My story, your story, and the questions in between.

Leonie is passionate about aligning human consciousness and action with the needs of our time. Bringing together professional expertise from both the politics of climate change and psychedelic healing and facilitation, she is a bridge between the environmental and the mental health communities — between the systemic and the personal.

Trained in energy and climate policy, she worked six years at the World Energy Outlook Team of the International Energy Agency (IEA), one of the most influential players in international climate politics. She became an expert in the role of behavioral change and societal transformation, modeled its role in achieving the world's climate goals, and advised governments on why each of us matters. She co-authored multiple high-impact reports on the climate transition, published a scientific paper on climate adaptation, and spoke to high-level policymakers at COP and the German Chancellery.

Climate anxiety, ecological grief, and ultimately burnout brought this work to a full stop. It also opened her to a profound exploration of mind, consciousness, and what it means to truly heal. Healing, she discovered, is not an individual job — it is a planetary one. And it requires reconnection: to ourselves, to each other, and most of all to nature.

What reconnected her were diverse practices, from meditation to singing, diverse wisdom traditions, from Buddhism to Taoist thought, and diverse philosophies, from deep ecology to systems theory. Most of all, it was the lived experience of connection through the intentional use of psychedelics.

Leonie is now a certified psychedelic facilitator through the Synthesis Institute, combining her facilitation with Joanna Macy's Work That Reconnects and practices inspired by the Eco-Dharma. She is part of the team at PsyGaia, and works with the European Citizens' Movement PsychedeliCare, advocating for climate anxiety and ecological grief to be recognized as important therapeutic use cases for psychedelic-assisted therapy, as well as with PSYCA (Psychedelics for Climate Action).

"I am no longer crippled by burnout and climate despair, but charged with joy and hopeful action, grateful to be alive, and at home in this world. This is what I long to share."