A sanctuary for inner work.
Held with presence, safety and intention.
Why ALTAR’D
Our name carries two meanings:
ALTERED - the expanded states of consciousness accessed through psychedelics, breathwork, and somatic work.
ALTAR - the sacred space you create within yourself when you turn toward your healing with intention.
Altar’d Healing brings these together:
Altered states held as sacred pathways to inner transformation.
How We Work
APPROACH
Our approach blends clinical grounding with somatic intelligence and ceremonial presence.
We work with:
Legal psychedelic pathways, preparation, and integration
Somatic practices + nervous system regulation
EMDR-informed processing
Trauma-sensitive preparation + integration
Breathwork and altered-state methods
We honor your pace, intuition, and capacity. Each step is consent-driven, body-led, and trauma-informed.
VALUES
Safety & Consent
Your body sets the pace. Nothing forced. Nothing rushed.
Trauma-Informed Care
Grounding, pacing, and nervous system support are foundational.
Reverence
Altered states and medicine work are held as sacred, not sensational.
Integration-Centered
Insight matters — but embodiment creates real change.
Professionalism + Heart
We blend clinical skill with soul-led presence.
Who We Are
Altar’d Healing is a therapeutic and integrative healing practice devoted to deep inner work through legal psychedelic pathways, somatic work, and trauma-informed integration.
We support people in exploring the layers of the psyche, body, and nervous system where patterns live - in sensation, memory, intuition, and expanded states of consciousness - and in translating those experiences into meaningful, lived change.
Altar’d Healing is held within a collaborative ecosystem of psychedelic-informed practitioners and licensed medical partners, with a shared commitment to safety, ethics, and intentional work.
Founder & Lead Practitioner
Drea Fennewald, MSW
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Drea is a psychotherapist by training and a psychedelic-informed integration practitioner devoted to embodied, nervous-system-aware healing. Her work supports people who are insightful and self-aware, yet sense that deeper patterns live beyond cognition - in the body, subconscious, and felt experience.
She works relationally and intuitively, honoring each person’s pace, consent, and innate inner wisdom to heal. Sessions may optionally incorporate somatic practices, sound, or subtle energy work when supportive and appropriate.
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Columbia University - Master of Social Work (MSW)
Northwestern University - Bachelor of Science in Psychology (BS)
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Licensed Natural Medicine Health Act Facilitator (CO)
Medicinal Mindfulness - NMHA Facilitator Training Program
Psychedelic Somatic Institute - Apprentice Training Program
Journey Clinical - Ketamine Assisted Therapy Certification
EMDR Level 1 & 2 Training
Registered Yoga Teacher Training (200hrs)
Certified Aerial Yoga Instructor / Trauma Informed Yoga