TA34 - The Shadow Side of Psychedelics: Navigating Risks Safely (N)
Recorded On: 10/26/2025
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Description:
This presentation delves into the shadow side of psychedelic-assisted therapy, examining the risks, ethical complexities, and increasing commercialization of this emerging field. It features exclusive interviews with Brigitte Grof—author of Holotropic Art and beloved partner of psychedelic therapy pioneer Stanislav Grof—as well as long-time American Art Therapy Association member Roberta Shoemaker-Beal. This exploration illuminates the vital role of art therapy in integrating psychedelic experiences, fostering deep emotional processing, and supporting trauma-informed care with a harm reduction lense. Participants will gain practical strategies to enhance client safety, uphold ethical practice, and honor Indigenous knowledge in psychedelic healing spaces.
Learning Objectives:
- Participants will understand and identify the 5 key factors that contribute to
ethical dilemmas.
- Participants will learn 5 reasons why abuses of power have become prevalent in this
arena and 5 ways to avoid these.
- Participants will learn 3 safeguards therapists need to take within the three
stages of psychedelic assisted therapy: preparation, journeying and integration.
Session is worth 1.5 CE Credit
Charmaine Husum
RCAT, DKATI, RTC, CT
Charmaine Husum RCAT, DKATI, RTC, CT is a Professional Artist, Registered Canadian Art Therapist, Registered Therapeutic Counsellor, and Kundalini Yoga & Meditation teacher. Within her private Somatic Art Therapy Practice, Centre of the HeArt she supports clients both in person and online to move through difficult experiences from trauma, depression, anxiety, suicidality, addiction, and other mental health symptoms towards a path of transcendence and healing.
Helping people find a personalized route to healing using trauma-informed art therapy, clinical psychotherapeutic approaches, transpersonal psychology, mindfulness, yoga, and somatic counseling is the foundation of her work. Believing that true and lasting healing lives within every individual; the work she does focuses on one’s inner strength, power, and innate capacity to thrive beyond difficult experiences in life.
For the past 10 years, she has also been working to help others prepare for and Integrate the powerful experiences that take place during Altered States of Consciousness and Psychedelic Journeys. To support this, she teaches courses and workshops both online and in person around the world using Art Therapy, Dreamwork, Somatic Processes, Kundalini Meditation, and Yoga that follow the trauma-informed protocols outlined by Bessel van der Kolk and Judith Herman. They can be found at www.courses.centreoftheheart.com.
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