Writings
Clinical skills, personal essays, and candid reflections on the complex, often unseen side of psychedelic therapy.
When the Medicine Doesn’t Know Best
Explores how deferring too much authority to the medicine can obscure psychological defenses, relational dynamics, and nervous system limitations—especially in trauma-affected populations—highlighting the need for discernment, clinical attunement, and conditions that support true resolution rather than repeated overwhelm.
Anything Can be Co-Opted To Manage One's Experience
Discusses how even insight, somatic tools, or spiritual narratives can be unconsciously repurposed as secondary defenses, and why noticing the function of a client’s strategy often matters more than the form it takes.
When "I'll be Here With You" Isn’t Enough
This article explores a clinical example from Psychedelic Somatic Interactional Psychotherapy (PSIP) illustrating how therapists balance presence and direct intervention when clients project traumatic roles during sessions.
Coming Soon: Inside the Nightmare
Holding the frame so your client can fall apart. Clinical skills, personal essays, and candid reflections on the complex, often unseen side of psychedelic therapy.
Squatting Within a Corner of My Own Existence
In the Chaos of Enmeshment: Untangling Fear, Disorganization, and the Struggle for Self