Kerstin Hern (she/her), is a Los Angeles-based registered Associate Marriage & Family Therapist (AMFT #139178) supervised by Gaea Woods (LMFT #117978).

She earned my M.A. in Clinical Psychology with a specialization in Spiritual, Jungian & Depth Psychology from Antioch University, Los Angeles. She also hold a B.A. in English Literature, spent many years working in the music industry, and has studied eclectic folk magick, Western astrology, and tarot since 1993.

I thought Kerstin would be a great guest for Mindbend as someone who has taken the academic route in the study of the psyche, as well as having studied ritual magick and its benefits + correlations with 3rd wave cognitive therapies. While not utilizing psychedelics in her personal practice, she is quite familiar with their therapeutic and ceremonial applications, and has traversed through many doors of perception in her own exploration and growth.

Kerstin is a person who was willing to "go there" with me, entertaining my interest in particular in learning about what "magick" means, why there are so many scary connotations to that topic for so many. Is there an irrefutable "demonic"  or "dark" energy that wants to mess with human beings in our attempt to understand what's happening here, and hopefully grow in the right direction? What do we make ourselves vulnerable to, exactly, by being vulnerable? By laying our psyches bare, under the care of psychotherapeutic practitioners, or plant medicine guides?

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