Valerie Beltran

Network Expert Valerie Beltrán is the Director of Outreach for the Zendo Project, as well as a psychedelic therapist and supervisor. She has an MA in Integral Psychotherapy from JFKU, completed CIIS’s Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy & Research program in 2019, is a core instructor with Psychedelics Today, and has been a supervisor at Alchemy Therapy since 2020, a sliding scale clinic that offers psychotherapy and psychedelic-assisted therapy to underserved communities in the Bay Area.  Valerie was formerly the Chief of Staff for an eco-tech entrepreneur, Head of Operations for the conscious tech startup Consciousness Hacking, a trauma trainer and consultant with WestEd, editor of the Journal of Holistic Psychology, an Academic advisor at JFKU, a volunteer with Bay Area Integral, and Associate Organizer for the Integral Theory Conference.  Having grown up with two ethnic backgrounds while living on the border between two countries, Valerie is adept at metaphorically walking between worlds, seeing from multiple perspectives, and creating bridges between paradoxical and disparate thoughts.