Coaching & Psychedelics: How Far Can We Go?
A live 60-minute webinar with Yannick Jacob
Psychedelics have been moving rapidly from the margins into clinical research, retreat spaces, wellness culture and personal development. Coaching has emerged as a broad umbrella term under which many psychedelic practitioners offer their support. And whether or not the coaching profession is ready, clients are already bringing psychedelic experiences — planned, recent, confusing, transformative, destabilising or profoundly insightful — into a broad spectrum of coaching rooms.
When supporting people to prepare for or integrate psychedelic experiences using coaching skills, presence and mindsets, an important question arises:
How far can coaches go?
- To what extent can coaching support psychedelic preparation and integration?
- What happens when the material becomes therapeutic?
- How much do, can, and/or should coaches lean on therapy skills?
- And at what point does ethical practice require referral?
In this live webinar, Yannick Jacob explores the emerging relationship between coaching and psychedelics, drawing on the first academic paper published he co-authored on the subject — “Coaching and psychedelics: a beneficial partnership?” in an effort to open up a wider conversation about competence, courage, humility and professional responsibility.
Meet the host
Yannick Jacob, MA, MSc
Yannick Jacob, MA, MSc, is an Existential Coach, Positive Psychologist, Coach Supervisor, and Trainer. Formerly Programme Leader of the MSc Coaching Psychology at the University of East London, Yannick is now the Unit Leader of Psychological Coaching at Cambridge University’s Coaching MSt and teaches at the International Centre for Coaching Supervision. He also designed and curates the School of Positive Transformation’s Accredited Certificate in Integrative Coaching, bringing together many of the industry’s leading thinkers and pioneers.
Since 2018, Yannick has been exploring the intersection of coaching and psychedelics and has played an important role in bringing this conversation into more visible and professional spaces. He founded the Professional Section Coaching & Psychedelics at the MIND Foundation, hosts the Talking about Coaching & Psychedelics podcast, and co-authored the first academic paper on the subject. Through Yannick’s Coaching Lab, his community of practice, he has showcased the work of several psychedelic integration coaches, while his book An Introduction to Existential Coaching and his broader coaching approach offer a rich foundation for psychedelic-informed work.
Why attend
This session is designed for practitioners interested in utilising coaching skills when supporting clients with psychedelics preparation and integration, and for coaches who are navigating the ethical landscapes of working around psychedelic experiences.
You'll get:
- An overview of why coaching and psychedelics are increasingly being discussed together.
- Ideas of how coaching can support preparation and integration.
- A nuanced understanding of the boundaries between coaching and therapy.
- Pathways for reflecting on your own competence, willingness and/or duty to refer, ethics, and responsibilities.
- Language for contracting, safeguarding and speaking honestly with clients about what you can and cannot offer.
- An engaging discussion of how practitioners might respond to a field that is already unfolding.
What you'll learn
In this webinar, we'll explore:
- The basic premise — why psychedelic experiences may be relevant not only to clinical treatment, but also to learning, meaning-making, growth, creativity and wellbeing.
- The coaching opportunity — how coaching may support clients before and after psychedelic experiences through reflection, intention-setting, preparation, sense-making and integration.
- The boundary problem — why psychedelic material can quickly move into trauma, attachment, spiritual crisis, mental health concerns or unresolved psychological material.
- The therapy skills question — what coaches can learn from therapeutic practice without pretending to be therapists.
- Referral and red flags — how to recognise when a client’s needs exceed the coaching frame, and when to involve a therapist, psychiatrist, doctor or other qualified professional.
- Your personal edge — how to clarify how far you are willing and able to go with a client, and what training, supervision, experience and support you may need before doing so.
Who this is for
This webinar is especially relevant for:
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Coaches and coaching psychologists
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Existential, depth-oriented and integrative coaches
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Therapists, counsellors and psychotherapists
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Supervisors, trainers and educators
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Psychedelic practitioners and facilitators
Whether you are already active in this field or simply trying to understand what is coming next, this session will help you think more clearly about one of the most complex frontiers in contemporary coaching.
Why this conversation matters now
Clinical research is only one part of the story.
The field is also being shaped by what happens in coaching conversations, supervision groups, training programmes and integration circles. Clients are not waiting for the profession to catch up. They are already having these experiences — some profound, some disorienting — and coaches are often who they turn to, not by design but by proximity and trust.
This places coaches at an unexpected crossroads.
The skills the profession offers are genuinely relevant: holding space, asking the right question, supporting reflection and meaning-making. And yet psychedelic experience can also surface material that sits well outside the coaching domain — material that calls for clinical judgment, psychiatric understanding or therapeutic containment.
So the real question is not whether these two worlds can meet. It is a more personal one:
Who do I need to become — ethically, psychologically, professionally — before I bring this work into my practice? And what does coaching, at its best, actually have to contribute?
This webinar is where that inquiry begins.