
PhD
Conscious Leadership Advisor
Selected Experience & Credentials
PhD in Psychology, Jungian Studies — Saybrook University
MA in Counseling Psychology, with a focus on Depth Psychology — Pacifica Graduate Institute
Licensed psychotherapist
More than 25 years of psychology-informed executive development, with clients in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East
Certified Personal and Executive Coach and Certified Well-Being Coach — College of Executive Coaching, where she has also taught
Certified in EQ-i 2.0 and EQ-i 360 emotional intelligence assessments and the MBTI
Psychedelic-assisted therapy training — California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS)
Certified psilocybin-assisted therapy facilitator — Colorado
Member, Forbes Coaches Council, and monthly Forbes columnist; member, International Coach Federation
At INLIBRIUM, Dr. Fouts works one to one with clients whose difficult decisions, recurring conflicts, or swift reactions may have roots outside conscious intention. Across the six-month program she helps them carry what surfaces in the residencies back into how they lead: the decisions they make, the candor they allow, and how they behave under pressure. Her work here is leadership advisory, coordinated closely with the program’s clinical team.
She spent more than two decades as a Jungian psychotherapist in private practice, pairing depth psychology with neurofeedback, before turning her work toward leaders. That history taught her how much of an executive’s behavior is run by an emotional operating system laid down long before the career began, and her coaching carries the lens into the boardroom: she helps leaders see what their strengths are costing them.
Because she is herself trained and certified to facilitate psilocybin-assisted therapy, she understands from the inside what a psychedelic journey can open and how easily that opening closes again once ordinary life resumes. That gives her a rare vantage point with INLIBRIUM clients. She can meet them where they actually are after a residency and turn what they have seen into conscious leadership that fits their own history, temperament, and role, rather than a generic model of how a leader ought to behave.
Her approach is discreet and exacting; clients have described it as an iron fist in a velvet glove. Behavior becomes more useful to examine when it is understood as information. The question is not how to perform a different version of oneself, but what one’s established responses have been trying to manage.
Selected Publications
Writing
The hidden cost of emotional intelligence decline — Forbes Coaches Council · July 2026
What’s missing in metrics-focused leadership? — Forbes Coaches Council · May 2026
Getting out of your own way: inner barriers to success — Forbes Coaches Council · April 2026
Successful leaders often lack self-awareness — Forbes Coaches Council · February 2026
Books

Cognitive Enlightenment: A Disciplining of Your Mind — 2019 · novum premium

The Bridge to Transformation: Dreamwork with Dr. Lionel Corbett — 2025 · foreword by Dr. James Hollis.