Psychedelic support should increase your capacity—not your dependence on support.
I work with individuals, emerging facilitators, organizations and communities navigating psychedelics with curiosity, care and humility.
Sometimes that means preparing for an experience.
Sometimes it means making sense of what happened afterward.
Sometimes it means becoming more skillful at supporting someone else.
And sometimes the most useful conversation leads away from psychedelics entirely.
Individuals
Preparation, Education & Integration
You don’t need to know exactly what you’re looking for before reaching out.
We can explore your questions, intentions, expectations and concerns together—without assuming that a psychedelic experience is necessarily the answer.
Preparation
Explore intentions, expectations, fears, relationships, environment, support, boundaries and what else is happening in your life before deciding whether, when and how to move forward.
Psychedelic Education
Develop a clearer understanding of psychedelic substances, experiences, approaches, risks and resources so you can make more informed decisions for yourself.
Integration
Explore what happened without rushing to explain it.
Integration can involve meaning-making, relationships, habits, difficult emotions, unexpected experiences, changes in worldview—or simply figuring out how to return to ordinary life after something extraordinary.
The goal isn’t for me to tell you what your experience meant.
It’s to help create enough space for you to discover what, if anything, you want to do with it.
Facilitators
Become More Skillful Without Becoming More Important
Supporting someone in an altered state requires more than knowing the right techniques.
I mentor emerging psychedelic facilitators in developing the less visible skills of this work: presence, discernment, boundaries, humility, communication, accountability and restraint.
Our work may include:
- preparation and integration practices
- difficult or unexpected experiences
- non-directive support
- intervention versus non-intervention
- consent and boundaries
- power dynamics
- facilitator projection and countertransference
- rupture, accountability and repair
- case consultation
- professional identity and scope
- building communities of safety and trust
A recurring question guides much of this work:
Am I doing this because the participant needs it—or because I need to do something?
The goal isn’t to create facilitators with fewer tools.
It’s to develop facilitators with more tools and better judgment about when to use them.
Organizations & Events
Building Cultures of Better Psychedelic Support
For more than a decade, much of my work has happened not only with individuals, but with teams.
I have experience training and supporting people working in psychedelic harm reduction, peer support and challenging real-world environments where preparation is imperfect and experiences don’t always follow the plan.
I work with organizations, training programs, communities and events interested in strengthening how they support people navigating psychedelic experiences.
Areas of focus can include:
- psychedelic harm reduction
- peer-support principles
- difficult psychedelic experiences
- support-team training
- participant sovereignty
- consent and boundaries
- intervention and non-intervention
- team communication
- accountability and repair
- creating cultures of safety and trust
Programs can range from focused conversations and workshops to deeper training and consultation.
Speaking & Education
Conversations Worth Having
I speak and teach about the places where psychedelic support becomes less certain—and, I think, more interesting.
Speaking & Teaching Topics include:
The Courage to Do Nothing
Non-intervention as an advanced psychedelic support skill.
Be a Better Psychedelic Butler
What Batman’s relationship with Alfred can teach us about power, service and support.
Safety Is Not the Same as Comfort
Learning to distinguish a difficult experience from a dangerous one.
The Medicine Is Not the Healer. Neither Are You.
Participant sovereignty, facilitator humility and rethinking who holds authority in psychedelic experiences.
Beyond Integration: Psychedelic Stewardship
Moving from meaningful experiences toward meaningful participation in relationships, communities and the world.
Workshops and presentations can be adapted for facilitators, training programs, harm-reduction teams, organizations and community audiences.
What I Don’t Do
( because clear boundaries are part of good support )
- I don’t claim to heal people.
- I don’t interpret psychedelic experiences as possessing one correct meaning.
- I don’t believe psychedelics are appropriate for everyone.
- I don’t promise transformation, breakthroughs or particular outcomes.
- I won’t convince anyone to have a psychedelic experience when their own life is telling them otherwise.
When someone’s needs fall outside my training or scope, good stewardship means helping identify more appropriate resources rather than pretending I can provide something I can’t.
Start With a Conversation
You don’t need to arrive with a psychedelic plan.
Let’s ask the right questions.
We can talk about where you are, what you’re considering, what kind of support you’re looking, and whether I’m the right person to provide it.