About Me

Finding Your Inner Healing Intelligence is My Passion

My name is Arturo Lopez Flores. I am a licensed psilocybin facilitator in Oregon, and a clinical mental health counseling graduate student. My work is grounded in culturally responsive, trauma-informed care, with particular care for Latine, Indigenous-descendant, Indigenous Americans and Spanish-speaking communities. I come to this work through lived experience, formal training, and long-term relationship — not as a guru or healer, but as a facilitator committed to humility, safety, and ethical presence. I believe healing unfolds through trust, consent, and the wisdom already held within each person.
Location of Self

I locate myself in this work as a Mexica, Chicano, and Indigenous American person, a first-generation Mexican American, and a cisgender man raised within a culturally Catholic context. I identify as middle class, and heterosexual. I am a husband without children. A son of immigrant parents. These social locations shape how I understand responsibility, privilege, belonging, and relationship.

My spiritual practice is rooted in Mexicayotl, which informs how I relate to ancestry, ceremony, and accountability. I approach this practice as a living relationship rather than an identity claim, and I remain attentive to the responsibilities it carries.

I am educated within Western clinical and research contexts through college and graduate training, access that reflects both opportunity and privilege. I hold awareness of the power this education confers within facilitation roles, and I work intentionally to name and soften that power through transparency, consent, and support for self-directed meaning-making.

I understand my location of self as dynamic rather than fixed. I remain committed to ongoing reflection, consultation, and learning as essential aspects of ethical practice.

 

Lineage, Mexicayotl, and Temicxōchitl

Temicxōch is rooted in Mexicayotl — a living cultural framework that honors Mexica ways of knowing, relationship to land, and responsibility to ancestry and community. Mexicayotl is not a religion; it is a way of life and a practice of remembrance, accountability, and continuity.

The name Temicxōch comes from the Nahuatl word temicxōchitl, often translated as “dream flower.” In Mexica thought, dreams are not separate from waking life — they are spaces of communication, insight, and transformation. The dream flower symbolizes inner vision, growth through difficulty, and the unfolding of truth over time.

This concept guides my approach to inner work: not as something to control or force, but as something that emerges when conditions of care, reverence, and safety are present.

How I Understand This Work

I understand facilitation as a role of presence rather than authority. My responsibility is not to interpret experiences or direct outcomes, but to help create conditions in which individuals can meet themselves honestly and safely.

This work is not about fixing what is broken. It is about listening —
to the body,
to memory,
to ancestral echoes,
to what is asking to be tended.

Psilocybin facilitation and integration are held here as processes of meaning-making and reconnection, not as shortcuts or cures. Each person’s experience is honored as unique and self-directed.

Experience & Training

My path has been shaped by years of work in clinical research settings, particularly with marginalized populations, youth, and Spanish-speaking families. I have worked with hundreds of participants across research and care contexts, developing a steady, relational approach rooted in trust and accountability.

My work is informed by:

  • Training in trauma-informed and harm-reduction practices

  • Experience in neuroscience and clinical research environments

  • Licensed psilocybin facilitation in Oregon

  • Ongoing participation in Danza Azteca, honoring Mexica ceremonial traditions through community practice

  • Continued study of curanderismo, approached with respect and humility

These lineages — clinical and ancestral — are held together carefully, without collapsing one into the other.

Cultural Humility & Ethical Boundaries

Temicxōch is committed to cultural humility, ethical clarity, and transparency. Indigenous knowledge is honored here as living and relational, not as something to extract or commodify.

I work within clearly defined roles and legal scope. Psilocybin facilitation and integration support are distinct from psychotherapy and medical care. Boundaries are held not as limitations, but as protections for safety, trust, and integrity.

This work is grounded in ongoing self-reflection, consultation, and accountability to community.

Ofrezco acompañamiento bilingüe y doy la bienvenida a personas hispanohablantes. La identidad cultural y el idioma son honrados como partes fundamentales del proceso de sanación.

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Supporting you in achieving and maintaining a healthy, balanced life.

Temicxōch – Healing is a space devoted to intentional inner work, cultural remembrance, and grounded healing. Rooted in earth-honoring traditions and guided by contemporary training in mental health and psilocybin facilitation, this practice exists to support people in meeting themselves with honesty, care, and dignity.

Healing here is not about fixing what is broken. It is about remembering what is already whole.

What Guides This Work

Temicxōch – Healing is guided by the following principles:

Cultural humility

honoring lived experience, ancestry, and context

Trauma-informed care

prioritizing safety, consent, and nervous system awareness

Harm reduction

meeting people where they are, without judgment

Relational accountability

working in community, not isolation

Respect for medicine

recognizing that the medicine is the primary guide

Scope of Practice

Temicxōch – Healing offers support within legally and ethically defined roles.

Services may include:
• Preparation and integration support
• Psilocybin facilitation at licensed Oregon service centers
• Education around intention-setting, meaning-making, and integration
• Culturally responsive support for Spanish-speaking and Latine clients

This practice does not provide psychotherapy or medical treatment outside of licensure scope. Any overlap with counseling training is held with clear boundaries and transparency.

Who This Space Is For

This space may resonate with you if you are seeking:
• A culturally grounded, non-pathologizing approach to inner work
• Support that honors both psychological and spiritual dimensions
• A facilitator who centers consent, pacing, and relational safety
• Bilingual or culturally responsive care (Ofrezco acompañamiento bilingüe y doy la bienvenida a personas hispanohablantes.)

You do not need to have prior experience with psilocybin or inner work to be welcomed here.

A Closing Intention

Temicxōch – Healing exists to support reconnection — to self, to body, to story, and to the wisdom that already lives within you. This is work done slowly, intentionally, and in relationship.

If you feel called, you are welcome to reach out.

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