Psychedelics & Art Therapy

A Two-Part Professional Training in Preparation, Integration & the Creative Process

October 5 – November 30, 2026 | Live Online via Zoom

Discover how art therapy can offer a vital bridge between psychedelic experience and meaningful, embodied integration.

Psychedelic experiences can bring forward imagery, emotions, memories, bodily sensations, archetypal material, and insights that can be difficult to capture through words alone.

Art therapy offers another language.

Through image-making, metaphor, symbolism, somatic awareness, and the creative process, experiences that may initially feel ineffable can be witnessed, externalized, explored, and integrated over time.

Psychedelics & Art Therapy is an immersive two-part professional training series exploring how art therapy and somatic approaches can support psychedelic preparation and integration within a trauma-informed and harm-reduction framework.

Rather than a course teaching people how to use psychedelics, this training focuses on the therapeutic work surrounding psychedelic and other non-ordinary state experiences—and particularly on the unique role that art therapy can play throughout that journey.

Developed and taught by Charmaine Husum, RCAT-S, DKATI, RCS, MTC, CT, author of Psychedelics and Art Therapy: A Trauma-Informed Manual for Somatic Self-Discovery (Routledge, 2025), this training draws upon more than a decade of clinical practice, research, teaching, and international presentation in psychedelic preparation and integration.

ONE TRAINING. TWO PROGRESSIVE PARTS.

Parts One and Two have been intentionally designed as a progressive learning journey.

Part One establishes the foundation. Part Two builds upon and expands it.

Participants are strongly encouraged to register for the complete series from the outset to experience the full arc of the training.

Complete Two-Part Training

24 CE hours
8 weeks of training
October 5 – November 30, 2026

Regular tuition when purchased separately: $990 CAD

Register for both parts together for $891 CAD

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Participants completing the entire training will also be eligible to receive a Complete Training Certificate recognizing 24 hours of study in Psychedelics & Art Therapy: Preparation, Integration & Expanding the Journey.

PART ONE

Psychedelics & Art Therapy: Preparation & Integration

October 5 – November 2, 2026
3:30–5:30 PM PT
No class October 19

Part One establishes the theoretical, ethical, creative, and trauma-informed foundations for incorporating art therapy and somatic approaches into psychedelic preparation and integration.

Participants will explore how creative and non-verbal approaches can help establish safety before an experience, support expression and meaning-making afterward, and provide ways of working with material that may be difficult to access through verbal processing alone.

Areas of exploration include:

• Understanding psychedelic and other non-ordinary states of consciousness
• The historical relationship between art and altered states
• Art therapy theory within psychedelic preparation and integration
• Trauma-informed and harm-reduction approaches
• Ethical considerations when incorporating art into psychedelic therapy
• Using art therapy to support preparation
• Art materials: clinical considerations, precautions, and possibilities
• Creative interventions across preparation, experience, and integration
• Set and setting
• Safety, stabilization, grounding, and nervous-system regulation
• Somatic approaches and embodied integration
• Meditation and contemplative practices
• Transpersonal and spiritual approaches
• Archetypes, shadow material, and the collective unconscious
• Parts work, IFS-informed approaches, inner-child work, and reparenting
• Attachment and boundaries
• Dreamwork
• Neuroplasticity, the Default Mode Network, creativity, and non-ordinary states
• Translating psychedelic insights into meaningful and sustainable change
• Indigenous perspectives and considerations surrounding plant medicines
• Legal and ethical considerations
• Precautions and contraindications
• Different psychedelic medicines and other pathways into non-ordinary states

Throughout the course, theory is paired with experiential art-making, reflection, practical applications, and opportunities to explore how these approaches may translate into therapeutic practice.

PART TWO

Psychedelics & Art Therapy: Expanding the Journey

November 9 – November 30, 2026
3:30–5:30 PM PT

Part Two continues directly from the foundations established in Part One.

This advanced portion of the training moves deeper into the intersection of art therapy, psychedelics, creativity, spirituality, somatic practice, and non-ordinary states.

Through advanced concepts, experiential practices, and guest teachings, participants will expand their therapeutic toolkit while considering broader ways that creativity can support preparation, integration, meaning-making, embodiment, and transformation.

Areas of exploration include:

• Advanced trauma-informed and harm-reduction approaches
• Ethical considerations and energetic safety
• Expressive arts within psychedelic preparation and integration
• Sound and creative approaches
• Visionary art and non-ordinary states
• Breathwork and alternative pathways into non-ordinary states
• Spiritual and transpersonal dimensions of psychedelic experiences
• Indigenous perspectives and considerations
• Working creatively with imagery, symbolism, metaphor, and embodied experience
• Advanced experiential art therapy practices
• Applying creative approaches within professional practice

Part Two also includes:

Guest Presentations
Learn from invited experts bringing additional perspectives from the fields of psychedelic therapy, consciousness, expressive arts, spirituality, and non-ordinary states.

Experiential Learning
Engage directly with art-making, creative directives, somatic exploration, reflection, and group discussion.

Clinical & Practical Application
Explore ways of translating theory into thoughtful, ethical therapeutic practice.

IMPORTANT: PART TWO BUILDS UPON PART ONE

Unlike previous versions of this training in which an advanced course could be taken independently, this two-part series has been intentionally designed as a progressive training.

Participants registering for Part Two must have completed Part One or have previously completed an equivalent foundational Psychedelics & Art Therapy training with Charmaine Husum.

If you are new to this training, we recommend registering for Parts One and Two together to experience the complete learning journey.

WHO IS THIS TRAINING FOR?

