About Me
Psychedelic guide, facilitator serving New York State, NYC, Hudson Valley and Greater Chicago Areas
Twocats (aka Brian) is a psychedelic support coach, award-winning photographer, composer, film maker, actor and writer from a small town in New England, who has been blessed to spend the better part of his adult life as a core member of an internationally acclaimed, New York-based theater company as a performer, director, writer and composer. Over two decades in the field have taken him to several countries and the thousands of hours spent onstage in improvisational settings have gifted him with a keen sense of embodied connection, which he enthusiastically brings to his current work.
He began his journey with psychedelics in 2015 with his first plant medicine ceremony- a powerful experience that offered, for the first time in years, a clear vision for his life’s potential, unobscured by limiting beliefs and behaviors.
Over time, with patience and attention, his personal journey work has resulted in welcomed shifts in perspective, greater intimacy with, and an increased capacity for, being human resulting in ongoing positive transformation. As a psychedelic coach, it is his great privilege to safely support and witness others in their own transformations while holding curiosity, respect, and humor as guiding principles.
His background includes extensive training and hands-on experience in traditional plant medicine work in South America, where he participated in scores of ceremonies and undertook in-depth “dietas” with teachers from the Shipibo, Quechua, and Santo Daime lineages. Twocats is a graduate of the School of Consciousness Medicine (2020), a three-year intensive, mentored psychedelic guide training program rooted in the Mazatec tradition of Mexico. His work is complemented by the study of modern therapeutic approaches such as NARM (Neuro-Affective Relational Model) and Hakomi.
These days, he lives in a cottage in the woods with his wife where he writes, photographs, hikes and chases squirrels away from the bird feeder. He also works one-on-one with psychedelic-curious clients, sharing what he’s learned from his extensive training and personal experience related to the healing and self-discovery potential of plant medicines.
Twocats has met the rigorous vetting standards of the Psychedelic Passage Network and is one of their few professional facilitators in the northeastern United States.
