Music for Psychedelic Therapy
Therapeutic music for psychedelic therapy with psilocybin, MDMA, ketamine and other psychedelics
How could best music practices in psychedelic therapy look like?
“This question lies at the heart of my research on the use of music for psychedelic therapy.
Music for psychedelic therapy does not merely act as background music. There are in fact multiple functions of therapeutic music that each actively shape therapy experiences and outcomes differently.
I created Wavepaths to support practitioners in using music for psychedelic therapy with the best knowledge, ease-of-use and care possible.”
Mendel Kaelen PhD, Founder and CEO.
Bespoke music for psychedelic therapy
Wavepaths offers exclusive music tailored to psychedelic therapy. The platform enables a wide range of variables of the music to be changed in real-time, all while maintaining an unparalleled smoothness and musical continuity.
Playing music for psychedelic therapy
via standard streaming platforms
creates serious compromises
The Standard
Problems that are unnecessary yet still very common when using music for psychedelic therapy.
Abrupt
Sudden endings, rapid transitions or sharp fades in the music can disrupt and distract the therapeutic process significantly
Rigid
The fixed contours and endings of pre-recorded tracks provide a static and unresponsive musical climate with increased mis-attunement.
Heard Before
Prior associations of music that has been heard before can easily distract the focus of the listener or derail the entire process.
Illegal
Services like spotify, itunes or youtube don't grant the licenses using music in therapeutic contexts, nor fairly reward the musician's work.
The Ideal
Solutions at hand that will significantly improve the use of music for psychedelic therapy.
Smooth
Ensuring gentle transitions when transitioning between songs will protect and maximise the continuity of the therapeutic process.
Responsive
Live music enables a fully responsive subjective climate, where music becomes an integral intersubjective component.
Novel
Bespoke and fresh music encourages a most productive listening attitude and enables the formation of new memories with the music.
Ethical
Directly working with artists provides content that is both tailored and licensed, while creating a fair financial ecosystem.
Examples of how Wavepaths can transform your use of music for psychedelic therapy
Real-time personalisation
Dial intensity up or down or change subjective qualities of the music with the same ease you tap a light switch in the room.
Match session phase
Peaking later, returning earlier or given a booster dose? Automatically sync your music with the unique pharmacodynamics of each session.
Stretch durations
Dynamically extent or shorten the duration of the current music at wish, without any noticeable changes in the music's continuity itself.
Smooth transitions
No matter what you change, musical adustments will always occur slow and fluidly to not disrupt the experience in any way.
Preparation & Integration
Use specially designed music programs or share session recordings to support your clients' ongoing process from whereever they are
Customise
Upload your own or select sounds from our curated library to provide entirely customised and unique sessions tailored to your approach.
You can find a full overview of Wavepaths' unique features here.
Access bespoke music playlists for psychedelic therapy
Wavepaths provides a library of curated playlists for psychedelic therapy, while each playlist can be customised in great detail. The platform’s unique flexibility allows you to discover as well as create your own unique psychedelic therapy music, tailored to support your own approach and use-cases.
Composed by world-class musicians
All our music is composed exclusively for Wavepaths by a carefully curated group of artists. The composition process is informed by our person-centred music model and research, while our technology grants this music profound flexibility. You can read more about our artists and composition process here.
Informed by years of research
Wavepaths embodies an ongoing endeavour of research into the functions and use of music in psychedelic therapy since 2011 by it’s founder Mendel Kaelen. His academic research at Imperial College London and Wavepaths inform the music and product designs in great detail. You can read more from this research on Mendel’s Substack.
Discover Music for Specific Psychedelic Therapies
Whether you are looking for music for Psilocybin, music for MDMA, music for Ketamine, or music for other psychedelics – Wavepaths’ growing library of music and product features optimised to psychedelic therapy music will provide you with the upgrade you and your care-seekers deserve.
Join the growing movement of therapists that embrace a therapeutic music practice that recognises it's inherent intersubjective nature.
Wavepaths has been a useful tool in our therapy sessions, by offering personalized music experiences for our clients. The feedback from both therapists and clients has been incredibly positive so far.
Wavepaths has been an essential part of my two clinical trial interventions, and many participants remark on how important and facilitative the music is to their experience.
We are utilizing Wavepaths as a means to standardize the music experience across approximately 40 different clinical sites in an effort to alleviate a potential variable in the program.
The music Wavepaths developed to accompany our clinical study has been liked by the study participants and the overall service provided by Wavepaths has been appreciated by all those running the study.
In our work with MDMA-assisted therapy, the unique musical landscapes provided by Wavepaths have proven to be more than just background sounds—they are a therapeutic tool and have already led to pivotal moments in our patients' therapy sessions.
Instead of treating symptoms
let's use music for healing
How can we approach the concept of healing music in ways that are science-based and clinically meaningful?
With Wavepaths I hope to remove some of the usual barriers practitioners experience to integrate therapeutic music in practice, while not simplifying music’s essential depth and necessary nuance.
Mendel Kaelen, Founder and CEO
