Facilitator Spotlight

As a Black, queer, transmasculine, gender expansive, polyamorous, and kinky healing practitioner Syre is passionate about working with those who are marginalized in society. Syre practices from a liberation-centered, multidimensional feminist perspective, centering collaboration and embodied sovereignty. Syre is committed to energy work and psychedelic medicine as a path toward liberation and healing intergenerational wounds. Syre is a Co-Founder and Director of Programming of Cora Center, a queer and BIPOC-led psilocybin service center in Portland, OR, that centers serving marginalized communities. Syre is a licensed psilocybin facilitator in the state of Oregon.

Syre completed training in MDMA-assisted psychotherapy with the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). He has an OHA-approved certificate in Psilocybin Facilitation from Alma Institute and a Certificate in Psychedelic Assisted Therapies from Naropa University. Syre is a sought-after psychedelic educator. He has been an educator with the Integrate Queer Facilitation Training team and a Core Faculty member and Clinical Skills Practice Group Leader at Naropa University in the Psychedelic Assisted Therapies Certificate Program and the Psilocybin Facilitation Certificate Program. Syre is also a frequently invited speaker on psychedelics within marginalized communities. Most recently, he presented on Psychedelics For Black Trans Liberation at the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) Conference in Lisbon, Portugal.

Syre graduated with a Master's Degree in Organizational Psychology from Columbia University and a Ph.D in Counseling Psychology from Fordham University in New York City. He has been a fully licensed psychologist in private practice since 2010. He is a Registered Yoga Teacher (Hatha & Kemetic), a Level II Ra Sekhi Kemetic Energy Medicine Practitioner, and a Usui/Holy Fire Reiki Master. Syre is also the founder of Liberation Reiki, a path of Reiki that centers the energetic intergenerational healing of BIPOC and queer folx.