A Practice Of

Freedom

Integrative & Psychedelic-
Assisted Psychotherapy

A Practice Of

Freedom

Integrative & Psychedelic-Assisted

IFS Psychotherapy & Coaching

My Approach

Fear, anger, grief, and trauma can disconnect us from ourselves and our lives and cause limiting beliefs and destructive patterns. I offer a practice and a space to connect you with your core aliveness and your inner knowing. From this connection, vitality and inner harmony emerge, along with a newfound trust in your own truth. The confidence and presence to meet life as it is, address whatever is arising, and experience more intimacy in your relationships, naturally arise within you.

This Work Invites You
This work invites you

to fully live your life and find a home in your own body. This distinctly collaborative process calls us to authentically show up so we can engage in a deeply explorative and highly rewarding journey together. It is actually your body’s desire and ability to heal that reveals what needs your attention. What I bring is an unwavering trust that you have this capacity, and that you contain this inner knowing.

This Work Reconnects You
This work reconnects you

with your own brilliance and wisdom. How? By together meeting anything that gets in your way of accessing it, and by deploying awareness, cultivating a curious and compassionate stance, and simply by welcoming it. We’ll study your relational patterns and current lifestyle, refining your communication skills, identifying and strengthening resources, and integrating the different aspects of yourself.

This Work is a Movement
This work is a movement

into alignment with your whole self now, shifting from perpetuating outdated limited narratives or preoccupying planning/waiting for a future version. What emerges is a felt-sense of connection and the ability to respond more skillfully and creatively to whatever challenges arise.

This Work Fosters Harmony
This work fosters harmony

between the different, and sometimes disowned, parts of the constellation that is you. Including your desire, fear, anger, grief, spontaneity, and innocence. We practice attuning to and relating with your direct experience, as it is, rather than reacting to interpretations about it. We cultivate an alliance with all parts of you and your inner knowing. It’s a training on how to know and be your true self.

This Work Reveals Wholeness
This work reveals wholeness

through radical inclusion of the different aspects that make up your life. Interpersonal relationships (such as with intimate partners, friends, family, and colleagues), lifestyle aspects (such as sleep, exercise, diet, drugs, work, play, and contemplative practices), and the context of one’s life (such as race/ethnicity, cultural perspectives, transgenerational trauma, and sociopolitical factors), all come together and are held by a unified point of view.

Services

Ketamine-
Assisted
Psychotherapy
(KAP)

Concierge program
individually designed for
transformation.

Internal
Family
Systems
(IFS)

Powerful modality
that brings forth
balance and vitality.

Coaching &
Psychedelic
Integration

Guiding your journey
within: Empowering
growth and healing.

Speaking, Consulting & Training

Inspiring industry leadership
while prioritizing safety
and ethics.

Psychedelic Research &
Advocacy

Advancing clinical research
and educating about
psychedelic medicine.

MDMA-Assisted
Psychotherapy
(Coming Soon)

Unlocking the innate
healing potential to
transform lives.

Psilocybin-Assisted
Psychotherapy
(Coming Soon)

Awakening inner
healing potential to
transform lives.

Here are some of the ways

that I can assist you:

To me, therapy is a powerful transformational experience, a way to get unstuck and grow. While uncovering your own freedom you’ll be met by my curious and compassionate presence, my grounded and catalyzing perspective, and my unwavering support.”

- Nick Brüss

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Ketamine-
Assisted
Psychotherapy
(KAP)

Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) is a leading edge therapeutic process that can deepen the psychotherapeutic experience, making it easier for clients to access parts of themselves that may be more protected. Ketamine is currently the only legally accessible psychedelic medicine and has a fifty-year history of safe use worldwide as an anesthetic agent in medical procedures. Used in sub-anesthetic doses, ketamine has been shown to be effective for many mental health conditions such as depression, anxiety and suicidality.

