What this is Psychedelic harm reduction is an approach grounded in meeting people where they are in their relationship to psychedelic experiences, without judgment and without an agenda of either promoting or discouraging use. It prioritizes safety, informed decision-making, and the integration of experience within a supportive and ethical therapeutic context.

I have completed TheraPsil’s training in psilocybin-assisted therapy, and where appropriate, this informs how psychedelic-assisted work is incorporated into our therapeutic journey together.

This work sits naturally within the transpersonal dimension of how I understand healing—the territory that exceeds the personal self, where ordinary consciousness loosens its grip and something larger becomes accessible. Psychedelic experiences can open dimensions of the intrapsychic, the existential, and the ecological simultaneously, in ways that are rarely predictable and always deeply personal.

What people often experience People who come to this work are often navigating questions around psychedelic use, preparing for an experience, or sitting with the aftermath of something that felt meaningful, confusing, or difficult to integrate. There may be a desire for a space that holds both the potential and the complexity of this kind of work, without rushing toward resolution or meaning-making before the experience has had time to settle.

How I use this in therapy My role in this work is not to direct or interpret what arises. It is to hold the container—to create and tend the conditions of safety, trust, and relational presence within which the work can unfold within.

I understand the relationship in psychedelic-assisted therapy as being fundamentally between the individual and the medicine itself. The mushroom, or plant medicine, cultivates its own relationship with the person who comes to it; and what emerges from that relationship, which dimensions open, what surfaces, what dissolves, is determined by that encounter rather than by any protocol or intention I bring. My work is to support the person in arriving as fully as possible, and to be with them in whatever the medicine opens—somatically, relationally, and with the full depth of the therapeutic framework we've built together.

This work includes preparation and intention-setting before, attentive presence during the experience, and integration as an ongoing part of the therapeutic process. Making meaning, slowly and without forcing, of what was encountered.

This work is only available to active clients. It is not offered as a standalone or one-time service. It is always held within the container of an established therapeutic relationship, where trust, pacing, and relational safety are already in place.

For more about how I approach the integration of psychedelic experiences specifically, see Psychedelic Integration.