Dr. Brian Sackett, PhD, is a clinical psychologist previously in private practice in San Jose, CA, and is a recent Toronto, Ontario resident. As a psychologist, he specialized in working with clients dealing with trauma and abuse, spiritual emergence, anxiety, and couples’ communication issues. Prior to becoming a therapist, Brian worked for years in high tech in a variety of sales, marketing, and engineering positions, mostly in the semiconductor industry. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from Stanford University, as well as a Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology and a PhD in Transpersonal Psychology from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology.

He has meditated and studied spirituality since he was 21 and has had many strong Spiritually Transformative Experiences, including a childhood Near-Death Experience, a Shared-Death Experience, and a spiritual emergency following an encounter with Baba Ram Dass and Swami Muktananda twenty years before the Grofs defined spiritual emergence. Brian has presented to the Spiritual Awakenings International first annual conference in 2021, local IANDS groups, the annual IANDS conference in San Antonio, TX, and to the Toronto Awakenings Sharing Group. He currently facilitates an online meditation/self inquiry group and does spiritual guidance and coaching.