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Embodied Spirit Collective: Psychedelics and the 4-D Wheel, Part 2
Presenter: Dr. Tina Schermer Sellers, PhD, LMFT, CSTS, PAT
Date: May 5, 2026 | 2:00 PM MST
Format: Live, interactive synchronous webinar | 1 hour
Content Level: Beginner
Target Audience: Clinical Mental Health Providers, Health Providers, Medical Providers
CE Credits: 1 continuing education credit
Course Description
This one-hour live webinar is the second in a two-part series exploring how psychedelic-assisted therapy and the 4-D Wheel — an indigenous, integrative model developed by Dr. Gina Ogden — can inform trauma-responsive preparation and integration practices. While diagnostic classification, symptom reduction, and cognitive-behavioral models remain essential to contemporary mental health care, emerging research suggests that healing processes involving trauma, grief, and existential distress often engage somatic, emotional, relational, and meaning-based dimensions that extend beyond conventional frameworks.
Through didactic instruction, guided reflection, interactive Q&A, and experiential exercises, participants will explore current neuroscience and psychedelic research alongside indigenous wisdom traditions. The training examines the neurobiological mechanisms of action associated with ketamine, psilocybin, and MDMA-assisted therapy, and presents the 4-D Wheel as a culturally respectful framework for supporting integration across body, heart, mind, and spirit. Throughout, emphasis is placed on clinical rigor, humility, ethical grounding, and clear scope of practice.
This training affirms the value of indigenous epistemologies as complementary to scientific frameworks and encourages clinicians to attend to the cultural, spiritual, and ancestral dimensions of meaning-making in client experiences — adapting preparation and integration approaches to align with clients' cultural identities, belief systems, and lived experiences.
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this training, participants will be able to:
Describe current scientific findings related to neuroplasticity, brain network connectivity, and emotional learning that help explain therapeutic effects observed in psychedelic-assisted therapies.
Identify how the 4-D Wheel framework can support trauma-informed preparation and integration by organizing somatic, emotional, cognitive, and meaning-based experiences.
Apply culturally responsive and ethically grounded strategies that honor indigenous knowledge systems while remaining within professional scope of practice.
Limitations, Risks, & Benefits
This training acknowledges important limitations, including the emerging nature of psychedelic research, variability in study design, limited long-term outcome data, and the fact that findings cannot be generalized across all populations or substances. Participation does not qualify clinicians to administer psychedelic medicines. Potential risks include misapplication of altered-state frameworks without appropriate training or supervision, cultural appropriation if indigenous models are used without humility and respect, and overinterpretation of neuroimaging findings beyond current scientific evidence. Benefits include a deeper understanding of preparation and integration processes, increased clinical confidence when working with non-ordinary experiences, and expanded conceptual frameworks for addressing trauma, grief, and existential distress.
About the Presenter
Dr. Tina Schermer Sellers, PhD, LMFT, CSTS, PAT, is a therapist, educator, and author with nearly three decades of experience as a professor of marriage and family therapy, medical family therapy, and human sexuality. She is the founder of the Northwest Institute on Intimacy — offering postgraduate clinician training in sex therapy and relational health — and the founder and executive director of Inanna Rising, a clinician membership collective dedicated to equitable, just, and patient-centered psychedelic-assisted therapy training and support. From Blackberry Retreat Center in Sandy, Oregon, Dr. Tina offers retreats and trainings for clinicians on the 4-D Wheel for Expansive Integration and psychedelic-assisted therapy. She is the author of two influential books — Sex, God & the Conservative Church and Shameless Parenting — both recognized for their impact on healing religious sexual shame, trauma, and authoritarian parenting. Dr. Tina remains committed to social justice, integrity, and weaving cutting-edge cultural, spiritual, and sexual healing into compassionate clinical practice.
Course Details
Delivery method: Live interactive webinar via the Institute learning platform
Course interactivity: Interactive — participants will engage in guided reflection, experiential exercises, facilitated discussion, and Q&A
Posttest/quiz: Because this is a live interactive course, a standard posttest is not required. Participation will be monitored throughout the session.
Certificate issuance: Certificates of credit will be issued immediately after course completion to participants who attend the full session and complete the course evaluation.
Contact for questions: institute@thehealinggroup.com
Accessibility accommodations: To request accessibility accommodations, please contact institute@thehealinggroup.com prior to the event. We are committed to making our trainings accessible to all participants.
ASWB ACE Statement:
The Healing Group Institute, provider number 2716, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 3/31/26 – 3/31/27. Social workers completing this course receive 1 continuing education credit.
AASECT CKA:
A. Ethics and ethical behavior.
N. Learning theory and its application.
O. Professional communication and personal reflection skills.
AASECT ST:
A. Theory and methods of sex-related psychotherapy, including several different models.
C. Theory and methods of approach to intervention in relationship systems experiencing sex and intimacy problems.
This presentation has been reviewed by Kristin Hodson, LCSW, CST, CSTS to ensure it meets AASECT standards.
