Our Team

Kigali, Rwanda

Dr. Lisa Ndejuru is a psychotherapist, researcher, clinical educator, and community-based artist working across Montreal and Kigali. She is Senior KAP Clinician and co-lead on model development at the Ketamine-Assisted Treatment and Research Centre at King Faisal Hospital in Kigali, clinical director at Montreal's Black Healing Center and founder of Omora Healing. Her practice is rooted in African and precolonial healing traditions, and she brings thirty years of experience to questions at the intersection of psychedelic-assisted therapy, cultural attunement, and community healing.

Nairobi, Kenya

Nazia Taylor is a licensed developmental psychologist and certified psychedelic-assisted therapist based in Kenya. Founder of a non-profit providing free psychotherapy to underprivileged children, she leads trauma-informed programs with UNICEF for children affected by war and displacement, and convenes a global community of 80+ CI developmental therapists. Her practice is African-rooted, held equally by western clinical training and ancestral wisdom transmitted through her own lineage, an approach she carries with intention, as a psychologist, a ceremonialist, a council member, and a mother.

California, USA / South Africa

Dr. Brian Stafford is a former endowed chair of psychiatry who has trained worked in the United States, England, Ghana, South Africa, and Costa Rica. At early midlife, Brian enacted a ceremonial wilderness fast and left academic medicine soon thereafter. He currently works as a guide and trainer, writer and speaker. 

 He retrained with Bill Plotkin and the Animas Valley Institute where he is now a wilderness and vision fast guide, eco-depth therapist, retreat facilitator, and Director of the Wild Mind Eco-Depth Psychotherapy Training Program. He also retrained in psychedelic medicine and research with the California Institute of Integral Studies /MAPS CPTR Program and serves as a facilitator and trainer in psychedelic work, especially in facilitating ecological awakening and the journey of soul initiation through sacred medicine.  He also serves as an adjunct professor at Pacifica Graduate Institute - where he teaches human development, psychopharmacology, and psychedelics -  and directs the Pacifica Extension Psychedelic Certificate Program -  Depth Psychology and Psychedelics: Treatment and Transformation in an Animated Cosmos.  He is the author of numerous articles and chapters, is completing his first book,  and loves the life and people on the African continent.

Washington, USA / Hargeisa, Somalia

Dale is Board Certified in Adult, Child, and Adolescent psychiatry. He spent the first 22 years of his career in private practice, primarily in rural Iowa and then transitioned into public psychiatry. He now lives in Olympia, WA and commutes to Somaliland to continue his work there. When in Washington state he also works 3 days a month for the Quinault Indian Nation on the Olympic Peninsula.

Hargeisa, Somalia

Salah Ahmed, MPH, is the Executive Director of Acceptance and Change for Health, an international nonprofit organization headquartered in the United States and operating in Somalia. He is currently based in Hargeisa, where he is involved in research focused on MDMA-assisted therapy within Somali populations in Somalia.

Kigali, Rwanda

Cindi Cassady, PhD is a clinical psychologist with more than 35 years of experience as a practitioner-scholar specializing in gender-based violence, child abuse, addiction, and psychological trauma. She holds a PhD and Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology, a Master’s degree in Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution, and a certificate in Trauma-Informed Art Therapy.

Dr. Cassady currently serves as a Senior Clinical Psychologist at Centre Icyizere and Ndera Neuropsychiatric Hospital, where she works with individuals affected by trauma and addiction. She is also the co-founder of the Ketamine Treatment & Research Center at King Faisal Hospital Rwanda and serves as a Senior Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) therapist, helping advance innovative treatments for depression, PTSD, suicidality, and other trauma-related conditions in Rwanda and the region.

Capetown, South Africa

Shiv is a specialist integrative psychiatrist, pattern decoder, and guide for leaders ready to live from essence — not adaptation. Her formal roots lie in medicine, trained at the University of Cape Town, with postgraduate specialisation in Psychiatry in London. Today, I work alongside visionary leaders, creatives, and impact-driven individuals, helping them illuminate the unseen patterns shaping health, purpose, leadership, and legacy.

Montana, USA / Hargeisa, Somalia

Drewry is a Family Nurse Practitioner, Psychedelic Assisted Therapist, and Public Health Researcher specializing in Trauma and Population & Family Health. She owns The Senah Consultancy and is the Director of the Research & Fundraising Departments for the nonprofit Acceptance Change for Health in Hargeisa, Somalia. She is also MAPS trained in MDMA assisted therapy and Trauma Informed Care for Providers.

Kigali, Rwanda

Dr. Asmeret Andebirhan is an Ethiopian psychiatrist based in Kigali, Rwanda, on a mission to bring transformative, heartfelt mental health care to East Africa. She is a pioneer team member of the Ketamine Treatment and Research Center (KTRC) at King Faisal Hospital, Rwanda, weaving together ketamine-assisted psychotherapy and somatic healing to support patients on their journey to lasting recovery.
She also serves as Technical Advisor for De-Addiction Programs at RBC, and through Lebeza Psychiatry, works to shape and expand mental health care across Ethiopia.