SPAE Mission

SPAE encourages licensed professionals to educate themselves on this complex subject. Training revolves around: (1) distinguishing genuine psychosis from experiences that transcend our current scientific mode of determining reality; (2) helping the experiencer through any traumatic experiences; (3) supporting the integration of the experience(s) into the client's everyday life; (4) providing care to partners so that experiencer does not have to live in secret; and (5) encouraging the client to discover and develop any purpose, insight, and talent derived  from the experience. Click here to see the SPAE Library.

SPAE members are encouraged to be proponents of the UFO population. This includes speaking about and teaching colleagues and the mental health community about the global experience of UFOs, the use (and misuse) of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), and the bias of the current scientific modal by which mental health counselors base their judgement on clients who report having unusual phenomena.

Many licensed professionals who serve the UFO population feel isolated and as if they must live in secret. SPAE provides a supportive network to its members. Professionals will find that SPAE supplies their validation and revitalizes their reason for serving the UFO population.

Licensed counselors are not just in this line of work to help experiencers. SPAE encourages the "Nuts and bolts" community to incorporate its members into its major thrust for discovering truth. Too many organizations unintentionally prioritize science over phenomenology. Such unconscious activity on the part of investigators leads to ethnocentric thinking. SPAE pushes against this tilted model.