Combining Internal Family Systems (IFS) with KAP can accelerate a healing process, assisting your innate healing capacity by unburdening the parts of you that hold entrenched limiting beliefs and/or maintain painful habits. I offer concierge ketamine-assisted IFS therapy (KA-IFS) programs for people to deepen awareness of maladaptive misbeliefs and patterns, and interrupt and transform them. My KA-IFS programs are 4-8 weeks and include preparatory sessions, weekly ketamine-assisted sessions, weekly integration sessions, and daily integration practices. Clients have said that through this work they learn to better befriend themselves, get aligned with their higher Self, and experience the free, connected wholeness of who they are.

Internal
Family
Systems
(IFS)

Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a clear, non-pathologizing and empowering modality that I utilize to help you detect and then deepen your relationship with the various parts of your experience (like an inner-critic, shutdown or worrier part). I’m a longtime certified IFS therapist and a leading psychedelic-assisted IFS therapist. I’m Level 3 trained and IFSI-approved Clinical Consultant.

The limiting patterns and associated negative beliefs that hold you back, likely learned earlier in life and reinforced over years, were adaptive for a time. IFS therapy connects you with your inner healing intelligence that then updates outdated ways of being and brings forth balance and aliveness. It’s a training on how to know and be your true self. Simply put, this work establishes you, not your fears or limiting beliefs, as the leader of your precious life.

Coaching & Psychedelic
Integration

I bring my extensive training and multi-modal therapy expertise to coaching and psychedelic integration. Like psychotherapy, coaching focuses on helping you heal and achieve your future goals by exploring your history, relationships, and behavioral patterns and establishing you, your core self, as the leader of your life. While psychotherapy with me is limited to residents of CA, NY, TX, and CO, coaching and psychedelic integration are available worldwide. Note that health insurance typically does not reimburse coaching.

Integration means to make whole or to bring into wholeness. Psychedelic integration is an ongoing process of learning from psychedelic medicine-assisted sessions to catalyze meaningful change and move from rigidity and chaos into harmony.

After a psychedelic experience, it’s not uncommon to feel flooded with information, overwhelmed by emotion, and have a lack of clarity around what to do next. Durable healing and sustainable growth are the results of harvesting insights and experiences and practicing new, self-loving lifestyle choices. Action and practice are required.

Support in psychedelic integration ideally begins with preparation before the medicine experience, such as clarifying your intentions and developing tools for your journey. After the journey, integration is supported through experienced coaching that guides a process of inquiry, empowering you to incorporate your increased awareness into actionable positive growth.

Speaking, Consulting & Training

As a seasoned psychotherapist, clinical supervisor and an expert in the field in psychedelic-assisted therapy, I’m passionate about educating mental health professionals, organizations, and the public about safely harnessing the therapeutic potential of psychedelic medicine.

My speaking engagements are thought-provoking and impactful. Drawing upon my expertise and experience of psychedelic medicines in multiple contexts, I aim to educate and inspire audiences on the benefits, challenges, and nuanced considerations of this groundbreaking approach to healing and consciousness exploration.

In addition to speaking, I provide consulting services to mental health organizations, businesses, and individuals seeking guidance on integrating psychedelic-assisted therapy into their practices. With a nuanced understanding of the complexities of this emerging field, I offer practical solutions and expert advice to help clients navigate the clinical, ethical, and regulatory considerations involved.

My training programs are designed to empower mental health professionals with the knowledge and skills they need to effectively incorporate psychedelic-assisted therapy into their work. From introductory workshops to advanced training sessions, I provide pertinent and accessible learning experiences that equip clinicians and guides with the tools and techniques they need to facilitate safe, transformative, and ethical psychedelic experiences for their clients.

Inquiries to acquire illegal substances (LSD, psilocybin, MDMA, etc.) and referrals to underground practitioners will not be entertained. If you are looking for psychedelic-assisted clinical research trials, search here.

Psychedelic
Research &
Advocacy

Having seen the power of psychedelic-assisted therapy, I advocate and educate for science over stigma and am inspired to provide reliable information and integrated training to work and explore with psychedelic medicines. In the field of psychedelic-assisted therapies, I have worked as a seasoned psychotherapist, a professional trainer, a recognized speaker and expert, a clinical researcher, and a passionate contributor to the current paradigm shift in mental healthcare. I am also pioneering a blended approach utilizing Internal Family Systems therapy and psychedelic medicine.

