In this conversation, Dr. Herzberg explains how somatic therapy, touch therapy, bodywork, and movement support trauma processing. She also highlights the benefits of combining ketamine with acupuncture, craniosacral therapy, and functional medicine—including nutritional and hormonal assessments—to address physiological contributors to mental health.

In this episode, DB sits down with Dr. Genesee Herzberg to talk about ketamine, couples therapy, and psychedelic pleasure. They get into common myths, what actually happens in a session, how ketamine can help couples break old patterns, and why novelty can reignite connection and desire. Plus: how touch and consent can be part of healing.

Jason and Genesee share insights from their work and their new evidence-based collection, Integral Psychedelic Therapy, offering practitioners an approach that centers liberation through client-centered, trauma-informed, and attachment-focused care, attuned to the relational, somatic, imaginal, cultural, and transpersonal dimensions of healing.

Sage is featured in Part 3 of this three-part investigative piece.
An intimate audio diary from a woman in Oakland, California, who’s going through therapy with the one psychedelic drug that can be legally prescribed currently in the U.S.: ketamine. Psychedelic drugs have been illegal for 50 years, but they’re trickling back into the mainstream as they show promise in helping treat post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental health challenges.

Equal access to psychedelic medicine is a huge issue in this burgeoning field. Today’s guest, Genesee Herzberg has prioritized ethics in founding Sage Institute, a sliding scale clinic that offers psychotherapy and psychedelic-assisted therapy and is also supporting the proliferation of ethical clinics through a new consulting group, Forth Road Health.

Explore how therapeutic touch supports trauma recovery, emotional healing, and safety in psychedelic-assisted somatic therapy in this thought-provoking webinar with Dr Genesee Herzberg. Learn how to establish boundaries, facilitate consent, and integrate touch into the healing process.

Hear our founder talk about building Sage and our therapeutic approach. Genesee discusses her holistic approach to healing, and shares her experience bootstrapping her clinic and setting up a non-profit to make KAP more affordable.