The Brain Witch
Enchanted Legacy Wellness & Recovery
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Aline Bales, DNP, PMHNP-BC
Doctor of Nursing Practice · Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner · Board Certified
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For the souls who still feel unseen, fragmented, or stuck after years of trying. Welcome to a psychiatric practice that finally looks deeper.
We bridge the gap between mind and body to treat complex trauma, dissociation, and neurodivergence with the nuance they demand.
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✦ Who I Am ✦
Hi, I’m Aline Bales
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I’m Aline Bales, DNP, PMHNP-BC. I don’t just “manage” symptoms. I work with the architecture of your internal world. My approach is for the “too complex”: survivors of trauma and dissociation who feel fragmented or stuck in survival mode despite years of traditional care.
By integrating EMDR, ego state therapy, and somatic work, I help you stop chasing symptoms and start settling your nervous system.
My path was forged by both clinical rigor and lived experience. I know the terrain of complex trauma because I’ve walked it. Today, I combine that deep attunement with a structured, direct approach to help you move from “continued survival” to an authentic, embodied life.
- Complex trauma and PTSD, including developmental and relational trauma
- Dissociative disorders across the spectrum, including OSDD and DID
- Neurodivergent adults with ADHD or autism complicated by trauma
- Dual-diagnosis presentations involving trauma and substance use
- Individuals seeking deeper healing through integrative and psychedelic-informed care
✦ Who I Help ✦
Areas of Focus
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The outside world sees “high-functioning.”
But your internal system feels like a house on fire.
You’ve done the talk therapy. You’ve researched the diagnoses. You may even be the one everyone else leans on. Yet inside, the “glass ceiling” of trauma remains.
Performing the “Okayness”
Exhausted from the labor of holding it together, terrified that slowing down means falling apart?
Intellectually Aware, Physically Stuck
You understand your trauma in your head, but your body is still screaming in anxiety or silent in shutdown?
Fragmented
Feeling like different “parts” of you are at war. One trying to work, another trying to hide, another simply trying to survive?
If you’ve been told you’re “too complex,” it’s likely because you’ve been treated in pieces. I don’t treat symptoms in isolation. I work with your entire internal ecology.
Trauma is a glass ceiling.
✦ How We Work ✦
Tools for the Internal System
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Standard psychiatry treats symptoms in isolation. I treat the architecture of your experience.
✦ Integrative Psychiatry
Medical insight to support your biology so you have the resilience to do the deep work, tailored to your nervous system and lived experience.
✦ Somatic & Nervous System-Informed
If you’re stuck in hypervigilance or shutdown, your body is using an old template for safety. We help it find a new one through direct communication with the autonomic system.
✦ Ego State Therapy · Parts Work
Fragmented parts stop fighting and start communicating. We upgrade their jobs so they become loyal to your system rather than your past.
✦ EMDR and Reprocessing
Trauma creates “train wrecks” in your memory. EMDR scrubs those old templates so the past stops hijacking your present.
✦ Clinical Hypnosis
A safe, quiet way to access deeper layers of the system. Integration and healing without the usual intensity or resistance.
✦ Psychedelic-Assisted Care
Once the groundwork is laid, psychedelic medicine creates space to see over the glass ceiling. Always paired with preparation and integration.
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Welcome, I’m Aline Bales
DNP · PMHNP-BC · Integrative Trauma Specialist · The Brain Witch
I am a Doctor of Nursing Practice and board-certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner with advanced training in trauma, dissociation, and integrative psychiatry. My clinical work centers on helping people whose lives have been shaped by complex trauma finally experience internal safety, coherence, and authentic living.
I practice psychiatry with the understanding that medication alone is rarely sufficient when trauma, neurodivergence, dissociation, or addiction are part of the picture. I integrate careful medication management with somatic psychotherapy, ego state work, EMDR, and when appropriate, psychedelic-assisted treatment.
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Long before I entered formal training, people came to me for psychological insight. Looking back, the path feels less accidental and more inevitable.
One of my core beliefs is that trauma must be treated in tandem with co-occurring conditions such as ADHD, autism, substance use disorders, and mood disorders. Treating addiction without trauma leads to relapse. Treating trauma without addressing addiction leaves patients vulnerable to re-traumatization.
I often tell my patients, “Your brain is my special interest.” Patients describe working with me as intense, grounding, and deeply validating. I hear “I have never felt so seen” often. They remember the moment something inside settles, becomes quiet, or finally comes home.
Not rushed. Not minimized. Not managed. But seen, supported, and guided toward a life that feels authentically yours.
