Born in California, Devon comes from a richly layered family background: his mother is a Bolivian immigrant of Spanish and Indigenous ancestry and a survivor of generational trauma, while his father is a 12th-generation American from a working-class family in rural North Carolina. At age 5, he moved to a suburb of New York City.
His early years included significant mental health challenges. He saw his first therapist at 7, was diagnosed with depression and began antidepressants at 9, and later received diagnoses of NVLD and ADD in high school. For the next two decades, he focused on trying to fix himself, other people, and the world around him.
Devon’s meditation practice began during the founding of a social impact startup in New York City, when he was working 100 hours a week and relying on stress and performance to keep going. He started with Headspace, though even 10-minute meditations felt difficult at first. When the company ran out of money and collapsed, he lost his role, his sense of identity, and ultimately fell into the deepest depression he had experienced.
Within a year, he endured a series of major losses in a single month: a dream job at the world’s largest hedge fund, a painful breakup, his grandfather’s death, and his mother’s admission to a psychiatric ward. At his lowest point, he attended a 10-day silent meditation retreat in Massachusetts on Thanksgiving Day. Though the experience was intensely painful, it became a turning point. He left still struggling, but with a deep knowing that beneath the pain there was a part of him that was already okay.
That awareness helped carry him through recovery. After years of psychiatry, psychotherapy, philosophy studies, thousands of hours of meditation, and work with yoga, dance, men’s work, psychedelic therapy, and ceremonial healing, Devon came to see that the final thing to release was the belief that he—or anyone else—needed fixing. His work with Ayahuasca helped him move beyond old patterns of brokenness and negativity.
He eventually left behind his career, home, and relationships to spend a year learning how to live in a new reality—one rooted in acceptance, love, and wholeness. That journey transformed him physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually, and deepened his connection to life itself. Today, he brings that lived experience into his mission: helping others unfix themselves so they can live fully, love well, and let go of the rest.
Devon supports individuals in preparing for and integrating psychedelic experiences into everyday life. He works with both first-time seekers and experienced practitioners who want to go deeper, helping them bring intention into practice through a process centered on three core areas: intention, the emotional body, and spirit.
His approach helps clients align their beliefs and desires with freedom and agency, meet their truth with loving acceptance in the present moment, and reconnect with what is greater than themselves. He also teaches how to bring the insight of ceremony into daily life without relying on external medicines, using inner awareness as a guide for navigating relationships and the world.
For Devon, ceremony is the mountaintop; real transformation is lived through steady, joyful practice in everyday moments. In his sessions, he is guided by love, acceptance, and respect for human agency.
He honors the many teachers, therapists, coaches, and spiritual guides who have shaped his path, including traditions and trainings in Vipassana Meditation, Bhakti Yoga, Ashtanga Yoga, psychotherapy, coaching, men’s work, Qi Gong, Tai Chi, dance and healing modalities, and somatic approaches such as Somatic Experiencing and Hakomi.
Devon has also worked with several Amazonian plant medicines, including Ayahuasca, Rappe, Kambo, and Mambe, and has learned from teachers in Yawanawa, Santo Daime, Putumayo, and Shipibo lineages. He completed a 10-day master plant dieta of Bobinsana in the way of the Yawanawa Tribe of Acre, Brazil, and has spent time living in the Colombian Amazon rainforest.
In addition to his healing work, Devon is a writer, dancer, musician, nature lover, philosopher, and communicator. His professional background also includes strategic planning, leadership development, social impact entrepreneurship, and product leadership in tech.