How To Take Psychedelics for Your Mental Health with Dr. Will Van Derveer

The Anxious Achiever

Morra Aarons-Mele

Business, Careers, Management, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.7 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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This week we’re sharing a special episode from our friends at How To!, the 2026 Ambie Award-nominated “Best Personal Growth Podcast” that’s back with a new host and new topics to fuel your curiosity. Each week on How To!, award-winning journalist Mike Pesca tackles a listener’s question – on topics ranging from travel and finance to health and relationships – with help from world-class experts who actually know what they're talking about. Think of it as eavesdropping on someone else's therapy session, without the co-pay or awkward silence. And today, we’re sharing their recent episode “How To Take Psychedelics for Your Mental Health” where Mike interviews psychiatrist Will Van der Veer, a psychedelic researcher, and Myq Kaplan who has taken psychedelics for his mental health and other reasons. I love this episode because you get to hear a bunch of personal experiences of medical psychedelics and learn more about this emerging treatment for mental health conditions. And for more interviews like this, make sure to follow How To! on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. And tell them we sent you.

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1:35.0	nominated for the best personal growth podcast at the 2026 Ambie Awards. And each week on
1:41.5	how to, journalist Mike Peska, tackles a listener's question on topics ranging from travel and finance to health and relationships.
1:49.6	And he does it with help from world-class experts who actually know what they're talking about.
1:54.5	Think of it as eavesdropping on someone else's therapy session without the co-pay or the awkward silence.
2:00.5	Today we're sharing their recent episode
2:02.5	How to Take Psychedelics for Your Mental Health, where Mike interviews psychiatrist Will Vandevere.
2:07.8	I love this episode because you get to hear a variety of personal experiences of medical psychedelics
2:14.2	and learn more about this emerging treatment for mental health conditions. For a great episode on leadership and psychedelics and learn more about this emerging treatment for mental health conditions. For a great
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