ESTNA Certified
Ego State Therapy North America
Certified EST Therapist · 03/2026
IPI Certified
Integrative Psychiatry Institute
Psychedelic-Assisted Clinical Provider · 01/2026
American Society
of Clinical Hypnosis
ASCH
Certified in
Clinical Hypnosis
ASCH Certified
American Society of Clinical Hypnosis
Certified in Clinical Hypnosis · 03/2026
✦ Credentials & Certifications ✦
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Education
- Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) · Psychiatric Mental Health, University of San Francisco, 2023
Dissertation: Trauma-Informed Treatment for Alcohol Use Disorder: Improving Long-Term Recovery
- Bachelor of Science in Registered Nursing (BSN), Excelsior College, 2011
Licensure & Board Certification
- ANCC PMHNP-BC · Board Certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
- CA State APRN · Psychiatric/Mental Health NP · NP Group Setting Without Standard Procedures (BPC 2837.103) · NP 104 in process
- FL State APRN · Autonomous · TX State APRN · WA State APRN · NY APRN · Autonomous
- DEA Registered Provider · Multi-state
Certifications
- ESTNA Certified EST Therapist · Ego State Therapy North America · 03/2026
- ASCH Certified in Clinical Hypnosis · American Society of Clinical Hypnosis · 03/2026
- IPI Certified Psychedelic-Assisted Clinical Provider · Integrative Psychiatry Institute · 01/2026
- EMDR Basic Training · 08/2021 · Certification in process
- Mentalization-Based Therapy trained
- Somatic and Nervous System-Informed Psychotherapy
- Advanced training in Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP)
- Adjunct Professor · University of San Francisco · Applied Psychotherapy and Treatment Planning · 2022–2024
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Not rushed. Not minimized. Not managed. But seen, supported, and guided toward a life that feels authentically yours.
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Healing at the Level
of the Nervous System
Healing isn’t about suppressing a diagnosis. It’s about breaking through the glass ceiling that trauma created to keep your light dim. In my practice, we don’t just quiet the noise. We host the negotiations.
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✦ Diagnoses & Conditions I Treat ✦
- Complex trauma and PTSD, including developmental and relational trauma
- Dissociative disorders across the spectrum, including OSDD and DID
- Neurodivergence, including ADHD and autism, especially when complicated by trauma
- Dual-diagnosis presentations involving trauma and substance use disorders
- Trauma-related anxiety, depression, emotional dysregulation, and identity disturbance
- Chronic shame, abandonment wounds, and attachment-related distress
✦ Treatment Modalities ✦
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✦ Integrative Psychiatry
Medication management approached thoughtfully. When it’s helpful, when it’s not, and how to use it in a way that supports trauma healing rather than overrides it.
✦ Somatic & Nervous System-Informed Psychotherapy
We begin by helping your nervous system recognize safety through somatic awareness, autonomic regulation, and direct body-based communication.
✦ Ego State Therapy & Parts Work
Parts engaged through negotiation, curiosity, and reorientation to the present, allowing internal systems to settle and work together.
✦ EMDR and Reprocessing
Integrated into treatment to help reprocess traumatic memories and resolve triggers. Often combined with ego state work when dissociation is present.
✦ Clinical Hypnosis
Used to access deeper layers of the system when appropriate. Supports ego state work, trauma processing, and internal regulation.
✦ Mentalization-Based Therapy
For abandonment wounds, relational trauma, or borderline traits. Also especially helpful for autistic individuals.
✦ Ketamine-Assisted · KAP
Introduced later in the healing process when clinically appropriate.
Full page →✦ Psilocybin Journey & Integration
For established patients ready for immersive psychedelic work, held in Oregon in collaboration with Canopy Collective.
Learn more →
✦ Appointment Types & Fees ✦
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Intake and Follow-Up
90 minutes
Intake Appointment
Comprehensive initial evaluation including psychiatric assessment, trauma history, nervous system orientation, and collaborative treatment planning.
$450
75 minutes
Follow-Up Appointment
Psychotherapy, medication management, trauma processing, parts work, EMDR, and integration depending on your treatment plan.
$375
Medication Management
45 minutes
Medication Management
For more complex medication reviews requiring additional clinical time, history review, or treatment adjustment discussion.
$275
30 minutes
Medication Check-In
Focused appointments for medication review, adjustments, and ongoing psychiatric monitoring when therapy is not the primary focus.
$250
All sessions are telehealth. Payment is due at time of service. A superbill can be provided upon request for potential out-of-network reimbursement. This practice does not bill insurance directly.
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A Doorway Through
the Glass Ceiling
Ketamine · KAP · Psilocybin Journeys · Provider Partnerships
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When the groundwork is in place, psychedelic medicine creates enough distance from the trauma to let you finally see over it, and begin to live on the other side.
✦ Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy ✦
More than a treatment. A turning point.
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Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) is an integrative approach that combines the neuroplasticity-promoting effects of ketamine with intentional psychotherapeutic support before, during, and after each session. It is not a standalone intervention. It is a carefully timed opening in a larger arc of healing.
