When she was fourteen years old, Colette had a premonitive dream that she would be seriously injured. Not long after, she broke her neck while competing in a wrestling match on her high school team, and was paralyzed from the neck down. At the time of her injury, she had an out-of-body experience that was the same vision as her dream from weeks before. The doctors told her family she had a two percent chance of recovery.

During her 4 months of recuperating in the hospital, Colette developed a technique of quieting her conscious mind and using what she now understands to be self-directed neuroplasticity to reactivate sensation and movement in her body. She astounded doctors, defeated the odds, and eventually walked out of the hospital. As Colette recovered, she began having access to visionary states of consciousness that many use psychedelics to achieve. Integrating and understanding these changes to her nervous system was difficult and overwhelming. 

Being neurodivergent, Colette has dedicated her life and career to understanding consciousness and the healing faculties latent within. After receiving her BA in International Relations and International Development, she became fascinated with understanding better ecological development models focused on regenerative agriculture and permaculture, and how humans can live harmoniously within the natural ecosystem (including our individual ecosystems, collective ecosystems, and ecological systems). 

Colette’s journey led her to study and work in ecological design, permaculture, environmental activism, organic farming, and herbalism with Indigenous and rural communities in Southeast Asia, Australia, and Africa. The more she learned, the more she felt an intense connection with the natural world and how human consciousness can build direct connections with it.  

Fascinated and armed with the certainty that the mind is capable of immense healing, she set out to learn all she could about hypnotherapy, traditional healing, and the deeper systems of studying nature as a life path. As she deepened her knowledge of entheogens and the energetics of plants, Colette expanded her studies in Neuro-Linguistic Programming, integrative hypnotherapy, and practical neuroscience.  

Colette is the founder of Neurodelics, a neurodiversity-informed, AI-powered digital platform for psychedelic users and those in need of mental health support, education, and regulation, as well as Decriminalize Nature Philadelphia, a registered 501-C4 working to decriminalize entheogens in Philadelphia by passing a resolution at the city level.