A five-week online series for clinicians, with Dr Diana Korevaar.
Most of the work in psychedelic-assisted therapy happens outside the dosing day. Preparation determines what a patient can bring to the session, and integration determines what they keep afterwards.
At a glance
Five Mondays, 5:45–7:00pm AEDT: 19 and 26 October, 2, 9 and 16 November 2026 SOLD OUT
Five Wednesdays 21 and 28 October, 4, 11 and 18 November 2026
Online, live
Who it's for: Psychiatrists, psychologists, therapists and peer workers working in psychedelic-assisted therapy, or preparing to.
What we cover
Week one: Coherent narrative and attachment patterns How a patient tells their story matters as much as what is in it.
Week two: Shadow process and the narratives underneath Working with what a patient cannot yet put into words.
Week three: Systems of emotion, and working with triggers Some triggers come from ordinary life. Others surface after a dosing session.
Week four: Interoceptive awareness Teaching it is the easy part. Keeping a patient actively using it is the work.
Week five: Mentalisation and pendulation Building regulation and insight, plus something patients can practise between sessions.
How it runs
Taught inside out. Clinicians practise with some of their own life experience, not hypothetical cases. Diana presents a patient each week to illustrate the concept.
Each session builds on the one before, so the series runs as five consecutive weeks rather than as drop-in sessions. Places are limited to six, and enrolment is for the full series.
Your presenter
Dr Diana Korevaar: Consultant psychiatrist, FRANZCP
Diana has been a consultant psychiatrist since 1996. She works in acute general and perinatal psychiatry, across both public and private settings, and spent six years in general practice and five in geriatric medicine before that.
She has worked with psilocybin since 2021, as a psychiatrist-therapist on Swinburne University's clinical research team. She has treated participants under a protocol for treatment-resistant depression and under a second protocol for body image disturbance in anorexia nervosa, working in a dyad with another therapist through every preparation, dosing and integration session. During high-dose sessions she was responsible for supervision and medical monitoring.
She has teacher training in MBCT, MiCBT, MBSR and Compassion Focused Therapy, and has trained in EMDR. She supervises psychiatrists. She wrote Mindfulness for Mums and Dads (Murdoch Books, 2017) and co-authored a 2021 paper in Frontiers in Psychiatry on taking psychedelic therapies from clinical trials into community clinics.