A Conversation with Jennifer Byxbee and Evacheska deAngelis on Spiritual Experiences and Plant Medicine Work in Therapy
More clients are arriving in session having had a psychedelic or plant medicine experience — through a retreat, ceremony, or guided journey. Many of these substances exist in a legal gray area in the United States, and clients are seeking these experiences out regardless, often bringing them into therapy before their clinician has had a chance to catch up.
This workshop offers therapists a clinical understanding of what's actually happening, physiologically and psychologically, so you can make sense of what a client describes and know how to support their integration in session.
📅 Live on Zoom: August 26, 7:00 PM
🎓 1.5 CEUs for NYS providers (LCSWs, LMHCs, LPs, LCATs)
💵 $45
Who is this for?
This training is for anyone curious about what happens in altered states of consciousness and how to support integration, whether personally, professionally, or somewhere in between. That includes coaches, practitioners, clinicians seeking CE credit, and anyone who's had or witnessed a plant medicine experience and wants to understand it more deeply.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this training, participants will be able to:
Describe the physiological and psychological processes that occur during a psychedelic or plant medicine experience.
Discuss ethical and scope-of-practice considerations when clients bring psychedelic or plant medicine experiences into session.
Apply somatic tools (regulation, titration, pendulation) to support client integration when a client discloses ceremony, microdosing, or plant medicine use.
About the Speakers:
Jennifer Byxbee, ATR-BC, LCAT, CGT
Jennifer Byxbee (ATR-BC, LCAT, CGT) is the founder of CAP Therapy NYC and a licensed psychotherapist with over 20 years of clinical experience treating the long-term effects of childhood trauma in high achievers. Trained at the School of Visual Arts and Gestalt Associates for Psychotherapy, with clinical experience at institutions including Mount Sinai, she developed an integrative, experiential approach combining Gestalt, Somatic Therapy, and Creative Arts Therapy to treat perfectionism, anxiety, and chronic nervous system activation at their root. She now leads a team of therapists at CAP Therapy NYC trained in her integrative, experiential approach.
Evacheska deAngelis
Evacheska is a trauma-trained holistic and somatic therapy practitioner, integrative counselor, psychedelic integration coach, and executive advisor. She created the Whole-Self Integration™ framework, a therapeutic model for integrating all dimensions of self. She works with individuals, couples, and senior business leaders through private practice, retreats and intensives, and executive mentorship. Before studying clinical psychology, she spent a decade in corporate leadership, most recently as VP of Strategy and Marketing at a $750M company. Her approach begins with the body, where what we carry beneath awareness shows up first, building the nervous system’s capacity so that what emerges can be metabolized, not managed.