Angela Amirault, Altered Healing: Finding Your Psychedelic Medicine for Your Cancer Journey

How do you choose which psychedelic medicine is right for your cancer journey when you're navigating legal restrictions, confusing terminology, and your own intuition about what feels safe?

In this episode, Dan speaks with Angela Amirault, founder of Altered Healing and a psychedelic-assisted therapist practicing in Nova Scotia. Angela holds a BA in Psychology, a Graduate Diploma in Counseling and Psychotherapy, and advanced credentialing in mindfulness-based psychedelic therapy from the Center for Medicinal Mindfulness. She has guided over 500 medicine sessions with cannabis, ketamine, and psilocybin, and was the first practitioner in the United States to legally offer retreats combining cannabis and psilocybin.

Angela and Dan explore how to navigate the landscape of psychedelic medicines for cancer patients. They discuss the distinct qualities of cannabis (embodied, gentle, holding), ketamine (disconnective, observational, brief), and psilocybin (expansive, ancient, transcendent), and why Angela asks clients "what do you feel called to?" rather than prescribing specific substances. The conversation covers practical protocol details—preparation sessions, medicine experiences, and integration support—and addresses the challenging reality that legal access often determines options before personal preference can. Angela emphasizes finding guides who can create genuine safety, explains how different medicines help with the bodily alienation cancer creates, and shares why self-compassion emerges as the common thread across all psychedelic experiences for cancer patients.

Healing Cancer Journeys is a non-profit organization providing education and community for people exploring psychedelic medicines in their cancer journeys. Learn more at www.healingcancerjourneys.org and follow us on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and Substack where our handle is 'healingcancerjourneys'.