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Your client is doing at-home ketamine. The post I'd start with.
Hello Reader, In a consultation group recently, a newer clinician asked, completely sincerely, whether she was even allowed to talk with her client about the ketamine he was on. She hadn't prescribed it. She wasn't trained in it. It arrived at his door from a telehealth platform. The question stopped the room, because nobody had a confident answer. Here's mine: not only are you allowed, you may be the only clinician positioned to do it. You're the one seeing this person every week. At-home...
She reached for the safe word. It wasn't there.
Hello Reader, In a ketamine session, a client later told me, there was a moment she wanted to use the safe word we'd rehearsed and couldn't find it. Nothing had gone wrong. The dose was moderate, she was comfortable, I was watching closely. The signal we'd agreed on simply wasn't there when she reached for it. That moment is why I no longer trust the safe word the way our field does. A person in a non-ordinary state can't reliably notice a boundary being crossed, locate the agreed signal, and...
New platform, same me, and the blog's been rebuilt
Hello Reader, The migration is done. After months of work, every Psychedelic Affirming Education course now lives on LearnWorlds, and I hope the new platform feels cleaner to move around in. If anything doesn't, I want to hear about it directly. If you can't get into a course you paid for, a certificate won't download, or something just looks wrong, reply to this email and tell me. It comes straight to me, and I'll sort it out personally, as fast as I can. You shouldn't have to file a ticket...
The questions I've been getting since the announcement
Hello Reader, A few questions have come in since the course announcement. Here are the ones I keep seeing. The most common: Is this only for clinicians who plan to do facilitation work? No. The course is for licensed MH professionals who encounter psychedelic use in clients they're already seeing, not clinicians planning to add facilitation to their practice. If a client discloses, if a client asks a question, if you're trying to understand what your scope actually covers: that's who this is...
A client asked about psilocybin. Her therapist threatened to end treatment.
Hello Reader, Years ago, a client came to me after leaving a therapist she'd been seeing for six months. She had told her previous therapist she was curious about taking psilocybin to help with her PTSD. Not that she had done it. Not that she was planning to. Just that she was curious and wanted to talk about the possibility. Her therapist's response: "I won't discuss that with you. And if you want to self-medicate with drugs, I won't be able to continue working with you." So she stopped...
Scope confusion. Two directions. Real harm.
Hello Reader, Here's what scope of practice confusion actually looks like in psychedelic work, and why both directions cause harm. The over-referral version: a client mentions curiosity about psilocybin for depression. The clinician isn't sure what they're supposed to do with that, so they deflect. Maybe they suggest the client "find a specialist." Maybe they just redirect the session. The client gets the message: this isn't something you can bring here. The conversation ends. The clinician...
Your client disclosed. You had thirty seconds. Here's what to do.
Hello Reader, The course I mentioned last week is open! Here's everything you need to decide. Psychedelics and the Therapeutic Frame: Foundations for Licensed Clinicians is a 3-CE-hour course for licensed mental health professionals who want a grounded clinical foundation in psychedelic-informed practice without committing to a year-long facilitation track. It covers pharmacology, scope of practice, first-contact skills, documentation, and ethics. It's built for the practice you're already...