I was a therapist and supervisor on the groundbreaking Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) sponsored FDA Phase III clinical trial of MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD and lead therapist on the Compass Pathways’ FDA Phase III investigation for psilocybin-assisted treatment for treatment-resistant depression. For the TREAT California ballot initiative, I served as the Director of Psychedelic Medicine Advocacy.

Inquiries to acquire illegal substances (LSD, psilocybin, MDMA, etc.) and referrals to underground practitioners will not be entertained. If you are looking for psychedelic-assisted clinical research trials, search here.

MDMA-
Assisted
Psychotherapy

*Coming Soon

MDMA-assisted psychotherapy is on the horizon. As a therapist and supervisor on the groundbreaking Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) sponsored FDA Phase III clinical trial of MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD, I’ve seen first-hand the power of this modality. I eagerly await the FDA’s approval (possibly in the Fall 2024) and to bring this healing medicine-therapy combo to a considerable amount of suffering people.

MDMA-assisted psychotherapy is a leading-edge therapeutic approach that harnesses the power of MDMA (3,4 methylenedioxymethamphetamine) to enhance the psychotherapeutic process. Within the safe and supportive container of therapy, it facilitates deep healing and profound insights with heightened clarity and compassion, paving the way for lasting positive change in their lives.

Research continues to demonstrate the therapeutic potential of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy. (nature.com)

Inquiries to acquire illegal substances (LSD, psilocybin, MDMA, etc.) and referrals to underground practitioners will not be entertained. If you are looking for psychedelic-assisted clinical research trials, search here.

Psilocybin-
Assisted
Psychotherapy

*Coming Soon

Psilocybin, the psychoactive compound found in certain species of mushrooms, has shown remarkable promise in clinical trials for its ability to catalyze profound healing and personal growth. In the safe and supportive container of therapy, clients can expect to embark on a deeply introspective journey, exploring the inner realms of consciousness and unlocking insights that can lead to lasting transformation. 

While psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy will not be available until late 2024, Colorado voters passed Proposition 122 in Colorado in 2022, which decriminalized the personal use of psilocybin mushrooms for individuals at least 21 years of age.

Currently, within Colorado, I legally provide counseling, guidance, and support services for your personal use of psilocybin under the new state law limitations. With a focus on safety and personalized care, I am dedicated to helping my clients navigate and get the most from their psychedelic experiences.

I’m at the forefront of psilocybin-assisted therapy as a clinical researcher, lead therapist with Compass Pathways’ investigation for psilocybin-assisted treatment for treatment-resistant depression, and as a psilocybin-assisted therapy trainer for TheraPsil.

Research continues to demonstrate the therapeutic power of psilocybin-assisted therapy. (see links below for more)

JAMA

NIH

Inquiries to acquire illegal substances (LSD, psilocybin, MDMA, etc.) and referrals to underground practitioners will not be entertained. If you are looking for psychedelic-assisted clinical research trials, search here.

More About
Dr. Brüss

Dr. Nick Brüss is a paradigm-shifting psychedelic therapist, researcher and trainer who is whole-heartedly invested in helping people heal, grow and live free in their lives (with and without the use of psychedelic medicine).

He is passionate about teaching people how to free themselves from suffering, to live in their body, and to engage a creative and meaningful life. He does this by supporting and challenging clients to re-experience themselves as whole, by building life-changing programs, training the next generation of clinicians and educating the public about the vast benefits of psychedelic-assisted therapies

Nick is a therapist and clinical supervisor on the ground breaking FDA Phase III clinical trial of MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD sponsored by Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). Having provided ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP) since 2017 and Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy since 2013, he is a leader in psychedelic-assisted IFS therapy. He is a co-founder and lead clinical trainer at the Psychedelic Coalition for Health (PCH), a psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy trainer at TheraPsil, and a volunteer with MAPS’s Zendo Project.

Having seen the power of psychedelic-assisted therapy, Nick advocates and educates for science over stigma and is inspired to provide reliable information and integrated training to work and explore with psychedelic medicines.

He is also a Certified Mindfulness Facilitator through UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, and a certified teacher of both Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC), and the Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT) through the Center for Compassion, Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) at Stanford University School of Medicine.

Specialized Training