Every journey reaches the edge of the familiar.
What happens next changes everything.
Psychedelics, addiction recovery, PTSD & trauma resolution, spirituality, sexuality, and profound change are bringing us into territory we are just now learning how to navigate.
I help people explore that territory with greater clarity, care, and discernment—and help clinicians develop the capacity to meet it in their work.
What Brings You Here
For your own journey
You may be considering psychedelics or earth medicines, making sense of an experience, or feeling that something in your life is ready to change. Find practical Journey Guides and explore individual support for the questions you’re carrying.
For your clinical work
Your clients are bringing increasingly complex experiences into the room. Explore education, Clinical Field Guides, and consultation to strengthen your knowledge, presence, and discernment.
BEFORE YOU GO ANY FURTHER
Before You Say Yes.
Thinking about an experience? Before choosing a medicine, booking a retreat, or saying yes to a ceremony, there are questions worth asking.
Start with ten of them.
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The Clinical Map is Expanding
Clients are bringing experiences that stretch beyond traditional clinical training. The future belongs to clinicians who can meet those moments with wisdom, discernment, and ethical integrity.
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Need tools? Check out Clinical Field Guides.
Psychedelic-Informed Clinical Practice
Clients are already bringing psychedelic experiences into therapy. Clinicians need ethical, evidence-informed frameworks for integration, meaning-making, and clinical care.
Addiction Recovery & Human Transformation
Recovery extends far beyond symptom reduction. Sustainable change reshapes identity, relationships, purpose, and the way people experience themselves.
Spirituality & Extraordinary Human Experience
Mystical experience, spiritual emergence, existential questioning, and profound shifts in consciousness increasingly appear in therapy—and deserve thoughtful clinical understanding.
The Therapist as Instrument
Our greatest clinical tool is not a modality. It is the clinician. Presence, discernment, humility, emotional regulation, and ethical courage shape every therapeutic encounter.
How We Work Together
Professional Training
Educational programs for clinicians exploring psychedelic-informed care, addiction recovery, spirituality, ethics, and transformational psychotherapy. Learn more.
Clinical Consultation
Individual and group consultation for therapists navigating complex clinical questions, professional development, ethical dilemmas, and transformational work. Learn more.
Speaking
Keynotes, workshops, and professional education for conferences, universities, treatment centers, and organizations committed to advancing clinical excellence. Learn more.
Personal Sessions
Individual sessions for people exploring psychedelic preparation and integration, addiction and recovery, relationships and sexuality, spirituality, or significant life change. A space to bring your questions, make sense of your experiences, and explore what comes next. Explore working with me.
Ideas & Reflections
Thought leadership begins with ideas.
Explore essays, clinical reflections, podcasts, and practical perspectives examining psychotherapy where conventional answers stop working.
Our Clients Are Using Psychedelics. Now What? (1 of 5)
Your client tells you they took mushrooms, attended an ayahuasca ceremony, or started microdosing. You didn’t bring psychedelics into the therapy room. They did. Now you have about four seconds to decide what to say next—and whether you become a gatekeeper, a cheerleader, or something far more clinically useful.
Read the essay.
The Space Between Gatekeeper and Cheerleader (2 of 5)
When a client brings psychedelics into the therapy room, you don’t have to become either the clinician who shuts the conversation down or the one who opens it too far. There is a third stance—and it isn’t neutrality. It is a distinct clinical competency built on presence, risk literacy, discernment, and knowing the limits of your scope.
Read the essay.
What the Medicine Reveals About the Clinician (3 of 5)
Your client tells you they encountered God, spoke with their dead mother, watched themselves die, or were shown what they believe is their life’s purpose. Before deciding what any of it means, there is another clinical question worth asking: what is happening inside you? In psychedelic-informed therapy, the clinician’s unexamined fear, fascination...
Meet Christopher
For more than 18 years, I’ve worked where psychotherapy meets addiction and recovery, sexuality, spirituality, trauma, and profound human change. I’ve also facilitated over 100 sacred medicine ceremonies.
My understanding of this work comes from professional practice and my own life—recovery, relationships, loss, spiritual practice, and psychedelic experiences.
I know how deeply we can want something to change. I also know that a profound experience doesn’t automatically become a transformed life.
Today, I support people navigating their own journeys and teach clinicians how to hold the experiences their clients bring into the room. Across both, my work is grounded in presence, discernment, and the ongoing practice of making change real.
Clinical Field Notes
Clinical insight for a changing therapeutic landscape.
You'll receive Clinical Field Notes—announcements on upcoming trainings and events, new blog posts, etc. Expect 1-2 emails per month. I will not bombard you with emails.
Seven questions to consider when a client tells you they’ve used—or are planning to use—psychedelics.
Holding Transformation Is Becoming One of the Most Important Clinical Skills of Our Time.
Clients are changing.
The questions entering therapy are changing.
Our profession is changing.
The invitation is not simply to learn more.
It is to become the kind of clinician who can remain present, discerning, and ethically grounded when another person's experience exceeds the limits of technique alone.
If that is the kind of clinician you aspire to become, I would be honored to learn with you.