It is an honor to empower people to prepare for, explore and integrate psychedelic experiences into lived healing and wisdom.

It is an honor to empower people to prepare for, explore and integrate psychedelic experiences into lived healing and wisdom.

I’m Michou Olivera, a psychedelic guide, educator, and mycologist based in Western Massachusetts. My journey into this field began with profound personal psychedelic experiences that motivated me to rebuild myself from the inside out at a time of life crisis. I learned that profound experiences are only as healing as the life that supports them. Expanded states of consciousness can reveal something genuine, but true healing occurs in the meaning-making that follows those experiences.
I assist individuals with a steady, relational approach that includes grounded preparation, careful guidance, and integration to transform insights into meaningful change. My work is trauma-informed and rooted in harm reduction, emphasizing consent, pacing, and empowering clients to trust and understand their inner voices and landscapes.
I am truly honored to dedicate my time to studying mycology and to promoting a deeper understanding of the diverse species of psilocybin mushrooms. Acquiring this knowledge is essential, as medicine and treatment protocols are not a one-size-fits-all solution, much like the unique needs of each individual.

I offer safe access across the whole arc of psilocybin mushroom exploration, from education, discernment, and preparation to journey support and long-term integration.
A central part of my work is helping people understand what altered states are, how they function within the nervous system, and how to meet them with mindfulness, agency, curiosity, and self-trust. I support individuals in learning to observe their inner experience, listen to, and trust their intuition, and make informed, conscious choices about when, how, and whether to work with mushrooms.
My guidance on mushroom selection and dosing is informed by direct cultivation experience, including working with over 50 distinct psilocybin mushroom varieties, 24 of which I have cultivated myself. This hands-on relationship allows me to understand not only theoretical differences but the lived, relational qualities each variety tends to express across different bodies, mental health histories, intentions, and stages of life.
I support individuals exploring microdosing, mezzodosing, and macrodosing, helping them understand what each path offers, what can reasonably be experienced, and how to engage safely, intentionally, and effectively. For deeper work, I guide the entire preparation process, including intention-setting, set and setting design, and selecting the mushroom variety and dose amount that are most aligned with where a person is in their life. Journey guidance is available to those seeking support with potent varieties, unfamiliar dose ranges, or more profound meaning-making in their experiences.
Since 2020, I have facilitated 223 psilocybin mushroom journeys, ranging from mezzo- to heroic-dose work. This depth of experience informs how I teach, prepare, and support others, with an emphasis on harm reduction, education, consent, and respect for both the medicine and the individual. My approach is relational, trauma-informed, and experiential. Rather than guaranteeing outcomes, I focus on helping people cultivate self-trust, discernment, and the capacity to integrate a wide range of histories and experiences into everyday life.

Whether someone is approaching mushrooms for the first time or seeking to understand experiences already lived, education offers a steady orientation point. I support people in learning how altered states function within the nervous system, how perception can shift, and how to meet these experiences with curiosity, mindfulness, and self-trust rather than expectation or pressure.
This educational foundation helps normalize a wide range of responses, meaningful, challenging, subtle, or confusing, and places them within a grounded human context. Understanding does not replace experience; it supports discernment, integration, and the ability to relate to one’s inner world with greater clarity and agency.
My work is grounded in the understanding that people arrive with diverse histories, sensitivities, and capacities. I approach each relationship with care for the nervous system, respect for boundaries, and an emphasis on choice at every stage of exploration. Nothing is assumed, rushed, or imposed.
Consent is ongoing, not a one-time agreement. I support people in listening to their internal signals, honoring hesitation, and adjusting pace as needed. Safety, agency, and relational trust form the foundation from which meaningful insight and integration can emerge.
I approach guidance as a relational process, listening closely to the individual, their history, intentions, nervous system responses, and current lived experience. My role is not to direct, but to walk alongside, offering context, reflection, and support as each person navigates their own path.
This relational approach extends to how I work with psilocybin mushrooms. Rather than treating them as interchangeable tools, I support people in understanding differences between mushroom varieties, dosing ranges, and how these may interact with their unique physiology, mental health history, and intentions. This collaborative process emphasizes discernment, education, and consent, supporting informed choices rooted in self-trust rather than directive guidance.
Preparation is not a single step or a set of instructions, but an ongoing relationship with what is present. I support people in listening inward, and clarifying intentions without pressure or expectation. This process includes attention to emotional readiness, physical context, life circumstances, and the inner signals that shape timing and choice.
Rather than preparing for a specific outcome, the focus is on preparing with oneself, cultivating awareness, trust, and steadiness before engaging altered states. This relational approach helps create conditions for experiences to be met with presence, curiosity, and care.
Integration is where experiences are translated into lived understanding. Rather than treating insight as something to be captured or completed, I support integration as an ongoing practice, one that unfolds through reflection, embodiment, and relationship over time.
This process may include making sense of subtle shifts, emotional responses, questions that arise, or changes in how one relates to self and others. Integration is not about preserving a peak moment, but about allowing understanding to mature in ways that are sustainable, grounded, and responsive to everyday life.
Not every question requires immediate action, and not every moment is the right moment to proceed. I support discernment as a meaningful part of the process, including the choice to wait, to pause, or to decide that now is not the time.
Readiness is not measured by enthusiasm alone, but by a sense of inner consent, stability, and alignment. Honoring hesitation and listening carefully to what feels present allows choices to emerge with clarity and integrity, guided by self-trust rather than urgency.
The exchange for this work reflects the time, preparation, presence, and care it requires. Sliding-scale and installment options are available by request for those in genuine need, rooted in mutual respect, honesty, and discernment.
Exchange here is not transactional, but part of the container that allows this work to be held with integrity, honoring both the guide and the individual, while leaving space for open-hearted conversation when support or adjustment feels necessary.
Reaching out doesn’t require certainty. Some people come with clear questions, while others sense that something is unfolding and need a supportive space to begin. If you’re unsure where to start, you are welcome here. We can explore what’s on your mind and determine the next steps together.
This is also the place to contact me for podcast invitations, speaking requests, and collaboration ideas. If you feel a connection, please email me directly and share what you have in mind.
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