Begins November 3, 2026 | Virtual | Twice Monthly | Maximum 10 Participants

As psychedelic-assisted experiences become more common, clinicians are increasingly encountering clients who are bringing these experiences into therapy.

The questions that follow are not always straightforward.

How do we support integration without overstepping our role?
How do we work with profound insight that has not yet translated into meaningful change?
How do we recognize when an experience is opening something important and when it may be destabilizing?
How do we navigate ethics, boundaries, transference, countertransference, and our own responses as clinicians?

This six-month consultation cohort offers a thoughtful place to bring those questions.

Led by Dr. Jessica Plancich Shinners, Ed.D., LMFT, the cohort combines focused learning, clinical dialogue, and ongoing case consultation to help clinicians strengthen their discernment and capacity when working with clients navigating psychedelic experiences and integration.

This is not a certification or psychedelic-assisted therapy training. It is a case consultation cohort for clinicians navigating the complexity of this work in practice.

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At a Glance

A six-month consultation cohort for clinicians who want to be better equipped to support people integrating psychedelic experiences long after the peak experience has come and gone.

• Two live virtual gatherings each month
• Focused teaching, clinical dialogue, and case consultation
• Small, high-touch group
• Begins November 3, 2026
• Virtual | Twice Monthly | Maximum 10 Participants

Who This Is For

This cohort is designed for clinicians and health and wellness professionals who are encountering clients bringing psychedelic experiences into their existing care relationships and want a thoughtful, ethically grounded place to examine the questions that arise.

You may already have formal training in psychedelic-assisted therapy or facilitation.

You may be considering such training.

You may regularly refer clients to psychedelic-assisted practitioners while remaining their primary therapist or care provider.

Or perhaps psychedelic integration was never intended to be part of your practice at all, but your clients have begun bringing these experiences through your door.

You may be supporting clients who have participated in ketamine treatment, psychedelic-assisted therapy, retreats, ceremonies, facilitated experiences, or other encounters with altered states.

You may be wondering:

• What is within my scope and what is not?
• How do I help a client integrate an experience without imposing meaning on it?
• What do I do when insight arrives faster than a client’s capacity to embody it?
• How do trauma, attachment, identity, and the nervous system shape integration?
• What are some expanded resources for music, mindfulness and somatic practices?
• How do I navigate challenging clinical material or experiences I have not personally encountered?
• When is consultation, referral, or additional support warranted?

These are questions of clinical judgment and discernment. They are also difficult to navigate alone.

 

How do I support this well?

You may be looking for greater confidence supporting clients after psychedelic experiences, stronger frameworks for preparation and referral, greater clarity around scope and boundaries, or a place to think through complicated cases with colleagues who understand the territory.

Psychedelic experiences do not occur in isolation. They enter marriages, families, attachment systems, communities, bodies, spiritual lives, and existing treatment relationships.

For marriage and family therapists in particular, this relational dimension deserves careful attention. A client’s experience may be deeply personal, but its integration is often profoundly interpersonal.

If you value thoughtful consultation over easy answers, clinical depth over novelty, and a grounded professional community in which difficult questions can be brought into the room, this cohort was created with you in mind.

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Why This Work, Why Now

Increasingly, clients are returning to therapy and other established wellness professionals after ketamine treatment, psychedelic-assisted therapy, facilitated or ceremonial experiences, retreats, and other encounters with altered states.

Some return with meaningful insight, renewed connection, or a sense of possibility.

Others return with experiences that are much harder to integrate.

A relationship suddenly feels intolerable. A long-held identity no longer seems to fit. Previously inaccessible trauma or grief surfaces. A client becomes intensely attached to a facilitator or certain that a psychedelic insight must be acted upon immediately. Spiritual or existential experiences challenge their previous understanding of themselves.

What initially felt like a breakthrough may be followed by confusion, vulnerability, relational disruption, or destabilization.

The therapist or care professional is then left with important questions.

Psychedelic-assisted care is entering a consequential period of renewed scientific, clinical, and public attention. As research and potential pathways to treatment continue to develop, clinicians across disciplines are increasingly likely to encounter clients who are considering psychedelic experiences or trying to understand what happened afterward.

Yet expanded access alone does not guarantee good outcomes.

The experience itself may last hours.

Integration can unfold across months, years, relationships, and stages of a person’s life.

That distinction has become central to my own work.

I recently explored it in Tending the Light: Psychedelic Integration Therapy as a Beacon in Clinical Practice, published in The Therapist, the magazine of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT).

The article addresses an increasingly important question for our field:

As psychedelic experiences become more visible, how do we help clients translate profound experiences into grounded, relationally responsible, and sustainable change?

This cohort takes that inquiry out of the article and into the consultation room.

Rather than offering clinicians another collection of information about psychedelics, we will have six months to slow down, examine actual clinical complexity, learn from multiple disciplines, and develop the discernment necessary to recognize what to hold, what to question, what to monitor, and when to seek additional support.

Why Integration Matters

A profound experience can create clarity.

But clarity is not the same as capacity.

Clients may return with a powerful understanding of themselves, their relationships, or the direction of their lives. Yet insight alone does not necessarily create sustainable change.

Integration is the slower work of helping what has been seen become something that can actually be lived.

That process may involve nervous system regulation, relational repair, grief, boundaries, identity shifts, changes in behavior, meaning making, and learning how to hold an experience without rushing to define it.

For clinicians, this work requires more than knowledge about psychedelics. It requires the ability to remain grounded in uncertainty, attend carefully to what is emerging, recognize the limits of our role, and make thoughtful clinical decisions when the answer is not immediately obvious.

This cohort creates a consistent place to develop that capacity in relationship with other practitioners.

What We’ll Explore

Across six months, our conversations and case consultation will explore:

1. Role Clarity and Scope

2. Assessment, Readiness, and Context