Ketamine acts as a “softener” for the ego, temporarily loosening the fixed patterns that keep your nervous system locked in old survival templates. In that window, the deeper work of parts integration, reprocessing, and meaning-making can reach places that were previously inaccessible.
KAP is introduced only after we’ve built sufficient stabilization and internal resources. The preparation and integration surrounding each session are not add-ons. They are where the healing actually lives.
✦ The Four Phases of KAP ✦
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✦ Preparation ✦
We build the internal container. Safety mapping, nervous system stabilization, and parts-informed readiness. You don’t enter the experience without a foundation under you.
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✦ Intention Setting ✦
We identify what the system is ready to meet. Intentions are not goals. They are an orientation, a direction the internal system agrees to move toward.
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✦ The Journey ✦
Ketamine is administered as an oral troche in a carefully held therapeutic environment. I remain present and attuned throughout as the ego softens and new perspectives emerge.
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✦ Integration ✦
We translate what surfaced into lasting nervous system change. Integration is where the insights stop being a memory and start becoming a lived reality.
✦ KAP Session Fees ✦
Approximately 3 hours
KAP Dosing Session · Oral Troche
Full ketamine session with continuous therapeutic presence. Preparation, intention setting, and integration sessions are scheduled separately.
$550
75 minutes
Preparation, Intention Setting, or Integration
Each phase is its own dedicated session. Integration is recommended within 48 to 72 hours post-journey.
$375 per session
Who this is for: KAP is not a starting point. It is introduced when the therapeutic relationship and internal stabilization are already in place. Available to established patients in California, Texas, Florida, Washington, New York, and Oregon.
IPI Certified
Integrative Psychiatry Institute
Psychedelic-Assisted Clinical Provider · 01/2026
ESTNA Certified
Ego State Therapy North America
Certified EST Therapist · 03/2026
✦ For Providers & Therapists ✦
Collaborative KAP
Provider Partnerships
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If you are a therapist or provider whose client is ready for ketamine-assisted work, I accept referrals and take that client on directly for the duration of the KAP series. This is a specialist referral model. Your client becomes my patient for the KAP work. You remain their primary provider and the therapeutic relationship you’ve built with them stays intact.
During the KAP series, the client’s regular sessions with you may continue in parallel, or the client may choose to pause and return to you once the KAP work is complete.
What makes this work is clear communication between providers before, during, and after the series. With appropriate releases in place, I coordinate with you directly so the KAP work and your ongoing therapeutic work are moving in the same direction rather than pulling against each other.
✦ The Referral
You refer your client to me for KAP. A brief provider consultation call happens first so I understand the clinical picture, what work has already been done, and whether the client is a good fit for the KAP series at this stage of their treatment.
✦ Preparation & Intention Setting
Because I am building a new clinical relationship with the client from the start, the preparation and intention setting phases typically require more sessions than with an established patient.
✦ During the KAP Series
I hold all four phases with the client directly. The client’s sessions with you may continue in parallel or pause. Either way, I keep you informed so you are not walking back into the work blind.
✦ After the Series
Once the KAP work and integration are complete, the client returns to you as their primary provider. I coordinate the handback directly and am available to consult as needed.
Approximately 3 hours
KAP Dosing Session · Oral Troche
Same session structure as standard KAP. Full ketamine session with continuous therapeutic presence throughout.
$550
75 minutes
Preparation, Intention Setting, or Integration
Collaborative cases typically require additional preparation and intention setting sessions before the journey.
$375 per session
For providers: A brief provider consultation call is required before any collaborative KAP series begins. Please reach out directly to discuss whether your client is a clinical fit for this work.
✦ Psilocybin Journey Work ✦
The deepest opening
requires the steadiest ground.
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For established patients who have completed sufficient stabilization and parts work, psilocybin journey work offers a different kind of opening than ketamine. One that tends to reach further into the symbolic, the relational, and the deeply somatic. This is not a shortcut. It is a doorway available only when the internal system is ready to receive what it reveals.
Psilocybin-assisted work is approached within a legal and ethically grounded framework, held with the same four-phase structure as KAP: Preparation, Intention Setting, The Journey, and Integration. Details regarding session logistics, location, and facilitation are discussed directly and confidentially with established patients who have completed sufficient readiness work within the Balefire Protocol.
This work is informed by training and ongoing connection with Canopy Collective — a relationally-oriented, ethically-grounded community whose values and approach have shaped the foundation of psychedelic-assisted care within this practice.
✦ Canopy Collective ✦
canopycollectiveretreats.com
My psychedelic practice is grounded in training and connection with Canopy Collective — an ethically-oriented, relationally-centered community whose values align deeply with the Balefire framework. Their emphasis on relational presence, embodied facilitation, and rigorous preparation has shaped how I approach psychedelic-assisted work. I am honored to name them as part of the foundation of this practice, and to hold open the possibility of future collaboration in individual or group offerings as this work continues to evolve.
