Psychedelic Integration Therapy
Psychedelic integration therapy is an approach focused on exploring and processing your psychedelic experiences within a therapeutic container. It can help you make sense of your experiences, work through difficulties, integrate insights, and gain deeper self-understanding.
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Integration for Expanded and Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness
I offer a supportive and confidential space for individuals and couples to explore their feelings, thoughts, and insights following a psychedelic experience.
Psychedelic integration work can happen within ongoing therapy or as an area of focus. I offer individual psychedelic integration for those processing a single experience or seeking ongoing support across a series of experiences. I provide couples psychedelic integration for those whose psychedelic experience has shifted something in the relational dynamic, whether that has brought them closer, created distance, or raised questions that feel difficult to hold alone.
Within ongoing therapy, the approach examines how psychedelic experiences relate to issues including attachment patterns, developmental history, and current patterns. I frequently support those who have had challenging experiences or journeys that surfaced difficult issues in new ways.
Psychedelics can be powerful tools for personal growth, healing, and spiritual exploration. They can also provide intense and challenging experiences.
Hypnotherapy for Psychedelic Integration
Psychedelic experiences often leave their most significant material in imaginal, symbolic, or pre-verbal form. As a qualified hypnotherapist, I bring a depth dimension to integration work that extends well beyond what conversation alone can access. Hypnotherapy creates the conditions to meet that material on its own terms: in a receptive, inwardly focused state where this material can be revisited, emotions can be approached without the interference of analytical commentary, and the body's knowledge becomes available in ways it rarely is in ordinary waking consciousness.
The Principles That Guide This Work
Psychedelic integration is a living, responsive therapeutic process. These are the principles that shape how I work:
Every experience is unique. What arose for you, how it arose, and what it is asking of you is specific to you and your journey. The work is always tailored to your experience, history, and goals, never fitted to a template.
The experience deserves to be taken seriously. Whether your journey was profound, confusing, beautiful, or deeply difficult, I approach it with genuine respect. Nothing is dismissed or minimised. Challenging experiences in particular often carry the most significant material.
Insights rarely arrive fully formed. Part of the work is sitting with what emerged, symbolically, emotionally, somatically, until its relevance to your life becomes clear and actionable.
The unconscious is always part of the conversation. I am interested not just in what you experienced, but in what it might be saying about deeper patterns, early relational history, and the parts of yourself that are asking to be seen.
The therapeutic relationship is the container. Nothing useful happens without genuine safety and trust. I hold this work in a space that is warm, non-judgmental, and honest: one where you can bring the full complexity of your experience without editing it for acceptability.
Insight without embodiment is only half the work. The real outcome of this work is not the insight itself. It’s what changes in how you relate to yourself, to others, and to your life. That is always the horizon we are working toward.
Integration therapy can help you work through any challenging emotions or experiences that may have arisen during your psychedelic journey, leading to increased self-knowledge, self-compassion, and emotional well-being.
Who This Work is For
Psychedelic integration may be right for you when:
You’ve had a powerful or difficult experience (a ‘bad trip’) that still feels unresolved, weeks, months, or years later
You sense there is a deeper meaning in what arose, but can’t quite access it
Recurring images, emotions, or themes from an experience keep returning, and you’d like to explore them within a therapeutic setting
You’re ready to do meaningful, inwardly focused therapeutic work
Insight emerged during the experience, but hasn’t translated into real change yet
You want to prepare intentionally before an upcoming experience
Psychedelic integration may not be the right fit when:
You are hoping integration work will replace or substitute for ongoing therapy
You have a mental health issue that requires attention
You are not yet in a place to safely explore challenging emotional material
You are looking for someone to guide or supervise an upcoming psychedelic experience itself
Insights gained from an experience can impact your relationships, everyday life, sense of purpose, and sense of self.
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About Me
My work with psychedelic integration grew naturally from the clinical interests that have always been at the centre of my practice: a deep engagement with the unconscious, the use of hypnotherapy as a gateway to non-ordinary states, and a long-standing curiosity about experiences that sit outside what conventional frameworks can easily hold. I work integratively, drawing on psychodynamic therapy, person-centred therapy, Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, and harm reduction approaches.
My specialist training in psychedelic-assisted therapy, harm reduction, and integration includes:
Foundations of Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy, Beckley Academy
Psychedelics and Psychoanalysis, Fluence
Integrating Psychedelic Experiences, The Centre of Applied Jungian Studies
De-Escalating Psychedelic Crisis Certification, PsyCare UK
I receive ongoing supervision and participate in continuing professional development related to psychedelic-assisted therapy, harm reduction, and integration. I’m currently writing my psychotherapy dissertation on the use of integrative hypno-psychotherapy to support clients struggling with aspects of self following a non-clinical psychedelic experience.
How We Can Work Together
Psychedelic experiences, whether planned or unexpected, recent or years past, can surface material that benefits from careful, unhurried attention. Integration therapy offers a space to make meaning of what arose, to work with what was opened, and to bring it into contact with the rest of your life.
If you are unsure whether this work is the right fit, an initial 20-minute consultation by Zoom or phone offers a contained space to explore your situation.