The psychedelic experience may be over. The clinical work may just be beginning.
Clients can return from psychedelic experiences carrying something profound, confusing, beautiful, destabilizing—or difficult to put into words. Clinicians are then faced with an important task: how do we make room for what happened while also attending carefully to the person who has returned?
Clinical Field Guide No. 02 offers a practical framework for working with clients in the days, weeks, and months following a psychedelic experience.
Rather than rushing toward interpretation, the guide helps clinicians create space for the client's experience, understand what has happened since, attend to stability and functioning, explore emerging meaning, and support the movement from insight toward grounded integration.
Throughout the 10-page guide, clinicians will find practical assessment frameworks, integration questions, therapist language for challenging clinical moments, guidance for differentiating experience from interpretation, clinician self-reflection, and a standalone printable Desk Guide for use in practice.
This is psychedelic-informed integration work that makes room for both the extraordinary and the clinically ordinary: meaning and stability, openness and discernment, insight and everyday life.
Clinical Principle 02: Reception before interpretation.
Digital download · 10-page PDF · Includes standalone 8.5 × 11 printable Desk Guide
For educational purposes. Clinicians remain responsible for practicing within their competence, professional scope, jurisdiction, and applicable ethical and legal requirements.
