Co-Creating Growth: How Therapy & Psychedelic Coaching Can Work Together

In recent years, psychedelic-assisted work has been making its way back into the mainstream with growing research, shifting cultural acceptance, and evolving legal frameworks. Alongside this rise, new modalities are emerging, including psychedelic coaching: an approach that integrates intention setting, somatic awareness, mindset work, and leadership development to support personal growth through non-ordinary states of consciousness.

As the founder of The Mind Shift Network, I’m often asked: How is what you do different from therapy?

And more importantly: Can we work together?

The answer is a resounding yes.

Therapy and Coaching Serve Different Purposes

Let’s start by acknowledging the distinct value of both modalities.

Traditional therapy

• Focuses on healing emotional wounds, resolving trauma, and improving mental health

• Often works within a regulated, diagnostic framework (DSM, CPT codes, clinical models)

• May include CBT, EMDR, talk therapy, or medication support

• In psychedelic contexts: therapists may facilitate clinical sessions (e.g., ketamine-assisted therapy) or support post-session integration

Psychedelic coaching (as we practice it at The Mind Shift Network)

• Focuses on growth, clarity, and unlocking potential

• Works with motivated, high-functioning clients who seek leadership alignment, purpose, or life transitions

• Uses plant medicine and non-ordinary states as tools for exploration, not clinical treatment

• Incorporates mindset prep, intention setting, in-journey support, and structured integration

Why These Roles Are Not in Conflict

It’s natural to wonder if coaching steps into therapeutic territory. But in reality, we’re operating at different points along the same arc of transformation.

• Therapists help people return to baseline.

• Coaches help people expand from baseline.

And when psychedelics are involved, the potential for profound emotional release or visionary clarity means that clients often need both; someone to hold the clinical and emotional terrain, and someone to help implement insight into action.

A Collaborative Care Model

Here’s what that can look like:

1. Therapist identifies a client who is ready for deeper self-exploration — not from a place of crisis, but readiness.

2. The therapist continues providing emotional safety and trauma-informed care.

3. The client is referred to The Mind Shift Network for psychedelic-supported coaching, where they engage in:

   • Structured preparation and mindset work

   • A psilocybin ceremony (private or group)

   • Post-journey integration focused on personal transformation, leadership alignment, or behavioral change

4. Both coach and therapist remain in communication (with client consent), supporting from different angles.

This model creates a continuum of care, where the therapist helps anchor the past and emotional processing, while the coach supports visionary insight, behavior shifts, and life design.

Why This Works for Therapists

For therapists, this model offers several key benefits:

• Expanded support for clients who are seeking transformative experiences outside the bounds of traditional therapy

• A trusted referral partner who understands how to work with non-ordinary states responsibly, ethically, and non-clinically

• No loss of the client relationship — instead, the coach becomes a complementary collaborator

• A bridge between insight and action — therapists can focus on emotional safety and past work, while coaches support integration into everyday leadership, relationships, and purpose

Why Therapists Refer to The Mind Shift Network

At The Mind Shift Network, we specialize in working with:

• Executive leaders and high performers in transition

• Entrepreneurs seeking to reconnect with their purpose

• Individuals who are functioning well but feel a deep desire for breakthrough or inner clarity

We work ethically, intuitively, and with deep respect for both the medicine and the individual. Our approach is never clinical and we never replace therapy. Instead, we build a powerful bridge between visionary experience and grounded transformation.

A Personal Invitation to Collaborate

If you’re a therapist, psychotherapist, or psychedelic integration specialist, I invite you to consider us as part of your extended care team. Whether your client is:

• Curious about a deeper psilocybin experience

• Ready to move from healing into leadership or clarity

• Seeking a grounded, ethical container for a private or group journey

…we’d love to collaborate.

Let’s co-create transformation where your expertise meets ours, and together we support your clients in stepping into their next chapter with depth, intention, and support.

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