About Dr. Stacey Simmons

I am  a writer and psychotherapist who grew up in New Orleans, but who currently lives out in the boonies of Los Angeles where I keep my horses. I am a neurotic polymath with a PhD in social psychology. I'm fluent in French, and have a passion for women’s issues and neuroscience. I left a career in animation and visual effects to become a psychotherapist. In my graduate research, I discovered an analog to the Hero’s Journey for woman-driven narrative- and it is NOT a Heroine’s journey! I've been speaking at writer’s groups and conferences since this discovery. The book entitled The Queen's Path: A Revolutionary Guide to Women's Empowerment and Sovereignty was released in November of 2024. I am also a certified psychedelic therapist, and my book Mushroom Pharmacy: A Practical Guide to Psychedelic Mushrooms will be released in February 2025. The book is filled with nerdy neuroscience research, and cutting edge examinations of the ways that scientists are experimenting with psychedelics to bring relief to patients suffering with everything from Treatment Resistant Depression to Chronic Pain.

Today I have found my domain. I am a psychotherapist and clinical supervisor at Hope Therapy Center with offices in Burbank and Newhall, California. I work primarily with creative people. As this path came into focus through my research I realized that I too had been living the archetypal pattern without realizing it. Everywhere I had been a MIPE, in the university, in technology, in entrepreneurship, in studios. I had tried to be a Hero, and was almost always met with open arms at first, and later pushed to the margins. That is the MIPE archetypal pattern.  In the workplace, the safe role is the MISOR, the helper, the one who is quiet, demure, and submissive. I was terrible at that. I constantly examined, re-examined, and relaunched myself to do better work, learn more, be a better hero-- to no avail. Because for a woman to have power, she must either double down on the MIPE role, and run the risk of being consumed by her will, or she must become a queen, reconnecting the ostracized pieces of herself, and experiencing her own physical transcendence, then gathering her tribe around her. 

I am also the first American clinician to be formally trained in Auto-Induced Cognitive Trance (TCAI) with Corine Sombrun at the Trance Science Research Institute in Paris, France.

I have a following of over 300k on TikTok as #WitchMom where I share spiritual advice and practices.