MSW
she/her
Hi! I’m Ellen. I'm a licensed clinical social worker and a therapist in private practice. I work with people to help integrate significant psychedelic, meditative, and spiritual experiences. Ever since I was a child, I’ve had basically three favorite things: being outside, making music and art, and having deep talks about life with people. My interest in psychedelic therapy is closely connected with my own spiritual path. A decade ago, I went on my first silent meditation retreat, and felt a powerful calling to practice as deeply as I could. Eventually, I moved to a Buddhist monastery and spent more than two years training there. Cumulatively, I've spent more than eight months in silent retreat. In my years of intensive practice, I've become familiar with a wide variety of non-ordinary states, and how these can interact with our unique personal histories to create expansion, as well as difficulty. I use somatic (body-centered), psychodynamic, and mindfulness-based approaches in my work. I'm also comfortable exploring psychedelic experience from a wide variety of philosophical, spiritual, and/or religious frameworks.
Ellen McSweeney, LICSW
Washington
DC
20010
Support for the integration of adverse meditation experiences and non-ordinary states