Meet the team
We’re a close-knit team of seasoned, trauma-informed facilitators devoted to creating safe, supportive spaces for real healing and transformation. Come meet the hearts behind the work.
ALEXANDRA WILSON
Founder & CEO
Alexandra’s path as a psycho-spiritual practitioner began as an odyssey of self-healing and deep personal transformation. After years of extensive meditation, plant medicine journeys and intensive trauma work, she could see no greater role than building on what she’d learned to support other people in their healing paths by creating organizations and communities of transformation.
Alexandra earned a Master’s in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from St. Edward’s University and then graduated from the MDMA Therapy Training Program of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Science (MAPS). Alexandra has a wide breadth of knowledge and insight, spending years of practice as a psychotherapist at the Seton Ascension Psychiatric Hospital, while also spending extensive time learning from the Shipibo shamanic tradition in Peru.
Alexandra spent her early career as a licensed psychotherapist consulting in the development of psychedelic clinics, supporting plant medicine churches, facilitating transformative group retreats, leading plant medicine retreats internationally, and working one-on-one with clients to accelerate their transformation and healing. Quickly, she began to be sought out by clients for more intensive work together. This formed the creation of Awakening Hearts.
Alexandra’s work incorporates both science and spirituality—balancing modern, conventional understandings of trauma and the mind with non-Western practices, treatments, and teachings about the mind, body, and spirit. Incorporating Eastern philosophy and indigenous shamanic tradition, she supports people through the facilitation of deep psycho-spiritual transformation. Alexandra's passion is the liberation of all beings from suffering and global awakening! Always tuned into the heart of the person in front of her, Alexandra is nevertheless focused on collective healing and transformation.
Trainings and Credentials
Master’s in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, St. Edward’s University
Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC)
National Board Certified Counselor (NBCC)
MAPS: MDMA Assisted Therapy Trained
Microdose: Psychedelic Assisted Therapy Certification
The Embody Lab - Psychedelic Somatic Facilitator Certification
SOPHIE KRUIP
COO & Facilitator
Sophie has spent over a decade exploring and facilitating the healing potential of embodied human connection. Her work bridges one-on-one facilitation and group experiences rooted in authenticity, embodiment, and relational depth. Drawing from modalities of Parts Work, "Focusing," and Mindful Self-Compassion, she supports trauma recovery, personal empowerment, and psycho-spiritual growth.
Her path is deeply informed by her experiences with the Shipibo medicine tradition in Peru, along with a diverse integration of body-based and creative practices. With a background in Shiatsu, Reflexology, and Theatre, Sophie brings a rich understanding of the body’s wisdom, archetypal intelligence, and the human psyche.
Nature-based practices and ecological awareness ground her work in belonging and interconnection. She creates spaces of presence, empathy, and deep listening—inviting clients to return to the wisdom of their bodies, release internal barriers, and come home to who they truly are.
Trainings and Credentials
The Embody Lab - Psychedelic Somatic Facilitator Certification
Being True to You - Psychedelic Integration Training
Mindful Self-Compassion Coach Training
Sex Catalyst Academy - Sex-Positive Facilitation Training
Mindlight Coach - 2-year Certification in Trauma Recovery & Human Potential
Anna dale
Facilitator & Executive Assistant
Anna is a facilitator and executive assistant at Awakening Hearts. With nearly ten years of experience teaching yoga and a background in contemporary dance, Anna brings decades of somatic awareness to her work. Her approach blends training in Ayurvedic medicine, alternative healing modalities, and psychotherapy with a deep trust in the spiritual evolution of our lives. She believes that true healing is achieved through respectfully working with the laws of nature and by taking radical responsibility for the gift of life. Her path prior to working in the healing arts was shaped by a background in environmental engineering, wildlife conservation, and many years of international travel. She is currently pursuing graduate studies in psychotherapy.
Trainings and Credentials
Master of Arts in Professional Counseling - Texas State University (in progress)
Psychedelic Sitters Training - Being True to You (in progress)
Shamanic Ceremonialist Training - Munay
Somatic Healing Certification - Concetta Troski
200-hr Yoga Teacher Training - Anahata Conscious Living
Holographic Sound Healing Certification - Cielo
Reiki Energy Healing Certification - Reiki Influence
Bachelor of Science in Environmental Engineering - Northern Arizona University
Bachelor of Arts in Spanish - Northern Arizona University
STEPHANIE H
Preparation & Integration Specialist
Stephanie is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and Coach, Relateful Facilitator, and certified Yoga Therapist with 10 years experience leading individuals and groups into their hearts and bodies. Her aim is to help people feel safe while connecting authentically to experience more meaningful relationships and lives. She guides individuals 1:1 offering Soul Bodywork and Transformational Coaching, and leads groups in embodied relating containers.
Through years of dedicated practice, Stephanie has cultivated a space of seamless loving support in which our most protected, tender and vulnerable experiences are safe to be seen, felt, and artfully met.
Stephanie’s pristine care for both the ordinary aspects of life along with the deepest recesses of one’s soul gives her the capacity to be with all that arises.
Trainings and Credentials
Somatic Experiencing International 3-Year Certification Program (SEP)
Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy 3-Year Certification Program (PRYT)
Austin Relateful Coaching Program
Circling Europe Surrendered Leadership Training
Tantric Hatha Yoga Training (RYT)
Dawn Thompson
Individual Facilitator
For over 30 years, Dawn has been devoted to creating spaces that foster peace, harmony, and inner balance. Her journey from designing physical environments to guiding inner transformation reflects a lifelong passion for beauty and healing-both inside and out. As a psychedelic practitioner and integration guide, Dawn blends her backgrounds in design, psychology, and consciousness work to support clients in preparing for, navigating, and integrating profound healing experiences. Grounded and compassionate, she offers a safe, nurturing space for authentic connection and transformation across all dimensions of being.
Trainings and Credentials
Being True to You - Psychedelic Integration Training
Certifications in Neurolinguistic Programming, Timeline Therapy and Hypnosis (California School of NLP + Hypnosis)
Channeled Light Healing Level Three Certification- Alyssa Malehorn
Bachelor of Science in Organizational Communications - The University of Texas at Austin
Bachelor of Science in Interior Design - El Centro College, Dallas, Texas ( Dawn Thompson Interiors, LLC)
Julia Nunes
Facilitator and Director of Music
Julia weaves together meditation, movement, vocal activation, somatic processing, and neurolinguistic programming into a deeply integrative practice designed to help clients cultivate more of what they truly want from life.
Her work creates a sanctuary for slowing down — a space where clients can process, listen inward, and reconnect with the wisdom they already carry within. Rather than leaving those revelations at the session's edge, Julia bridges insight and everyday life by grounding each discovery with practical, embodied tools clients can return to again and again.
Julia specializes in the rich and often complex terrain of relationship dynamics, guiding clients through carefully crafted exercises and visualizations that support meaningful emotional shifts, expanded capacity, and greater agility in navigating life's inevitable turns. Whether you're moving through transition, seeking deeper connection, or simply craving a more intentional relationship with yourself and others, Julia's approach meets you where you are.