This panel explores the emerging above-ground psychedelic therapy space in Minnesota. Speakers will discuss the current landscape, clinical models, and how therapists and health professionals are beginning to integrate psychedelic-assisted care into their practices. Learn about the opportunities, challenges, and evolving best practices shaping this growing field.

My name is Bryan Ebert, and I am a pre-licensed therapist pursuing my LPCC. I received my Master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Adler Graduate School. I draw upon a variety of approaches to therapy, wellness, and personal development. I have received training in ketamine-assisted psychotherapy from Polaris Insight Center. I have also completed the Phase 1 Brainspotting training, and have found this modality to be a powerful tool for healing. My current focus for continuing education is participating in a multi-year intensive psychedelic therapy training with the Grof Legacy Project.

Ian McLoone, MPS, LPCC, LADC is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor and Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor who has been working with people who have a problematic relationship with substances for his entire career. Ian is a Co-Founder and CEO at Expanse, a Minnesota mental health clinic in the Twin Cities offering progressive psychiatry, long-term psychotherapy, and psychedelic services that are eligible for in-network reimbursement. He’s passionate about making psychedelic therapy accessible to anyone who needs it – not just those who can afford it – and believes clinically- based, above-ground psychedelic medicine can play a vital role in expanding healing to more people and communities. In addition to his clinical work, Ian is a community faculty member and has taught courses at the University of Minnesota and Metropolitan State University, including Applied Psychopharmacology, person-centered practices, and harm reduction for clinical counselors.

Sarah Fox is a licensed therapist and clinical supervisor who provides long-term psychodynamic and attachment-focused psychotherapy, Brainspotting and other somatic modalities, and ketamine-assisted psychotherapy at Expanse. She is also a published poet, a trained labor and delivery doula, and educator who taught poetry and creative writing for many years before becoming a therapist. She has a 30+ year history of personal practice with psychedelics and plant medicines, which has informed her creative process, her pathway to becoming a therapist, and her system of belief around individual, interpersonal, and collective healing. Sarah offers an abolitional, liberatory, and harm-reduction lens to her work with clients and to her own healing, and a decolonizing orientation to her engagement of the clinical space.