Dr. Cat Meyer - Sex, Love, Psychedelics

Sex, Love, Psychedelics connects sexuality and pleasure with psychedelic healing and trauma-informed psychotherapy. Dr. Cat Meyer, a licensed psychotherapist and sex therapist, explains her focus on erotic vibrancy and embodiment as the basis for connection to life, contrasting erotic presence with numbness or disconnection. She shares how childhood sexual trauma, anxiety, dissociation, and panic shaped her later commitment to sex therapy, tantra, and BDSM as practices for changing relationship to the body and building safer erotic connection. Meyer also discusses psychedelic-assisted therapy routes, including MDMA-assisted therapy experiences and ketamine-assisted therapy retreats for women, emphasizing integration, play, and navigating power dynamics. She argues that play and art can reach people where words become triggering or blocked, using practices like tantric and BDSM-informed workshops, retreats, and body-centered presence work to support healing in relationship, sensuality, and chronic illness contexts.