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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
Individual & Group 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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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.
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Trainings and Credentials
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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)
NICHELLE Ryan
Individual Facilitator
Nichelle’s work explores the intersection of the body’s innate wisdom and expanded states of awareness. With over a decade of experience with plant medicine, meditation, and somatic attunement, she guides clients through transformational experiences by deepening self-awareness and expanding nervous system capacity. Her work supports a return to wholeness - where individuals feel more at home in their bodies and lives, with greater harmony and clarity.
Before stepping into this work, Nichelle was the top-performing account executive at a global insurance company. But behind the success, she was suffering from stress, numbness, and disconnection. That experience propelled her into a deep commitment to reconnect with her authenticity and potential, and to integrate her life into a daily practice rooted in presence. What followed was a shift from constant achievement to a life of inner alignment. Drawing from her business background, she now works with individuals who recognize that lasting success and abundance emerge from within - through healing, presence, and harmony with life.
Nichelle is known for her capacity to attune to subtle dynamics - interpersonal, emotional, and energetic - while guiding individuals and groups toward profound insight and reconnection. Clients describe her presence as unwavering, perceptive, and deeply trustworthy. Her work invites a quality of presence where the nervous system exhales, the truth surfaces, and change becomes not just possible - but embodied.
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Trainings and Credentials​
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Coacharya (ICF-Accredited) - Certified Life Coach
Third Wave - Psychedelic Integration Coach
Advanced Trauma & Collective Healing - 2-year (ongoing)
Trauma-Informed Facilitation
Anna dale
Executive Assistant & Community Coordinator
Anna supports Awakening Hearts as both Executive Assistant and Community Coordinator. She’s our in-house designer, yoga teacher, and elixir artist, dedicated to smoothing out operations and creating opportunities for our community to gather and connect.
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With a background in biomedical engineering and a deep passion for integrative healing, Anna bridges structure and spirit in all aspects of her work. Whether she's designing the website, streamlining communication systems, or leading a community gathering, she brings warmth, clarity, and care to every detail.
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Anna is working toward her long-term vision of offering trauma-informed somatic and psychotherapy, leveraging expanded states of consciousness. Her work is rooted in the belief that we are multi-dimensional beings of light, spirit, flesh, and thought, and that true healing honors the full complexity of who we are.
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Trainings and Credentials
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Anahata Conscious Living - 200-hr Yoga Teacher
Cielo - Holographic Sound Healer
Hale Pule - Ayurvedic Health Counselor (3 year - in progress)
Usui Reiki Practitioner, Levels 1 & 2