Psychedelics
An Unlikely Companion to EFT
How Can Psychedelics Enhance the Work?Talk therapy can help couples understand their negative patterns cognitively. Adding psychedelics to the work can help them feel it. Read more
Tammy Nelson Discusses Couple and Ketamine
A New Way to Enrich RelationshipsWatch our interview with relationship expert Tammy Nelson on how ketamine is supercharging couples work. Read more
Do You Need Psychedelics to Access an Altered State?
How to Move Clients Out of Ordinary Survival ModePsychedelics can show clients an alternative to their suffering—but so can many softer, gentler, more gradual approaches clinicians have been perfecting... Read more
Does Microdosing Work?
Chasing a Therapeutic Silver BulletMore and more people are ingesting small amounts of psilocybin on a daily basis in the hope of curing everything from mild irritability to major depression... Read more
How Psychedelic Therapy Will Change Your Practice
Bessel van der Kolk & Monnica Williams on the Future of Trauma HealingBessel van der Kolk and Monnica Williams, two prominent trauma researchers, weigh in on what the field should be talking about now that psychedelic-assisted... Read more
Supercharging Couples Work with Ketamine
A Doorway to Greater IntimacyThe combination of therapeutic guides, ketamine, and community can open the door to deep, long-lasting relational change. Read more
Editor's Note: May/June 2024
The Search for Higher GroundWelcome to the new world of psychedelic-assisted healing. It’s no longer a fringe therapy. It’s happening all around us. Read more
Dr. Mithoefer chats about MDMA and psychedelic therapy, their accessibility challenges, as well as what you can expect from his new online course with... Read more
A Therapist Takes Ketamine
A Firsthand Account of a New Kind of Healing JourneyAfter this experience, I knew I needed to share what I’d learned with my clients, and soon afterward decided to get training to become a ketamine-assisted... Read more
Psychedelic Therapy and Racial Trauma
Offering Clients a Deeper Experience of HealingCan psychedelic therapy offer a faster, deeper way to heal the intergenerational effects of racial injustice? Read more
Learning to Bear the Unbearable
How MDMA WorksBessel van der Kolk assesses the importance and possible impact of the growing psychedelic-therapy movement. Read more
Even as ketamine’s popularity continues to rise for depression treatment, it’s still fighting an uphill battle for clinical acceptance. Read more
VIDEO: Doing Therapy with MDMA
A Chat with Pioneer Marcela Ot'alora G.What's it like to be a therapist on the front lines of treating trauma with MDMA? Psychotherapist Marcela Ot'alora G., a principal investigator in... Read more
When I first heard about the growing research on the therapeutic use of psychedelics to treat trauma, I was frankly a bit bemused. But it’s been hard to... Read more
Therapy’s Psychedelic Renaissance
A Different Kind of Healing JourneyIt’s been nearly 30 years since SSRIs came on the scene, but despite their ubiquity and pairing with a variety of talk- and body-centered treatments, the... Read more
Between Two Worlds
Trauma Treatment on the EdgeA clinician accustomed to treating trauma in her private practice is also an investigator of an MDMA-assisted psychotherapy research project. From this dual... Read more
Learning to Bear the Unbearable - September/October 2018
How MDMA WorksAs a researcher and outspoken advocate for therapeutic innovation, Bessel van der Kolk has been as influential as anyone in shaping the landscape of trauma... Read more
The Ayahuasca Experience
Is There a Place for Shamanic Wisdom in Western Psychology?A world-renowned trauma expert shares his personal experience with the power of ayahuasca ceremonies to heal addiction, PTSD, and ingrained patterns that... Read more
The Challenge of Psychedelic Therapy
How It Could Change Your PracticeWith his latest book, How to Change Your Mind, noted author Michael Pollan has drawn a comprehensive portrait of the growing psychedelic therapy movement. In... Read more
Since it was introduced as an anesthetic in the 1970s, ketamine has occupied an uncertain pharmacological status. It’s been used as both a Vietnam-era... Read more