Prepare, Integrate, Learn

They challenge us, enchant us, and open us to new worlds of healing and joy. And there’s the other side, where they may terrify us, leave us adrift between two worlds, or even just plain disappoint us. What kind of sense can we make out of these substances that have such different effects on people? There is often much to do and much to be considered after we take the medicine, but our culture is not well grounded in that work, either medicalizing it or borrowing wholesale from indigenous cultures that have totally different meaning systems.

I see psychedelics as a tool in the soul’s journey, what C.G. Jung called the process of individuation, and what spiritual, philosophical and artistic traditions have been doing for time immemorial.  This exploration of the Imagination, the Spirit World, the Unconscious, whatever you want to call it, is a far more fulfilling adventure than the constructs of consumerism, where money buys everything except well-being. Taking a psychedelic is a brief jump into the deep end of the Unconscious, and after you return from your deep dive, you will want to carefully examine what you bring back!  

I am a psychotherapist, and I’ve been working with psychedelics since 2003, a fair while before the current Psychedelic Renaissance made them so popular. I can work with you short-term before and after your psychedelic journey, and long-term, on the issues and questions that brought you to the medicine in the first place. You can set up a low-cost consultation with me to figure out if we are a match in this work.

Here’s What We Can Do: 

• ·        Prepare for the medicine, set an intention and get into a resilient mindset.

  ·        After the medicine, absorb the experience, learn more from it, and create a new way of showing up in the world.

  ·        Recover from fearful, confusing or disappointing experiences.

  ·        And if you are exploring the idea of taking a psychedelic, we weigh the pros and cons, and figure out whether or not this is for you.