Psychedelic Therapy & Ceremony for Healing & Transformation - with Dori Lewis, MA, MEd, LPC-S
Dori Lewis, MA, MEd, LPC-S joins Julian Royce to discuss the current state of psychedelic assisted therapy
About Dori Lewis: Co-founder of Elemental Psychedelics and the owner-operator of Reflective Healing in Fort Collins, CO, a psychotherapy group practice that specializes in psychedelic therapy using ketamine, integration therapy, transpersonal psychotherapy, and providing clinical supervision with over 10 years of experience as a therapist.
Links:
https://www.elementalpsychedelics.com/ - A Women-Led Training Center For Education, Experience, and Ethics in Psychedelic Practice
https://www.reflectivehealing.com/
Topics in Chronological Order:
- Modalities that align and use psychedelic therapy & the spiritual component.
- The most important thing in psychedelic assisted therapy is the therapeutic relationship
- Diagnosed with learning disability at age 5 - neurodivergent
- So much of therapy is teaching - a class about you!
- The Value of therapy
- Sometimes have to tell a client that you're not right person
- Endings
- First experience with psychedelics. - salvia, at age 15
- Ketamine work - for depression
- Advice for Ketamine Assisted Therapy (KAP)
- What type of issues KAP is recommended for
- Depression is a symptom cluster - sometime a symptom of something else
- Mushroom journeys
- The current state of regulations and laws around psychedelics in the state of Colorado
- Women retreats for therapist wanting to learn about psychedelics and other trainings
- MDMA assisted therapy in the MAPS trial and studies
- Value of supervision
- Not leading the client - they are leading us.
- Challenges of MDMA assisted therapy for the therapists.
- The importance of not having a goal
- Finding one's unique calling
- How Greif is at the forefront of our ability to heal
- LSD and the mind of the universe
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