Integration
Walking with or seeking big experiences — and everywhere in between.
We tend to the meaning, the grief, the insight — and explore how it wants to be lived.
Sessions are $200 (75 minute session)
Packages of 4 x 1 hour sessions are available for $700 if not purchased with Mentorship
What Happens in a Psychedelic Integration Session
This is a space to gently land, to unpack what has stirred or opened, and to begin the slow work of weaving insights into daily life.
Psychedelic experiences—whether expansive, confusing, painful, or profound—can leave echoes in the psyche. Integration is the practice of tending to those echoes. It’s not just about understanding what happened, but about allowing the experience to ripple into how we live, relate, grieve, create, and grow.
In these sessions, we’ll begin by grounding together. I’ll invite you to speak freely, or not at all. There’s no pressure to put language to what’s still forming. From there, we’ll explore what’s surfaced for you: insights, images, emotions, or questions. Together, we may use:
Gestalt awareness practices to bring presence to what’s arising in the moment
IFS-informed dialogue to meet parts of you that showed up during your journey
Creative tools (drawing, movement, journaling) to give form to what’s hard to name
Mindfulness and somatic anchoring to reconnect you with safety and regulation
Ritual or intention setting to mark the experience or transition forward
Each session is shaped by your unique experience. Sometimes integration means sitting with grief. Sometimes it means anchoring joy. Sometimes it means sorting through confusion or revisiting old wounds that resurfaced unexpectedly.
What’s most important is that you’re not doing this alone.
You don’t need to make sense of everything right away. Integration is not a race. It’s a process of returning—to your body, to your values, to your relationships, and to the deep threads of meaning that your journey may have revealed. Remembering.
Integration: Making Meaning of the Experience
Integration is the process of weaving your expanded state into the fabric of your daily life. It’s where you take what was felt, seen, or understood in a non-ordinary state and begin to understand it—emotionally, psychologically, spiritually.
Imagine your old patterns as a well-worn path. After a journey, a new path becomes visible—but it's overgrown, unfamiliar. Integration is about remembering where that new path begins, mapping its direction, and exploring how it fits within your life. It involves reflection, processing, and sometimes naming the ineffable.
You might work with:
Journaling or reflection prompts
Talking with a therapist, coach, or integration companion
Naming themes, noticing patterns
Revisiting your values or beliefs
Accepting what doesn’t yet make sense
Think of integration as the inner work—a time to gently hold insights, listen deeply, and allow meaning to emerge.
A meditation or journey without integration is simply an experience you’ll soon forget. Integration is what gives it roots.
Activation: Living the Insight
If integration is the “why,” then activation is the “how.”
Activation is about taking aligned action in your life based on what you’ve learned or remembered. It’s about reinforcing new neural pathways and embodying the insights of your journey in tangible, lived ways.
Activation is about taking aligned action in your life based on what you’ve learned or remembered. It’s about reinforcing new neural pathways and embodying the insights of your journey in tangible, lived ways.
Where integration is reflective, activation is behavioral. It’s not just about knowing—it’s about doing.
You might activate by:
Practicing new habits, rituals, or boundaries
Speaking a truth that emerged during your journey
Making small changes to your daily routine
Creating something—art, structure, connection—that reflects your new awareness
Rehearsing or enacting a new behavior to reinforce a fresh identity
We don’t just “think our way” into new lives. Often, we must act our way into new thinking.
Why Both Are Necessary
Integration ensures you understand and honor the depth of your experience.
Activation ensures those insights actually shape your life in meaningful ways.
One without the other is incomplete.
Only integration? You stay in the realm of insight, but nothing shifts.
Only activation? You may act prematurely, without enough grounding or clarity.
Together, they create a cycle of reflection and embodied change. This is how transformation becomes sustainable.
G.V. Freeman’s wisdom on expanded states has deeply informed my work:
https://gvfreeman.com
https://rb.gy/pym4k5
https://psychedeliciq.com
I give credit of the information I have shared here as recognition of his work. He was generous enough to allow me to share this on my website.