Send us a text In today’s episode of Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers, Dr. Steve Thayer and Dr. Reid Robison are joined by Dr. Rachel Harris to discuss her new book, Swimming in the Sacred: Wisdom From the Psychedelic Underground. Rachel is a psychologist with a 40-year history as a therapist, researcher, and author. Today she walks us through the insights she’s gleaned from interviewing women who have been practicing as guides in the psychedelic underground for decades. Come and attend the MAPS Ps...
Jun 20, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Ep 106•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text In today’s episode of Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers, Dr. Steve Thayer and Dr. Reid Robison discuss the concept of parts work, particularly through the lens of internal family systems or IFS. They explore the concept of internal parts, how this so-called symphony of selves operates, how parts work can help us live well and flourish, how parts manifest during psychedelic experiences, and much more. Come and attend the MAPS Psychedelic Science 2023 conference , Numinus is offering an...
Jun 13, 2023•50 min•Ep 105•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text In today’s episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast Dr. Steve Thayer and Dr. Reid Robison are joined by Dr. Dan Karlin. Dan is Board Certified in Psychiatry, Addiction Medicine, and Clinical Informatics. He currently serves as the Chief Medical Officer of MindMed, a drug development company striving to deliver on the therapeutic potential of psychedelics to address unmet patient needs in psychiatry, addiction, pain, and neurology. Numinus is a trial site for MindMed’s ...
Jun 06, 2023•56 min•Ep 104•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text In today’s episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast Dr. Steve Thayer and Dr. Reid Robison discuss what makes group therapy so special. They explore the unique advantages of groups, both psychedelic and non-psychedelic, and discuss some of the potential drawbacks of group work. Come and attend the MAPS Psychedelic Science 2023 conference , Numinus is offering an exclusive 20% discount code to our PTF Podcast listeners. To get 20% off the registration price, click this l...
May 30, 2023•36 min•Ep 103•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text In today’s episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast Dr. Steve Thayer and Dr. Reid Robison discuss masculine and feminine polarities. They talk about the way these energetic types manifest in each of us, in relationship dynamics, and in therapy. Come and attend the MAPS Psychedelic Science 2023 conference , Numinus is offering an exclusive 20% discount code to our PTF Podcast listeners. To get 20% off the registration price, click this link ( https://bit.ly/3kzoofk ) an...
May 23, 2023•47 min•Ep 102•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text In today’s episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast, Dr. Steve Thayer and Dr. Reid Robison discuss attachment styles and how psychedelic therapy might be used to address issues related to attachment wounding. Come and attend the MAPS Psychedelic Science 2023 conference , Numinus is offering an exclusive 20% discount code to our PTF Podcast listeners. To get 20% off the registration price, click this link ( https://bit.ly/3kzoofk ) and use the code NWI20 at checkout. Le...
May 16, 2023•50 min•Ep 101•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text Welcome to the 100th episode of Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers, the podcast devoted to exploring the frontiers of psychedelic medicine and what it takes to cultivate a healthy mind, body, and spirit. In today’s episode, Reid and Steve reflect on the last 100 episodes, then dive into today’s topic: Stoicism. They discuss the overlap between stoic philosophy and other popular philosophies. They talk about how stoicism influenced modern psychotherapy. They reveal how stoic practices h...
May 09, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Ep 100•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text On this episode of Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers, Dr. Steve Thayer and Dr. Reid Robison are joined by Dr. Evan Lewis. Evan is a Neurologist and Clinical Neurophysiologist with expertise in pediatric neurology and epilepsy. At Numinus he’s the VP of Psychedelic Neurology and the medical director of our Toronto clinic. Evan has extensive clinical and research experience using medical cannabis and psychedelics to treat neurological disorders in adults and children. Link to Evan’s ful...
May 02, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Ep 99•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text On this episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast Dr. Steve Thayer and Dr. Reid Robison are joined by Dr. Devon Christie. Devon is the senior lead of psychedelic programs at Numinus and one of the primary architects of our psychedelic therapy training programs. She teaches for the California Institute of Integral Studies Certificate Program in Psychedelic Therapy and Research, the Integrative Psychiatry Institute Certificate Program in Psychedelic Assisted Therapy, and ...
Apr 25, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Ep 98•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text On this episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast Dr. Steve Thayer and Dr. Reid Robison talk about holding space. They discuss what it means to hold space for others, why holding space is a gift when done well, how to hold space for yourself, and they explore the power that skillful space-holding has in a psychedelic therapy session. Come and attend the MAPS Psychedelic Science 2023 conference , Numinus is offering an exclusive 20% discount code to our PTF Podcast liste...
