Psychedelic-assisted therapy is entering modern healthcare, and for many practitioners, it is introducing an entirely new way of working. In this way of working, the psychedelic experience is carefully held in an extended, therapeutic container. During the process, emotional, psychological, somatic, relational, spiritual, and existential material can arise, asking practitioners to work with skill across multiple domains, in a way no single therapeutic modality accounts for.

Many practitioners experienced in this work agree that it is best supported by an inner-directed therapeutic approach. Rather than directing or interpreting, the therapist's role is to support the conditions in which clients can turn inward, and to hold and respond skillfully to whatever unfolds.

While this approach has developed in the psychedelic space, it can also be applied to other practices that evoke non-ordinary states, including breathwork, meditation, and somatic practices.

As practitioners begin working with non-ordinary states, they often find themselves in one of two positions: either lacking the therapeutic foundations to skillfully support clients to process the material that emerges, or needing to unlearn years of more directive approaches to work in a genuinely open and responsive way.

Our training programs support practitioners in both positions. Drawing from enduring therapeutic traditions and contemplative practices that long predate Western psychology, our programs offer a clear, jargon-free framework for inner-directed work - taught experientially, with an emphasis on practice, observation, and feedback. They are designed for therapists and other practitioners who are working with, or preparing to work with non-ordinary states of consciousness, with psychedelics or any other technique.