16. Empowerment therapies to guide your healing, including psychedelic assisted therapy with Clinical Traumatologist Kayla Carter

Kayla is a clinical traumatologist who has worked in community development since 2008 across municipal, non-profit, and private sectors and has been in clinical practice since 2012, where she focused on severe and persistent mental illnesses, intimate partner violence and homelessness. Her career quickly evolved in specializing in racial trauma, adverse childhood experiences and vicarious trauma. She was awarded the Young Women of Distinction Award in 2014, by YWCA. She is also a clinical supervisor and licensed with the Colleges of Counselling Therapy in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. She holds a CCC designation as a Canadian Certified Counsellor, sits on the board of MAPS Canada, a recipient of the 2023 top 100 black women in Canada, 2022 Coralus Venture, and is a monthly mental health columnist for CBC Moncton and PEI. Kayla loves anything mint, has two kids 6 and under, loves nature and engages in her ancestral teachings in plant medicine, through sage, peppermint and cannabis, to keep her shit together -mind, body, and spirit.