Cannabis-assisted psychotherapy is a guided, intention-based therapeutic process that uses cannabis as a supportive tool—not as the treatment itself. Sessions are structured, contained, and grounded in somatic awareness, nervous system regulation, mindfulness, and integration between sessions.

Rather than focusing primarily on analysis or insight, this work centers on how experience lives in the body. Stress, anxiety, and trauma don’t only exist as thoughts or memories; they are held in physiological patterns—muscle tension, breath restriction, hypervigilance, collapse, or chronic activation.

When the body perceives threat, it mobilizes energy to respond. If that response can’t complete—because it wasn’t safe, allowed, or conscious at the time—that energy remains held. Over time, this can shape how a person feels, reacts, and relates to the world.

In a therapeutic context, cannabis can support this process by softening habitual mental control and reducing top-down cognitive interference. This often increases interoceptive awareness—the ability to feel internal sensations—making subtle bodily signals easier to notice without forcing or overriding the system’s natural pacing.

A key part of this work is selective inhibition. Selective inhibition means consciously allowing certain impulses not to discharge immediately, so energy can build, organize, and become clearer rather than releasing prematurely. Instead of quickly moving, talking, or catharting, attention stays with sensation itself. This creates the conditions for incomplete responses to resolve when the nervous system is ready, rather than being pushed or suppressed.

This is not repression. It is contained presence. When enough safety is established, energy resolves organically—through breath, subtle movement, sound, shaking, or deep stillness. The release is not forced; it emerges.