Psychedelic Integration
Process profound experiences with care and expertise
"The retreat itself was the most profound thing I've ever experienced. For about a week after, I felt completely rearranged — clearer, lighter, like I'd finally seen the whole picture. Then it started slipping. Within a month I was back to my old patterns and grieving something I couldn't even describe. I didn't need another journey.
I needed help holding onto the one I'd already had."
What Is Psychedelic Integration?
Integration is the therapeutic work of metabolizing a psychedelic experience — turning insight, imagery, emotion, and memory into durable change, ultimately impacting how you experience life. People come to this work in two ways: some are preparing for an experience they have planned elsewhere (a clinical trial, a legal ceremony), and many arrive afterward, holding something powerful they don't know what to do with. Both are welcome. The work adapts to where you actually are.
Phase 1: Preparation (when there's an experience ahead)
For clients with an upcoming experience, preparation is where we set the foundation. We clarify what's bringing you to this work, what you're hoping might shift, and what you're afraid of. We work on intention, mindset, and the internal resources you'll want to have in place — so you arrive grounded rather than hoping the experience will do the work for you. This phase is therapeutic preparation. It does not include providing, sourcing, or advising you on obtaining any substance.
Phase 2: The Experience Itself
The experience happens outside of our work together. I am not present for it, I do not provide or facilitate it, and I don't direct you toward any particular substance, retreat, or provider. What I offer is the container around it — the preparation before and the integration after — which is where the lasting change actually gets built.
Phase 3: Integration
This is the heart of the work, and where most clients spend their time. We reflect on what came up — images, memories, emotions, insights, body sensations — and use modalities like EMDR, IFS, and somatic integration work to consolidate the shifts so they hold. Integration is rarely a single conversation. Experiences this significant tend to unfold over weeks, and the work continues until the change has rooted in your actual life.
Who Can Benefit From Psychedelic Integration
This work is suited to introspective, self-aware adults who take their inner life seriously — often professionals and creatives who've already done significant therapy and are drawn to this terrain deliberately, not casually. Many clients come after a retreat or a ceremony left them with more than they could process alone. Others are preparing for an experience and want to do it with intention rather than improvisation. What they share is a seriousness about the integration work — the understanding that the experience is the opening, not the destination.
Integration sessions can be held in person at my Pasadena office or via telehealth across California.
A little on my experience working with Psychedelics
Most therapists offering integration are working from a training alone.
My experience with these medicines is direct and clinical. I've worked with psychedelic compounds in formal clinical research trials — including MDMA, methylone, ibogaine, and 5-MeO-DMT — in settings governed by research protocols and rigorous oversight.
I've also worked in the retreat space as a facilitator during time spent in Costa Rica, where this work is conducted legally, supporting people through the arc of their experiences.
That range matters because integration isn't abstract for me. I've seen what these states actually do — how they open people up, where they get stuck, and what genuinely helps the experience translate into change. And I've worked extensively with clients on both sides of a legal experience: preparing them beforehand, and helping them integrate afterward. I know this terrain from the inside, which means I can meet what you bring back without surprise, judgment, or guesswork.
Scope, Safety,
and Honesty
About This Work
Integration is legitimate clinical work, and it has
limits worth being clear about.
What this is
I provide therapeutic support before and after your experience. I focus on preparation, integration, and the trauma work needed to turn your insights into lasting personal change.
What this is not
I do not provide, administer, or source any substances. I do not recommend specific facilitators or retreats, and I am not present during your experience. This boundary keeps my work ethical, legal, and focused
on you.
When integration isn't enough
Some experiences are destabilizing and require more than integration, such as psychiatric support. If you need that level of care, we will discuss it directly to ensure you have the right support, which may involve
a referral.
Harm reduction and more content
I approach this work from a non-judgmental, harm-reduction stance. My priority is your safety and wellbeing rather than offering
a verdict on the personal choices
you have already made.
How Psychedelic Integration Can Work with EMDR and IFS
Plenty of people will talk through a psychedelic experience with you. Far fewer have the trauma modalities to do something structural with what it surfaced. Psychedelic experiences tend to loosen exactly the defenses that EMDR and IFS are designed to work with — which makes the period afterward a rare and valuable window.
Integration + EMDR
Psychedelic states often bring buried memories and emotional material to the surface. EMDR in the integration window can reprocess that material while it's accessible, resolving what came up rather than letting it sink back down unaddressed.
Integration + IFS
People frequently meet their parts during a journey — the protectors, the exiles, the younger selves — in ways that ordinary consciousness keeps walled off. IFS integration is where those encounters become ongoing relationships, and where parts that briefly relaxed during the experience can learn to stay that way.
Questions
Find answers to common questions about Psychedelic Integration and how it works.
No. I provide preparation and integration only. I don't supply, administer, or facilitate any substance, and I'm not present during use. The experience itself is something you pursue independently; my work is the container around it.
No. Some clients come to prepare for something ahead of them; many come afterward to make sense of something that already happened. Both are valid starting points.
No. I don't direct clients toward specific substances, sources, retreats, or providers. I can help you think through your own intentions, readiness, and safety, but the choices and the sourcing remain entirely yours.
Yes. Talking about and therapeutically processing your own experiences is legal and within my scope as a licensed therapist. What's outside that scope — providing or facilitating substances is exactly what I don't do.
Difficult experiences are common and often turn out to be the most meaningful once they're worked through. That's much of what integration is for. If an experience left you destabilized in a way that needs more than integration, we'll address that directly and get you appropriate support.
It varies with the experience and what it surfaced. Some people need a handful of sessions; deeper or more activating material tends to unfold over weeks or months. We'll set the pace together.
Closely. The EMDR, IFS, and somatic work I use throughout my practice are the same tools that make integration effective — which is why this isn't a separate specialty bolted on, but an extension of the trauma work I already do.
Typically as standard psychotherapy. I'm out-of-network; superbills can be provided for PPO/EPO plans that may offer partial reimbursement.
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