Every clinician eventually reaches the edge of the map.
What happens next changes everything.
Today's clinicians are being asked to meet experiences that extend beyond traditional clinical training—psychedelic experiences, addiction recovery, spirituality, sexuality, trauma, grief, identity, and profound human change.
I help clinicians develop the knowledge, discernment, and presence to meet those moments with wisdom, ethical integrity, and confidence.
Clinical education, consultation, and training for therapists navigating psychedelics, nonordinary experience, integration, and profound transformation.
The Clinical Map is Expanding
Clients are bringing experiences that stretch beyond traditional clinical training. The future belongs to clinicians who can meet those moments with wisdom, discernment, and ethical integrity.
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Psychedelic-Informed Clinical Practice
Clients are already bringing psychedelic experiences into therapy. Clinicians need ethical, evidence-informed frameworks for integration, meaning-making, and clinical care.
Addiction Recovery & Human Transformation
Recovery extends far beyond symptom reduction. Sustainable change reshapes identity, relationships, purpose, and the way people experience themselves.
Spirituality & Extraordinary Human Experience
Mystical experience, spiritual emergence, existential questioning, and profound shifts in consciousness increasingly appear in therapy—and deserve thoughtful clinical understanding.
The Therapist as Instrument
Our greatest clinical tool is not a modality. It is the clinician. Presence, discernment, humility, emotional regulation, and ethical courage shape every therapeutic encounter.
How We Work Together
Professional Training
Educational programs for clinicians exploring psychedelic-informed care, addiction recovery, spirituality, ethics, and transformational psychotherapy. Learn more.
Clinical Consultation
Individual and group consultation for therapists navigating complex clinical questions, professional development, ethical dilemmas, and transformational work. Learn more.
Speaking
Keynotes, workshops, and professional education for conferences, universities, treatment centers, and organizations committed to advancing clinical excellence. Learn more.
Clinical Insights
Thought leadership begins with ideas.
Explore essays, clinical reflections, podcasts, and practical perspectives examining psychotherapy where conventional answers stop working.
Our Clients Are Using Psychedelics. Now What? (1 of 5)
Your client tells you they took mushrooms, attended an ayahuasca ceremony, or started microdosing. You didn’t bring psychedelics into the therapy room. They did. Now you have about four seconds to decide what to say next—and whether you become a gatekeeper, a cheerleader, or something far more clinically useful.
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The Space Between Gatekeeper and Cheerleader (2 of 5)
When a client brings psychedelics into the therapy room, you don’t have to become either the clinician who shuts the conversation down or the one who opens it too far. There is a third stance—and it isn’t neutrality. It is a distinct clinical competency built on presence, risk literacy, discernment, and knowing the limits of your scope.
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What the Medicine Reveals About the Clinician (3 of 5)
Your client tells you they encountered God, spoke with their dead mother, watched themselves die, or were shown what they believe is their life’s purpose. Before deciding what any of it means, there is another clinical question worth asking: what is happening inside you? In psychedelic-informed therapy, the clinician’s unexamined fear, fascination...
Meet Christopher
For nearly two decades, I have worked where psychotherapy intersects with addiction recovery, spirituality, sexuality, trauma, and profound human transformation.
As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker & Clinical Supervisor, Certified Sex Addiction Therapist–Supervisor, and Psychedelic Medicine Practitioner, I have spent my career helping people navigate experiences that rarely fit neatly into traditional clinical models.
Today, my work is dedicated to educating, consulting with, and mentoring clinicians who want to expand not only their knowledge—but their capacity to meet complexity with wisdom, discernment, and ethical integrity.
Because psychotherapy has never been only about what we know.
It has always been about who we become while helping others heal.
Clinical Field Notes
Clinical insight for a changing therapeutic landscape.
Essays, reflections, and resources for clinicians navigating psychedelic-informed practice, integration, spirituality, nonordinary experience, and profound human transformation.
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WHEN PSYCHEDELICS ENTER THE ROOM: A First-Response Guide for Clinicians
Seven questions to consider when a client tells you they’ve used—or are planning to use—psychedelics.
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Holding Transformation Is Becoming One of the Most Important Clinical Skills of Our Time.
Clients are changing.
The questions entering therapy are changing.
Our profession is changing.
The invitation is not simply to learn more.
It is to become the kind of clinician who can remain present, discerning, and ethically grounded when another person's experience exceeds the limits of technique alone.
If that is the kind of clinician you aspire to become, I would be honored to learn with you.