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The Therapeutic Use of Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness to Treat Addiction: Psychedelic Psychotherapies, Integrative Health Practices, and Beyond

Sat, Mar 7th, 2026
2:00pm – 4:00pm US Eastern Time
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About the Event

For millennia, “Non-ordinary States of Consciousness” (NSC) have played a central role in healing and spiritual practices of many traditional cultures worldwide. Many contemporary integrative mental health practices now leverage NSC to heal such challenges as anxiety, depression, and trauma. Perhaps the most unexpected role of NSC is in the treatment of substance use disorders.

In this workshop we explore the diversity of promising ways NSC can help people transcend substance addictions and heal the psychological wounds that drive them. We investigate specific methods including psychedelic psychotherapy; as well as integrative health practices and mental health treatments that employ NSC without the use of pharmacological medicines. We provide resources for further information and exploration.

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This live online event will be held as a Zoom Webinar. Attendees will have the option to interact through features such as the Chat and Q&A, but cameras and microphones will not be enabled.

Live Event Instructor

Martin Lajoie

Martin Lajoie

Dr. Marty Lajoie, PsyD is the founder and director of Holistic Psychology Inc., an integrative mental health therapist group practice in Santa Rosa, CA. He has also worked for the past decade in psychological leadership at Duffy’s Napa Valley Treatment, an integrative treatment center for substance addictions in Calistoga. For several years, he helped develop and direct Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy programs at Be The Change in Mental Health and Window’s Health Clinic in Sonoma County. He earned his Masters and Doctorate in clinical psychology from California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, where he conducted dissertation research on integrative and psychedelic-assisted approaches to treating substance use disorders. He underwent post-doctoral training in Internal Family Systems (IFS), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Motivational Interviewing (MI), Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR), Brainspotting, and Nonviolent Communication (NVC), as well as certification in Integrative Mental Health and Neurodynamic Breathwork facilitation, and post-graduate certification training in psychedelic assisted therapies with the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) and Polaris Insight Center.

Dr. Lajoie is also an instructor in the addiction counseling department at Santa Rosa Junior College, where he teaches several classes in the substance use disorder counseling department including neurophysiology and pharmacology of addiction, and mentors students entering the field. In the decade prior to psychology, Marty worked as a residential care counselor at the County of Sonoma’s child protective services shelter, and in the decade before that, he produced and performed at large-scale events in the San Francisco Bay Area electronic dance music scene. In his personal life, Marty has been a consistently active and contributing member of addiction recovery support communities since 2004 — an experience that, in particular, inspired him to further his education and become the psychologist he is today.

Target Audience

This live interactive webinar is intended for behavioral health professionals, including Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors, MFT's and Addiction Professionals.

Learning Objectives

After taking this activity, you should be able to:

  1. 1 Define “Non-ordinary States of Consciousness” and conceptualize them on a spectrum.
  2. 2 Differentiate addictive substance use from normal, adaptive, or therapeutic use.
  3. 3 Identify the 3 common phases and 3 vital components of psychedelic psychotherapy.
  4. 4 Explore facilitated breathwork rituals that induce or mimic a psychedelic experience.
  5. 5 Locate resources for further information, treatments, and practices.

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Gingras, B., Pohler, G., & Fitch, W. T. (2014). Exploring shamanic journeying: Repetitive drumming with shamanic instructions induces specific subjective experiences but no larger cortisol decrease than instrumental meditation music. PloS one, 9(7), e102103. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0102103.

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