Meet Our Trainers

The Wild Mind Institute was founded by Sean O’Carroll in 2014, and for many years he developed and delivered all of our trainings. Over time, that’s changed. Today, our courses are increasingly collaborative, shaped and enriched by the diverse voices of therapists, educators, and field practitioners who share our values.

Below you’ll find some of the trusted co-trainers who help deliver Wild Mind’s offerings. Each brings their own lived experience, professional expertise, and distinctive style. In addition to these regular collaborators, many of our trainings include guest practitioners—people actively working in the field who join to share clinical insights, cultural perspectives, or specific areas of practice. This dynamic mix helps ground the learning in the lived reality of a diversity of practitioners working in the space.

Sean O’Carroll is the founder and director of the Wild Mind Institute. Sean works as a psychotherapist in private practice in Melbourne, Australia, specialising in working with psychedelic casualties.

He first degree was in philosophy (2001), completing his honours thesis (2004) on “Science, Subjectivity and the Sacred”. In 2017 Sean completed three years of qualitative research, culminating in his MA (research) thesis entitled "An Inquiry Into the Experience of Being Alone with Nature". He has worked as an academic in the field of psychotherapy for the past ten years teaching integrative psychotherapy, eco-psychotherapy, arts-based psychotherapy, transpersonal psychology, and offering supervision, training and consulting through the Wild Mind Institute (Since 2015).

His focus is on mastering and sharing the craft of psychotherapy, and on exploring the role of nature and non-ordinary states of consciousness in health and wellbeing. Key areas of interest and training include working with psychedelic casualties (and other non-ordinary state trauma), eco-psychotherapy, transpersonal psychology, embodiment/dance practice, arts-based psychotherapy, and psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy.

Sean was formerly Head of Psychotherapy at Clarion Clinics (Australia’s first purpose built psychedelic clinic) and Lead Trainer, Supervisor and Psychotherapist with the Monash University Clinical Psychedelic Research Lab in Melbourne, Australia.

He has developed and delivered PAT training to teams at Monash University, Swinburne University and Curtin University for trials working with psilocybin and GAD, TRD, and Chronic Pain, respectively. He has completed the MAPS training, and been training assistant on a second MAPS training. He is currently working working on the Monash University MDMA for PSTD trial.