Brian Murphy, LCSW

I started out my career with psychedelics in the 1970s on a hillside in Mexico, when I saw an eagle turn into the world tree, and other peculiar events. I began working with people and psychedelics in 2003, largely then with people who had taken ibogaine, but branched out into all the others as time went by. In those early days I was also doing streetside counseling with a needle exchange in the Bronx, and got to meet the full human variety. Now psychedelics are the core of my practice, I have a great interest in the depth that our internal lives go to, and the healing capacities that exist down there. I’m also interested in the great wide doors that psychedelics can throw open, shedding light on our journey of creating peace and togetherness that we are all embarked upon. Our personal pain, our inherited pain down family lines, the pain and distress in our culture, and our shared species pain is something we are all wrestling with, everyone, and our biggest contribution to life is in doing what we can to alleviate suffering and to generate the joy that’s there waiting for us.  It’s a big project. I co-lead a psychedelic support group on zoom, which we call the Disintegration Group, and is my favorite group ever. You can find out more at www.afterthemedicine.com.