E3 Alliance Advisory Council
Sheila Pryce Brooks, Ph.D.
Dr Sheila Pryce Brooks is a researcher, author, and speaker working at the intersection of sociology, consciousness studies, and anomalous human experience. She completed her PhD at the University of York, where her research examined the long-term lived experience of sleep paralysis and reframed it as a non-pathological, potentially transformative phenomenon.
She is the originator of the Threshold Contact Experience (TCE) framework, a model that integrates phenomenological, cultural, and transpersonal perspectives to study liminal states of consciousness and experiences often labelled as anomalous. Her work draws on over three decades of lived experience, alongside qualitative analysis of global experiential testimony.
Dr Pryce Brooks has presented her work at academic and interdisciplinary forums, including the Society for Psychical Research (SPR), the Society for Scientific Exploration (SSE), and university settings, and is currently developing formal publications and teaching pathways related to TCE and experiential meaning-making.
Her work is grounded in ethical, non-pathologising engagement with extraordinary experiences and is oriented toward research, education, and responsible integration within both academic and applied contexts.
Nick Bustos, Ph.D., LMFT
Nick Bustos is a California licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT), with a PhD in Clinical Psychology, emphasis in Integral Psychology. He currently serves as associate professor and program chair in the Integral Counseling Psychology program at the California Institute of Integral Studies, and core faculty in the School of Psychology at the California Institute for Human Science.
He earned his master’s degree in counseling psychology from the University of San Francisco and doctoral degree from the California Institute for Human Science. In addition to his positions in higher education, Dr. Bustos provides program development and psychotherapy services in K-12 special education programs for students and families faced with serious mental health challenges. He likewise maintains a private psychotherapy practice where he works with individuals, couples and families utilizing a psychodynamic, transpersonal and somatic/energetic treatment approach.
Dr. Bustos’ publication history includes scholarly journals related to psychotherapy practice and consciousness studies and is currently working on a manuscript focused on the integration of nondual healing principles in psychotherapy. He regularly conducts trainings, workshops and presentations on a variety of clinical topics, both regionally and nationally. Dr. Bustos’s academic and clinical passion lies in the healing journey of the therapist, incorporating the insight and experiential foundations of nondual spirituality and related contemplative traditions alongside a critical, developmental approach to the person – the person in the family, the person in society, and the person in the cosmos. Dr. Bustos has an extensive background in meditative and contemplative spiritual practices, with additional training in healing and energy medicine. He is a lover of art and music and especially loves spending quality time with his partner and spouse, Heather, and their son, Mason.
Robert (Bob) Falconer
Author, Consultant and IFS Teacher
Bob Falconer has devoted his career to the treatment of trauma, with an early focus on working with men who experienced severe sexual and physical abuse, informed in part by his own lived experience. During this period, he worked with a range of “parts-based” approaches, including Ego State Therapy, Gestalt Therapy, and the work of Pia Mellody, among others.
Approximately twenty years ago, Bob discovered Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy, which has since become the primary focus of his clinical, teaching, and writing work. He regards IFS as a particularly respectful, compassionate, and effective model for healing. His work is grounded in a deep spiritual orientation and a longstanding personal commitment to recovery and inner exploration.
Bob has served on staff for more than twenty official IFS Institute trainings and has completed the highest level of IFS training himself. He has taught extensively, both online and internationally, and has led trainings and classes in Pakistan, China, South Korea, Mexico, Poland, Spain, Canada, the United Kingdom, and with the Fort Belknap and Northern Cheyenne reservations.
He is the author of five books related to IFS and inner healing: Many Minds, One Self (2017), co-authored with Richard C. Schwartz, founder of IFS; The Others Within Us (2023); When Going Through Hell… Keep Going (2024); Opening the Inner World (2025), co-authored with two experts on Emanuel Swedenborg; and Spirit (2025), a compilation drawn from journals of his daily dialogues with Spirit. Bob has also been actively engaged with psychedelic exploration since 1967 and continues to view it as a meaningful pathway for healing and insight.
Now at age 77, Bob’s primary focus is on writing, teaching, and exploring the spiritual dimensions of healing, as well as leading supervision groups. He continues to work occasionally with individuals, often in collaboration with their primary therapist.
Caroline Fernandes, PhD, LPC, NCC, CCMHC, CCHT, ACMHP, CEP-II
Dr. Caroline Fernandes, PhD, LPC is a licensed psychotherapist, researcher, and educator who bridges science and the sacred through her work in mental health. As a clinician and scholar, she specializes in trauma recovery and post-traumatic growth, integrating Western evidence-based practices with shamanic, indigenous, and psychedelic-informed healing frameworks.
Her work centers on culturally responsive, spiritually integrative care for complex trauma, spiritual emergence, and transformational healing, grounded in ethical practice, safety, and trauma-informed standards of care.
Beyond the clinical sphere, Dr. Fernandes brings a lived understanding of exceptional human experiences, including intuitive perception, energy work, after-death communication, and multidimensional journeying, informing her advocacy for assessment models that honor spiritual diversity while reducing misdiagnosis and marginalization.
Jacob W. Glazier, PhD, LPC, NCC
Jacob W. Glazier, PhD, LPC, NCC, has a doctorate in Psychology: Consciousness and Society from the University of West Georgia. He has a Master of Science in Education in Clinical Mental Health Counseling degree from Western Illinois University and a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Psychology degree from Augustana College. Dr. Glazier is an Assistant Professor of Psychology in the School of Social Sciences at the University of West Georgia. His research revolves around critical theory, subjectivity, and exceptional experiences.
He also practices psychotherapy. Dr. Glazier’s work has been published in academic journals that include Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, Subjectivity, Mortality, Critical Horizons, Rhizomes, Journal for Cultural Research, Journal of Scientific Exploration, Anthropology of Consciousness, and others. He is the author of Arts of Subjectivity (2020) and editor of the PA Book Award-winning Paranormal Ruptures (2023). He is currently working on his next book for the series, Concepts for Critical Psychology: Disciplinary Boundaries Re-thought for Routledge. In addition, Dr. Glazier is the Lead Editor of Mindfield: The Bulletin of the Parapsychological Association, serves on the board of the Parapsychological Association, and is the co-coordinator of the annual Bill Roll Lecture sponsored by the psychology program and Ingram Library’s Special Collections.
Emily Rademan, Psy.D.
Through a series of serendipitous events, I joined the E³ Initiative in order to share my passions of mental health, spirituality, and exceptional experiences. In my career in private practice, I specialize and dedicate my passion to working with those with trauma, dissociation, unexplained medical symptoms and integration of spiritual/exceptional experiences. I am EMDR certified and an EMDRIA Approved Consultant and CE provider. I am also trained in clinical hypnosis, ego state work, and somatic interventions.
As I evolved in my career, I found the mental health field and traditional spiritual belief systems may stigmatize those with anomalous experiences that are unexplained by scientific or religious texts. Because of this, I found that many with spiritual beliefs, gifts, and exceptional experiences are hesitant to share those experiences or seek support from mental health providers due to stigma and concerns of being mislabeled. This has driven my passion and excitement to train other mental health providers to appropriately and ethically evaluate exceptional experiences and spiritual gifts from mental health symptoms, while also helping individuals integrate their experiences and develop new understanding of self and joyful interactions in the world.