What I Learned Working With 700+ KAT Clients

What I Learned Working With 700+ KAT Clients — Roadopener

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The original trauma was “too much.”

The Soul dissociates from the body and stays that way in an effort to get away from the “too much.”

This is also called Soul Loss - the Soul is at a distance, because to fully inhabit the body is not possible.

There is too much static in the body.

Anxiety and depression very often are then “just” secondary symptoms ... See more

Noah Cebuliak • What I Learned Working With 700+ KAT Clients — Roadopener

trauma isn’t necessarily the event - it’s our reaction to the event being “too much” and therefore we (the ego) find coping mechanisms. IFS parts explains this beautifully

All this must be titrated - again the job of the therapeutic container - to ensure that the nervous system of the individual does not become flooded - in effect, by truth.

Because we have a tendency to rush in our culture, there is a very real risk of getting to this stage and undoing all progress by rushing into material and feeling too much, too f... See more

Noah Cebuliak • What I Learned Working With 700+ KAT Clients — Roadopener

gotta go slow to go “fast” (i.e. the most healing speed for one’s nervous system)

Therapy must make radical demands of the world and set a standard for what needs to happen, rather than adapting to the way things have been and meekly trying to help its patients adjust a little better.

This is the issue with older, well-established psychoanalysts, not to mention counselling farms like betterhelp or its AI version, Rosebud (amongst... See more

Noah Cebuliak • What I Learned Working With 700+ KAT Clients — Roadopener

Most people tend to miss that it’s actually the BODY driving what happens in the mind as much as the other way around.

So by focusing on the body, we over time can create a mind that is a nicer place to be.

Noah Cebuliak • What I Learned Working With 700+ KAT Clients — Roadopener

This can be a frustratingly slow process.

Healing truly takes its own time - there is no rushing it, only assisting in it.

In practice, during a session this looks similar to what Somatic Experiencing would describe as “titration and pendulation” - moving back and forth between “control” and “letting go.”

Letting go 0.25% at a time, then noticing the ... See more

Noah Cebuliak • What I Learned Working With 700+ KAT Clients — Roadopener

rigidity to medical model (quick, clean fixes) can be detrimental in true healing

If it is the drug (or “the medicine”) that is doing the work, rather than The Container - then it is a slippery slope to a fully AI-powered “support” system of therapy-gpt chatbots, fluffy articles about integration, and a skeleton crew of disengaged NPs and PAs prescribing a brick wall of 10 min appointments, 7 days a week.

Think of the margins.

Unf... See more

Noah Cebuliak • What I Learned Working With 700+ KAT Clients — Roadopener

““Why do so many people have difficulty in breathing fully and easily? The answer is that breathing creates feelings, and people are afraid to feel. They are afraid to feel their sadness, their anger, and their fear.””

— Alexander Lowen

Noah Cebuliak • What I Learned Working With 700+ KAT Clients — Roadopener

if there’s one key thing I learned from these years, it’s that the neurobiological legacy of trauma is driving everything.

Said another way, it’s the nervous system where my client had the disconnect.

They didn’t connect their lack of meaning in jobs, superficial relationships, or living in a concrete, EMF-bathed matrix with feeling malaise or lack o... See more

Noah Cebuliak • What I Learned Working With 700+ KAT Clients — Roadopener

That’s why a much better fit for Stage 2 is MDMA, as in the right context, this medicine can act similarly to ketamine, in that it creates safety while also tending to “bring up” more from the subterranean “grief well” than ketamine usually can.