Educational Resources for Therapists & Clients

Our goal is to have potential students and clients interested in PSIP to be as well informed as possible. The informational resources on this page should go a long way to answering many questions. However, we find that cognitive, ordinary consciousness explanations never quite capture how surprising, deep and dynamic psychedelic, somatic processes are. While it is an investment of time, we recommend starting with the very first video below as it captures much of the theory and visceral experience of a PSIP session. While we have placed the videos in an order designed to give you a curated tour through the theory and experience of PSIP, feel free to begin with any resource on this page that calls to you.

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PSI Educational Videos

Mappin the ANS Training Excerpt

PSI Training Excerpt: The role of the body in psychedelic therapy

This video is a useful explanation of how the body & autonomic nervous system generate many mental health symptoms, and how this homeostatic pathway operates in a psychedelic therapy session to resolve trauma. This video is from a PSI training for mental health professionals, but is also quite helpful for clients to understand prior to going into psychedelic treatment. Watching this single video will help you understand a key aspect of the PSIP model and what it looks like applied during a psychedelic session.

PSI Mapping the Autonomic
Nervous System

Community-wide Case Study Excerpt

Psychedelic-assisted PSIP Videos

Working with Negative Transference in a Ketamine PSIP Session

Healing Attachment Trauma in a Cannabis PSIP Session

PSI Founder & Director of Education Receives His Own
Ketamine PSIP Session

Combat Veteran Pilot Study:
Short Session Clips

PSI Testimonal Videos

Dustin Sulak - Physician & Author

"This is a brilliant, very effective, and powerful yet safe combination of systems"

Jeff Sawyer - Addiction Psychiatrist

"It's exponential the ground I've taken since encountering your work"

Nicki Wharton - EMDR trained Psychotherapist

"One hit of cannabis took me where 7 g of mushrooms was not able to"

Danielle Braun-Kauffman -
Registered Clinical Counselor

"It was cannabis, with 2 puff of cannabis"

Client Experience: Tim

"Goddamn - this is medicine!"

Client Experience: Matt

"This is cannabis to the 10th power"

PSI Conference Presentations

2023 Breaking Convention in
Exeter, U.K.

Danish Network for Psychedelic Therapy and Medicine, and Psychedelic Samfund

Podcast Interviews

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Deconstruction podcast

Somatic & Relational Psychedelic Therapy: A New Era in Mental Health

Saj and Rachael discuss the critical role of secure attachment, viewing it as a stabilizing gift that surpasses material wealth. They cover pathways in transpersonal psychedelic therapy, emphasizing the need for thorough preparation, resources, and relational support. They also highlight the importance of addressing negative transference and ethical considerations in therapy.

Back from the Abyss: Psychiatry in Stories

"What does it take to fill the void? Developmental trauma and dissociation with Saj Razvi"

An exploration of treatment resistance, developmental trauma, the absence of experience ("the void") vs dissociation as experience.

Back from the Abyss: Psychiatry in Stories

"Craig and Saj Razvi talk shop— Dissociation, the unconscious, countertransference sadism, and psychedelics"

A deep dive into listener questions, have questions you want us to address in a future episode?

Email them via craigheacockmd.com

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The Psychedelic Entrepreneur

Saj Razvi: The Role of the Body in Psychedelic Therapy | Psychedelic Entrepreneur Beth Weinstein

The importance of interactional therapy and relational healing in PSIP, which addresses relational issues and patterns of attachment. He also highlights the unique properties of cannabis as a unique psychedelic medicine that engages dissociation in a different way than others.

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Allana Pratt : Intimate Conversations

Psychedelic Somatic Integration: Intimate Conversations Podcast

This conversation explains the science of our bodies and psychedelics, as well as the heartfelt experience of being at rest, heart open, trusting our bodies and honoring their capacity to bring us home into wholeness

Embodied Mind

Embodied Mind Interview with Saj Razvi

Embodied Mind's Daniel Cook interviews Saj Razvi from the Psychedelic Somatic Institute, prior to Saj's training on 5/27/22 entitled Psychedelics, the Body & Trauma: Working with Ketamine & Cannabis using Psychedelic Somatic Interactional Psychotherapy (PSIP).

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Back from the Abyss: Psychiatry in Stories

PSYCHEDELIC SOMATIC INTERACTIONAL PSYCHOTHERAPY WITH SAJ RAZVI

The power of cannabis to help with the psychotherapy process, Psychedelic therapy is complex and an art form, The trauma roots of treatment-resistant mental health conditions, etc.

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Elevating Consciousness with Artem Zen

Saj Razvi - Psychedelic Psychotherapy | Elevating Consciousness Podcast #15

How psychedelics work and differ from one another, How developing a strong somatic pathway impacts the psychedelic experience, The biggest problem in psychedelic circles (Why we need relational healing), etc.

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Psychedelic Conversations

Psychedelic Conversations | Saj Razvi - Psychedelic Somatic Institute #56

To discuss a wide variety of topics including psychedelic psychotherapy, the three tiers of transpersonal reality, traditional vs psychedelic therapy, the role of relationship in the window of tolerance, working with transference, the PSI training programs and so much more!

