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This project successfully funded on 30th December 2025, you can still support them with a donation.
PsyAware Community Hub
London, Greater London, United Kingdom
Aim
Help us provide education, support and long-term aftercare for people exploring psychedelics, especially people facing difficult experiences
What We’re Building Together
Help us to develop our Community Hub designed to provide:
- Accessible education for people exploring psychedelics, to keep our community safer
- Inclusive support for people who have faced harm or challenging psychedelic experiences, as well as those needing sustained, long-term aftercare
- Financial assistance for people experiencing economic hardship, so they can access the care and support they need.
Why This Work Matters
Harm and misuse of power exist everywhere, but psychedelics bring unique risks that can make people especially vulnerable, from misinformation and exaggerated healing claims to unskilled or unethical facilitators operating without accountability. With limited trustworthy options, people can be exposed to harm, manipulation, boundary violations, financial exploitation or overwhelming experiences without proper support. The lack of regulation and the rise of self-appointed "experts" only increases these risks.
People need honest, unbiased information about both the benefits and the risks so they can make informed choices, and guidance to ask themselves and any facilitator the right questions. And when experiences get tough, they need access to safe, psychedelic-informed aftercare.
People are looking for support they can trust, and right now there just isn’t enough of it. As psychedelics become more mainstream, the need for inclusive long-term integration, care, honest education and safeguarding is becoming more urgent.
How Your Support Creates Change
1. Education
Your contribution helps us offer clear, unbiased and accessible information about psychedelics. Through campaigns and trusted online resources, we empower people to make informed and safer choices. Inclusivity and accessibility are at the heart of this work, ensuring everyone has access to the knowledge they need.
2. Support
Donations help us to give people access to culturally informed guidance and support after experiencing harm or challenging experiences. We connect individuals with psychedelic-informed, sliding-scale therapists, offer bursaries for those on low incomes and host regular integration circles so that support is never limited by finances.
3. Community Engagement
With your help, we listen to the community and respond to their real needs. We create inclusive spaces, gather insights about where harm is happening and bring people together through events and initiatives that centre safety, inclusivity and collective care.
Choose Your Impact
£20 - Keeps our mailer running for a month
£50 - Funds one hour of integration therapy
£100 - Covers the cost of a venue for an integration circle
£200 - Pays for essential digital tools needed to run our hub for a month
£500 - Provides 10 hours of free, culturally informed 1:1 therapeutic support
£1,000 - Supports a full month of Community Hub operation
Who We Are
PsyAware is a not-for-profit organisation whose mission is to create, protect and empower the psychedelic community through education, awareness and support, while collaborating with a diverse network of individuals, communities and organisations, to promote a safer, inclusive, expansive, and ethical environment for everyone.
Find out more about us HERE.
Team
Anya Oleksiuk is a community organiser, educator and a filmmaker, committed to creating safer and more inclusive psychedelic spaces. She co-founded PsyAware, and previously co-directed the Psychedelic Society UK for six years, leading on education and harm reduction. She also acts as an advisor for the Polish Psychedelic Society and the Global Psychedelic Society. Her film work, including The Psychedelic Chronicles, explores psychedelics, mental health and social justice.
Wiktor Karolewski is PsyAware’s co-founder and Finance Lead, bringing years of experience as a qualified accountant and supporter of community impact organisations. He previously managed finances for Symbiota Collective, strengthening sustainable systems and streamlined operations for The Psychedelic Society UK.
Hattie Wells is a psychedelic therapy guide, ethnobotanist, event producer and drug policy advocate. She has worked clinically on LSD, ibogaine and 5-MeO-DMT Phase I trials. She has collaborated with a number of organisations including the Beckley Psytech, Beckley Foundation, Transform, ICEERS and is an executive director of Breaking Convention.
Mercedes Grant is a writer, activist, community organiser, trauma-focused and justice-oriented yoga teacher and somatic breathwork clinician. She has provided strategic communications leadership, crisis management, and harm reduction and decolonial education for organisations including Psychedelic Psychotherapy Forum, Therapsil and the Spirit Plant Medicine Conference.
Jasmine Virdi is a writer, educator, event curator, activist and harm reduction practitioner, advocating for decolonising healing practices; she integrates earth-based, trauma-informed and somatic approaches into her work. Her writing has appeared in DoubleBlind, Open Democracy, Psychedelics Today, Chacruna, Psychedelic Press, Synthesis Institute and Lucid News.
Emily Sinclair is an anthropologist of ayahuasca shamanism and advocate for family-inclusive spaces. She served on Chacruna’s Ayahuasca Community Committee, leading work to address sexual abuse in ayahuasca settings, and co-created their 'Guidelines for the Awareness of Sexual Abuse”.
Ayeza Irfan is a creative marketer specialising in supporting alternative and emerging brands. She has worked across festivals, tech and psychedelic organisations, including The Psychedelic Society UK, ACER Integration and PsyAware.
Find out more about our team HERE.
Advisors
We’re also supported by a brilliant group of collaborators, advisors and consultants - important voices in the field - including Michelle Baker Jones, Oliver Bashford, Rosalind Watts, Lorraine Langham, Daan Keiman and Camille Barton.
You can view our collaborators HERE.
Our Wider Network
We’re also lucky to work with an amazing network of speakers, facilitators and community educators who regularly contribute their experience and insight to our events and programmes, including: Dr Sara Oke (FKA Reed), Danielle Herrera, Dr James Rucker, Shoba Ram, Famia Askari, Chara Caruthers, Ian Roullier, Timmy Davis, Kete Campbell-Coker, Ed Prideaux, Dr Tehseen Noorani, Akua Ofosuhene, Mikaela dela Myco, and many more!
We are closely connected and working alongside, or in partnership with a number of other organisations: PsyPan, Psychedelic Experience Clinic, King’s College Psychedelic Research Team, Maudsley Psychedelic Society, Global Psychedelic Society, ICEERS, Release, ACER Integration, and many more!
DISCLAIMER:
PsyAware does not condone nor encourage the use of illegal substances.
Funding method
Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made