About Sunny Strasburg
Sunny Strasburg, LMFT
Sunny Strasburg is a Marriage and Family Therapist in private practice, licensed in California, Utah, and Maryland. She is Internal Family Systems trained and an EMDR Certified trauma specialist. She is a graduate of the Certification for Psychedelic Assisted Therapy from the California Institute of Integral Studies. Sunny utilizes Gottman Couples Method, attachment theory, Jungian Depth psychology, Internal Family Systems, and Ego State work. Mrs. Strasburg offers Ketamine Assisted Therapy and retreats.
Mrs. Strasburg received a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology degree from Pacifica Graduate Institute, which focuses on Jungian Depth Psychology and houses the library of comparative mythologist, Dr. Joseph Campbell. This education was fortunate because of its holistic psychological orientation. The breadth and depth of learning at Pacifica is truly unique. Students are trained in Jungian and Freudian concepts. There, she learned about transference, counter-transference, and the importance of holding the tension of opposites. At Pacifica, Sunny understood that humans are complex archetypal beings, storytellers, and mythmakers.
Sunny Strasburg, LMFT and Dr. Richard Schwartz, the originator of Internal Family Systems have joined forces to cocreate many offerings in 2022, 2023 and forward in Psychedelic Assisted Psychotherapy and Internal Family Systems.
Sunny has authored The Theradelic Approach and created novel treatment protocols for IFS, EMDR, archetypal psychology, and attachment combined with psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy.
Sunny hosts training and retreats with Dr. Richard Schwartz, the creator and founder of Internal Family Systems. Mrs. Strasburg has led training with Dr. Bessel van der Kolk focusing on somatic and trauma psychedelic-assisted therapy. She gives presentations and offers training and consulting in Ketamine combined with EMDR, Internal Family Systems, and archetypal psychology. Mrs. Strasburg has completed training with Compass Pathways in psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy and completed a volunteer residency at Synthesis with psilocybin, and trained at the Ketamine Training Center in Ketamine Assisted Therapy. She was trained in MDMA Assisted Therapy by Michael and Annie Mithoefer through MAPS and co-facilitates Holotropic Breathwork Workshops. Sunny lived near an ayahuasca retreat center in Latin America and served to help participants prepare for and integrate their experiences. Mrs Strasburg is also a visual artist, and her paintings were recently featured on the MAPS yearly bulletin for 2019.
Co-Founder of PsyAssist
Sunny Strasburg, LMFT is the cofounder and owner of PsyAssist with DJ and musical composer, David Starfire. PsyAssist was acquired by TRIPP, Inc in 2021. Sunny was the Clinical Director of Operations at TRIPP, Inc., overseeing psychedelic development and clinical therapy support using virtual reality and mobile app technologies. This article published in FORBES talks about PsyAssist. TRIPP PsyAssist develops virtual reality and mobile tools to support therapist-supported psychedelic journeys.
Mrs. Strasburg authors and presents voice-guided invocations for psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy sessions. She offers these live retreats, individual therapy sessions, and trainings.
Recordings are available here: https://www.psyassist.com/