LIVE TRAININGS
Learn in real time.
Think more clearly in the room.
Live, interactive professional education for clinicians navigating psychedelic experience, integration, nonordinary states, spirituality, sexuality, addiction & recovery, and the changing demands of contemporary clinical practice.
These trainings bring clinicians together in real time for teaching, clinical application, discussion, and questions—not simply to acquire more information, but to develop greater capacity for the work itself.
Christopher Shaw, LCSW-S CSAT-S RYT
Clinical Educator · Consultant · Psychotherapist · Psychedelic Medicine Practitioner · Speaker
WHY LIVE TRAINING
Some things are learned better in conversation.
Clinical work rarely arrives as a clean case example. The questions that matter most are often contextual, relational, and difficult to reduce to a slide deck.
Live training creates space to slow down, think together, work with real clinical complexity, and ask the questions that emerge when ideas meet actual practice.
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TEACHING
Clear clinical frameworks grounded in practice.
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CASE APPLICATION
Apply the material to situations actually entering the therapy room.
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LIVE DIALOGUE
Questions, discussion, and room for complexity.
CURRENT LIVE TRAINING
PSYCHEDELICS & ADDICTION TREATMENT
What Every Addiction Professional Needs to Know About Recovery, Relapse, Risk & Emerging Psychedelic Therapies
November 13, 2026 | Live Online | 3 Hours
3 CE Hours available for Texas Social Workers
Your client has been to inpatient treatment ten times. Six months clean—and he relapses again. A friend recommends a psychedelic retreat in Mexico.
Another client is attending medicine ceremonies every month and now wants to begin microdosing.
Another wants to stop his psychiatric medications and microdose psilocybin instead.
A client with sex addiction has months of sobriety but still cannot shake the cravings to act out.
A couple healing from betrayal trauma has done the work—but remains stuck.
Could psychedelics help?
Could they make things worse?
Is it treatment? Is it relapse? Is it another compulsive pattern?
And how are you supposed to know?
Psychedelics are entering addiction treatment whether addiction professionals are ready for the conversation or not.
This live 3-hour clinical training examines what we actually know—and what we don’t—about psychedelics in the treatment of substance use disorders, recovery, sex addiction and compulsive sexual behavior, trauma, sexuality, and betrayal trauma.
We’ll explore emerging therapeutic possibilities alongside the risks: psychiatric destabilization, contraindications, medication questions, compulsive psychedelic use, microdosing, relapse, recovery models, and the client who comes back from a psychedelic experience convinced everything has changed.
This is not psychedelic practitioner certification. It is training in clinical discernment. Because “It’s a drug” isn’t enough. And neither is “It’s medicine.”
For addiction counselors, SUD professionals, psychotherapists, social workers, psychologists, CSATs, sex therapists, clinical supervisors, clinical directors, treatment-center professionals, behavioral-health students, and other professionals working with addiction and recovery.
Early Bird: $69 through November 1
General Admission: $89
Student: $39
Pay It Forward: $109
3 CE hours are currently available for Texas Social Workers. Professionals from other disciplines and jurisdictions are welcome to attend. Future trainings will offer CE opportunities for additional professionals.
WHAT MAKES THESE TRAININGS DIFFERENT
Information isn’t enough.
The work asks more of us than knowing more.
Professional education often focuses on increasing what the clinician knows. That matters. Competence matters. But complex and transformative experiences also require clinicians to remain present, recognize their own reactions, tolerate uncertainty, question the limits of familiar clinical maps, and make thoughtful decisions when meaning is not obvious.
My live trainings are designed to develop both:
WHAT THE CLINICIAN NEEDS TO KNOW
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WHO THE CLINICIAN IS BECOMING
MY APPROACH
Clinically grounded.
Spiritually literate.
Evidence-Informed.
These trainings take extraordinary experience seriously without requiring clinicians to accept every interpretation literally.
They make room for research and mystery, clinical responsibility and human meaning, skepticism and openness.
The goal is not to tell clinicians what to believe. It is to help them become more capable of holding what their clients bring into the room.
Neither gatekeeper nor cheerleader.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
For Clinicians whose practice is already evolving.
A Clinical Introduction to Psychedelic-Informed Practice
These trainings are designed for psychotherapists, counselors, clinical social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, supervisors, trainees, educators, students, and other mental-health professionals encountering psychedelic use, integration, spirituality, extraordinary experience, or transformative states in their clinical work.
You do not need to specialize in psychedelic therapy.
You do need curiosity, clinical responsibility, and a willingness to think carefully about new territory.
This training is for Clinicians who want to bring more presence to the evolving reality of their work.
THE LANDSCAPE IS ALREADY CHANGING
Keep learning as the work evolves.
New live trainings will be added as they are developed. Join the clinician list for upcoming training dates, new programs, essays, and professional education from Christopher Shaw. Join Clinical Field Notes and receive the complimentary guide, "WHEN PSYCHEDELICS ENTER THE ROOM: A First-Response Guide for Clinicians"