What PWH Path is Right for you?
There are many paths in life… but only one healing path that includes them all…
Welcome to the path options with the Wounded Healers Institute. We work with individuals, citizens, groups, students, parents, schools, and communities to better help and support them in learning about psychology, healing, health, wellness, consciousness, and our memory healing research.
Interested in our work? Align with our research? Want to know more? This is a good place to start…
The Wounded Healers Institute webpage is the start to the Path of the Wounded Healer. However, usually finding your path would be easier with some direction.
First, Wounded Healers Institute offers participants personal wellness trainers, healing experiences, and personal healers to help everyone on their healing journey. We are people who have been there and come back… and have something to tell you or update you on. This is different from a clinical therapeutic relationship that “therapizes” through their lens of pathology, but because our process is a learning model and we are re-educating on what was missed, we need to ensure that you have a clear understanding of what you are involving yourself with us research wise. We are an educational research institutes that publishes our observations through the lens of our foundational research, known as the Addiction as Dissociation Model. Our research founded the Path of the Wounded Healer (PWH).
We are researching how people learn over the course of a life span to help psychological or dissociative processes by being adaptive. This is in an effort to help prevent mental health conditions, addictions, and abuse. We do this by supporting the tenets of neurobiological research, positive psychology, recovery principles, and authenticity. Second, we are supporting everyone’s individual learning about our work and self and others, therefore, our process is a little be different then a typical learning environment.
Here are the steps…
Have you have been through something that you wish you could find someone who had been through a similar thing? We have seen this with navigating the medical and psychological professions, but know it happens elsewhere as well. Starting to explore psychedelics because what they are doing isn’t working for you? What a guide? What a Healer? What an educator (e.g., one who leads)?
What this blogs offers the reader is an overview of what is available to you. The path you choose is yours. If it is with us, great, if not, we hope you found something useful.
For Citizens/Parents: Looking for support you or your family’s learning, growth, and gifts?
Program titles: Addiction Re-Education Program, Posttraumatic Gym and Spa, Support Groups, Anger Management, Positive Parenting, Psychedelic Care (Integration), Path of the Wounded Healer, WHI Art and Recording Studio, EMDR Education, Dissociative Learning Program (Sports Performance, Intellectually Gifted, and Artists (includes music lessons (guitar, piano) and expressive arts!)), and Weekly PWH Tea Time with Dr. Adam.
Our Open-Sourced Educational Model: Think of a self-help gym that supports your learning… bring what self-help books you are doing to our classes and discuss what they mean to you and we will discuss what they mean to us. Find others who are doing the same book.
Services: Public Presentations, Social Media, Dissociative education in History, Psychology, Philosophy, Music and Performance lessons (1:1) small groups, PTG meditation online Gym and Spa, qEEG reports and AI analysis, Neurofeedback training (not therapy), consultations, and WHI digital Library and Wounded Healers Institute Journal (WHIJ).
How to engage with us: Contact us at [email protected] and let us know what you are thinking…
For Professionals: We offer our comprehensive programming with our Path of the Wounded Healer Program (Become a Healer), Meetings Area Screening and Assessment (MASA) (full training includes Bulk Blink, Photo Album, Spectral Labyrinth Technique (SLT)), Support Groups, EMDR Education and Training, Mindfulness Meditation with Cannabis, Posttraumatic Growth Gym and Spa, Selves Medication, Enhanced Bracketing Techniques, First Responders Trainings and Workshops, Psychedelic Care training and workshops, Live Expressive Arts Events, CE-based events (TBA), Peer-review publishing services (Wounded Healers Institute Journal (WHIJ)), and Recovery-based Healing Workshops.
We also have a Path of the Wounded Healer version of EMDR Education and Training, Advanced Topics in EMDR: After Death Communication, Spectral Analysis Technique, Treating Addiction as Dissociation; Brainspotting (Advance Topics in Cannabis, Spectral Labyrinth Technique (AKA: SpectralSpotting),
How to engage: go through admissions, contact us at [email protected] or our check out our training schedule and calendar.
