An Elegant Mind Counselling
300 - 1090 Homer Street V6B2W9 Vancouver, BC, Canada

Follow the link in bio to explore whether psychedelic integration therapy is right for you with one of our counsellors #DiveInAndFindYourTruth #AnElegantMindCounselling #PsychedelicIntegration

It’s okay to need a psychiatric medication (and it’s okay to not) Taking an ativan during a situation that would likely make you anxious can help with the neural pruning of that situation being equated with anxiety symptoms or thoughts. Taking an antidepressant so that you can find the energy to see a therapist to work out the stuff that’s making you depressed in the first place is okay.... Needing to take a psych med is nothing to be ashamed of. It’s also okay to advocate for yourself with your doctor in regards to a medication change. If you’re not sure how to proceed with this, working with a therapist can help you feel empowered to do so. Just be mindful that being on a daily dose psychiatric medication might make you ineligible for psychedelic-assisted psychotherapies until you safely wean off under medical supervision. If you need help with discernment on what therapy and medicine integration model works for you, follow our link in bio to book a consultation #DiveInAndFindYourTruth #AnElegantMindCounselling #PsychiatricMedicine

The most popular empathogen in the mainstream psychedelics culture is MDMA. But lately, other classes of similar structure are cropping up as healing medicines such as 3MMC, and 2C-B. GHB is also categorized into the class of empathogens. Empathogen, means "generating a state of empathy", and was coined in 198384 by Ralph Metzner. Recently, David E. Nichols, Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacology proposed that we use the word entactogen, as the word PATHOGEN ...in emPATHOGEN, might be taken to suggest that there is a pathogen in the substates under that class. Entactogen, meaning essentially "to produce a touching within, reflects a drug's ability to facilitate the exploration of "inner" material and enhance introspective states, and was proposed to be used instead. Hence you might see empathogen or entactogen used interchangeably. The debate between the two terms was a high brow discussion of what this class of drugs can do. Nichols argues that empathy is something that can be generated by any skilled therapist, hence we should be calling it an entactogen instead. Nevertheless, the Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Science is in the final stages of clinical trials of the viability of MDMA for PTSD. They are anticipating that by 2022, it will be available to the wider public, which means folks who struggle with introspection or have irretractable forms of trauma/PTSD can benefit from psychopharmacological-assisted psychotherapy! Follow the link in bio to explore whether psychedelic integration therapy is right for you with one of our counsellors #DiveInAndFindYourTruth #AnElegantMindCounselling #PsychedelicTherapy

Pioneer LSD researcher Daniel X. Freedman notes the ‘portentousness’ of LSD states the capacity of the mind to see more than it can tell, to experience more than it can explicate, to believe in and be impressed with more than it can rationally justify, to experience boundlessness and ‘boundaryless’ events, from the banal to the profound LSD is commonly known as a psychedelic, or mind-manifesting medicine Follow the link in bio to explore whether psychedelic integration therapy is right for you with one of our counsellors #DiveInAndFindYourTruth #AnElegantMindCounselling #PsychedelicTherapy