From PERFORMANCE to PRESENCE
I knew how to hold it all together…until I couldn’t. What followed was an expanded way of being.
MEET the GUIDE
I’m Cathey, the human behind LeDelic, a name born from my original last name, Le, the Vietnamese family name connecting me to my ancestral roots.
Over a lifetime of family changes, assimilation, shifting identities, and my own marriages, Le was often buried beneath other last names. There were other names that became part of my identity as well — Leadership titles I earned while building a career in finance. To others, I was capable, dependable, successful, the one who could handle it all…until I couldn’t. I was living with depression, anxiety, addictive patterns and unprocessed trauma. I realized being capable wasn’t the same as being well.
Psychedelic medicine changed everything. What began with a microdosing protocol gently opened the doorway to a deeper ceremony experience. One that helped me break through old narratives and patterns and reconnect to myself, and even find unexpected healing in a chronic condition I had lived with for years.
I became more present, and to my surprise, more effective in my leadership role.
LeDelic became the name for that reclamation: my ancestral name woven with the medicine path that continues to shape my healing, my practice, and the spaces I hold for others.
Now, I guide professionals and seekers who feel called to deeper work, through transformative journeys, rooted in science, guided by spirit, designed for expansion.
I remain devoted to ongoing study across the healing arts, including energy healing (such as Reiki and shamanic practices), and other modalities that support my work in sacred medicine.
Where performance ends, presence begins and that’s where healing takes root.
The real shift didn’t happen overnight…
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The majority of my career was spent excelling in leadership roles in the finance industry - guiding teams, managing performance metrics, and staying laser-focused on strategy and operations. Outwardly, it all looked successful. But inwardly, there was a heaviness I couldn’t name.
For over a decade, I juggled a demanding career, motherhood, complex family dynamics, midlife unraveling, and the emotional residue of unresolved trauma, from childhood wounds to unhealthy relationships and coping habits like drinking and other addictive behaviors. Though I appeared calm and composed, I was silently battling anxiety, depression, and a deep sense of disconnection.
I tried everything - talk therapy, antidepressants, self-care routines, nutrition plans. Nothing brought the lasting relief I longed for.
Until I found sacred medicine.
I began microdosing psilocybin. It opened something, gently but profoundly. My emotional bandwidth expanded, and I felt a sense of possibility I hadn’t accessed in decades. But it was my first deeper ceremony that catalyzed a transformation I could feel in every cell.
It wasn’t just insight, it was embodiment. My nervous system softened. Long-held patterns of overworking, over-consuming, and over-caretaking began to dissolve. I became more present, emotionally available, attuned and surprisingly, that presence made me even more impactful in my leadership role. For the first time in my life, I felt at home in myself.
The healing extended beyond the emotional into my physical body. I’ve lived with asthma since childhood, dependent on a daily steroid inhaler. But as I continued this inner work releasing old burdens and reconnecting to my body, something shifted. My need for medication dropped significantly, and within a few years, my symptoms disappeared. It was the first time in my life I could breathe freely—physically and emotionally.
That’s when I knew: I had to share this work.
I trained with Zach Leary (yes, son of the legendary Timothy Leary), whose lineage bridges traditional wisdom and modern consciousness. I’ve apprenticed and co-facilitated alongside seasoned mentors, studied closely with a pharmacist specializing in entheogens, and completed training in psychedelic peer support through the Zendo Project—each offering perspectives into the sacred, the scientific, and the ceremonial. The medicine remains one of my most profound teachers, inviting me to meet each moment with humility, attunement, and deep presence.
My work continues to evolve through ongoing study across the healing arts, including energy healing (such as Reiki and shamanic practices) and other modalities that support my work in sacred medicine. I’m continually exploring how to thoughtfully weave these modalities into the spaces I hold, supported by peer-led consultation circles and trusted networks grounded in reciprocity and care. My path has been shaped by lived experience, specialized training, apprenticeship, hands-on practice, and ongoing peer consultation rather than a single conventional credential.My mission is to help others reconnect with what’s real, to what matters most. To normalize and de-stigmatize these powerful medicine allies. To support professionals, creatives, and high-capacity individuals who are tired of holding it all together and ready for a more honest, embodied way of being.