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Allana Pratt : Intimate Conversations

Psychedelic Somatic Integration: Intimate Conversations Podcast

This conversation explains the science of our bodies and psychedelics, as well as the heartfelt experience of being at rest, heart open, trusting our bodies and honoring their capacity to bring us home into wholeness

A Brave New Mind - Psychedelic Medicine in Aotearoa

Saj Razvi - the promises and perils of psychedelic therapy

Saj Razvi has been involved in psychedelic therapy from almost every angle - as a researcher in the MAPS MDMA trials, as a psychotherapist, and now as a trainer of others looking to incorporate psychedelics into their practice. Saj believes that psychedelics don't necessarily fit with traditional therapy, and so has created a modality designed specifically for work with them

Back from the Abyss: Psychiatry in Stories

Healing trauma with psychedelics with Saj Razvi— Part 1

Saj weaves together his three fascinating perspectives— that of a nationally recognized trauma expert, his own personal story of early childhood neglect and how this shaped everything else to come, and finally his long journey of healing the deepest wound a person can have, eventually coming to MDMA and then psilocybin at the latter part of his therapy journey.

Back from the Abyss: Psychiatry in Stories

Healing trauma with psychedelics with Saj Razvi— Part 2

Initially believing his therapy journey to be complete, his mother later develops terminal cancer and his attachment wounds reactivate. This impending loss leads him to seek even more advanced and difficult work with psilocybin and the support of two experienced guides in the Netherlands.

The Journal of Psychedelic Psychiatry

Saj Razvi - Psychedelic Psychotherapy | Elevating Consciousness Podcast #15

Saj Razvi's viewpoint article based on his and Steve Elfrink’s white paper The Psychedelic Somatic Interactional Psychotherapy Model: An introduction to a Novel Therapy can be found in the latest issue of the journal.

The Signs of Life Psychology: Dr Lani Roy

Psychedelic Conversations | Saj Razvi - Psychedelic Somatic Institute #56

Saj will share his extensive knowledge of how to work with traumatic transference using relational dynamics and eye contact in the psychedelic experience.The focus of psychedelic somatic interactional psychotherapy (PSIP) is to maximise the relational and autonomic healing capacity of psychedelic medicine to treat complex, childhood developmental trauma.

Allana Pratt : Intimate Conversations

MDMA, Or Ecstasy, Shows Promise As A PTSD Treatment

"Trauma happens in isolation"

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Therapy Chat

260: How Psychedelic Medicine Can Help In Trauma Recovery with Saj Razvi

Listen in for a fascinating discussion on how psychedelics can help us go deeper in the process of healing trauma. Saj explains how psychedelics help us access different states of consciousness and why this matters in therapy for complex trauma.

Therapy Chat

261: Understanding The Process of Psychedelic Somatic Trauma Therapy with Saj Razvi

He explains the various models of psychedelic-assisted trauma therapy and how Psychedelic Somatic Institute teaches therapists to legally provide psychotherapy to clients using psychedelic medicine in private practice settings, and how this contributes to greater access to these healing medicines than has been available previously.

The Trauma Therapist

Episode 507: Saj Razvi. Psychodelics & Healing Trauma

Initially believing his therapy journey to be complete, his mother later develops terminal cancer and his attachment wounds reactivate. This impending loss leads him to seek even more advanced and difficult work with psilocybin and the support of two experienced guides in the Netherlands.

The Journal of Psychedelic Psychiatry

Saj Razvi - Psychedelic Psychotherapy | Elevating Consciousness Podcast #15

Saj Razvi's viewpoint article based on his and Steve Elfrink’s white paper The Psychedelic Somatic Interactional Psychotherapy Model: An introduction to a Novel Therapy can be found in the latest issue of the journal.

The Signs of Life Psychology: Dr Lani Roy

Psychedelic Conversations | Saj Razvi - Psychedelic Somatic Institute #56

Saj will share his extensive knowledge of how to work with traumatic transference using relational dynamics and eye contact in the psychedelic experience.The focus of psychedelic somatic interactional psychotherapy (PSIP) is to maximise the relational and autonomic healing capacity of psychedelic medicine to treat complex, childhood developmental trauma.

Allana Pratt : Intimate Conversations

MDMA, Or Ecstasy, Shows Promise As A PTSD Treatment

"Trauma happens in isolation"

Therapy Chat

260: How Psychedelic Medicine Can Help In Trauma Recovery with Saj Razvi

Listen in for a fascinating discussion on how psychedelics can help us go deeper in the process of healing trauma. Saj explains how psychedelics help us access different states of consciousness and why this matters in therapy for complex trauma.

Therapy Chat

261: Understanding The Process of Psychedelic Somatic Trauma Therapy with Saj Razvi

He explains the various models of psychedelic-assisted trauma therapy and how Psychedelic Somatic Institute teaches therapists to legally provide psychotherapy to clients using psychedelic medicine in private practice settings, and how this contributes to greater access to these healing medicines than has been available previously.