For Business, Institutions, Government, Communities, and Associations: ADM Research, Wounded Healer’s Institute Journal (WHIJ), Wounded Healer Book Publishing, Healing Events and Workshops, Institutional Review Board (for qualified studies), Drug and Mental Health Courts, Co-Sponsoring of events with CE’s (in progress), Public Presentations by Dr. Adam, Consultation, Advocacy (Chiron’s Vision), Community-based Employee Healing Program (providing counsel for small business owners and their employees and their families), In-house trainings, peer-review journal (Wounded Healers Institute Journal (WHIJ)).
To engage: contact us at [email protected]
| Service/Program | Description |
| Path of the Wounded Healer (PWH) Training Program | A dissociation-focused, phase-based model of care that serves as the Institute’s core training for the re-emerging profession of “Healer.” |
| Addiction (Re)education Program | A holistic, trauma-informed alternative to traditional, fear-based prevention models, educating participants on the ADM framework. |
| Psychedelic Care Education | Provides education and guidance for the moral, ethical, and spiritual use of psychedelics to facilitate memory reconsolidation. |
| Meeting Area Screening and Assessment (MASA) | A proprietary qualitative tool used to screen for dissociation and obtain “unconscious informed consent,” often integrated with qEEG and Neurofeedback (NFB) to validate qualitative observations with quantitative data. |
| Posttraumatic Growth (PTG) Gym and Spa | An innovative maintenance program utilizing neurofeedback, biofeedback, and body-mind practices to build resiliency and address normative addictions. |
| Neurofeedback (NFB) Training and qEEG Analysis | Modern tools used to help individuals achieve baseline neurobiological regulation and validate qualitative observations with quantitative data. This supports a meditative and psychedelic care program. |
| Spiritual Healing Retreats & Musical Events | Live events hosted by WHI to help individuals and communities heal from intergenerational conflicts and existential stress through shared experience. |
With this established identity and portfolio of services, the Wounded Healers Institute is uniquely positioned to address a significant and underserved gap in the professional development.
For more on our work and cause, consider following or signing up for newsletter or our work at woundedhealersinstitute.org or donating to our cause: HERE.
References
O’Brien, A. (2023a). Addiction as Trauma-Related Dissociation: A Phenomenological Investigation of the Addictive State. International University of Graduate Studies. (Dissertation). Retrieved at woundedhealersinstitute.org/courses/addiction-as-dissociation-model-course/
O’Brien, A. (2023b). Memory Reconsolidation in Psychedelics Therapy. In Path of the Wounded Healer: A Dissociative-Focused Phase Model for Normative and Pathological States of Consciousness: Training Manual and Guide. Albany, NY: Wounded Healers Institute. Retrieved at woundedhealersinstitute.org/courses/addiction-as-dissociation-model-course/
O’Brien, A. (2023c). Path of the Wounded Healer: A Dissociative-Focused Phase Model for Normative and Pathological States of Consciousness: Training Manual and Guide. Albany, NY: Wounded Healers Institute. Retrieved at woundedhealersinstitute.org/
O’Brien, A. (2024a). Healer and Healing: The re-education of the healer and healing professions as an advocation. Re-educational and Training Manual and Guide. Albany, NY: Wounded Healers Institute. Retrieved at woundedhealersinstitute.org/
O’Brien, A. (2024e). Path of the Wounded Healers for Thrivers: Perfectionism, Altruism, and Ambition Addictions; Re-education and training manual for Abusers, Activists, Batterers, Bullies, Enablers, Killers, Narcissists, Offenders, Parents, Perpetrators, and Warriors. Re-Education and Training Manual and Guide. Albany, NY: Wounded Healers Institute. Retrieved at woundedhealersinstitute.org/
O’Brien, A. (2025). American Made Addiction Recovery: a healer’s journey through professional recovery. Albany, NY: Wounded Healers Institute. Retrieved at woundedhealersinstitute.org/
*This is for informational and educational purposes only. For medical advice or diagnosis, consult a professional.
