Integrative Mental Health University

Emma Bragdon is the Founder and Executive Director of Integrative Mental Health University, IMHU.org. She earned her PhD in Transpersonal Psychology in 1987 and was licensed in California as a Marriage, Family, Child Therapist in 1988. As a pioneer who has helped define the field of spiritual emergency, Emma has published 7 books and co-produced 2 documentary films. Within IMHU Emma has trained over 110 Spiritual Emergence Coaches• who are available to support individuals disoriented or in distress as they open spiritually. She also leads a small group of healthcare providers to Brazil once a year to learn about the Spiritist paradigm of mental healthcare from Spiritist practitioners. Emma maintains a private practice, consulting internationally via zoom. See imhu.org/store for more info. on books/films. See EmmaBragdon.com for personal consultations.

Lorna Busch, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and clinical supervisor with a private practice in the Finger Lakes region of New York. She offers ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, psychedelic integration, and provides specialized support for individuals and families at end of life. She is also a certified Spiritual Emergence Coach® and is currently completing Level II training in Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique (QHHT). Rooted in a holistic framework, Lorna works within integrative health centers that honor the connection between mind, body, and spirit. Her own profound spiritual openings and emergence journey inform her commitment to bringing spirituality into mental health care in a grounded and ethical way. In 2024, she traveled with IMHU to Brazil to observe spiritist hospitals and community centers, where she witnessed firsthand how these communities are pioneering models of integrative, spiritually-informed psychiatry.

Andy joined IMHU in 2025 after a 17-year run in Silicon Valley, where he built a reputation as an operator, advisor, and investor with ten multi-billion-dollar startups. After years of high performance, he stepped away from the tech world to pursue a deeper mission: helping people transform their inner lives and discover a higher purpose. Over the last five years, Andy has undergone an intense and wide-ranging spiritual emergence—at times an emergency—marked by powerful non-ordinary states of consciousness that became central to his healing and personal evolution. That experience now informs his work with others. He writes about mental health, spirituality, and personal transformation, and he coaches people who are navigating spiritual awakenings of their own. Andy serves on the board of Heroic Hearts Project, which provides psychedelic-assisted therapy to military veterans and their spouses. He is also a certified Spiritual Emergence Coach® and holds a diploma in Jungian Dream Analysis from the Jung Centre of Ireland.