Psychedelic Integration

Psychedelic experiences confront us with our perception of and relationship with existence – life, love, death, and beyond. Although they open the door to the transpersonal, we each get a unique view, based on our early attachments, ancestral history, culture, and something ineffable. Psychedelics unearth trauma, reuniting the split-off parts of a traumatic experience – sensation, affect, image, and meaning, which may leave us feeling shattered and profoundly vulnerable. Although frequently labelled as 'bad trips', these challenging psychedelic experiences can be an important step towards healing if well-held. Psychedelics also bring out our light: vitality, body intelligence, connectedness, power, and love, which can be equally difficult to integrate.

In therapy, these experiences can receive the relational space they need to be processed, leading to felt and tangible changes in how you feel, relate, create, and live. To understand psychedelics, we need to speak their language – the language of the soul, body, myth, and poetry. I apply depth psychological, Jungian, and mythopoetic lenses to integrate psychedelic experiences. This means working with your personal experience of the archetypal and how it can be expanded to include the vital energies it needs. I employ embodied active imagination to process the sometimes fragmented memory of the psychedelic experience and allow the images and sensations from the journey to work on you on a somatic, emotional, and symbolic level. ​