Who will you be?

In times of healing, change and transformation we find the seeds for who we are becoming. This is your opportunity to traverse this transition, nurture healing, find insights and have the support to weave them into every day life in practical and nourishing ways.

Welcome! We’re so glad you found us.

Being Found is dedicated to supporting people discover more of who and what they are in order to live healthy and fulfilling lives. We see personal development as a path to deeper alignment and a richer experience of life. We know that the path is not always a smooth one, it may be deeply painful at times and we may feel challenged and lost along the way. We believe that being lost is often part of finding your way. We chose the name Being Found in recognition of life as a continual process of awareness and unfolding - the act of continually finding how to be within ourselves and our world. Being Found also conjures the moments of of coming home to yourself, of recognition, belonging and connection.

Sarah Pant - Founder

Sarah is a clinical psychotherapist and one of Australia’s leading practitioners and research clinicians in psychedelic-assisted therapy. Since 2020, Sarah has been a core member of the Clinical Psychedelic Lab at Monash University, contributing as a lead therapist, supervisor, trial designer and co-investigator across numerous world-first studies.

Her background spans nearly two decades of experience in working in mental health in Australia and the UK working with complex and diverse client groups including young people in the justice system, those experiencing addiction, homelessness, severe mental health conditions, refugees and asylum seekers. Alongside her private practice, she spent a decade in the not-for-profit sector leading psycho-social rehabilitation and early intervention mental health programs. Her clinical background also includes work as a wilderness therapist, and she holds a particular depth of expertise in ecopsychotherapy, the relationship between human psyche and the living world. She has additionally worked as a consultant and coach in corporate settings, bringing her depth of knowledge in change facilitation to the challenges of organisational life.

Teaching and training has been woven through Sarah’s working life and in addition to Being Found she has been on the faculty at The Metavision Institute, The Global Coaching Institute, The School of Life Australia. She has also contributed to trainings for MAPS, Wild Mind and is a Lead Educator at the Monash University Clinical Psychedelic Lab’s Psychedelic Education Program and has trained numerous therapy teams as they embark on psychedelic assisted therapy trials.

Sarah has a holistic approach to health and wellbeing and her work is grounded in a deep curiosity about human connection, altered states of consciousness, our relationship with the living world and how we navigate the challenges of our time. She is especially interested in how we might live with meaning and depth, and the ideas, practices and discoveries that are shaping our sense of what it is to be human.

Our Team

Dr Esme Dark

Dr Esme Dark is a holistic clinical psychologist, somatic psychotherapist and a nature lover. She believes that wellness happens when we connect more deeply to our bodies, one another and the natural world. Esme has spent the last 15 years working as a psychologist with people experiencing psychological distress.  She currently runs a private psychology practice based in Melbourne and works as a Trial Therapist as part of the Clinical Psychedelic Research Lab at Monash University. She draws on a range of psychotherapeutic approaches including Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and Internal Family Systems and Mindfulness based Cognitive Therapy. In addition to these modalities Esme’s work is informed by eastern philosophy, nature-based practice, yoga and authentic movement.

Marg Ryan

Marg is a senior clinical psychotherapist with twenty years in mental health and private practice. She conducts therapy and supervises clinicians working with individuals, couples, and those developing psychedelic-assisted therapy skills. Marg has been involved in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy research at Monash University’s Clinical Psychedelic Lab in Melbourne, Australia. She served as a core therapist in Australia’s largest psilocybin trial for Generalised Anxiety Disorder and in the MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD trial. She completed intensive psilocybin training and MDMA therapist training with MAPS in 2021. Marg co-facilitated a training program for psychedelic trial therapists at Curtin University, delivered by Monash, and assisted in the first Australian MAPS MDMA training at Monash. She is also a tutor for the MIND (Berlin) two-year psychedelic therapist training program.

Dr Simon Amar

Dr. Simon Amar is a consultant psychiatrist with extensive expertise in psychotherapy and psychedelic-assisted therapy. He completed his medical degree and psychiatry specialty training at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Following his residency, he spent four years at the McGill University Health Centre, a leading tertiary care institution, before establishing a private practice focused on psychotherapy for depression, anxiety, trauma, and personality disorders.  

In 2016, Dr. Amar began working with the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) as a Principal Investigator, setting up the Montreal site for the Phase 3 trial of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD, where he also served as a therapist.  

After relocating to Melbourne in December 2021, Dr. Amar joined the Psychedelic Research Lab at Monash University, contributing as a core therapist to groundbreaking clinical trials, including psilocybin-assisted therapy for Generalized Anxiety Disorder, MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD, and a multi-site trial of 5-MeO-DMT-assisted therapy for treatment-resistant depression. In the latter, he serves as both a therapist and mentor for the three Australian trial sites.  

Dr. Amar has also played a pivotal role in advancing psychedelic therapy training in Australia, leading the Monash team that hosted two MAPS MDMA-assisted therapy training programs for Australian clinicians. He continues to supervise and mentor Authorized Prescribers and therapists involved in psychedelic-assisted therapy programs across the country.  Dr. Amar runs a private psychotherapy practice in Melbourne, and is an Authorized Prescriber for MDMA and psilocybin-assisted therapy.

Beyond his professional endeavours, Dr. Amar is deeply passionate about fatherhood, community building, conscious dance, men’s work, healing, and connecting with nature.