Psychedelic Integration Therapy

The experience may be over, but the process is just beginning.

Sometimes a psychedelic experience can shift the way you see yourself, your relationships, your life, or even reality itself.

You may leave an experience feeling more connected, clear, or open. You may also come away feeling confused, emotionally raw, overwhelmed, or unsure what to do with everything that came up.

Sometimes both are true.

You might find yourself thinking about the experience weeks, months, or even years later. Maybe something opened that you haven't quite been able to put into words. Maybe old emotions surfaced. Maybe your priorities have changed. Maybe you're questioning your work, relationships, spirituality, identity, or the direction your life is heading.

This is where integration can become important.

Psychedelic integration therapy is a space to slow down, explore what happened, and listen to what the experience may be asking of you.

I offer psychedelic integration therapy for adults throughout Colorado and New Jersey via telehealth.

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What is Psychedelic Integration?

At its simplest, I think of it as the process of developing a relationship with an experience and finding ways for it to take its place within the larger story of your life.

That may involve making meaning of something that happened during a psychedelic experience.

It may involve working with emotions, memories, or old patterns that surfaced.

It may mean sitting with questions about identity, spirituality, relationships, purpose, or how you want to live.

And sometimes integration means slowing down enough to allow the experience to unfold without immediately needing to understand all of it.

Some experiences are easy to put into words, and some other experiences aren't.

Therapy gives us a place to stay curious about what emerged and explore it together.

You Might Be Looking for Integration Support If...

• You had a psychedelic experience that continues to stay with you.

• You went through an intense or frightening experience and are having trouble making sense of it.

• Old memories, emotions, grief, or traumatic material surfaced.

• You experienced something mystical, spiritual, symbolic, or difficult to explain.

• Your sense of identity or purpose has shifted.

• You feel like you've changed, while the rest of your life has stayed the same.

• You are questioning your relationships, career, values, or direction.

• You feel emotionally sensitive or unsettled following an experience.

• You had a meaningful experience and want to find a way to carry some of it into your everyday life.

• Or you simply want somewhere you can talk openly about what happened without having to convince someone that it mattered.

Difficult Psychedelic Experiences

Some psychedelic experiences can be deeply challenging.

You might have experienced intense fear, confusion, panic, loss of control, difficult memories, paranoia, existential distress, or a sense that you went somewhere you weren't prepared to go.

The experience may technically be over while part of you still feels caught in it.

You might wonder:

• What happened to me?

• Why am I still feeling this?

• Did I open something I can't close?

• How do I get back to feeling like myself?

• Will I ever going to feel “normal” again?

These experiences often need patience. We can work together to slow things down, understand what you're experiencing, reconnect with your body and everyday life, and gradually begin making sense of what happened.

There doesn't have to be a positive lesson hiding inside every difficult experience.

Sometimes the work begins with simply acknowledging that something was hard.

My Approach to Integration

There isn't one right way to integrate an experience.

The process depends on what happened, what is happening in your life now, and what continues to have energy for you.

My approach draws from somatic psychology, transpersonal psychology, depth psychology, mindfulness, psychedelic harm reduction, and many years of working with and studying non-ordinary states of consciousness.

My Background in Psychedelic Integration

My interest in non-ordinary states began through my own experiences.

When I was 16, I had a near-death experience after a snowboarding accident. It changed the way I thought about death, consciousness, spirituality, and what it means to be human.

I didn't have much of a framework for it at the time.

Trying to understand that experience eventually led me into transpersonal psychology, breathwork, psychedelics, somatic psychology, and clinical mental health counseling.

I later co-founded Psychedelics Today, where I've spent years in conversation with researchers, therapists, clinicians, facilitators, thinkers, and practitioners across the psychedelic field.

My clinical background has also included working with people navigating anxiety, trauma, major life transitions, early psychosis, psychedelic experiences, and other forms of psychological and spiritual disruption.

All of these experiences shape the way I approach integration today. I try to bring curiosity, groundedness, and respect for the mystery of these experiences into the therapy room.

A Note About My Practice

I provide psychotherapy and psychedelic integration support.

I do not provide psychedelic substances, prescribe psychedelics, or facilitate access to illegal substances through my therapy practice.

You also don't need to be actively using psychedelics to work with me.

Some people come in days after an experience.

Others reach out years later because something from an experience still feels important, unresolved, or difficult to understand.

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