A human-centered psychedelic therapy and transformation practice
We provide psychedelic-assisted care, preparation and integration coaching, as well as direct support for people with addictions. We also train individuals and organizations in our signature dialogic model of care, and consult with programs seeking to build more relational, human-focused approaches to healing.
Where Healing Becomes Human Again
Diagnostic labels. Medications to bring you up or down. Fads that promise to optimize your body and mind. Platitudes that pass for wisdom.
Current Western approaches to healing and fulfillment can rob you of your ability to forge your own path of mending and growth. Sadly (yet perhaps predictably), psychedelic practices are increasingly following the same disempowering trend of one-size-fits-all care, promising miracle cures and spiritual transformation with the snap of a substance.
Cardea is different
Research on human change shows that real and sustained healing begins by looking beyond disease labels to a person’s unique relationship with their suffering. Founded by leaders in the psychotherapeutic arts, psychedelic therapy, and the science of human transformation, Cardea developed a signature dialogic model grounded in relational depth, courageous encounter, and profound respect for the individuality of each person’s path.
Whether we are providing care, supporting integration, addressing addiction, training practitioners, or working with organizations, our work centers on the same commitment: to meet people not only in their suffering, but in their longing to grow, expand, and become more fully themselves.
If you would like to know more about our philosophy and what drives our work, we invite you to read our manifesto.
The Cardea Manifesto
“The most effective medicine is being witnessed and cared for by compassionate others.”
“Experts in helping a person get into the right mind for a journey and providing the right environment to journey well.”
“A collaboration between the ineffable space of your unique soul and a world made by others; and the end result is a one-of-a-kind encounter.”
“This group, made up of individuals with decades of experience in the use of these medicines, holds an antidote to the current trend of pathologization in service of sales”
“Psychedelic experiences can lead people on paths of self-inquiry and growth that extend through time and space.”
“Psychedelics have the potential to help people …discover new possibilities and new joy. But the effects of psychoactive drugs can never be detached from their setting.”
“We must offer a menu of choices as varied and complex as humans are.”
Events
Blog
The Art of Holding
I hold you in my mind reading these words long before [...]
Into the Wilds of Transformation
Choose a term: change, recovery, healing, expansiveness, realization, actualization, wholeness, fulfillment [...]
Cardea Introduces The Lascaux Method
Human transformation as art, and a new form of ketamine-assisted psychotherapy... [...]
