CONSULTATION WITH CHRISTOPHER
You don't have to figure this out alone.
Consultation for clinicians working at the edges of the familiar clinical map.
Psychedelic experiences, nonordinary states, spiritual material, profound transformation, and difficult integration can bring clinical questions that don’t fit neatly inside traditional supervision or consultation.
Sometimes you need another experienced clinician to think with you.
Professional consultation for licensed clinicians and other qualified helping professionals.
SOME CASES DON'T FIT THE MAPS WE ARE GIVEN.
The Field Changed. Most Clinical Training did not.
A client returns from a psychedelic experience convinced they encountered something spiritually real.
Another is destabilized weeks after an experience that everyone around them keeps calling “healing.”
A client’s worldview has changed so dramatically that the treatment goals you established together no longer seem to fit.
You’re trying to distinguish integration from decompensation. Transformation from avoidance. Spiritual emergence from symptoms requiring a different level of care.
Or perhaps the most difficult question isn’t about the client at all.
It’s about what the case is bringing up in you.
This is where consultation becomes valuable—not because another clinician necessarily has the answer, but because complex clinical work becomes safer and clearer when it can be thought about in relationship.
This isn't about telling you what to think.
Good consultation should not replace your clinical judgment. It should strengthen it. My role is not to hand you an interpretation of your client’s experience or persuade you toward a particular worldview. We slow the case down, examine what we know, identify what we may be assuming, consider competing interpretations, and pay attention to what is happening in the clinician as well as the client. The goal is greater discernment. To help you become more capable of holding complexity without collapsing too quickly into certainty—clinical, spiritual, or otherwise.
WHAT WE CAN WORK WITH
Bring the case. Bring the questions. Bring the undertainty.
Psychedelic preparation & integration
Clinical discernment & differential thinking
Working with clients pursuing psychedelic experiences outside of your practice
Challenging or destabilizing psychedelic experiences
Meaning making after profound experiences
Developing psychedelic-informed clinical practice
Nonordinary states of consciousness
Countertransference and clinical reactions
Cases that simply leave you thinking, "I'm not sure what to do with this."
Spiritual & mystical experiences
Boundaries, scope, ethics, and referral decisions
INDIVIDUAL CONSULTATION
A dedicated space for the cases you're carrying.
Individual consultation gives us time to work closely with a particular case, clinical question, ethical dilemma, countertransference response, or area of professional development.
You don’t need to arrive with the case neatly formulated. Often, figuring out what the real question is becomes part of the consultation itself.
Sessions are available virtually for clinicians regardless of geographic location.
GROUP CONSULTATION
Because Clinicians need a peer field.
There is something individual consultation cannot reproduce: hearing other thoughtful clinicians wrestle with the same territory.
Group consultation creates a consistent professional community in which clinicians can bring cases, examine difficult questions, learn from one another, and develop greater capacity for psychedelic-informed work over time.
This isn’t a lecture series.It’s a working clinical room.
CLINICAL EXPERIENCE MATTERS HERE
I’ve spent nearly two decades serving as a psychotherapist, three years as a psychedelic medicine practitioner, and more than ten years teaching, supervising, and consulting with clinicians.
My work now sits at the intersection of psychotherapy, psychedelic-informed practice, clinical supervision, addiction & recovery, sexuality, spirituality, integration, and transformative experience.
I bring that breadth into consultation while remaining grounded in a simple principle:
Extraordinary experiences still require disciplined clinical thinking.
CHRISTOPHER SHAW,
LCSW-S CSAT-S RYT
Licensed Clinical Social Worker & Supervisor, Certified Sex Addiction Therapist & Supervisor, IFS-trained, Kundalini Yoga Instructor