This training may be particularly valuable for:

• Art therapists and expressive arts therapists
• Counsellors, psychotherapists, psychologists, and other mental-health professionals
• Psychedelic-assisted therapy practitioners
• Psychedelic integration therapists and coaches
• Students and emerging practitioners
• Guides, facilitators, and others working within psychedelic-support settings
• Professionals interested in trauma-informed, somatic, creative, and transpersonal approaches
• Individuals with a serious educational or professional interest in psychedelic integration and the healing potential of creativity

No previous artistic skill is required.

This is an educational training in art therapy approaches to psychedelic preparation and integration. It is not training in the administration or facilitation of psychedelic medicines.

WHY ART THERAPY?

Psychedelic experiences frequently move beyond ordinary language.

People may encounter powerful imagery, memories, emotions, bodily sensations, symbols, archetypal material, spiritual experiences, and insights that can be difficult to explain—or even fully understand—immediately afterward.

The creative process offers another way of knowing.

Art can provide a tangible bridge between an internal experience and the external world. It can help individuals capture what might otherwise be forgotten, return to important imagery over time, externalize difficult material, engage metaphor and symbolism, and develop new relationships with what emerged during a non-ordinary state.

For therapists and practitioners, art therapy can therefore offer valuable tools for supporting preparation, safety, exploration, meaning-making, and longer-term integration.

As interest in psychedelic-assisted therapy continues to expand, developing thoughtful, ethical, trauma-informed approaches to integration becomes increasingly important.

This training places art therapy directly within that conversation.

WHAT YOU WILL RECEIVE

Participants will have access to:

• Live online teaching via Zoom
• Experiential art therapy practices
• Guest presentations
• Course handouts and learning resources
• Google Classroom materials
• Recordings of all sessions
• Opportunities for reflection and discussion
• Certificate of completion upon request
• Self-study CE hours

All sessions are recorded, allowing registered participants to participate across different schedules and time zones or revisit course material afterward.

CONTINUING EDUCATION

12 self-study CE hours are available for each part.

Participants completing both Parts One and Two are eligible for 24 self-study CE hours and may request a certificate recognizing completion of the full two-part training series.

Participants are responsible for confirming whether these hours meet the continuing-education requirements of their individual professional association or regulatory body.

TUITION

Part One -$495 CAD

Part Two - $495 CAD

Complete Two-Part Training - $990 CAD
$891 CAD -Save $99 when you register for both parts together.

For participants wishing to experience the most comprehensive training, the two-part registration is recommended.

All registration fees are in Canadian dollars.

Testimonials

"I am happy to see the depth and scope of the wisdom presented and the link with art therapy and the topic of psychedelics. Charmaine provides a very common sense, grounded, and WISE approach. Art therapy professionals need competencies to assist clients and the medical profession who are turning to psychedelics for healing. It is a tool for healing." - Jan Grygier

"Thank you so much, this class is opening my mind to so many new possibilities, very grateful. A big takeaway for me is the level of professionalism here. It is really reassuring to me to have a space that can be rigorous and open, scientific and artful, just feeling very balanced in many ways and allowing us to think for ourselves and experiment . It just feels very hopeful to me to find a space that feels so open and beautiful and still contained and academic" - Heidi

"Thank you for your heartfelt offerings. the learnings and art directives extend my expectations, the offerings can be applied to so many other ways other than psychedelic journeying. I really enjoyed the content and wisdom you shared with us." - Anna Schwank

“I am one of your students in the KATI Psychedelic Integration and Art Therapy course and I am so impressed with the amount of care and knowledge and everything that you and Rebecca are putting into this work. It has given me the courage to really sink more deeply into my authentic expression of myself as an art therapist, I am very grateful”. - Anonymous

“The workbook, the between-class assignments, the didactic lectures, the practice sessions with other students in break-out room -- So grateful for the rich offering of various ways to integrate the material”. - Lucinda Flavel

“I learned that my subconscious was speaking to me through my art. This course is a wealth of knowledge. course was great and I hope that others will take it”. - Liala Halawa 

Facilitator Bio

Charmaine Husum, RCAT-S, MTC, RCS, CT, DKATI, is a Registered Canadian Art Therapist, Somatic Counsellor, clinical supervisor, author, educator, and international presenter with over 13 years of experience working in the field of psychedelics and altered states of consciousness. Her work specializes in bringing art therapy and somatic approaches into psychedelic preparation and integration, with an emphasis on trauma-informed practice, harm reduction, and giving form to experiences that can be difficult to express through words alone.

As an Art Therapy Trainer with TheraPsil, she trains healthcare professionals and practitioners in the use of art therapy and trauma-informed approaches within psychedelic-assisted therapeutic care. She is also an instructor with the Kutenai Art Therapy Institute (KATI) and has taught and presented internationally on psychedelics, art therapy, trauma, somatic healing, creativity, and altered states of consciousness.

Through her private practice, Centre of the HeArt, she works with clients in person and internationally online and has facilitated post-ceremony psychedelic integration groups in Canada, the United States, and Peru. Her integrative approach draws upon art therapy, somatic psychotherapy, parts work, meditation, dreamwork, and transpersonal approaches.

She is the author of Psychedelics and Art Therapy: A Trauma-Informed Manual for Somatic Self-Discovery (Routledge, 2025) and author and illustrator of Sacred Geometry Visionary Art. Her work has received endorsements from leading voices in psychedelic, transpersonal, and art therapy, including Stanislav and Brigitte Grof, Monica Carpendale, Dr. Bruce Tobin, and Dr. Duncan Grady.

Central to her work is a commitment to advancing the role of art therapy within psychedelic-assisted therapy—supporting preparation, integration, meaning-making, and the expression of experiences that can exist beyond words.

More information about her work, courses, and publications can be found at Centre of the HeArt.