Lyndsey Ryan is a Colorado-based trauma therapist, psychedelic-assisted therapy specialist, educator, author, and Advanced Clinical Supervisor with more than 25 years of experience working across trauma, addiction, chronic illness, attachment disruption, and complex mental health care.

Her work is devoted to understanding what happens when trauma is carried not only in memory, but throughout the body, nervous system, relationships, identity, and lived experience of health. She specializes in developmental trauma, adult-onset PTSD, treatment-resistant conditions, nervous system dysregulation, chronic illness, autoimmune conditions, addiction, combat trauma, traumatic brain injury, and psychedelic preparation and integration. Her approach brings evidence-based trauma treatment into conversation with somatic, contemplative, attachment-focused, and psychedelic-informed pathways to healing.

Lyndsey integrates Ketamine-Assisted Therapy, Internal Family Systems, EMDR, Somatic Experiencing, attachment-focused therapy, art therapy, mindfulness-based interventions, and contemplative psychotherapy. Her work is grounded in neuroscience while remaining deeply attentive to the sacred and relational dimensions of transformation. She understands healing as an embodied process that unfolds through safety, connection, compassionate witnessing, and experiences that allow the nervous system to reorganize around something new.

Throughout her career, Lyndsey has worked extensively with Veterans, Special Operations personnel, First Responders, clinicians, caregivers, and people living with the long-term effects of developmental trauma and complex illness. These experiences led her into an increasingly focused exploration of the relationship between trauma, neuroinflammation, chronic illness, addiction, attachment, and post-traumatic growth. They also shaped her commitment to advancing psychedelic-assisted care in ways that are ethical, clinically rigorous, trauma-responsive, and deeply human.

Lyndsey earned her Master of Arts in Contemplative Psychotherapy from Naropa University and has completed advanced training in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, somatic therapies, art therapy, attachment repair, functional and integrative approaches to mental health, and trauma-focused intervention. Her clinical perspective is also informed by Jungian psychology, Tibetan Buddhism, art therapy, contemplative practice, and decades of study at the intersection of consciousness, embodiment, and healing.

She is the founder and Chief Clinical Vision Officer of Embodied Illumination, an expanding clinical, educational, and professional home for psychotherapy, psychedelic-assisted care, integration, supervision, consultation, and advanced clinician training. Through Embodied Illumination, Lyndsey is working to help shape a future in which psychedelic medicine is held within strong relational, ethical, and clinical foundations, and in which practitioners are supported not only in what they know, but in how they carry the work.

She is also a writer and educator whose work explores the hidden architecture of trauma, the emotional burdens carried by helping professionals, and the ways healing asks us to move beyond survival into relationship with vitality, meaning, and authentic selfhood.

At the heart of Lyndsey’s work is the belief that healing is far more than symptom reduction. It is a return to connection: connection to the body, to truth, to others, to purpose, and to the deeper intelligence within the human spirit. It is the gradual remembering that our worth was never dependent upon how much we could endure, carry, or sustain.