Psychedelic Support
Growing research in science and medicine suggests that psychedelics can be valuable tools in addressing a wide range of emotional, psychological, and spiritual challenges. In addition to their therapeutic potential, they can also support consciousness expansion, unlock creative potential, and facilitate deeper self-awareness.
Undoubtedly, psychedelics can act as powerful catalysts, holding the potential to deepen access to our vast inner worlds and toward our innate healing intelligence. While this transformative work holds great promise, there is also tremendous risk. This is why having support is crucial when consciously choosing to engage with such powerful tools.
Below, you’ll find how I educate individuals through some of the essential phases of psychedelic work. I offer highly individualized support and guidance in navigating each phase based on where you currently find yourself in your journey and healing process.
Screening & Assessment
This work is not for everyone, and while we can mitigate risk through thorough screening, preparation, and assessment, the nature of psychedelic experiences means that no outcome can be guaranteed. My holistic assessment process includes a review of your psychiatric history, lifestyle, physical health conditions, contraindications, trauma history, and more. Together, we gauge your readiness and identify any potential risks, contraindications, or personal considerations.
Set, Setting, & Support
Your mindset (set) and physical environment (setting) are critical elements that profoundly influence your experience. Whether it’s a retreat space, one-on-one work with a facilitator, a music festival, in a country home, or a big city apartment, each setting plays a role in shaping your journey. I help you consider not just your immediate surroundings, but also the broader factors—mental, emotional, and social—that inevitably impact your experience.
Internal & External Resources
Responsibly engaging with psychedelic work requires a solid foundation of both internal and external resources. Through thoughtful preparation, we collaborate to strengthen your inner resilience by leveraging perspectives from parts work therapy, Jungian theory, mindfulness-based directives, nature therapy, creative practices, somatic-oriented techniques, and more. Equally important is cultivating external support systems—your village of care—to hold and support you throughout your life's journey. This can include holistic body support, therapeutic professionals, social support, and community-centred experiences. In our work together, I provide referrals to trusted body workers and other professionals within my network, who can support your psychological and physical care throughout your journey.
Choosing your Intention
Research has shown that setting a clear intention for your psychedelic journey directly impacts the outcome of your experience. Intention setting is about bringing curiosity to where you currently are in your life and what you’re seeking from a psychedelic experience. By placing thoughtful focus on your intention, you create a foundation for the journey, aligning your experience with what matters most to you.
Navigating the Psychedelic State
While these experiences can help us connect deeply with ourselves and bring a sense of clarity, they can also be terrifying, confusing, and destabilizing. To approach these experiences with deep curiosity, it’s important to prepare for navigating the terrain. Psychedelic journeys can involve unexpected challenges, whether psychological or physical in nature. To support you in navigating these profound experiences, my role is to provide education, tools and guidance to help prepare you for what may arise during your journey. Simultaneously, we hold the awareness that no matter how well we prepare, we may often find ourselves surprised.
Integration
The psychedelic experience can trigger an opportunity for transformation, however, it is one piece of the puzzle and does not automatically translate to behavioural changes in daily life. The process of integration can help support that growth. In essence, integration is the myriad of different ways that we take the experiences, insights, or learnings that were opened up in the ceremony space and tether them into our everyday reality. Integration ties directly into preparation and is where much of the heavy lifting happens.
My Approach
My approach is thorough, trauma-informed, and grounded in a variety of perspectives, including parts work, psychedelic-informed studies, body-oriented techniques, nervous system education, and community-centred healing. I draw from an extensive well of knowledge, training, and experience, as well as a rich collection of practical resources, including podcasts, guides, workbooks, and integration handbooks that support every phase of the process. I believe in moving through this work slowly and gently while addressing the person as a whole. My work is deeply relational, and I see the connections we build in our lives as the foundation for true healing to occur. Psychedelics may help dissolve our defences, but longstanding transformation happens through supportive relationships, practices, and experiences. This work is not a quick fix, but a journey, and I am committed to working at a pace that feels safe and aligned with your process.
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I am committed to ongoing continuing education and am supported by a team of practitioners in the field of psychedelic-assisted therapy and beyond.
Trainings & Courses
Psychology / Concordia University
Healing Psychedelics / Micah Stover Consulting
Internal Family Systems Advanced Training / Therapsil
Psychedelics & Neuroscience / Psychedelics Today
Jung, The Shadow, Psychedelics / Psychedelics Today
Integrative Psychedelic Studies - Somatics & Trauma / Vital & Psychedelics Today
Somatic Psychedelic Facilitation / Embody Lab
Embodying Safety: A Certificate for Integrating Yoga, Qigong & Polyvagal Theory / The Polyvagal Institute (In Progress)
Artwork
Lotus by Caroline Harris