How we got started

Allison Wilson, founder of The Hope Project, started her journey with psychedelic healing in 2020, years after her husband Jonathan embarked on his first psychedelic retreat. When Allison returned from her journey, she found that the walls she had built up over the years had finally come down. She and her husband were able to speak the same language for quite possibly the first time in their marriage. They began to connect from a place of earnest love rather than attachment and wounding. As they worked on themselves, their marriage improved. As their marriage improved, the entire foundation of their family changed for the better. 

Since then, Allison and other spouses who have suffered from secondary trauma have made it their purpose to support Veteran families by providing veteran spouses with education, coaching, support groups, and psychedelic retreat programs of their own.

Founder Allison Wilson with her husband Jonathan Wilson, a 16 year Navy SEAL, and her 5 children: Madison (23), JD (18), Lily (17), Charley (15), and Alex (13). Healing came for the Wilson family after both Allison and Jonathan participated in their own individual psychedelic retreat programs.  Allison wants other veteran families to know that “Repair is possible, and there is hope.”

My journey to hope

“As the mother of five children and wife of a Navy SEAL who served in the military for 16 years, I know the toll that the military takes on families. For years I medicated my own depression and trauma with alcohol, benzodiazepines and antidepressants until I finally reached a place where I could not go on. My journey with psychedelic therapy (and the personal healing work I continue to do) very literally saved my life, my marriage and my children’s lives. I started The Hope Project to help you find your own path back to hope.”

FOUNDER ALLISON WILSON