Carla Kieffer - Retreat Chief Trainer Officer (CTO)

Carla Kieffer is a certified Psychedelic Practitioner that provides preparation, facilitation, integration, micro-dosing support and facilitator training services. Her approach is influenced by many trainings, including Internal Family Systems and MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies) harm reduction principles, and her personal experience facilitating retreats and individual journeys She is a member of the Association of Entheogenic Practitioners, and utilizes those guidelines in her approach as well. Carla is the founder of Kairos Integration, a company committed to providing safe, supportive, and transformative preparation, facilitation, and integration services to those that choose to experience a psychedelic journey. She provides training for the required experiential portion of Psychedelics Today’s Vital’s professional certification training program and Heroic Path to Light, as well as other private individuals and groups. Carla has supported countless individuals and groups on their healing journeys, including veterans and first responders with PTSI and mTBI, entrepreneurs, and both seasoned and novice psychospiritual clients,using psychedelics with proper preparation and integration, in order to support them on their path of healing and transformation. She facilitates retreats in Jamaica, Costa Rica, and the United States (where allowed by law). She also supports policy change and normalization of plant medicines; and via her role as Community Liaison at Maya Health, the collection of data around the efficacy of these medicines to demonstrate the outcomes and mapping the psychedelic journey. Carla believes that teaching others best practices on how to safely support people on their journeys with psychedelics, coupled with her students’ real world experiencing of the transformative power of psychedelics, will ultimately allow more people to access healing, exploration, and transformation through these experiences.