of Preston's personal liberation, particularly from the effects of religious trauma, anti-queer discrimination, and the experience of "conversion therapy". He eagerly supports those wanting to heal from their own experiences of marginalization and oppression.
community feedback about our integration circles
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I'm just getting into psychedelics and it feels incredibly safe and nurturing to be in a space with people of color, with a discussion led by a Black woman. I'll be back again for sure.
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BIPOC Integration Circle has been amazing, a nourishing monthly session!
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I really liked the energy of the space, and the clearly thoughtful and sensitive facilitation. I really look forward to coming back.
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The circles are a much needed and supportive space for our community, which have benefitted many of us. I have myself found a safe space where I can share my own thoughts and experiences, listen to other people’s, and most importantly perhaps, share and develop ideas around psychedelics and the potential they have for healing that is specific to us as queer people.
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