This work is about returning to your truest self. Because when we stop performing, we begin to listen. And that’s where healing begins.
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My approach is shaped by specialized education, ethical training, hands-on ceremonial experience, integration study, energy medicine, ongoing peer consultation, and years of personal work with medicine.
My own journeys have been essential teachers, deepening my understanding of humility, surrender, discernment, and the complexity of each person’s process.
I believe the medicine can be one of our greatest teachers. I also believe personal experience must be supported by training, ethical reflection, accountability, and continued learning.
Psychedelic Studies Intensive · With Zach Leary
An in-depth, case-based study of psychedelic history, neuroscience, medicines and their effects, ethics, integration, and non-directive facilitation.
A central teaching—that the medicine, rather than the facilitator, is the ultimate authority in the room—deeply informs how I hold space: with humility, trust, and respect for each person’s inner process.
The Toad School · With The Dharmacist
Specialized education focused on 5-MeO-DMT, including the unique qualities of the molecule, preparation and facilitation considerations, and approaches for responding to challenging or unexpected experiences.
Zendo Project SIT Training
Training in compassionate, non-directive support for people navigating psychedelic and other non-ordinary states, including experiences that feel difficult, overwhelming, or disorienting.
The training included psychedelic harm-reduction principles, grounded presence, support during challenging experiences, and considerations for helping people begin to process and integrate what occurred.
InnerEthics Training · With Kylea Taylor and the Psychedelic Guides Network
Training in self-inquiry, ethical awareness, relational dynamics, and compassionate space-holding.
The program emphasized recognizing the personal beliefs, projections, and unconscious dynamics that can arise when supporting others, while fostering a space that honors each person’s autonomy and inner process rather than imposing interpretation or direction.
Facilitator Apprenticeship & Practicum Experience
Apprenticeship alongside seasoned facilitators, including opportunities to observe, assist, and co-facilitate multiple ceremonial experiences.
This provided live, hands-on learning in preparation, presence, group dynamics, attunement, responsive care, and the practical realities of holding space before, during, and after a ceremony.
Ongoing Peer Consultation
I participate in peer consultation groups with others working in psychedelic and altered-state spaces, including the Psychedelic Guides Network and independent peer communities.
These conversations offer space to explore integration, relational dynamics, ethical questions, challenging experiences, and the practical complexities that formal training cannot always anticipate.
Ongoing consultation helps me remain reflective, accountable, and connected to the wider field.
Usui/Holy Fire® Reiki I & II
Training and initiation in Reiki energy practice, including foundational approaches to energetic awareness, balance, and supportive hands-on or distance practice.
Shamanic & Energy Medicine Techniques · With Sarah Marie Livings, trained in the LightSong tradition
Study and experiential practice in shamanic journeying, energetic awareness, and spiritually oriented healing techniques rooted in core shamanism and adapted for contemporary practice.
Sarah Marie Livings trained in the tradition of Jan Engels-Smith at the LightSong School of 21st Century Shamanism and Energy Medicine, whose work integrates core shamanic practices with energy medicine, spiritual growth, and modern approaches to healing.
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I believe both the individual and the medicine carry profound intelligence. My role is not to interpret someone’s experience for them, prescribe what healing should look like, or position myself as the authority over their process.
Instead, I offer thoughtful preparation, grounded presence, and integration support, creating space for each person to listen more deeply to their own body, truth, and inner knowing.
This work is anchored in reverence without performance, structure without rigidity, and mystery without surrendering personal agency or responsibility.
To me, healing is not about becoming more enlightened or fixing what is broken. It is about becoming more honest, reclaiming what has always been yours, and returning to your life with greater clarity, choice, and self-trust. It is about realizing there was nothing wrong with you to begin with.
Microdosing was the first doorway I walked through.
If you're curious to explore that path yourself, I created a complimentary guide to help you begin with care and intention.