<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Christopher Shaw - Clinical Educator]]></title><description><![CDATA[Christopher Shaw - Clinical Educator]]></description><link>https://www.christophershaw.net/ideas</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 00:25:25 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.christophershaw.net/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Our Clients Are Using Psychedelics. Now What? (1 of 5)]]></title><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><link>https://www.christophershaw.net/post/clients-using-psychedelics</link><guid isPermaLink="false">7e29efef-e930-4096-bf03-5fe0ebb52b6e</guid><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 19:32:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ef7e1a_d648c37d40894528898cd7cd979c849d~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Christopher Shaw</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Revolving Door]]></title><description><![CDATA[What should we ask when someone has completed addiction treatment six, eight, or ten times and continues to relapse? At some point, repeating the same intervention should give way to clinical curiosity. Chronic relapse may not mean the person has failed treatment. It may mean our treatment map is incomplete.]]></description><link>https://www.christophershaw.net/post/chronic-relapse-treatment</link><guid isPermaLink="false">500d8817-ef29-4c13-bebf-8fb72a74d918</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 22:33:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ef7e1a_f0e496455d974b01a67df629c09e7571~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_941,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Christopher Shaw</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[You Weren’t Meant to Hold This Alone (5 of 5)]]></title><description><![CDATA[You make the best clinical judgment you can. The client leaves. And sometimes nobody ever asks you why you made it. In psychedelic-informed practice, working without a knowledgeable peer field isn’t merely isolating—it can become a clinical risk.]]></description><link>https://www.christophershaw.net/post/psychedelic-consultation-for-therapists</link><guid isPermaLink="false">1b5bdd5f-38c1-4a61-b9b2-3d24450682cb</guid><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 22:22:22 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ef7e1a_8645135a396446fbbb5cfb401b818d13~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_887,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Christopher Shaw</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Integration Is Not a Buzzword — It’s a Discipline (4 0f 5)]]></title><description><![CDATA[The ceremony ends in a weekend. Integration can take months—or longer. Yet too often, a client’s most significant experience of the year gets processed for fifty minutes and called integration. The real question isn’t how extraordinary the psychedelic experience was. It’s what becomes possible in ordinary life because of it.]]></description><link>https://www.christophershaw.net/post/psychedelic-integration-therapy</link><guid isPermaLink="false">100577bc-5dee-4de7-ba7e-49266a0a1c94</guid><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 22:02:20 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ef7e1a_6387347ef6d443b7946a44ce5d6cc811~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_887,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Christopher Shaw</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the Medicine Reveals About the Clinician (3 of 5)]]></title><description><![CDATA[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, beliefs, and personal history can enter the treatment room long before we realize they are there.]]></description><link>https://www.christophershaw.net/post/psychedelic-countertransference</link><guid isPermaLink="false">9c521c03-bd08-44f9-80c0-406d5916e0f0</guid><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 21:15:46 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ef7e1a_866f880101b34709b3a9722b601474eb~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_887,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Christopher Shaw</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Space Between Gatekeeper and Cheerleader (2 of 5)]]></title><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><link>https://www.christophershaw.net/post/psychedelic-clinical-competency</link><guid isPermaLink="false">3e2dec51-2e4f-4b44-bb18-36cebeef416c</guid><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 21:02:34 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ef7e1a_c21ae54d9aa44314911e5ec1ce74b8fe~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_941,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Christopher Shaw</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>