Psyche & Co. was founded by Dr Nikki Collins.
I founded Psyche & Co. because the people who hold other people's inner lives for a living are often given the least help with their own. Training teaches the theory. It rarely teaches what to do with your body, your breath and your own history when a client's pain lands in the room.
Psyche & Co. is a platform for exactly that: courses and digital products online, and retreats in person, for psychotherapists, psychologists and anyone who takes the inner life seriously. We teach mindfulness, yoga, trauma work and contemplative practice, and we look squarely at the things practitioners meet in practice that no one prepared them for. Laypeople are welcome in every room, because the inner work is the same whoever is doing it.
My own path runs through research and practice. My doctoral work investigated biophoton emissions and the ways people's lives and worldviews shape what their bodies give off. It left me convinced that the inner life is not a private luxury but a measurable, consequential thing, and that the practices which tend it belong alongside clinical training, not outside it.
Alongside Psyche & Co. I run Conscious Yoga Collective and write about the meeting point of contemplative practice and the sciences. You can find that work, and the rest of what I do, on my own site.