Pierre Bouchard

Name: Pierre Bouchard
Address: 1844 Pearl Street, Boulder, Colorado, 80306, United States
Telephone: (860) 559-8063

1844 Pearl Street, Boulder, Colorado, United States, 80306

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As a therapist I love helping people live freer more passionate lives. I bring a love of attachment, interpersonal neurobiology and trauma theory to a deep study in Buddhist psychology and consciousness exploration through psychedelic psychotherapy. My work is grounded in a sense of humor, humility, and curiosity for the profundity and oddness of existence.

I count myself as very lucky to have been at the right place at the right time, hearing about MAPS’ work with MDMA and Ketamine while I was training in Trauma Dynamics, a somatic trauma treatment approach, with Saj Razvi, one of the lead clinicians in the phase 2 clinical trial of MDMA treatment for PTSD. What I learned working as one of his TA’s for several years became the backbone of my clinical model for using ketamine to treat trauma and depression.

My first love affair with personal work was depth psychology, specifically the work on Carl Jung. From my teen years on I was keenly interested in the development of conscious masculinity. My own father died unexpectedly when I was a teen, so exploring masculinity became a central focus. This lead me into the world of Men’s work, Robert Bly, The Mankind Project.

I also developed an interest in martial arts and began practicing Chinese internal martial arts. Over time I started to develop a better sense of my own body, how I carried it through space, and how to tune in to the senses (all things I love now sharing with my clients). I maintained a martial arts practice for the better part of a decade, eventually transitioning to Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.

Since then mind/body integration has been a focal point of my own development and professional work. I have trained in several somatic psychotherapy modalities, most recently the Hakomi Method under Melissa Grace. I have been a student of Reggie Ray and the Dharma Ocean sangha that focuses on somatic meditation. And I currently train in Ido Portal’s movement system here in Boulder at Boulder Movement Collective.

I have maintained a meditation practice for 19 years, have done numerous retreats and have had the good fortune to study with great teachers including Joseph Goldstein, and for the last 5 years, Reggie Ray.

I received a BA from Wheaton College in Massachusetts, double majoring in Psychology and Buddhist Studies and an MA from Naropa University in Contemplative Psychotherapy. While I have done a considerable amount of studying and practice of psychotherapy for the last decade equally important in my path as a healer has been my own therapeutic journey, which I take very seriously. Humility and failures are generous teachers!

Outside of my therapeutic work I have a deep love of music, DJing on vinyl in the Boulder/Denver area. I enjoy gardening and permaculture, film, fiction, and exploring Colorado.

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KAP is a cutting edge treatment for trauma and depression. Clients take prescribed ketamine at the beginning of our psychotherapy session, and I facilitate the client’s journey into themselves, helping them stay with and explore their experience.One of the exciting aspects of ketamine, as is true of most psychedelic medicines is how it can disrupt the Default Mode Network of the brain. The Default Mode Network (DMN) is the background standard operating stance of our brains and it dictates much of how we perceive ourselves and the world. Each of ours is different and they occur on a spectrum from highly rigid to very loose. According to the work of Robin Carhart Harris people with clinical depression, anxiety, and trauma all have DMN’s that run on the rigid end of the spectrum. Ketamine and other psychedelic medicines are useful tools in helping create more flexible and fluid DMN’s. As this is paired with psychotherapy it offers the chance to build our new neural connections and stabilize that flexibility.However, new neural connections are very weak and must be developed by repeated access. As renowned psychiatrist Daniel Siegel says, “neurons that fire together wire together.” Most new neural connections fail to replace a deeply entrenched pattern of thinking or behaving— simply because the entrenched pattern is more like a neural superhighway, compared to a new connection’s footpath. By doing repeated sessions over a period of months, we give your brain and nervous system the absolute best chance to integrate, sustain, and build upon those new insights to make deep, fundamental shifts in your being toward health.Clients participate in repeated sessions over a period of a few months. The new connections, realizations, and ways of being clients uncover in their lives have a chance to stabilize and develop into more permanent changes, instead of temporary insights or shifts in their DMN. The healing of trauma and attachment wounds, mixed with the power of new insights as experienced on ketamine, creates a powerful container for healing and transformation.In my experience, KAP is useful in helping people assess core material that can be difficult to contact otherwise. It creates a window of time where clients can assess, experience, and relate to their character structure and issues, from outside their deeply conditioned and personalized ways of doing so. And it is a sensitive window in which to begin rewiring attachment and bonding patterns.In traditional talk therapy, you might get a few minutes of deep access to the inner workings of your being or personality in each session, if you’re lucky. In KAP you get a much longer window of time. For many, a KAP series can address issues in 3-4 months that can otherwise take years to address.