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She has a background in substance use treatment and harm reduction, and was an Asian affinity psychedelic peer supporter at Fireside Project. She was born in India and raised in Indonesia and Malaysia before she immigrated to the United States. 

Harpreet Lakhan, BScN, is the Director of Operations. Harpreet is a Registered Nurse and has worked with vulnerable populations such as the elderly, individuals living with physical disabilities and clients living in subsidized housing. She also served as a clinical supervisor in home and community care. Since then, Harpreet has transitioned sectors to explore her passion in the field of psychedelics and to be of service to others in the psychedelic community. Harpreet dedicated a year of service to Fireside Project, offering emotional peer support to individuals during and after psychedelic experiences.

Currently, Harpreet volunteers at MAPS Canada in policy advocacy and government relations, whilst working diligently to uplift the valuable role of nurses in the psychedelic space. She is currently obtaining a Certification in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy at the ATMA Journey Institute. Harpreet is a strong advocate for the safe use of psychedelics, specifically for spiritual, mental and emotional well-being.  She was born in Toronto, Canada to immigrant parents from Punjab, India.

These medicines—and the healing, joy, and connection they can engender—are our birthright. Preeti was part of the only equity cohort at Fireside Project, providing free and confidential peer support to those actively working with a psychedelic or integrating a past psychedelic experience. As a member of the Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion team at the American Psychedelic Practitioners Association, she reviewed and supported the first Professional Practice Guidelines for Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy. 

Preeti is enrolled in Psychedelic Facilitator Training through SoundMind Institute with a focus on psilocybin. She is also completing a Master of Science in Applied Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology from the University of East London, researching psychedelic integration and post-traumatic growth. Her goal is to build on her background in journalism and academia, and service as a birth doula and yoga teacher, as well as training as an end-of-life doula to offer specific support to elders, immigrants/refugees, and people of Asian descent.

Support Circle

Tida Beattie, MBA, she/her, is a guest peer grief support facilitator for APC. She is a peer grief support guide, a wholistic end-of-life doula, an immigrant advocate, and a creatrix of extraordinary spaces. Tida has trained with Doulagivers and Life Options with Denise Love. Tida is a co-founder of MESO, alongside Soyeon Davis. MESO provides culturally attuned support to immigrants, their caregivers, and their grievers addressing care, loss, and grief.

Tida is the daughter of Thai immigrants, born, raised, and 100% made in America. Tida is a grief community educator and support activist as a result of being present and bearing witness to the difficult deaths of her parents in 2019. Grief is widely misunderstood, leading to misperception and denial of one of life's most powerful experiences. Tida is curious to explore how psychedelics can assist with existentialism, end-of-life anxiety, and our individual ways to integrate our grief.

Noriko Brubeck (she/her) is a Registered Nurse with expertise in reproductive and mental health. She is biracial yonsei (4th generation Japanese American) and white, whose family members were removed from their homes and incarcerated for years without trial during World War II because of their heritage. She has both a gentle presence and a fierce commitment to ethical, evidence-based practice. She completed her BA in liberal arts at the New School University and studied ethnobiology through the Organization for Tropical Studies and Columbia University. Noriko received her BSN at SUNY Downstate University, and has been practicing psychedelic-assisted nurse coaching under the supervision of Angela Ward since January 2022. Noriko considers it a great privilege to witness, provide safety, and hold nonjudgmental space for people moving through extraordinary states of consciousness. Her work is informed by a deep concern for issues such as intergenerational trauma, parenthood, ecological collapse, decolonizing psychiatric and psychedelic spaces, celebrating neurodiversity, and cultivating creativity. As a stage 3 cancer survivor, she has a special empathy for those who have experienced physical illness or medical trauma.

Terence Ching, PhD (he/him) is an integration facilitator and research support at APC. He identifies as an immigrant, gay, cisgender man of Singaporean Chinese descent. Terence was born and raised in Singapore before moving to the United States in his mid-twenties, where he received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Connecticut. 

He is currently a postdoctoral associate at the Yale OCD Research Clinic, where he co-leads the development and conduct of psilocybin clinical trials for OCD. In his professional life, Terence has cultivated interests in: (1) fear-/trauma-based disorders; (2) cultural diversity; (3) exposure-based cognitive-behavior therapies; and (4) psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy. Terence has completed clinical training in a variety of settings and has also received training in MAPS-sponsored MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD and ketamine-assisted psychotherapy for various disorders. 

In the psychedelic space, rooted in his experience of healing through MDMA-assisted therapy, Terence endeavors to promote equitable access to psychedelic clinical trials among traditionally underrepresented groups, including but not limited to members of BIPOC and sexual- and gender-diverse communities. 

