Trauma-Informed Care in Psychedelic Spaces
From Pathology to Liberation: Rewriting the Rules of Healing
Date: Saturday, July 12th, live on Zoom Time: 11am - 12:30pm EST, Replays available 24/7 through our online platform.
(Purchase all 3 workshops in the series and save $20)
Description:
This 75 minute masterclass offers a grounded and impactful introduction to trauma-informed care within psychedelic-assisted therapy. Designed for clinicians, facilitators, and wellness practitioners, the presentation explores how unprocessed trauma lives in the body, and why psychedelic experiences—while potent—require a skillfully held, attuned, and ethical container to avoid re-traumatization.
We’ll cover the foundational principles of trauma-informed practice, nervous system literacy, the neurobiology of relational healing, and the unique risks present in non-ordinary states of consciousness.
With an emphasis on coherence, co-regulation, and cultural humility, this session also addresses how to decolonize the space and shift away from pathologizing mental health toward a more integrative, body-based understanding of trauma.
Participants will leave with practical tools for preparation, presence, and integration—along with a renewed commitment to safety, embodiment, and accountability in their work. We'll also have time for Q&A.
What You'll Walk Away With
- A deeper understanding of how trauma lives in the body and shows up in psychedelic experiences
- Tools to recognize and respond to trauma responses in non-ordinary states without pathologizing them
- Strategies to create safer, consent-centered psychedelic containers rooted in somatic intelligence
- A working knowledge of co-regulation, coherence, and the provider’s nervous system as a primary medicine
- A trauma-informed lens to apply across preparation, ceremony, and integration
- A decolonizing framework that challenges the pathology-driven extractive models of healing and centers collective liberation as an essential part of trauma recovery
- Practices to build cultural humility and dismantle whitewashed, commodified approaches to psychedelic care
- Real talk on power, privilege, and harm reduction in altered states
- A renewed sense of why relational healing matters—and how to embody that in your presence, not just your protocol
