Psychologist, plant medicine practitioner and educator.
Bárbara is an integration specialist, crisis response coordinator, retreat leader, and an arts-based educator, living in the Sacred Valley (Peru).
With a decade of experience in the field of plant medicine and psychedelic care, she supports participants, practitioners, and communities with in-ceremony care, integration, ethics, safety, and responsibility in plant medicine practices.
Bárbara is co-founder and director of SERT (Spiritual Emergency Response Team), in the Sacred Valley. This community-rooted initiative offers guidance, resources, compassionate support in situations of crisis connected to psychedelic and spiritual emergencies, within the Sacred Valley community.
She holds a MA in Applied Theatre, an artistic pedagogy facilitating community care and education through theatre-making and embodied storytelling. Her arts-based project "Once Upon A Ceremony" (2024) offers a guided group container for playful expression, active reflection, and ethical awareness around plant medicine experiences. This work culminates in "Wisdom of the Holders" (2026), a retreat for plant medicine practitioners to integrate their practice, focusing on ethics, self-care, and long-term sustainability.
Ep21 Bárbara Espina—The Crisis Nobody Plans For: Spiritual Emergency …
What happens when a plant medicine ceremony goes sideways... and there's no one trained to help? That's the gap Bárbara Espina decided to fill. In this episode of Inner Source, Dr. Sandra Dreisbach sits down with Bárbara — a ...