Soyeon Davis (she/her) is a guest peer grief support facilitator for APC. She is a peer grief facilitator and advocate for immigrant families, their caregivers, and grievers. She completed her end-of-life doula certification with the University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine Program in 2020. She co-founded MESO with Tida Beattie to fill a dire need to support care, loss and grief with compassion and with a cultural lens. MESO has produced, hosted, and participated in several talks and workshops on the Reimagine platform for the past 2.5 years. Their work includes, “Multicultural Immigrant Experiences with End of Life”, “How To Talk To Your Parents About Death”, “Go Back To Your Country”, “Your Dreams, My Dreams”, “NextGen Grief” and many more. 

Soyeon is the daughter of Korean Immigrants, born in South Korea and raised in the U.S. She is a long-distance caregiver - "caregriever" to her aging immigrant parents.  She is dedicated to intentionally fostering compassionate spaces for all types of grief. Although grief is a natural, unique, wholistic response to loss, it is frequently shunned or disregarded - an unwelcomed companion. Soyeon is curious about the potential of psychedelics to aid and expand our ability to learn from grief and loss.

Hsing Yi (Frances) Fu (she/her) is a Taiwanese American who has worked with people who use drugs as an organizer, educator, direct service provider, and healer for the last 11 years. She is the co-founder of the Center for Political Drug Education, which aims to heal the intergenerational trauma caused by the War on Drugs through political education, skill-building, and community building. Her last role was as the DOPE Project Manager in SF, where she oversaw community-based overdose prevention. Prior to that, she worked in SF Chinatown coordinating fundraising and communications for a workers’ and tenants’ rights organization. Today, she is at UC Davis Law School and will complete her JD in 2025. 

Harpinder Mann, RYT-500 (she/her) is a yoga teacher, mindfulness educator, speaker, and community builder currently living on Tongva Land (LA). Her practice is rooted in her spiritual background of Sikhism and Buddhism and ancestral roots in Panjab, India - this informs her desire to teach yoga authentically as a spiritual practice. Teaching since 2018 and practicing since 2013, she teaches in a way to help folks integrate all 8 limbs of yoga to bring reduce suffering and create more meaning in their lives. 

As the co-founder of the Womxn of Color Summit, Harpinder is actively working to decolonize wellness by creating community and providing accessibility to healing spaces for BI&POC. Her work sits at the intersection between social justice and healing. She works 1:1 with folks on reclaiming their power & intuition to be free, is passionate about working with pregnant people, teaches at recovery centers and to teens at mental health centers, and led events and speaks at organizations such as Tulane University, Grindr, Expectful, Ogden Museum, Decolonize Birth Conference, Lightning in a Bottle, and many more.

Harpinder is a passionate advocate for the intentional use of psychedelics as it has brought her great healing and wishes for others in the Asian community to experience the same. She was born in California to immigrant parents from Panjab, India. 

Jay Louie 雷貽丰 LMFT (they/he) provides transformative therapies - ketamine and talk psychotherapy and climbing therapy for folks wanting breakthroughs. They address complex trauma with compassion and curiosity and advocate for clients’ needs, truths, deep desires, and purpose. Jay grew up in multilingual immigrant communities in Hong Kong, Canada, and Central America. They believe embodiment and intimate contact with the outdoors are essential to thriving, and want to interweave Eastern spirituality and Chinese medicine into psychedelic journeying. They’re driven to transform dysphoria to euphoria, dissociation to embodiment, disconnection and shame to integration and liberation.

Jay helped build the first Zendo and served as a sitter for those undergoing challenging trips. They earned a Masters in Holistic Counseling focusing on Asian-American Trauma, Intersectionality, and Sex Work, trained at an LGBTQ+ center, and completed programs in Sex Therapy, MDMA Therapy (MAPS), and Liberation Academy. They were the Project Director for a city-funded telehealth program serving queer trans elders and HIV+ survivors. They serve as President and Board Chair of a queer climbing nonprofit. 

Chi Psilocybin (he/him) is a grateful servant of the mushroom kingdom. Based in Costa Rica, he is a spaceholder, community builder, and student of Buddhist and Taoist teachings. He's one of the stewards for Tripsitters, Mushroom Tao, Psilocybin Community Costa Rica, Ethical Psychedelic International Community, and Asian Guides. Chi was born in New York City to a Japanese mother and a Chinese (Taiwan-born) father. He's happy to support those with Asian heritage to connect with themselves, their ancestry, and nature.