About Me
First, a devoted father and husband, Jarrod is an ibogaine integration coach who believes each person carries their own unique medicine and gifts that the world needs. He recognizes that every individual has everything they need already within themselves to heal and to thrive. He views his job as a coach as helping others tap into their own innate wisdom to constellate their healing, liberation, and joy. Jarrod has traveled his own journey with trauma, depression, and substances--overcoming a decade long abusive relationship with alcohol and drugs to find himself living daily in his purpose to help others and thrive in family life. Jarrod draws from a variety of perspectives--including addiction and harm reduction, archetypal/Jungian theory, Stoicism, liberation psychology, and psychospiritual frameworks--to help individuals process their experiences, cultivate greater meaning in their lives, and drive behavior change aligned with their values and needs. Ultimately, Jarrod wants to help others lead soulful lives. This syncretic approach allows him to meet individuals where they are in that moment in time for the bespoke attention they need.
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Jarrod is currently a PhD candidate in Clinical Psychology with an emphasis in Depth Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute where he is studying ibogaine for fentanyl use. He also holds a master's degree in public health (MPH) from Columbia University, a master's degree in counseling psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute, and earned a bachelor's degree in medical anthropology from UC San Diego. He served as director of the Aware Project Psychedelic Society in San Diego for five years and has helped many individuals navigate their psychedelic journeys while building likeminded community. He has counseled individuals in psychiatric crisis at an inpatient residential mental health facility and worked on the street with people who inject drugs, providing harm reduction services such as clean syringes and fentanyl test kits. In addition to ibogaine coaching, Jarrod currently provides grief counseling for a hospice in San Diego and is a project manager for behavioral health programs. When he's not working, Jarrod loves exploring the natural world with his family, surfing at dawn, and making friends groan at his corny
About The Meaning Response
The Meaning Response is a psychedelic community oriented organization geared around fostering meaning in human lives and communities in order to facilitate healing and thriving. We recognize the potentially profound and transformative benefits of psychedelics, entheogens, and plant medicines in the pursuit of wholeness and as a response to an isolated, fragmented, and polarized society. We offer events in the San Diego area and integration coaching anywhere.
The term "meaning response" was coined by anthropologists as a better understanding of what we know as the placebo effect. As human beings, we imbue everything with meaning—objects, people, contexts—and it is the degree of those meanings which facilitates a physical reaction in our bodies to stimulate the innate healing mechanisms of our bodies and our psyche. So, The Meaning Response—through events, coaching, and advocacy in the psychedelic/entheogenic/plant medicine space—strives to facilitate and promote meaning in our lives to catalyze healing and move towards thriving at the individual, community, and systems levels of society.