✦ The Four Phases of Psilocybin Journey Work ✦
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✦ Preparation ✦
Clinical sessions with Aline to build the internal container. Parts-informed readiness assessment, nervous system stabilization, and logistical preparation for the journey.
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✦ Intention Setting ✦
A dedicated session to orient the internal system toward the experience. Not goals, but direction. What is the system ready to meet?
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✦ The Journey ✦
2 to 3 days at Canopy Collective’s retreat setting. Session length ranges from 3 to 6 hours depending on dose, held within a relational cohort container.
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✦ Integration ✦
Return sessions with Aline to anchor, map, and translate what emerged, ensuring the experience moves from insight into lived, embodied change.
3 to 6 hours · dose dependent
Psilocybin Journey Session
Session logistics, location, and facilitation details are discussed directly with established patients. Facilitation fees are separate from clinical sessions with Aline.
Inquire for Pricing
Discussed confidentially upon readiness assessment
75 minutes each
Preparation, Intention Setting, and Integration
Clinical sessions with Aline across all four phases. Preparation and intention setting typically involve 2 to 3 sessions each.
$375 per session
Eligibility: Available only to established Enchanted Legacy patients who have completed sufficient stabilization within the Balefire Protocol. Psilocybin-assisted work is conducted within a legal framework. All logistical details including location, facilitation, and any associated fees are discussed privately and directly as part of the preparation process.
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Psychedelic-assisted care is not right for everyone. Reach out to discuss whether this work is a fit.
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Providers interested in collaborative KAP referrals, please reach out directly.
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Offerings
Workbooks · Apparel · Tools for the Internal System
✦ The Balefire Protocol ✦
Client Workbook
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✦ Balefire Protocol · Companion Workbook
The Balefire Protocol Client Workbook: A Companion for Nervous System Repair, Parts Integration, and Soul-Led Transformation
This workbook is not a curriculum. It is a container. Organized around three phases of healing: Stabilization, Mapping and Processing, and Integration. It moves at the pace your nervous system allows, not the pace the calendar suggests.
Inside: The Sword and The Flame framework, autonomic ladder mapping, ego state exercises, somatic check-ins, the Conference Room technique, and integration prompts for each phase of the Balefire journey.
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✦ Apparel ✦
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Notice of Privacy Practices
Enchanted Legacy Wellness and Recovery · A Professional Registered Nursing Corporation
Effective Date: April 16, 2026
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THIS NOTICE DESCRIBES HOW MEDICAL INFORMATION ABOUT YOU MAY BE USED AND DISCLOSED AND HOW YOU CAN GET ACCESS TO THIS INFORMATION. PLEASE REVIEW IT CAREFULLY.
Enchanted Legacy Wellness and Recovery, A Professional Registered Nursing Corporation (“the Practice”) is required by law to maintain the privacy of your protected health information (PHI) and to provide you with notice of our legal duties and privacy practices.
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✦ How We May Use and Disclose Your Health Information ✦
Treatment
We may use and disclose your PHI to provide, coordinate, or manage your healthcare and related services, including sharing information with other providers involved in your care, with your written authorization when required.
Payment
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Healthcare Operations
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Psychotherapy Notes
Psychotherapy notes are held to a higher standard of protection under HIPAA and will not be used or disclosed without your specific written authorization except in very limited circumstances required by law.
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✦ Your Rights Regarding Your Health Information ✦
Right to Access Your PHI
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✦ Mental Health & Substance Use Additional Protections ✦
This Practice specializes in mental health care including trauma, dissociation, substance use disorders, and psychedelic-assisted therapy. Your mental health and substance use disorder records are afforded additional protections under federal law (42 CFR Part 2) and California state law (CMIA). These records generally may not be disclosed without your specific written authorization except in very limited circumstances required by law.
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✦ Telehealth Services ✦
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✦ How to Exercise Your Rights or File a Complaint ✦
Enchanted Legacy Wellness and Recovery
A Professional Registered Nursing Corporation
Aline Bales, DNP, PMHNP-BC — Privacy Officer
Email: aline@enchantedlegacy.org
If you believe your privacy rights have been violated, you have the right to file a complaint with the Practice or with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights at www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/complaints or 1-800-368-1019. We will not retaliate against you for filing a complaint.
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Enchanted Legacy Wellness and Recovery · A Professional Registered Nursing Corporation
Effective Date: April 16, 2026
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This Privacy Policy describes how Enchanted Legacy Wellness and Recovery, A Professional Registered Nursing Corporation collects, uses, and protects information when you visit our website. This Policy applies to information collected through the Site only and does not govern the collection and use of protected health information (PHI), which is addressed in our separate Notice of Privacy Practices.
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✦ Information We Collect ✦
Information You Provide Voluntarily
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✦ California Privacy Rights ✦
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