meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
The Balanced Blonde // Soul On Fire

252. Nicholas Bruss: Breaking the Psychedelic Stigma: Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy, MDMA, Integration & More

The Balanced Blonde // Soul On Fire

Dear Media

Health & Fitness, Balancedblondespiritualitywellness

4.6 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2021

⏱️ 73 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Nicholas Bruss is an integrative psychotherapist who was instrumental to Jordan's mental health growth and healing from 2015 to around 2018. Since working together, he's evolved his traditional practice to become a researcher, advocate, and specialist in the field of psychedelic-assisted therapy, a topic close to Jordan's heart. 

This episode goes beyond the anecdotal reflections of psychedelic experiences and deep dives into the science and current research surrounding psychedelics as medicinal tools. Nicolas Bruss is a member of MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies) and the founder of The Psychedelic Coalition. Both groups are committed to eliminating the stigma attached to "drugs," such as ketamine and MDMA, by advocating for their health benefits with solid research. It's fascinating to learn more about how the legalization process is progressing for MDMA, which is on the cusp of being FDA approved to treat PTSD.

If you have burning questions on psychedelic therapies, this episode delivers so much factual information, grounded in scientific understanding and clinical research, to sate your curiosity. Nick generously shares how he trained with MDMA himself and invites us all to connect to the study and investigate this new paradigm of mental health.

Thanks to Organifi for sponsoring this episode. Jordan is such a fan of their superfood blends of adaptogenic herbs and mushrooms to fight stress and boost energy. Simply mix a scoop with water or plant-based milk of your choice to uplevel your nutrition on the go. Head to organifi.com/balanced and use the code “BALANCED” for 20% off all products. 

Thanks to Sakara Life for sponsoring this episode. This plant-based food brand delivers delicious organic meals and daily wellness essentials straight to your door. Get 20% off your first order by going on sakara.com/balanced and enter “BLONDE20” at checkout. 

To learn more, and for the complete show notes, visit: http://www.thebalancedblonde.com/podcast/

Resources:

            Learn More: 


The Balanced Blonde is a production of Crate Media

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Hello and welcome back to the Balanced Fond Podcast, Solon Fire. I'm your host Jordan

0:18.1

Younger and I'm so happy that you're here. If this is your first time listening to the

0:22.8

show, you picked a good episode to get acquainted with. This is a very informative and special

0:29.8

episode with someone who actually used to be my therapist and everyone who's been in therapy

0:37.5

knows that you have a very close relationship with your therapist. In most traditional therapy,

0:43.0

your therapist knows so much about you, if not everything, and you know next to nothing about

0:49.2

them. And that was the case between myself and Nick, who's on the podcast today. And I saw Nick

0:56.5

from roughly 2015 to 2017. That's where we pretty much determined when he got here the other day.

1:05.3

And recently I was scrolling Instagram and saw this psychedelic symposium that's coming up that's

1:13.4

being hosted by a friend of a friend as well as Nick. And I see his face. I see his name and

1:20.2

immediately jumps out to me. And I got so excited. I went to his website and I saw that he now

1:26.4

practices not just integrative psychotherapy, but also ketamine assisted psychotherapy and psychedelic

1:34.0

integration. And you guys know I am so into psychedelics. I have had so many of my own experiences

1:41.7

with psychedelics and all of that had happened after I was in therapy with Nick. Nick helped me so much

1:49.7

with my personal involvement with traumas that I was moving through. He practices a system called

1:56.8

internal family systems, which is something that we talk a little bit about in this episode,

2:02.8

which basically relates to parts of ourself and not work with Nick helped me so much. For example,

2:10.6

you could say a part of me is really excited for today's podcast interview and a part of me is

2:16.1

nervous, hypothetically, something like that. And we use that to work through trauma and so many

2:23.6

other things. So we didn't talk a lot about traditional therapy in this episode because I am

2:30.4

just thrilled to finally have a psychedelic expert on the show. I've been talking endlessly

2:37.0

about my ayahuasca journeys and psilocybin journeys. And I've had a couple of different experts

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Dear Media, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Dear Media and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.