Ashley Carmen is a licensed marriage and family therapist and the founder of the Psychedelic Guide Network (PGN), based in Austin, Texas, where she trains practitioners in the ethics and interior work of guiding others through non-ordinary states. PGN teaches Kylea Taylor's InnerEthics model through peer consultation groups that bridge clinical, shamanic, spiritual, and non-clinical practitioners. Ashley's clinical background includes inpatient addiction and dual-diagnosis treatment and work at Kaiser Permanente. She trained in MDMA-assisted psychotherapy with MAPS, studied psilocybin guiding in the Mazatec lineage with the School of Consciousness Medicine, and studied ayahuasca facilitation. Learn more at psychedelicguidenetwork.com.
Ashley Carmen, LMFT has been a guest on 1 episode.
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S3 | E4 Ashley Carmen
November 2nd, 2026 | Season 3 | 1 hr 4 mins
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My guest is Ashley Carmen, a licensed marriage and family therapist and founder of the Psychedelic Guide Network, joining me from Austin. We dig into the least glamorous and most important topic in psychedelic work: ethics. Ashley walks through Kylea Taylor's InnerEthics model, why motivation and intention matter more than any rulebook, and what it takes for a guide to hold a clean container. Then we get practical, with the questions to ask and the red flags to watch for when choosing a facilitator, from preparation through integration.