Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Integration
Often when we work with psychedelic-assisted therapy we access our mind, heart, and nervous system in new and profound ways. We may experience new connections or reconnections with parts of our psyches that were inaccessible, dormant, or unknown. Psychedelic-assisted therapy can also herald psychological breakthroughs that had been longed for but unsuccessful using other therapeutic modalities. For some of us psychedelic-assisted therapy may have been overwhelming and there is a desire for time and space to be with those parts that hold the rawness and vulnerability of the experience. Whatever your experience, I help clients integrate their psychedelic experience so that it supports healing over the long term.
How to integrate your psychedelic-assisted therapy experience
As with any powerful psychological tool, it is important to give our psyches time to make room for new insights. And it is important to find ways to apply these insights in our daily lives so that powerful healing experiences do not lose their potent curative energy. There are many ways to integrate your psychedelic-assisted therapy experience including:
Explore more deeply the physiological experience as a way to ground supportive aspects of the felt experience of the journey
Use talk therapy to make more connections between your journey and your lived experiences
Use meditation to stay with insights that have more to reveal
Draw/paint/write aspects of your journey to deepen your connection with insights/thoughts/open questions from your experience
Breath and posture work to support resilience in your nervous system
Use dreamwork to tap into the deeper meaning of aspects of your journey
I can be reached at 415.721.3355 or by email to discuss how we can work together to integrate your psychedelic-assisted therapy experience. To learn more about my thoughts and approach to psychotherapy, you can read the articles on my psychotherapy blog or visit My Approach.