Our Team
Shyam Dhulashia, Founder
Shyam (He/Him) is a Master’s student in Mental Health Counseling. He also researches the phenomenology of psychedelic experiences and advanced meditation. He is applying these findings towards integrative therapy practices for wellbeing. Shyam finds purpose practicing meditation, teaching yoga, dancing, connecting with people, and building safe community spaces for healing.
Our Why
As the psychedelic renaissance unfolds, our culture is undergoing a profound shift in how we understand healing, spirituality, and consciousness. In many Indigenous traditions, psychedelic experiences are held within frameworks of ritual, relationship, and community. These cultures support altered states through shared meaning-making, humility, and interdependence with the natural world.
In contrast, Western engagement with psychedelics often emerges within systems shaped by individualism, medicalization, and commercialization. Experiences are frequently compartmentalized into clinical procedures or consumed through retreats, festivals, and other short-term containers that lack long-term support. While these modern collective rituals can open cracks in the Western worldview, we largely lack the cultural infrastructure to safely integrate the psychological, emotional, and spiritual material they evoke.
Liminal seeks to bridge this gap. We create spiritually competent and culturally informed spaces for integration, peer-support, and harm reduction, honoring both contemporary mental health frameworks and the ancestral lineages that have stewarded psychedelic practices for generations. Through psychoeducation, community dialogue, and collaborative research, we are building sustainable systems of care where exploration of consciousness is met with scientific rigor, cultural humility, and relational safety.