Empowering Communities Through Socially Just & Client-Centered Care
Memoru is grounded in a social justice framework, an approach that centers the experience of those most impacted by structural oppression. This model seeks to demystify healing by empowering community members to engage in harm reduction and community care.
Our training is rooted in respect for the sovereignty of the client, facilitator, lineage, and the medicines, themselves.
Consultation
Supervision/Consultation with Sara Lewis, PhD, LCSW
This supervision/consultation group meets virtually, every other week on Wednesdays, 12-1:30 pm MT. To facilitate the development of a trusting community of peers, the group has a strict attendance policy, but offers rolling admission for 6-8 clinicians. An interview is required for admission to the group, and candidates must demonstrate an interest in and commitment to learning in an anti-oppressive community. This group aspires to support a multigenerational community of new, mid-career, and seasoned clinicians who want to come together to deepen their clinical skills, present cases, and seek mentorship and peer support. This group will have particular emphasis on psychedelic-assisted therapy, trauma, somatics, the body, ritual, and contemplative approaches. Dr. Lewis can supervise LSWs or LPCCs who are licensed in the state of Colorado seeking supervision hours. Price: $60 for pre-licensed therapists, $80/licensed therapists per group.
About Sara Lewis, PhD, LCSW
Supervisor/Consultant
Sara earned her PhD at Columbia University in medical anthropology and public health, and an MSW at the University of Chicago. Her research sits at the intersection of religion, culture and healing with an emphasis on non-ordinary states. As a Fulbright scholar, she conducted long term ethnographic research in India, culminating in her book, Spacious Minds: Trauma and Resilience in Tibetan Buddhism, which investigates how Buddhist concepts of mind shape traumatic memory and pathways to resilience. Sara has also published research on ayahuasca and spiritual emergencies.
At Naropa University, Sara served as Associate Professor and Chair of Contemplative Psychotherapy and Buddhist Psychology. She co-founded the Naropa Center for Psychedelic Studies, and has trained upwards of 400 students in providing psychedelic-assisted therapy. She is the director of Memoru Center for Visionary Healing Arts’ Colorado-approved Natural Medicine training program. As a contemplative psychotherapist, she specializes in intergenerational trauma and healing through Somatic Experiencing and psychedelic-assisted therapy. She serves as an MDMA-Assisted Therapy Training Consultant with Lykos Therapeutics. Sara upholds her ancestral traditions of Celtic and Hungarian lineages, and is a long-time Vajrayana Buddhist practitioner, alongside her husband, Brett. They live in Longmont, Colorado with their spirited daughter, Matilda.
