About Aja
Coach and Psychedelic Facilitator
Seattle, WA
I came to this work through an unlikely door.
For nearly twenty years I’ve worked in federal fisheries policy, navigating the space between science, politics, and the communities whose livelihoods hung in the balance. I learned to hold complexity without collapsing it. To build trust across deep disagreement. To stay grounded when the ground and waters were shifting.
Then I realized I was doing that for myself too. Through becoming a parent, leaving a marriage, the fits and starts of perimenopause, I kept evolving into versions of myself I didn't quite recognize yet. The same skills that served me in systems change were keeping me intact through personal transformation. That's when I became a coach.
Five years of coaching taught me something else: the most significant changes require more than strategy. They require a willingness to sit inside the unknown and trust what emerges. That understanding led me to psychedelic facilitation and a return to my environmental training through nature-based practice.
I feel especially called to support people navigating major thresholds. Identity shifts, grief, career transitions, questions about purpose and belonging. I work with particular care with BIPOC communities on racial and intergenerational trauma. This is guided by my own lived experience as a Black woman in America, a child of Caribbean immigrants who has spent a career navigating predominantly white male spaces.
Training & Experience
Licensed Psilocybin Facilitator | InnerTrek | Oregon Health Authority (completing June 2026)
Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC)
ICF Associate Certified Coach (ACC)
ICF Group Coach Certified | Group Coaching HQ
Master of Environmental Management | Duke University
BA in Biology | Swarthmore College
I bring a both/and philosophy to everything I do. Science and soul. Strategy and the willingness to go somewhere talk alone can't reach. I believe the body holds wisdom the mind hasn't caught up to yet, and I try to create conditions where that wisdom can surface safely.
Every container I create is structured enough to feel safe and spacious enough to let what needs to emerge actually emerge. I prepare carefully, hold boundaries with care, and stay genuinely present to wherever the work goes. That looks different in a coaching session than it does in a psychedelic journey than it does in a nature-based practice. Across all of this work, the underlying orientation is the same: I trust your process more than my agenda.
I work with the whole person. The practical and the emotional, the conscious and the unconscious, the story you've been telling yourself and the one trying to surface. I draw on coaching methodology, somatic and nature-based practices, tarot and oracle as tools for inner guidance, and psychedelic facilitation for the deeper work.
What people consistently describe is feeling held without being managed. I won't rush you through what needs time. I won't perform neutrality when genuine presence is what's actually needed. I will sit in the hard parts with you.
My Approach
I believe you already have the answers inside you. My job is to help you access the answers, trust your intuition, and turn your clarity into action.
A Few Things You Should Know About Me
I'm a mom to two incredible kids who teach me daily about growth, patience, and adaptability.
I'm a child of Caribbean immigrants — my roots shape how I see belonging, code-switching, and authenticity in every space I enter.
I'm a cat lady and ocean-lover at heart. My dream day involves a beach, a good book, and salty water.
I love horror movies, there's something about confronting fear in a safe space that resonates with how I think about coaching. We need spaces to explore what scares us without judgment.
My spiritual life is mixed and mystic, rooted in nature. I believe in science and also in magic — in astrology, tarot, plant medicine, and the wisdom of ancestors. Both/and, not either/or.
Let's Talk
If something here resonates, I'd love to hear what you're navigating.
A discovery call is 30 minutes: enough time to get a real sense of where you are, what kind of support might help, and whether we're a good fit for each other. No pressure. No pitch.
30 minutes. No pressure.
Just clarity on whether we're a good fit.