Psychedelic Safety Starts with Nervous System Readiness
Know your starting capacity, adrenal state, and nervous system patterns.
Begin with knowing yourself before adding the medicine so the journey supports healing not overwhelm.
Coming Soon:
A Nervous System-Informed Video Series for Psychedelic Preparation
A 14-episode educational journey to help you understand your brain, nervous system, adrenals, and how trauma impacts them.
Characters from Inside Out, The Croods, and Elemental illustrate how we relate to our stress responses and our own hero’s journey.
You Might Be Ready—But Are Your Adrenals?
Psychedelic healing begins before the trip—.
when you understand what your body is already carrying.
Undiagnosed nervous system dysregulation, adrenal fatigue, or adrenal insufficiency increases the risk of difficult psychedelic journeys.
This 1:1 consultation helps you assess your body’s readiness.
Before expanding consciousness, check in with your system.
The Adrenal Wellness Protocol is a private 1-1 consultation that maps and assesses your adrenal function, nervous system state, and risk level—identifying signs of adrenal fatigue, insufficiency, or Nervous System Dysregulation (NSD) that will impact your medicine journey.
You’ll receive a personalized plan to implement before the medicine that includes nutrition, supplementation, safety insights, and your Adrenal Risk Profile, a written protocol for facilitators, and a follow-up session after the medicine to adjust based on what emerged during your journey.
This service is available for practitioners, facilitators, retreats, coaches, and individuals looking to build trauma-aware, physiology-informed safety protocols into their offerings.
Why This Matters
Psychedelics are powerful. But so is your stress history.
Most people preparing for a psychedelic journey by setting intentions. But few are taught to assess their nervous system's capacity—or their adrenal state—before adding the medicine.
Years of chronic stress—especially in high-performance roles like military, medical, or first responders—leave your system dysregulated, depleted, or at risk of adrenal fatigue or insuffiency.
Trisha Houghton, known as The Stressalist, saw this firsthand while working with Special Operations Forces (SOF) veterans and first responders undergoing psychedelic therapy. What she found was simple and profound:
“You can’t integrate what your body can’t hold.”
This work is for the people whose physiology has been shaped by survival. It’s for those who want to do psychedelic healing safely and in alignment with what nervous system can actually process, with respect for everything it carries.
About the Creator
Meet Trisha Houghton, Nervous System Reset Coach
Trisha, better known as the Stressalist, works at the intersection of NSD and adrenal capacity support, with a background in crisis intervention, psychology, and high-stress performance environments. Trisha supports people whose nervous systems have been trained to function trough overdrive—SOF, military professionals, emergency responders, frontline medical workers, high-trauma teams, and more.
While working inside a psychedelic therapy program for veterans with PTSD, she identified a major missing link: nervous system readiness.
The tools she’s created now come directly from that insight. They are built to fill critical gaps with physiology-based, trauma-aware preparation and support.
This is her mission: to help people reset their stress response and survival patterns so they can access the full promise of psychedelic healing with the capacity to hold it—safely, sustainably, and somatically.
Neuro-Informative Video Series®
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Adrenal Wellness Protocol® (AWP)
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Keep Your Eye On It
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THRIVE-ID® & Dual Trigger Assessments®
First-of-their-kind tools are designed to protect the person and their performance. They assess how NSD impacts the individual—tracking resilience, capacity, and recovery while identifying triggers before activation to reduce risks and preserve readiness.
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Adrenal Wellness Protocol® (AWP)
A personalized protocol to restore adrenal function and reduce risk during psychedelic work. Using my Adrenal Function & Capacity Assessment (AFCA), I evaluate your system’s capacity for plant medicine. You’ll get a personalized plan for before, during, and after—including nutrition, supplementation, and NSD tools. I also provide your facilitator with clear guidance to support your system safely throughout the journey.
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Neuro-Informative Video Series®
An educational series breaking down how the brain, trauma, nervous system, and adrenals interact with healing modalities such as psychedelic medicine and tools found in Trisha’s HAC programs.