Apr 18, 2023•48 min•Ep 97•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text On this episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast, Dr. Steve Thayer and Dr. Reid Robison ask the question, “what is happiness?”. They try to define the term, explore ancient wisdom and modern research on happiness, and talk about why the pursuit of happiness kind of defeats the purpose. They also dip into how psychedelic experiences effect happiness, and even reveal some of the details behind their own personal struggles with happiness. Come and attend the MAPS Psychede...
Apr 11, 2023•1 hr•Ep 96•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text On this episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast, Dr. Steve Thayer and Dr. Reid Robison talk about "perfectionism". They discuss the light and shadow sides of perfectionism, talk about the difference between obsessive compulsive disorder and obsessive compulsive personality disorder, how to address perfectionism from an internal parts or IFS perspective, the value of failure, and much much more. (3:07) SXSW psychedelic panel recap (5:17) Rick Doblin legality ...
Apr 04, 2023•57 min•Ep 95•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text On this episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast, Dr Reid Robison, Numinus CEO Payton Nyquvest, and East Forest are at SXSW, and talk about the many facets of music and the importance it plays in the psychedelic therapy process. (2:19) SXSW psychedelic track and panel recap (9:37) East Forest music in the yoga community and psychedelic origins (13:51) Origin of East Forest (27:21) Recording and visiting with Ram Dass (33:28) Payton on seeking and finding (38:30) Music ...
Mar 28, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Ep 94•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text On this episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast, Dr. Steve Thayer and Dr. Reid Robison discuss "bad trips". They talk about the difference between bad trips and challenging experiences; the factors during prep, facilitation, and integration that can prevent bad trips or turn them into useful challenging experiences; the prevalence of triggered psychosis and HPPD among psychedelic users; how to pick the right psychedelic therapist/guide/facilitator; and much ...
Mar 21, 2023•1 hr 18 min•Ep 93•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text On this episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast, Dr. Steve Thayer and Dr. Reid Robison try to cope with the paradoxes of life. They give a trip report on a recent breathwork session, discuss why people struggle with paradoxes, explain how the drive to reduce cognitive dissonance can lead to dysfunction, explore how mindful acceptance of all that we are helps us cope with paradoxes, and much more. (1:35) Breathwork trip report (8:03) What are chakras? (11:04) 7 Sacred ...
Mar 14, 2023•51 min•Ep 92•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text On this episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast, Dr. Steve Thayer and Dr. Reid Robison are joined Hannah Cross, LCSW to discuss the non-therapy, non-medical uses of psychedelics. Hannah is a licensed clinical social worker, therapist, reiki master, yoga teacher, and all-around awesome person. (1:40) Intro to the topic and to Hannah (3:41) What does "processing" mean? (5:29) Discoveries and insights attributable to psychedelics (6:56) Timothy Leary's fir...
Mar 07, 2023•50 min•Ep 91•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text On this episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast, Dr. Steve Thayer and Dr. Reid Robison discuss the current legal status of psychedelic therapy in the US and other countries and the various challenges related to legalization and/or decriminalization of psychedelics. (1:50) Legalization vs decriminalization of psychedelics (3:30) The War on Drugs (6:37) Psychedelics Today Podcast episode with Kathryn L. Tucker, JD and the difference between federal and state legalizatio...
Feb 28, 2023•55 min•Ep 90•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text On this episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast, Dr. Steve Thayer and Dr. Reid Robison discuss how to navigate a crisis of religious faith. (2:30) Why it's hard to talk about religious belief (5:10) The "nones" and the secularization of the West (8:52) What's at stake with a religious faith transition (13:57) The risk of your moral character being questioned (17:30) How to support a loved one who is going through a faith deconstruction (20:55) Thri...
Feb 21, 2023•1 hr•Ep 89•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text On this episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast, Dr. Steve Thayer and Dr. Reid Robison discuss grit, resilience, and learning from failure. They explore the difference between growth and fixed mindsets, how attribution style affects resiliency, tips on how to reduce your fear of failure, and much more. (1:33) How Batman deals with failure (3:59) How our beliefs about failure affect how we cope with it (7:23) Explanatory/attribution styles and fixed vs growth mindsets ...
Feb 14, 2023•39 min•Ep 88•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text On this episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast, Dr. Steve Thayer and Dr. Reid Robison discuss authenticity. They talk about what it means to live one’s truth, the relationship between values and authenticity, what congruence has to do with it, why being authentic can be risky, and much more. (1:34) Les Miserables (4:28) What does it mean to be authentic? (6:46) Authenticity vs transparency, prosocial lies vs antisocial lies (9:58) Are Reid and Steve authentic on the ...
