Shai Hipperson, BPsySciHons, MPsyClin

Shai Hipperson is a Clinical Psychologist and founder of Conscious Mind Centre, a psychology clinic in Coomera on the Gold Coast, Queensland. Shai has experience across private rehabilitation, university clinic settings, and private practice, and works with adults experiencing trauma, complex trauma, PTSD, chronic illness, chronic stress, and emotional distress. Shai’s approach is warm, compassionate, trauma-informed, and integrative. She works with clients to understand their experiences within the broader context of their nervous system, relationships, health, environment, and life experience. Shai has a particular clinical interest in Medicine-Assisted Therapy preparation and integration, psychedelic integration therapy, and harm-reduction psychological support. She has experience facilitating legally regulated Medicine-Assisted Therapy sessions involving psilocybin and MDMA, and works with clients who are preparing for, participating in, or integrating experiences from these treatment contexts. Shai also supports adults who have experienced difficult, destabilising, or adverse psychedelic experiences, including people seeking help after challenging medicine use, breathwork experiences, meditation experiences, or participation in clinical trials. Her work focuses on helping clients feel grounded, supported, and clinically contained throughout the processing journey.