Team
Our team of practitioners
Certified facilitation and clinical counselling, backed by a network of specialists across Canada.
“I am not here to take you somewhere. I am here to walk with you.”
Founder and lead facilitator
Jamie Norrish
Jamie has spent the last 10 years immersed in this work, co-facilitating and attending workshops, retreats, and medicine circles across Peru, Costa Rica, and Canada. What he brings to a ceremony comes from having made the journey himself and knowing what it asks of a person.
He is a certified Psychedelic Practitioner through the Psychedelic Coaching Institute, a program built on the work of experienced facilitators and psychotherapists across North America, and he stays in close mentorship with practitioners and clinicians who regularly work with psychedelic medicine. His intention is to keep refining his own practice and to hold himself to the standard this work asks for.
His approach is built on safety and presence. Alongside facilitation, he works with breathwork, meditation, energy healing including Reiki and Quantum Touch, intuitive coaching, NLP, and hypnosis. These give people a way to ground themselves and make sense of what surfaces. He brings calm and an intuitive knowing into the room.
Jamie does this work because psychedelics have been his greatest teacher. The people and places that work alongside this medicine have shaped his own path more than anything else. He lives from the heart, and helping other people get there is his purpose.
Registered clinical counsellor
Marie Martin
Marie works alongside Jamie through the program, taking one counselling session during preparation and two during integration. Her focus is the emotional material underneath what surfaces in a ceremony, which is a different job from facilitation and asks for different training.
She is a Master Practitioner in Clinical Counselling based in Kelowna, working online. She holds an IPI certification in psychedelic-assisted therapy, complex trauma certification to levels one and two, and Brainspotting training to level four. She is a Master NLP Practitioner and a certified hypnosis practitioner, and a member of the Canadian Professional Counsellors Association.
Her work is trauma-informed and body-aware, and it happens in relationship. In preparation she looks at what you are hoping changes and what sits underneath it. After the ceremony she works with whatever the journey brought up: nervous-system regulation, protective responses, old relationship patterns and beliefs, and material connected to earlier experiences.
Difficult or confusing material needs somewhere professional to go. That is the space Marie holds.
“In a world of noise, coherence is medicine. I am here to hold coherence, so you can find yours.”
Our network
Why5 draws on a whole field of healers and practitioners
Around this practice sits a network that reaches across Canada: counsellors, hypnotherapists, acupuncturists, energy healers and more. Some are written into every program. The rest are there for what a program cannot reach.
Inside the program
Psychotherapy and counselling
A clinical counsellor works inside every program, taking one session during preparation and two during integration.
By referral
Hypnotherapy
For people who want to work with subconscious patterns alongside the ceremony, or in the weeks after it.
In ceremony
Energy work
Reiki and Quantum Touch, offered in the ceremony room for people who want it.
By referral
Acupuncture
Nervous-system support before or after a ceremony, through practitioners Why5 has worked with directly.
By referral
Massage and bodywork
Bodywork for what a ceremony leaves held in the body.
Inside the program
Breathwork and Meditation
Breathing techniques and guided meditation, used to steady the body and quiet the mind.
