Virtual Training

1 CE Hour

“Rooted: More Than the Work. Reclaiming the Medicine to Heal Our Community”

Tozia Ware, Ed.S, LPC-MHSP, NCC; Musenge Selina Luchembe, LMFT-S, LPC-MHSP-S

“Rooted: More Than the Work” invites clinicians to explore psychedelic-assisted therapy through the lens of community, both for the clients we serve and for ourselves as healers. The workshop begins with how Indigenous communities have held plant medicines as collective, village-centered healing. It then traces how criminalization, the War on Drugs, and Western individualism moved that healing into a one-patient, one-room model. Presenters give an overview of modern and ancestral psychedelic medicines and their current legal and research status. They then focus on ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP): preparation, set and setting, the medicine session, non-ordinary states of consciousness, and integration. Participants will learn how a harm reduction framework applies to clients who use psychedelics on their own. They will also look at the legal and ethical considerations, including scope of practice in Tennessee and reciprocity with Indigenous communities. The workshop closes by rethinking the “blank slate” model, framing countertransference as clinical data and the healer’s own healing in community as part of quality care. An optional experiential practice is included.

Objectives:

• Describe how Indigenous communities, including the Huni Kuin, Mazatec, Bwiti, and Native American Church traditions, have held plant medicine as collective, community-centered healing.

• Examine how criminalization, the War on Drugs, and Western individualism reshaped psychedelic care, including how these hit Black and brown communities hardest.

• Explain the core elements of ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP): preparation (set and setting), the medicine session, and integration.

• Apply a harm reduction framework to support clients who use psychedelics outside of treatment.

• Identify the legal and ethical considerations of psychedelic-assisted therapy in Tennessee, including scope of practice and reciprocity with Indigenous communities.

• Discuss how clinicians’ own healing, supported in community, and the use of countertransference as clinical data can strengthen client care.

About the Speaker(s)

Tozia Ware, Ed.S, LPC-MHSP, NCC

Tozia Ware, Ed.S., is a licensed professional counselor and the owner of Modern Healing Collective, a private practice in Nashville, Tennessee. He specializes in trauma-focused care with individuals, couples, and intensive clients, many of them creatives and songwriters. His work reaches the body, mind, and relationships, drawing on Internal Family Systems (IFS), Brainspotting, Somatic Experiencing, and Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP).

Tozia has been a KAP provider for over two years and offers both KAP and multi-day therapy intensives. His clinical approach centers nervous system safety, integration, and meeting clients in the full complexity of what healing actually requires.

Alongside his clinical work, Tozia teaches other therapists the business side of private practice. He has hosted the Business of KAP Boot Camps and led KAP pricing office hours for clinicians working out how to bring psychedelic-assisted care into their practices sustainably. He also helps therapists set rates that reflect their training and build income beyond the session hour.

He brings the same values to the therapy room and the training room: honest, grounded, and built around what actually works.

Musenge Selina Luchembe, LMFT-S, LPC-MHSP-S

Musenge Selina Luchembe, LMFT-S, LPC-MHSP-S, is an integrative psychotherapist, AAMFT and LPC Approved Supervisor, and certified psychedelic-assisted therapist based in Middle Tennessee. Grounded in a neurophysiological approach to deep healing, Musenge holds a B.S. in Cognitive Neuroscience from the University of California, Berkeley, and completed her graduate training in Somatic Psychotherapy and Counseling Psychology at John F. Kennedy University.

In private practice, Musenge blends body-centered and relational modalities, including Hakomi Somatic Psychotherapy, Brainspotting, nature-based ecotherapy, and advanced Internal Family Systems (IFS Level 3 and Intimacy from the Inside Out). Her specialized training in psychedelic medicine includes Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) certification through Fluence and MDMA-assisted therapy education with Lykos Therapeutics (formerly MAPS PBC).

Whether facilitating individual therapy intensives, co-facilitating community programs like the Healers Group KAP, or educating clinicians across the region, Musenge champions culturally competent, harm-reduction-centered care. Her work in psychedelic-assisted therapy focuses on dismantling socio-cultural stigma, honoring indigenous lineages, and supporting clients as they translate transformative non-ordinary experiences into grounded, lasting life integration.

TLPCA Contact

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