Models of Care

Beyond the Clinical Trial

The first wave of psychedelic research asked an important question: can these medicines help alleviate suffering?

Increasingly, the answer appears to be yes.

But clinical trials alone cannot answer another urgent question: what models of care actually support people living with serious illness in the real world?

Survivorship Collective exists to help answer that question.

We are developing and documenting community-based, trauma-informed models of survivorship and existential care for people navigating cancer, mortality, identity disruption, grief, and life after treatment.

Our work focuses not only on psychedelic experiences themselves, but on the relational structures surrounding them: preparation, trust, community support, integration, meaning-making, and long-term care.

Our Approach

Our programs integrate:

  • preparation

  • peer support

  • retreat-based experiences

  • integration

  • education

  • ritual

  • ongoing community connection

We work within regulated frameworks in Oregon and Colorado while collaborating with facilitators, clinicians, researchers, and patients to explore what ethical, scalable survivorship care can look like outside the clinical trial setting.

Our approach is:

  • survivor-led

  • trauma-informed

  • community-based

  • relational rather than purely clinical

  • grounded in patient choice and dignity

  • attentive to safety, ethics, and long-term integration

Building the Future of Survivorship Care

Survivorship Collective is helping define how psychedelic care may one day integrate into survivorship, palliative, and supportive oncology settings through models that are ethical, relational, scalable, and grounded in lived experience.

We believe the future of care must include not only symptom reduction, but belonging, meaning, dignity, and human connection.

Why Survivorship Needs New Models

Cancer treatment may end, but survivorship often begins with profound uncertainty.

Many survivors are left navigating:

  • fear of recurrence

  • existential distress

  • isolation

  • identity disruption

  • depression and anxiety

  • relationship strain

  • grief

  • questions of meaning and purpose

Traditional medical systems are not designed to fully hold these experiences.

Psychedelic-assisted care has shown promise for addressing existential suffering, but most current models remain highly medicalized, individualized, and difficult to access.

We believe another layer is needed: community-based care rooted in dignity, relationship, and long-term support.

Community as Care

We believe healing does not happen through molecules alone.

It happens through:

  • being witnessed

  • feeling less alone

  • reconnecting to meaning

  • rebuilding identity

  • making space for grief

  • restoring connection to self, others, nature, and mortality

Community is not ancillary to healing. It is part of healing itself.

What Sets Us Apart

People-First Approach

Everything we do is built around understanding your needs and helping you succeed—because when you thrive, so do we.

Long-Term Relationships

We’re not just here for the now. We love creating lasting relationships with our clients and growing with them over time.

Proven Process, Flexible Execution

We bring structure where it counts and adaptability where it matters. Our methods are clear, but always responsive.

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