PT248 – Pierre Bouchard – Somatic Therapy, Trauma, and the Nervous System
Psychedelics Today
Psychedelics Today, LLC
4.6 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2021
⏱️ 77 minutes
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In this episode, Kyle interviews licensed counselor specializing in somatics and ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, Pierre Bouchard. They dig deep into somatics, the polyvagal theory, and how trauma affects the nervous system.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. Welcome back to psychedelics today. This is your host, Kyle Buller, flying solo on this |
| 0:18.5 | episode with Pierre Bouchard. Really, really excited to have PR on the show finally. |
| 0:24.2 | If you've been following us, you might remember some of Pierre's work. |
| 0:27.6 | He actually DJed at our five-year party or five-year online anniversary, which was super |
| 0:33.4 | fun. |
| 0:33.9 | So thanks, Pierre, for the little DJ set. |
| 0:36.8 | And if you follow our blog, you may remember |
| 0:39.2 | an article by Pierre about conducting and curating a playlist for psychedelic experiences. And if |
| 0:46.3 | you haven't checked that out, go over to psychedelics today, check out the blog and look for that |
| 0:50.5 | article. Really, really great. I think Pierre brings a lot of great insight to that, |
| 0:55.8 | being a DJ and having a deep interest in music and also providing ketamine therapy. I think he's |
| 1:02.1 | been in practice for three years. So Pierre is a psychotherapist, somatic psychotherapist, |
| 1:08.2 | and offers ketamine-assisted psychotherapy. And so in this episode, we explore the somatic psychotherapist and offers ketamine-assisted psychotherapy. And so in this episode, |
| 1:12.6 | we explore the somatic approaches, what is somatic psychology, and how to incorporate somatic |
| 1:20.4 | therapies into ketamine practices. And Pierre and I actually get into this conversation a little bit more on our navigating psychedelics class. |
| 1:30.9 | For some reason, I always think Pierre has been on the podcast, but he joins us pretty frequently on our class. |
| 1:37.0 | So really fun. I'll leave the intro for Pierre there and just some reminders quickly before we get this episode rolling. So if you like what |
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