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I am so excited to bring you this interview with Ari Borinsky, LCSW, in which we talk all things psychedelic therapy for chronic dizziness and pain. Ari is highly trained in psychedelic assisted therapy and currently has a private practice in Brooklyn where he administers ketamine assisted therapy to clients. Ari has been formally trained in ketamine assisted therapy, psychedelic and MDMA assisted therapy and plant medicine healing. In addition, Ari has recovered from his own chronic pain using mindbody techniques like those we talk about on our channel (his healing started with reading Dr. Sarno's book), with the assistance of psychedelics.

Learn more about Ari on his website at https://www.brooklynpsychedelicpsychotherapy.com/
Learn more about me on my website at https://thesteadycoach.com

You can watch my previous video on psychedelic assisted therapy here! https://youtu.be/DV2k_PgWtE4

00:00:00 Intro
00:04:25 Ari's chronic back pain started before he started graduate school
00:08:24 Seeing patients recover from physical symptoms as they resolved traumatic experiences was hard to apply to himself
00:11:05 Psychedelic experiences can loosen the need for certainty about the cause of symptoms
00:14:00 How plant medicine (ayahuasca) temporarily resolved his back pain - and why it was temporary
00:19:37 It's not about the medicine!
00:22:21 Pros and cons for going away to get psychedelic treatment
00:25:11 The goal with psychedelic assisted therapy: regulating the nervous system via processing emotions and experiencing connection
00:32:27 Spirituality and the psychedelic experience
00:35:20 CBT's shortcomings in resolving emotions and trauma
00:37:20 How Ari overcame the back pain for good - psychotherapy and resolving early trauma with the help of psychedelics
00:46:20 Our thoughts on whether you need to quit all healing modalities like chiropractic, acupuncture, SSRIs, etc.
00:49:52 Ari sees many clients with lots of physical symptoms that shift and move around; how he thinks of that as a somatic therapist; it all comes back to your childhood
00:55:48 What ketamine does and how a ketamine assisted psychotherapy session looks
01:02:46 The value of working through your fears of surrendering control
01:11:43 Dissociation from ketamine does not seem to worsen or cause problems with dissociation from chronic dizziness
01:14:00 Ari believes that MDMA and psilocybin are going to be even more effective for helping people with chronic dizziness and pain
01:16:00 Microdosing psychedelics like psilocybin and LSD seems to be safe and could also potentially be effective
01:18:00 Research suggests MDMA is going to be the most helpful for helping people process difficult experiences and emotions
01:22:32 A paradigm shift is needed in medicine to properly address chronic symptoms
01:28:25 Attachment issues and coregulation; the pandemic as a cause of so many PPDs (psychophysiologic disorders) DISCLAIMER: Please note that Yonit Arthur, The Steady Coach and any of our other guests are not acting as an audiologist nor offering audiology or medical services services or advice on any public videos or on any other content. This channel provides wellness education and personal opinion only, and are not meant to be a substitute for medical or mental health instruction or intervention. Use any tools discussed at your own risk.