The Nurse Coach Collective

How Nurse Coaches Are Changing Psychedelic Care w/ Angela Ward

Published: 6 February 2026 at 10:00 Europe/London

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Did you know that nurses have been at the absolute forefront of psychedelic healing since the 1950s, long before it became a modern wellness trend?

In this fascinating episode, host Heather sits down with Angela Ward, a board-certified holistic nurse coach and certified psychedelic practitioner, to discuss the intersection of nursing, coaching, and psychedelic-assisted care.

She argues that the nursing framework is uniquely suited for this work today because nurses have a long history of walking alongside people through profound transformations such as birth, death, and healing crises.

By blending clinical expertise with a coaching model, nurses possess the specific capacity to monitor a client’s physical safety and medication responses while simultaneously holding space for transpersonal or non-ordinary human experiences.

This approach allows nurses to move away from a prescriptive medical model and instead empower clients to discover their own definition of wholeness and actualize their personal visions for well-being.

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Website: https://guardianatthegateway.com

Email: [email protected]

Instagram: @guaradian_at_the_gateway

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/angelawardnursecoach

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