Speaking & Training
Amy Wilhelmi, LMFT, is a speaker and educator specializing in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, sexual intimacy, and relational healing. Her work bridges attachment theory, contemporary sex therapy, and emerging research on ketamine-assisted psychotherapy to offer new frameworks for understanding desire, connection, emotional safety, and relational dynamics across both clinical and organizational systems.
Her presentations are designed for both clinical and interdisciplinary audiences, including therapists, behavioral health leaders, and organizations at the forefront of psychedelic, mental health, and organizational innovation.
Featured Talks
From Sexual Impasse to Erotic Reconnection
A Mechanism-Based Model of Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy for Desire Discrepancy
Desire discrepancy and sexual disconnection are among the most common—and least effectively addressed—challenges in couples therapy. This presentation introduces a mechanism-based model that reframes sexual impasse as a relational and regulatory process shaped by attachment insecurity, sexual shame, and cycles of avoidance.
Integrating attachment theory, contemporary models of sexual desire, and emerging research on ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP), this talk explores how altered-state therapies may reduce defensiveness, increase emotional access, and enhance cognitive flexibility. These shifts create the conditions for relational reorganization and erotic reconnection.
Designed for clinicians working with trauma, addiction, and relational distress, this presentation offers a clinically grounded, ethically informed framework for understanding how intimacy and sexuality can shift when emotional safety and flexibility are restored.
Rethinking Intimacy, Outcomes, and Innovation in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy
Mental health and addiction treatment models often prioritize symptom reduction while overlooking relational and sexual wellbeing—despite their significant impact on long-term outcomes, treatment retention, and quality of life.
This presentation introduces a mechanism-based framework for understanding how ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP) may influence emotional regulation, relational dynamics, and patient engagement. By addressing factors such as avoidance, emotional accessibility, and relational safety, this model highlights an opportunity to expand how treatment success is defined and measured.
Positioned at the intersection of psychedelic medicine and behavioral health innovation, this talk offers a forward-looking perspective for organizations, founders, and investors interested in emerging clinical models and the future of mental health care.
Corporate & Organizational Training
Amy also works with organizations, leadership teams, and high-growth companies to translate relational and psychological frameworks into tools for improving communication, trust, and performance at scale.
While intimacy is often viewed as a personal or clinical concept, the same underlying mechanisms—trust, avoidance, emotional regulation, and responsiveness—shape how teams function, make decisions, and adapt under pressure.
From Disconnection to Engagement
The Relational Dynamics Driving Trust, Performance, and Innovation in Organizations
Modern organizations often focus on strategy, metrics, and execution—while overlooking the relational dynamics that shape how people actually work together.
This training introduces a mechanism-based framework for understanding how trust, avoidance, and emotional regulation influence communication, collaboration, and decision-making within teams and leadership systems.
Drawing from attachment theory, relational neuroscience, and clinical models of emotional regulation, this work reframes common organizational challenges—such as disengagement, conflict avoidance, misalignment, and burnout—as predictable relational patterns rather than isolated performance issues.
Participants learn how relational safety impacts adaptability, innovation, and retention, and how increasing emotional accessibility and flexibility within teams leads to more effective leadership, stronger collaboration, and more resilient organizational systems.
Executive briefings and keynotes
Leadership team intensives
Half-day and full-day workshops
Ongoing consulting and training partnerships
Additional Speaking Topics
When Intimacy Is Stuck
Integrating Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy with Attachment-Based Sex and Couples Therapy
This presentation explores how ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP) can be integrated into attachment-based sex and couples therapy to support clients experiencing intimacy challenges, sexual disconnection, and relational distress.
Grounded in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and trauma-informed care, this talk provides clinicians with a framework for working with emotional accessibility, vulnerability, and relational repair, with attention to culturally responsive and LGBTQ-affirming care.
Healing Trauma and Intimacy
An Integrative Framework for Psychedelic Therapy, Attachment, and Sex Therapy
This presentation introduces an integrative clinical framework combining ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, attachment-based relational therapy, trauma-focused interventions, and sex therapy.
