Writings
Clinical skills, personal essays, and candid reflections on the complex, often unseen side of psychedelic therapy.
The Paradox of Attachment in Therapy: When Care Awakens Old Wounds
The relational presence that can heal is often the same presence that reactivates deep wounds. In this article, I explore the paradox of attachment in therapy and how therapists can navigate closeness, boundaries, and attunement to support trauma-affected clients in opening to repair
PSIP Meets an Active Eating Disorder: A Calculated Risk in the Field of Trust
A case study exploring how PSIP helped a client’s decades-long eating disorder gradually release—not by targeting the behavior directly, but by building relational pathways that allowed the underlying trauma to surface and resolve.
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.