Supervision / mentoring – working with psychedelic experiences

What it is

The setting can shape the whole experience. A therapist's work begins long before the session and doesn't end the moment the substance wears off. In supervision we talk about concrete cases – about preparation, about what happens during, and about integration.

We give a lot of attention to harm reduction. Not everyone you accompany is in a clinical trial or in a consulting room. Some people reach for substances on their own, in varied conditions and with varied preparation. Instead of judging, we look at how to lower risk, how to talk about dose, about mixing with medication, and about what to do when something goes wrong. It is an approach that meets a person where they actually are.

We also talk about how to talk. The language you use during a difficult experience and the language you use a few days later are two different things. I show how to stay alongside someone without over-interpreting, how not to close what is opening up, and how not to slip into the role of a guide who knows best. Sometimes silence and presence give more than another question.

Integration, to me, is the heart of it. A powerful experience changes nothing on its own – what changes things is what a person does with it over the following weeks. We look at how to guide that process, how to translate insight into concrete decisions, and how to work with what comes back in everyday life.

A separate thread is folding psychedelic experiences into the psychotherapy process. These sessions rarely happen in a vacuum. They are usually part of longer work, with their own context, their own history, and their own place in the therapeutic relationship. We talk about how to hold the frame, how to keep continuity between meetings, and how not to lose ordinary psychotherapy in the fascination with the experience itself.

All of it rests on a clinical approach. That means attention to screening and contraindications, to diagnosis, to the limits of your own competence, and to the moment when someone needs more than support. Working with psychedelic experiences doesn't excuse you from clinical thinking, it demands it.

How the sessions work

We work on your real cases, in full confidence. This isn't something you learn from a textbook, so we talk about what actually happened, not about how it should look in theory. I run sessions in Polish or English.

Who it is for

For therapists and guides who work (or want to start) with people after psychedelic experiences – in trials, in assisted therapy, or in harm reduction.