Psychedelic therapy is extremely effective at helping heal deep emotional wounds. Stress and trauma are described by the speaking parts of the brain, but experienced in the emotional and physical body. During threats or trauma, the non-verbal, sensory and emotional systems are intensely affected. Even a child can exprience trauma and not have language to describe it. The speaking part of the brain is simply narrator for trauma, it can describe what happened and attempt to control reactions, but resolving trauma comes from working with the unprocessed emotions, feelings and beliefs buried in the non-verbal parts of the nervous system. 

Psychedelic therapy catalyzes the processing of emotionally intense memories, body sensations, and core beliefs so that people can feel safe in their bodies, and create safe boundaries outside of their bodies.

While they can be a lot of hard work, and exhausting from processing intense emotions and sensations, clients experienc a lot of resilience building and integration during the 60-90 minute sessions.  The sessions have been described as "amazing", or even "blissful" once the hard work is done. Between sessions, people continue to improve and are frequently complimented on the progress they are making.

The results we see rountinely include: resolution of panic attacks, improved emotional connection with others, better functioning at work, better sleep, less pain, enjoying life more, not feeling triggered, more emotional balance, families being more cohesive, setting healthy boundaries, greater productivity at work, increased creativity, feeling better than you have in many years, mental clarity, greater intuition, understanding your emotions and the emotional state of others...I could keep going. Its really amazing.

There is not much you need to do to prepare for the session.  During your intake, we will let you know what you need to have present during the session.

Psychologically, it is best to adjust your expectations.  This is not talk therapy.  The point is not reviewing the narrative of your most traumatic experiences. Despite how much you know about therapy or have experienced in the past, the main hurdle for people is adjusting to the fact that this is not talk therapy.  This is much deeper.

This unique approach is focused more on helping you understand how your subconscious nervous system works to heal trauma so that you can begin to trust your non-verbal (somatic) processing channels so that you can integrate memories you have been resisting/avoiding and yet by avoiding them, you have let them remain intensely charged and persistently bothersome. 

The best analogy is that of a computer hard drive.  Brand new computers have a well functioning hard drive.  As you add big programs, video, and other files, the hard drive becomes fragmented and the computer stops processing things efficiently.  It becomes painfully slow and sometimes unresponsive.  Fortunately you can get a disc defragmenter which reorganizes the information stored in the computer in a way that it works more efficiently.

Similarly, most people begin life with a smooth working nervous system.  Life causes people to reframe their beliefs to address the reality they are faced with. Often young children, but also adults draw conclusions about themselves and others that work from a survival perspective, but create a lot of fragmentation in their nervous system. SLIP™ helps defragment your nervous system so that it works more efficiently, and without the errors (core belief wounds, attachment wounds, early childhood developmental wounds). The technique is the mainstay of the therapy  Cannabis and ketamine serve as a catalyst making the healing process occur much faster.