Dr. Justin Panneck

Dr. Justin Panneck is a Licensed Professional Counselor (OR LPC C6578) practicing in Oregon with ten years of experience. He spent six years as a nature-based therapist on a 70-acre farm in Canby, OR, where he used the restorative qualities of the outdoors and engaged clients in activities such as forest archery, shelter and fire building, guided mushroom foraging, nature art, and specialized ceremonies and rituals.

For the past four years he has operated a private practice. He focuses on life coaching, spiritual development, personal growth, getting unstuck, trauma, life transitions, career success, self-esteem and self-image, men’s issues, and rites of passage. He is actively interested in forming men’s groups and retreats and is engaged with men’s work influenced by the mythopoetic men’s movement.

Dr. Panneck holds a Master’s in Counseling, a Master’s in Education, and a PhD in health psychology. His doctoral work examined effective coping mechanisms for daily and life stressors and alternative healing modalities, with research on the intersection of ethnopharmacology and psychology and a focus on ayahuasca, an Amazonian plant medicine used traditionally by shamans.

Over the last decade he has integrated nature-based, psychedelic, and clinical experience toward a practice centered on optimal living, radical flexibility, and achievement. His approach includes neuro-cognitive restoration and peak performance elements such as flow state work, so-called “bullet-proof mind” modalities, authenticity, psychitecture - reprogramming negative feedback loops, dream work, and behavioral health support including nutrition and movement. He has researched the therapeutic properties and potential of psilocybin mushrooms for conditions such as PTSD, anxiety, and depression, and he assists clients with preparation and integration for work they pursue independently.

Dr. Panneck has worked alongside physicians and nurses as a behavioral health consultant, applying motivational interviewing, nutritional education, and alternative healing practices including breathwork, Eastern movement forms, and Earthing. He has participated in professional cultural anthropology associations and consciousness groups and has given talks at Southern Oregon University in Ashland, OR, the Happiness Institute and the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, and the Anthropology of Consciousness on topics like consciousness expansion, shamanism, Jungian archetypes, and entheogenic healing potential.

Having spent nearly a decade in the business world as a consultant, corporate trainer, and business leader, he blends motivation and success training with clinical research and therapeutic practice. His eclectic counseling methods draw from Impact Therapy, mindfulness, dream journaling and interpretation, eco-therapeutic techniques, somatic therapy, cognitive-behavioral approaches, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Psycho-Cybernetics, Existential Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and narrative techniques.