The model addresses the interconnected nature of trauma, emotional regulation, relational dynamics, and sexual functioning, offering clinicians a cohesive approach to working with complex intimacy and relational challenges.
When Teams Get Stuck
Understanding Avoidance, Trust Breakdowns, and Relational Patterns in Organizations
Teams rarely fail due to lack of intelligence or strategy—more often, they become stuck in patterns of avoidance, defensiveness, and miscommunication that limit effectiveness and innovation.
This presentation explores how relational dynamics such as trust instability, emotional avoidance, and reactive communication patterns emerge within organizations, particularly under stress or rapid growth.
Using a mechanism-based framework grounded in attachment theory and emotional regulation, this talk helps leaders and teams identify the hidden cycles that drive disengagement, conflict avoidance, and stalled decision-making—and offers a pathway toward greater alignment, responsiveness, and psychological safety.
Relational Safety Under Pressure
Emotional Regulation, Leadership, and Decision-Making in High-Stakes Environments
In high-pressure environments, teams often default to reactivity, avoidance, or rigidity—undermining decision-making and performance.
This talk explores how emotional regulation and relational safety shape leadership effectiveness, communication, and adaptability under stress. Drawing from clinical models of attachment and regulation, it provides a framework for understanding how individuals and systems respond when stakes are high.
Participants learn how to recognize patterns of defensiveness and disengagement, and how to foster conditions that support clarity, responsiveness, and effective leadership.
Speaking Focus Areas
- Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy and relational healing
- Sexual desire discrepancy, sexual shame, and avoidance cycles
- Attachment-based approaches to intimacy and erotic connection
- Integration of trauma, sexuality, and neurobiological models
- Emerging clinical frameworks in behavioral health and psychedelic care
- Ethical considerations in altered-state and relational therapy
Organizational & Leadership Focus:
- Relational safety and psychological safety in teams
- Trust, avoidance, and communication dynamics in organizations
- Emotional regulation and decision-making under pressure
- Burnout, disengagement, and relational drivers of retention
- Leadership responsiveness, feedback, and team adaptability
- Translating clinical models into organizational performance frameworks
Audiences
Amy speaks to a range of professional and interdisciplinary audiences, including:
Clinical & Academic Audiences:
- Psychotherapists, couples therapists, and sex therapists
- Behavioral health and addiction treatment professionals
- Psychedelic-assisted therapy practitioners and training programs
- Academic institutions and continuing education organizations
Industry & Innovation Audiences
- Psychedelic research and innovation conferences
- Behavioral health leadership and clinical innovation events
- Founders, operators, and executives in mental health and wellness organizations
- Investors and stakeholders interested in emerging markets
Corporate & Organizational Audiences
- Executive leadership teams and founders
- Organizational and people operations leaders
- High-growth startups and scaling companies
- Corporate teams focused on culture, retention, and performance
- Innovation, strategy, and cross-functional teams
Select Past Speaking Events
Schaumburg Business Association
Diversity Alliance panel for Women’s History Month
Topic:
“Women’s Metal Health through lifetime developmental stages”
DePaul University
Racial Justice and Social Change Committee
Topic:
“Collective Burnout Strategies”
The Woman Beneath
Topic:
“Rewriting the mirror: Healing self-perception from the inside out”
DePaul University
Teaching and Learning Conference
Topic:
“Intersectional Supervision – Supervision with LGBTQ+ clinicians”
Upcoming Speaking Events
AAMFT QTAN (Queer Trans Advocacy Network)
August 7, 2026, from 11 am–1 pm PST
Topic:
“Integrating Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy With Sex and Couples Therapy for LGBTQ Clients”
Book Amy to Speak
Amy offers keynote presentations, workshops, and clinical trainings for conferences, organizations, and academic institutions, as well as corporate trainings and leadership-focused engagements. Talks can be tailored for clinical, academic, or organizational audiences and are available in both virtual and in-person formats.
To inquire about speaking engagements, please get in touch at amy@amywilhelmi.com