Embodied Spirit Collective: Psychedelics and the 4-D Wheel, Part 2
Presenter: Dr. Tina Schermer Sellers, PhD, LMFT, CSTS, PAT
Date: May 5, 2026 | 2:00 PM MST
Format: Live, interactive synchronous webinar | 1 hour
Content Level: Beginner
Target Audience: Clinical Mental Health Providers, Health Providers, Medical Providers
CE Credits: 1 continuing education credit
Course Description
This one-hour live webinar is the second in a two-part series exploring how psychedelic-assisted therapy and the 4-D Wheel — an indigenous, integrative model developed by Dr. Gina Ogden — can inform trauma-responsive preparation and integration practices. While diagnostic classification, symptom reduction, and cognitive-behavioral models remain essential to contemporary mental health care, emerging research suggests that healing processes involving trauma, grief, and existential distress often engage somatic, emotional, relational, and meaning-based dimensions that extend beyond conventional frameworks.
Through didactic instruction, guided reflection, interactive Q&A, and experiential exercises, participants will explore current neuroscience and psychedelic research alongside indigenous wisdom traditions. The training examines the neurobiological mechanisms of action associated with ketamine, psilocybin, and MDMA-assisted therapy, and presents the 4-D Wheel as a culturally respectful framework for supporting integration across body, heart, mind, and spirit. Throughout, emphasis is placed on clinical rigor, humility, ethical grounding, and clear scope of practice.
This training affirms the value of indigenous epistemologies as complementary to scientific frameworks and encourages clinicians to attend to the cultural, spiritual, and ancestral dimensions of meaning-making in client experiences — adapting preparation and integration approaches to align with clients' cultural identities, belief systems, and lived experiences.
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this training, participants will be able to:
Describe current scientific findings related to neuroplasticity, brain network connectivity, and emotional learning that help explain therapeutic effects observed in psychedelic-assisted therapies.
Identify how the 4-D Wheel framework can support trauma-informed preparation and integration by organizing somatic, emotional, cognitive, and meaning-based experiences.
Apply culturally responsive and ethically grounded strategies that honor indigenous knowledge systems while remaining within professional scope of practice.
Limitations, Risks, & Benefits
This training acknowledges important limitations, including the emerging nature of psychedelic research, variability in study design, limited long-term outcome data, and the fact that findings cannot be generalized across all populations or substances. Participation does not qualify clinicians to administer psychedelic medicines. Potential risks include misapplication of altered-state frameworks without appropriate training or supervision, cultural appropriation if indigenous models are used without humility and respect, and overinterpretation of neuroimaging findings beyond current scientific evidence. Benefits include a deeper understanding of preparation and integration processes, increased clinical confidence when working with non-ordinary experiences, and expanded conceptual frameworks for addressing trauma, grief, and existential distress.
About the Presenter
Dr. Tina Schermer Sellers, PhD, LMFT, CSTS, PAT, is a therapist, educator, and author with nearly three decades of experience as a professor of marriage and family therapy, medical family therapy, and human sexuality. She is the founder of the Northwest Institute on Intimacy — offering postgraduate clinician training in sex therapy and relational health — and the founder and executive director of Inanna Rising, a clinician membership collective dedicated to equitable, just, and patient-centered psychedelic-assisted therapy training and support. From Blackberry Retreat Center in Sandy, Oregon, Dr. Tina offers retreats and trainings for clinicians on the 4-D Wheel for Expansive Integration and psychedelic-assisted therapy. She is the author of two influential books — Sex, God & the Conservative Church and Shameless Parenting — both recognized for their impact on healing religious sexual shame, trauma, and authoritarian parenting. Dr. Tina remains committed to social justice, integrity, and weaving cutting-edge cultural, spiritual, and sexual healing into compassionate clinical practice.
Course Details
Delivery method: Live interactive webinar via the Institute learning platform
Course interactivity: Interactive — participants will engage in guided reflection, experiential exercises, facilitated discussion, and Q&A
Posttest/quiz: Because this is a live interactive course, a standard posttest is not required. Participation will be monitored throughout the session.
Certificate issuance: Certificates of credit will be issued immediately after course completion to participants who attend the full session and complete the course evaluation.
Contact for questions: institute@thehealinggroup.com
Accessibility accommodations: To request accessibility accommodations, please contact institute@thehealinggroup.com prior to the event. We are committed to making our trainings accessible to all participants.
ASWB ACE Statement:
The Healing Group Institute, provider number 2716, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 3/31/26 – 3/31/27. Social workers completing this course receive 1 continuing education credit.
AASECT CKA:
A. Ethics and ethical behavior.
N. Learning theory and its application.
O. Professional communication and personal reflection skills.
AASECT ST:
A. Theory and methods of sex-related psychotherapy, including several different models.
C. Theory and methods of approach to intervention in relationship systems experiencing sex and intimacy problems.
This presentation has been reviewed by Kristin Hodson, LCSW, CST, CSTS to ensure it meets AASECT standards.
