Meet the Team
Founder & CEO
Dr. Lacey Palmer, PhD, LMFT
Lacey is the founder and creator of Mycelium Counseling Collective. She currently specializes in the treatment of trauma-based disorders, mood disorders, and with those who struggle with suicidal ideation and self-directed violence. She utilizes a systems-based approach to therapy that incorporates Dialectical Behavior Therapy tied in with Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Mindfulness, Internal Family Systems, and Solution-Focused Therapy.
Lacey has a love of learning and sharing that knowledge with others. Lacey strongly believes that sharing these resources with clients helps to facilitate personal growth and food-for-thought between sessions that can positively impact an acceptance of the self.
Lacey earned a non-clinical PhD in Psychology, Public Policy, and Law with an emphasis in Criminal Behavior under the umbrella of Forensic Psychology in March 2023.
Nichole Palmer, AMFT
Nikki is an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist (AMFT) working with teens and adults while being supervised by Kira Kayler, LMFT. She is passionate about understanding the role that trauma has on our overall health and aims to be a therapist that practices with a healing-centered and whole-person approach. She is currently in a training program to become certified in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and currently uses a humanistic approach when working with clients.
Nichole’s psychology career began when she started working at Autism Comprehensive Educational Services, where she became a Registered Behavioral Technician (RBT). As an RBT, she worked one-on-one with children aged 1-16 that were diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder to help them develop necessary life skills. Nichole received her Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Psychology from the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. While there, she was an undergraduate research lab assistant for the Center for Cognitive Behavior Therapy (C-CBT) where she assisted the doctoral students with their dissertation research. Nichole then went on to receive her Master of Arts (M.A.) in Counseling Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) with a concentration in Community Mental Health. During her attendance at CIIS, Nichole completed her practicum training from Bay Area Community Resources (BACR), where she worked as a school therapist.
Wes Hamper, LMFT, PATP
Wes is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) and primarily utilizes the modalities of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), and Narrative Therapy in his approach and views the therapeutic relationship as non-directive and non-hierarchical. Wes engages each client from a collaborative standpoint while allowing the client to dictate the pace of therapy. Each client is respected as the expert of their own life and is seen as a co-detective in the therapeutic process.
Wes specializes in anxiety and stress management, assertiveness, and self-actualization through the consistent employment of self-care and coping strategies. Wes also holds certifications as a Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapist (PATP) from Integrative Psychiatry Institute, and in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing ( EMDR) from EMDRIA.
