About Soul Connections

Janet Nielsen, M.Ed., CCC, C.Hyp  

Brittany Bannerman, M.Ed., CCC, C.Hyp

Our story began early 2016, when we were briefly introduced to each other by our professor outside of a nondual conference at the University of Lethbridge. We both live in Lethbridge, AB. We completed the same Masters of Education in Counselling Psychology program at different times and  researched and wrote our master's theses on psychedelics. Our paths would synchronistically cross again later in 2016, when we bumped into each other at the Psychedelic Psychotherapy Forum in Victoria, BC. We scheduled our first medicine journey together a few months later, dipping our toes into a space we would come to frequent together often in the subsequent years. We attended the same conference again in 2018, this time together, and our passion for psychedelic psychotherapy was reignited. 

We had the chance to explore different psychedelic landscapes together – and explore we did!! We have been blessed to be able to engage in deep healing work together during our own psychedelic medicine sessions. We are not just therapists, but psychonaut researchers who explore and map psychedelic territories and heal deep wounds, traumas, and patterns together! 

Together we have worked with plant medicines with our mutual clients. We have realized that psychedelics allow for connection to the innate healing intelligence of one’s body, mind, and spirit. We work as a team with our clients, helping them prepare, navigate, and integrate their psychedelic experiences. We have witnessed our clients heal at the root cause of their ailments, whether that be physical, cognitive, spiritual, emotional, or a combination of these.

We studied and wrote our master’s theses on the healing and transformative capacities of psychedelics in different contexts.

Click to view Brittany’s master’s thesis:

Transformative, Exceptional Human Experiences at Music Festivals: A Transpersonal Phenomenological Exploration  

Click to view Janet’s master’s thesis:

 Transforming the Fear of Death Through Near-Death Experiences and Experiential Psychedelics: A Transpersonal Hermeneutic Phenomenological Inquiry.

Brittany has been working with psychedelics personally for over 12 years and works with clients in plant medicine to allow for deep, transformative healing. She has worked with many clients seeking to access the subconscious through clinical counselling hypnotherapy and provides healing and reprogramming at the deepest levels for total transformation. She considers this work to be fundamental to clearing out, realigning with one’s true self, and moving towards wholeness. Brittany is passionate about the transformational aspects of expanded consciousness and how to integrate such experiences into one’s life, and has researched these extensively. 

Janet has been doing her own personal work with plant medicine for over twenty years and works with clients in plant medicine to allow for healing from the inside out. She has worked with many clients in relation to grief and loss, death and dying, and completed her death doula certification in October 2019. She considers this work to be sacred, allowing her to support clients and their families as their lives come to a close.