Feb 07, 2023•47 min•Ep 87•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text On this episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast, Dr. Steve Thayer and Dr. Reid Robison discuss parenting. They talk about how difficult parenting is, how parenting styles affect childhood and later adult attachment styles, being an emotion coach as a parent, how to raise resilient kids, genetics, and much more. (1:33) Parenting is hard (6:20) Spanking (7:00) Good Inside, by Dr. Becky Kennedy and being "home base" for your child (10:03) The value of consisten...
Jan 31, 2023•56 min•Ep 86•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text On this episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast, Dr. Steve Thayer and Dr. Reid Robison discuss the many facets of love. They explore what love is, how it’s extended and received, the concept of unconditional positive regard, why it’s so important to feel seen and understood, the role feelings of love play in psychedelic medicine…and much more. (1:22) The core need of being seen (3:29) Unconditional positive regard and Carl Rogers (4:58) The first duty of love is to li...
Jan 25, 2023•34 min•Ep 85•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text In this episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast, Dr. Steve Thayer, Dr. Reid Robison, and Dr. Joe Flanders welcome clinical psychologist, clinical trial researcher, and psychedelic therapist, Dr. Chantelle Thomas to the show for an important conversation about the shadow side of psychedelic therapy. They discuss how therapists harm their clients, the high bar of competence and self-awareness that psychedelic therapists need to clear in order to do this work, the limita...
Jan 17, 2023•2 hr 42 min•Ep 84•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text On this episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast, Dr. Steve Thayer and Dr. Reid Robison discuss setting intentions for the new year. They explore how to set values-based intentions vs goals, the struggle of walking the middle path between ambition and contentment, the value of journaling, and much more. (2:00) New Year's resolutions and how our values change (3:41) Essentialism by Greg McKeown and setting an essential intent for the year (4:57) The backlash agains...
Jan 10, 2023•47 min•Ep 83•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text On this episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast, Dr. Steve Thayer and Dr. Reid Robison discuss what you need to know about ketamine-assisted psychotherapy. (1:43) Ram Dass's family dinner (4:27) What is ketamine? (7:05) What does ketamine feel like? (11:29) Ketamine as a psychotomimetic (12:53) Ego dissociation as a therapy (14:54) The limitations of ketamine therapy (16:00) The different approaches to ketamine therapy (23:10) Ketamine dosing strategies (27:05) P...
Jan 03, 2023•46 min•Ep 82•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text On this episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast, Dr. Joe Flanders interviews Dr. Anthony Back, M.D. Dr. Back is a co-founder of VitalTalk, a national nonprofit that provides innovative, interactive clinician and faculty development courses to improve communication skills on an individual and institutional level. Dr. Back is a professor of medicine at the University of Washington in Seattle, and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Dr. Back earned his MD at Harv...
Dec 27, 2022•1 hr 14 min•Ep 81•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text On this episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast, Dr. Steve Thayer and Dr. Reid Robison discuss the power of belief, the placebo effect, manifesting and the law of attraction, and how these things are relevant for psychedelic-assisted therapy and life. (0:52) Childhood fears and scary movies (4:00) The conflict between rational thought and felt sense (5:08) Why do people believe what they believe? (7:22) How beliefs are related to mental illness (9:45) Cognitive biases...
Dec 20, 2022•51 min•Ep 80•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text On this episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast, Dr. Steve Thayer and Dr. Reid Robison discuss the paradox of control and surrender in psychedelic assisted therapy and in life. (1:45) A poem about control vs surrender written by an AI chat bot (4:24) The Serenity Prayer (5:50) Avoidance and our attachments to control are at the root of many types of suffering (9:29) Allowing and the wisdom to know when to stop (13:29) Radical Acceptance, by Tara Brach (14:19) Acceptan...
Dec 13, 2022•52 min•Ep 79•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text On this episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast, Dr. Joe Flanders interviews Saj Razvi. Saj is the Director of Education at the Psychedelic Somatic Institute (PSI) and one of the primary developers of the Psychedelic Somatic Interactional Psychotherapy (PSIP) modality. He is a psychotherapist and former clinical researcher in the MAPS Phase 2 trial of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy. He is faculty at Mind Medicine Australia and taught PTSD studies at the University of Den...
Dec 06, 2022•2 hr 54 min•Ep 78•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text On this episode of the Psychedelic Therapy Frontiers podcast, Dr. Steve Thayer and Dr. Reid Robison discuss how to set healthy boundaries so your relationships can be energizing and your mental health can flourish. (2:00) Boundaries are important in many facets of life (4:00) Our basic need for belonging (4:40) Transcend, by Scott Barry Kaufman (7:21) Don't take on what isn't yours (10:25) Setting boundaries isn't the same as selfishness (13:55) Boundaries allow you...
Nov 29, 2022•58 min•Ep 77•Transcript available on Metacast 
