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
Our Clients Are Using Psychedelics. Now What?
A Clinical Introduction to Psychedelic-Informed Practice
Your clients are already using psychedelics. They are attending retreats, participating in ceremonies, exploring ketamine, psilocybin, bufo (5-MEO-DMT), ayahuasca, MDMA, and other altered-state experiences—and bringing what happens back into the therapy room.
You don't have to become a psychedelic therapist.
You do need to know what to do when psychedelics enter your therapy room.
Most psychedelic trainings prepare clinicians to work with psychedelics. This training prepares clinicians to work with clients who are already using them or are thinking about using them.
Together, we'll explore the foundations of psychedelic-informed clinical practice, including:
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How to talk with clients about psychedelic use without becoming either gatekeeper or cheerleader
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Essential considerations for assessment, safety, and harm reduction
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How to respond when clients bring mystical, spiritual, traumatic, or extraordinary experiences into therapy
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The difference between experience, interpretation, meaning, and action
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What psychedelic integration actually requires clinically
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How the clinician's own worldview, reactions, and countertransference enter the room
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When to consult, refer, slow down, or seek additional support
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
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Differentiate psychedelic-informed psychotherapy, psychedelic integration, psychedelic-assisted treatment, and psychedelic facilitation, including relevant differences in professional role and scope.
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Identify at least four domains of clinical assessment relevant when a client is using, considering using, or integrating an experience involving psychedelics.
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Apply a clinically grounded stance that balances client autonomy, harm reduction, professional boundaries, available evidence, and scope of practice to a psychedelic-related clinical vignette.
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Distinguish between taking a client's extraordinary or spiritual experience seriously and treating the client's interpretation of that experience as established clinical fact.
This is not a training in how to administer psychedelics or conduct psychedelic-assisted therapy. It is training for the clinical reality already arriving in our practices.
LIVE · INTERACTIVE · CASE-BASED
Friday, October 9, 2026
1:00–3:00 PM CDT
Live Online Training via Zoom
2.0 Continuing Education Hours for Texas Social Workers
CONTINUING EDUCATION
Texas Social Workers: 2.0 Continuing Education Hours
This live training provides 2.0 continuing education hours for Texas social workers upon successful completion of the program.
Christopher Shaw, LCSW-S, is a Texas Council-approved social work supervisor, a qualifying continuing education provider category under 22 TAC §781.501. Under current Texas rules, at least 50% of a social worker's required continuing education hours must be obtained from one or more qualifying provider categories, which include Council-approved supervisors.
To receive a certificate of completion, participants must attend the full two-hour live training, complete required interactive participation activities, and submit the course evaluation.
Certificates will document the participant's name, course topic, training date, and continuing education hours earned, consistent with Texas requirements.
CE Category: General Social Work Continuing Education
Topic: Psychedelic-Informed Clinical Practice
The Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council does not pre-approve individual continuing education courses or providers. Texas social workers remain responsible for ensuring that continuing education claimed toward renewal satisfies their individual licensing requirements.
Continuing education credit for other professions or jurisdictions is not currently offered.
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"