Queering Psychedelics: Set, Setting & Sacred Joy in Queer Community

Queering 

Psychedelics?

Queering psychedelics means drawing on the insight, resilience, and relational wisdom queer communities have developed and bringing that wisdom into the exploration of altered states of consciousness.

In this workshop with certified psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy providers, we’ll explore how these perspectives can support safer, more embodied, and more connected psychedelic experiences in our communities.

What You’ll Learn & Experience

In this interactive workshop, you’ll learn how to:

• increase safety and nervous system regulation during psychedelic experiences

• enhance pleasure, embodiment, and emotional openness

• consciously shape “set and setting” to support deeper journeys

• use preparation and integration practices drawn from psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy

• navigate identity exploration, relationships, and self-acceptance through psychedelic insight

• build safer, more affirming psychedelic spaces within queer community

Who This Workshop Is For

This space is designed for:

✓ queer individuals exploring psychedelic healing

✓ people seeking more pleasure, embodiment, and self-trust in their journeys

✓ those navigating identity shifts, relationship transitions, or self-acceptance

✓ community members who want safer, more intentional psychedelic spaces

✓ therapists and facilitators wanting to better support queer clients

No prior psychedelic experience is required.

Why This Conversation Matters

Many queer people enter psychedelic experiences carrying layers of minority stress, religious trauma, shame, invisibility, or identity transition. Without affirming spaces and intentional preparation, these realities can shape journeys in ways that feel confusing, isolating, or overwhelming.

At the same time, queer communities hold profound strengths: creativity, resilience, relational awareness, and the capacity to imagine new ways of living.

When psychedelic work is approached intentionally and within affirming community, it can support:

• deeper embodiment and self-trust

• relational healing and authenticity

• erotic reclamation and pleasure

• collective care and belonging

Certified Workshop Facilitators

All workshop facilitators identify as queer and bring lived experience, clinical training, and community care into this work.

Dr. Nicole Thompson (She/her), Psy.D, MA.

Sex and Relationship Psychotherapist

Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy Provider

Host of Modern Anarchy Podcast

Author of The Pyschedelic Jealousy Guide

Founder of The Pleasure Practice

Meggie Twible (She/her), LCSW, SEP

Somatic Psychotherapist

Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy Provider

Founder of Homecoming Therapies

Rick Clark (He/Him), CRNA, APRN

Board Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist

Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy Provider

Founder of Ayafusion Ketamine Clinic

What We’ll Explore Together

✦ Queer Set & Setting

How identity, trauma, and cultural context shape psychedelic experiences and how to create environments that support safety and exploration.

✦ Increasing Pleasure & Embodiment

How nervous system safety allows for more pleasure, openness, and emotional processing. Reclaiming sensation, desire, and erotic aliveness as part of healing.

✦ Psychedelic Frameworks That Support Healing

Core principles from psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, including preparation, intention, and integration and why integration determines long-term growth.

✦ Queer Experiences & Psychedelic Insight

Working with shame, belonging, gender exploration, coming out, and relationship transitions in altered states.

✦ Safety, Ethics & Harm Reduction

Screening considerations, choosing supportive providers, and approaching psychedelic work with care, consent, and responsibility.

✦ Open Q&A with the Clinical Team

Dedicated time is provided for you to ask the medical and clinical team questions, offering clear, informed guidance to support safe, ethical, and well-integrated exploration.

Experiential Workshop

This is an experiential workshop and not just a lecture. You will be guided through:

• gentle somatic practices to deepen embodiment

• reflective journaling prompts

• opportunities for shared insight and community connection

Please bring:

• a journal and pen

• comfortable clothing

• a friend, partner, or chosen family member

• curiosity and openness

What You’ll Leave With

• practical tools to increase safety and pleasure in psychedelic experiences

• preparation and integration practices you can use immediately

• language to advocate for your needs in psychedelic spaces

• deeper understanding of queer-specific experiences in altered states

• a sense of connection and shared community wisdom

An Invitation to Learn Together

This is a free community offering created in the spirit of shared learning and collective care.

You are warmly invited to come with the people you journey with, the friends you trust, and the community you are building. Together, we will explore how psychedelic work can support not only individual healing, but collective queer joy.

Join us as we explore how queer community, intentional care, and psychedelic practice can support deeper healing, embodiment, and connection.