About Me
Amy Wong Hope, LCSW (NM C-08692), is trained as an MDMA-assisted therapist through California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) and Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). She completed a Psychedelic Social Justice Certificate through Chacruna Institute (2021). In summer of 2023, Amy founded the Psychedelic Studies Certificate Program at Southwestern College, in Santa Fe, NM. With few published textbooks to refer to, Amy actively works to curate a relevant snapshot of psychedelic studies and how it is profoundly influencing science, culture, psychotherapy, ethics, policy, and humanity by inviting guest speakers and presenters into the program to share their expertise and discuss ideas and issues with students. She sees this program as an opportunity to educate healthcare providers and other community members about psychedelics and psychedelic-assisted therapy, to cultivate critical and ethical thinking, and to consider ethical issues through experiential learning to increase outcomes and safety, and to reduce harm for the general public.
Amy is the co-author of Small Doses of Awareness: A Microdosing Companion (to be published February 2024 by Chronicle Prism Books). In this guided journal, she brings her clinical knowledge into the writing prompts and inquiries to facilitate readers into being their own guide with their experience.
Amy maintains a private practice with a focus on providing trauma-informed modalities and approaches that support clients in restoring emotional, somatic, and relational resiliency. Amy integrates Internal Family Systems, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, EMDR, mindfulness, spirituality, and integration of non-ordinary states of consciousness into her client work. She incorporates the shame-resilience and vulnerability practices of Dr. Brené Brown, and is a certified Daring Way™ Facilitator.
Amy has an undergraduate degree in English Literature and Comparative Religion, which led her to switch her career in mid-life to pursue becoming a psychotherapist and Clinical Social Worker, with a special focus on the neurobiology of trauma, and the study of phenomenology and spirituality as it relates to consciousness, within her psychotherapy practice.
While at Simmons College (class of 2010), Amy was awarded the Iris McRae award for excellence in writing and was an Albert Schweitzer Fellow (2010). Prior to moving to Santa Fe in 2013, she completed a post-graduate fellowship at The Trauma Center at Justice Resource Institute (JRI) and Metrowest Behavioral Health Center, under the direction of Medical Director Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., where she was supervised by, and learned from many cutting-edge leaders in the trauma treatment field. She is always inspired and surprised at the ways in which clients recognize and reckon with their own consciousness. As a former developmental and technical editor at Adobe Systems in her former life, she finds it a great honor to witness clients as they revise and edit facets of their lives to fit their expanded understandings of authentic self.
Acknowledgements: Thank you to Liz Hasset at Moonlight Studios for your profile photos of me and the book; to Diana Rico for her expert eye and mind with editing my website; and to Justice Berhman at Sweet Justice Productions for designing this website.