Personalized focus Psychedelic-Psychotheraphy

Our Approach with Medicine-Assisted Sessions

1. Duration and Dosage:

   • Sessions are booked for a 2-hour period, ensuring ample time for both the medicinal effects to occur and for the therapeutic process to take place.
   • We follow a psycholytic approach in most cases, using small to moderate doses of cannabis and ketamine to gently facilitate the somatic and/or bottom-up psychotherapeutic process, as well as Autonomic Nervous System processing.

2. Therapeutic Models Employed:

   • PSIP (Psychedelic Somatic Interactional Psychotherapy): Focuses on the somatic and relational aspects of therapy, enhancing self-awareness and nervous system processing.
   • Integral Approach: Takes a holistic approach, considering multiple dimensions of human experience.
   • Realization Process: A method that combines psychological, somatic, and spiritual approaches for personal transformation.
   • Gestalt Psychotherapy: Emphasizes present experience and self-awareness, part work (similar to IFS model).
   • Integrative Body Psychotherapy: Focuses on the integration of mind, body, and emotions. Each of these models is inherently integrative, encompassing a diverse array of tools, perspectives, processes, and philosophies.

3. Session Dynamics:

   • Relational and Somatic Focus: Our sessions are always relational and somatically oriented, emphasizing dynamic client-therapist interaction. This creates a 'safe container' for experimentation and exploration, enhancing the therapeutic experience.
   • Dynamic Client-Therapist Interaction: The interaction during the session is adaptive and responsive, ensuring a rich and engaging therapeutic process. This approach provides a nurturing yet challenging environment for exploration and growth. We will often work with positive and negative transferential aspects.
   • Attuned Presence: Throughout the entire 2-hour session, the therapist remains closely attuned to the client’s somatic experience.

Key Components of PSIP

1. Interactional Therapeutic Relationship

PSIP adopts an interactional model of therapy, distinct from the classic guiding or sitter models of psychedelic therapy. The therapist mirrors and attunes to the client moment by moment, facilitating a deeper exploration of the client's inner experiences.

2. Embodied Experience and Autonomic Nervous System

PSIP places a strong emphasis on the wisdom of the body in the therapeutic process, guiding clients to develop awareness of bodily sensations, feelings, and movements. Utilizing mindfulness and somatic techniques, we explore how the body remembers, holds, and expresses emotions and memories, fostering an expanded somatic awareness and attunement.

This approach supports the processing and release of trauma from the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS). Rooted in the ANS, PSIP focuses on bodily sensations, emotions, imagery, and autonomic nervous reactivity. It operates within the realm of implicit non-verbal memory, encouraging clients to limit calming and coping impulses voluntarily, allowing involuntary autonomic reactions to surface, be released, and complete.

3. Relational Focus - Attachment Patterns and Therapeutic Transference

Recognizing the importance of interpersonal dynamics and early attachment patterns, PSIP explores the therapeutic relationship as a vehicle for healing relational wounds. Early developmental trauma and attachment wounds are consciously addressed for deep emotional and somatic processing