At Chacruna: Ambassadors to Hidden Territories: Set and Setting in Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy

Veronika Gold & Eric Sienknecht

If someone had told us a few years ago we would be legally using MDMA and ketamine in psychotherapy, we’d have laughed at the notion as impossible. However, while highly implausible to imagine it only a few years back, this is where our professional development has taken us. We are currently working as psychedelic therapists in the roles of facilitators, caretakers, midwives, and witnesses, helping individuals to reconnect with, process, and resolve past traumas and alleviate symptoms of severe anxiety and depression. It seems we are indeed successfully treating their otherwise intractable treatment-resistant symptoms with the aid of psychedelic catalysts... continue reading.