There's No One-Size-Fits-All, for Clients or Clinicians

As clinicians we learn, often through lived experience, that what supports one client may cause harm for another. We learn to attune to capacity, pacing, and context. We do our best to individualize care and meet our clients where they are.

And yet when it comes to our own practices, many of us have internalized the belief

that there is a "right way" to do this. That if we just keep getting more certifications, find the best marketing approach, or implement the correct structure things will finally click into place. When they don’t, it’s easy to become frustrated or overwhelmed with the process.

The quiet confusion after training

I’ve been in conversation with clinicians integrating ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP) through consultations, trainings, interviews, and informal check-ins. What I hear most often isn’t a lack of skill or commitment. It’s a sense of disorientation. Many clinicians feel grounded and confident inside their sessions and then feel uncertain or stuck outside of it.

They’ve invested deeply in training. They care about ethics and fit. They want their work to be sustainable both clinically and personally. And yet marketing feels uncomfortable or blocked, capacity feels stretched in ways that are hard to name., and “next steps” feel unclear. What many clinicians are actually asking is not “What should I do?” It’s “What fits me right now?”

In brain-body therapies; we reframe resistance as protection, avoidance as nervous-system wisdom, a client not being “ready” as a system that’s wisely pacing itself.

But it usually feels harder to extend that same compassion to ourselves. When something isn’t working in our practice; we’re quick to assume that we didn’t try hard enough, that we chose the wrong approach, that we missed something important, or that everyone else seems to have figured this out.

Different clinicians need different support

Some clinicians are craving clarity around treatment planning, documentation, or resources that feels more aligned with their clients' lives experience. Others want to deepen their clinical confidence and nuance with a clearer sense of how they’re working.

Some notice that clients are having meaningful insights, yet translating those insights into ongoing change feels inconsistent. Others are navigating emotional, relational, and logistical capacity and trying to figure out how to sustain this work over time. Most of us believe deeply in this work; but feel blocked when it comes to visibility, referrals, or talking about what they offer in ways that feel ethical and aligned.

Sometimes what we need is a way to pause and notice: where we are right now, what kind of support would actually help in this season, and what doesn’t need to be forced or rushed. Slowing down for this kind of reflection reduces shame, restores agency, and creates space for discernment instead of comparison.