Jen Fiser, LPC speaks with Julian about psychedelic assisted therapy, healing from trauma and other topics.
About Jen Fiser: Jen served as the supervisor and clinical director for Innate Path for three years and was instrumental in developing the model of psychedelic psychotherapy used at the clinic. She now heads up the Innate Path Psychedelic Psychotherapy training, offers individual and group supervision and sees clients. Her education  includes Buddhist psychology, somatic psychotherapy and group process, with work experience as a teacher, supervisor, group process leader, meditation instructor and therapist in private practice. Her interests are mainly in making psychedelic and psychedelically-informed care accessible to as many people as possible because it offers much needed solutions to a system that often does more harm than good.
Learn more about Jen Fiser and Innate Path at: https://www.innatepath.org
Psychedelic Integration Group with Julian Royce: 1st and 3rd Tuesday of each month, find out more and register by emailing AStateofMindCounsel@gmail.com
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Partial List of Topics

Jen is the clinical director of Innate Path, which opened in 2018. Innate Path specializes in PTSD using Psychedelics and a Somatic oriented therapy model.
How Cannabis can be a powerful tool for therapy, especially in the type of somatic trauma informed therapy specialized in by Innate Path.
How the experience of Cannabis and / or Ketamine in the context of psychotherapy is often very different from the preconceptions people had about these substances from their life before.
Innate Path did a study on working with Vets who had combat PTSD; the results were positive
Why if you use cannabis to manage your symptoms you may not want to use it to do deep processing of PTSD.
Cultural attitudes towards cannabis and how different this medicine is in the context of therapy
How psychedelics work well with somatic oriented therapy
The importance of using somatic processing to access subconscious material
MAPS studies with PTSD and MDMA
The importance of safety in order for subconscious material to emerge
Working with Panic Attacks
How trauma can lead to relapse
How psychedelics can help us to deprogram
Asking the guiding question: What serves Life?

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