Braided · Aotearoa New Zealand

So — what are we building?

A clinical practice, research programme, education pathway, and digital platform — designed to work as one.

Braided Health Limited

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What we're building

Four parts of one practice, so care stays coherent during and between appointments.

Thread 01

Treatment

A specialist clinical service built around careful assessment, ongoing consent, clear boundaries, and shared clinical responsibility.

  • Assessment and a shared understanding of what may be happening
  • Preparation, treatment, and integration planned as one course of care
  • Whānau and other support people involved when the person wants them there
  • Outcomes reviewed so care can change when it needs to
About the clinical service

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Research

Psychedelic research shaped around clinically useful questions and the communities care is intended for.

  • Building evidence relevant to care in Aotearoa
  • Designing protocols with the people and communities they affect
  • Using outcome measurement to improve practice
  • Publishing what the work can and cannot show
About the research programme

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Education and access

Learning for patients and clinicians, with a longer-term aim of making specialist care easier to reach.

  • Clear information before a person decides whether to proceed
  • Structured learning throughout preparation and integration
  • Training and supervision pathways in development
  • Working toward access that is not determined by cost alone

Thread 04

The platform

Digital support for learning, reflection, and continuity between appointments.

  • A member learning library on mind, patterns, and change
  • Guided reflection, preparation, and integration support in development
  • Clear choices about what is recorded and what is shared
  • Built in Aotearoa New Zealand
Read the technology brief

Each part is designed to improve the others.

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The team

Taking shape. Three groups, each with its own job.

Clinical team

The people who deliver care: assessment, preparation, medicine sessions, and integration.

Tom Paterson

Founder

Lead Clinician

Technology team

The people who build and look after the platform, and the privacy it runs on.

Being formed. If you build clinical software, or care about privacy engineering, we would like to talk.

Scientific advisory

Independent researchers and clinicians who hold the protocols and the claims to account.

Being formed. If you work in psychedelic research, measurement, or clinical governance, we would like to talk.

If you’d like to work with us — on the clinical, the technical, or the business side — reach out through contact.

The whole person remains in view.

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If any of this fits what you’re working on, tell us.

We are building this with people, not only for them.

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