Peter Gordon is a licensed marriage and family therapist with a private practice in Palm Springs, CA.
His life's path progressed from his days as a youth in NYC through various careers including a brief stint as a gypsy in the New York theater world to a landscape designer in Santa Fe, NM and then on to graduate school for counseling psychology at university outside of San Francisco at 50 years young
Peter's initial desire for his new career path was based on a desire to work with queer youth navigating the treacherous waters of coming out, which, as most baby boomers know, was traumatic at best, at least until Stonewall and the modern movement toward equality.
However, his plans were fouled by the advent of the internet which allowed queer youth to connect world wide, from small towns to large cities in an entirely new way, accessing a community and achieving a degree of acceptance and self-respect, thereby limiting the need for a therapist. But there was still a lot of trauma in the LGBT community; and Peter focused on working with clients to heal using a relatively new theoretical model for trauma - EMDR.*
Gradually, Peter began to understand the ultimate limitations of various existing theoretical models of recovery programs, psychotherapy and psychotropic medications**. The idea of plant medicines being used therapeutically has caught his attention and focus.
The recent positive research regarding the therapeutic benefits of the use of psychedelics to heal trauma, help addicts and alcoholics recover, and increase a sense of spirituality and connectedness has changed the direction of his practice.
Peter's practice is now heading into the future of healing trauma at a deeper level by combining psychedelics and therapy.
*EMDR: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing.
**Psychotropic Medications: A psychotropic drug is a drug that affects behavior, mood, thoughts, or perception (such as antidepressants).
Peter is available for consultations and can be reached at:
PMGMFT@YAHOO.COM
Photo: Copyright Wilkinson/2022
Opening and closing music courtesy the very talented Zakhar Valaha via Pixabay.
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