The Future of Mental Health: Psychedelics, Trauma Recovery, and the Enneagram
About this episode
Ian Morgan Cron discusses psychedelic-assisted therapy and its implications for trauma recovery with Keith Kurlander and Will Van Derveer.
There are conversations that stretch you a little. And then there are conversations that gently but firmly rearrange the furniture in your mind. This week, I sat down with Keith Kurlander and Will Van Derveer—co-founders of the Integrative Psychiatry Institute—to talk about something that's generating a lot of curiosity and, let's be honest, some anxiety: psychedelic-assisted therapy. Before you brace yourself, this isn't a hype session. It's a thoughtful, grounded conversation about trauma, the nervous system, and what happens when traditional therapy isn't enough to reach the deepest layers of pain we carry. We explored how trauma shapes our personalities, how it imprints on the body, and why insight alone often doesn't create lasting change. As someone who cares deeply about the Enneagram and recovery, I found this especially compelling. So much of our personality structure is built around adaptation—strategies that once kept us safe but now quietly run the show. Keith and Will explain how psychedelic-assisted therapy, when done legally and in carefully structured clinical settings, may help people access and heal places that feel otherwise unreachable. We also talk about the…
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Guests: Keith Kurlander, Will Van Derveer
Topics covered
- mental health
- psychedelics
- trauma recovery
- Enneagram
- therapy
Keywords
- psychedelic-assisted therapy
- nervous system
- personality
- healing
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