Ian Cook, Founder of Alva Dean Consulting

Ian Cook is the Founder of Alva Dean Consulting, a mental health coach and consultant blending clinical insight, holistic practices, and lived experience into a transformative healing model. With over a decade of experience in teaching creative expression and providing peer support, Ian specializes in helping individuals develop personalized systems of well-being through storytelling, ritual, preparation and integration.

Born of many lineages and raised across cultures, Ian is a shapeshifter-a hybrid of many worlds. He channels inspiration from dreams, myths, spiritual traditions, and psychedelic states, translating it into poetry, art, and practice. With training in Health and Wellness Coaching, Motivational Interviewing, The Transtheoretical Model (Stages of Change), trauma-informed care, and psychedelic facilitation, Ian's approach is both grounded and visionary.

Ian is also the Founder of the Lawrence Psychedelic Society and a sitting member of the NAMI Douglas County Steering Committee. His work is rooted in compassion, community, and the deep belief that healing is a creative, collaborative act.