
113. Psychedelics and Therapy (with Ben Hearn, LPCC-S)
Very Bad Therapy
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The Long and Emotional Drainage of Psychedelic Assisted Therapy
The sessions are long and emotionally draining for both the therapist and the client. The way research protocols are structured at the moment, I expect this will carry over post FDA approval is that clients are required to like spend the night there with a night attendant. And then what happens next is therapists will follow up the next day or the next morning and come in and start doing integration sessions. Those typically happen the day after the psychedelic experience and then persist for several sessions afterwards.
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