THE WITNESS

Dr. Scott Felluss (Ashen Vale), Ph.D. is a shamanic practitioner, guide, and storykeeper working at the intersection of mental health, ritual, and mythic integration.

Initiated by a profound collapse misnamed as “disorder,” he brings a lived understanding of psychological crisis as spiritual rupture—and holds space for those undergoing similar transformations.

Ashen is trained in performance theory, spiritual discernment, and ritual theater. He blends elements of St. Ignatian reflection, physical storytelling, earth-based wisdom, and narrative guidance into what he calls The Vale Method—a mythic framework for return.

He works primarily with individuals in:

• psychological or spiritual upheaval

• post-diagnosis identity rupture

• grief that refuses to be neat

• unnameable transitions

• and those whose lives no longer make sense in “normal” language

You don’t have to explain everything to him.

You don’t have to prove your pain.

You only have to arrive.