You have come back from a powerful psychedelic experience, planned or not, and you do not know what to do with what you found there. We work on turning those moments into something that holds in ordinary life, gently and at your pace. I do not offer, recommend or administer substances.
This is for you if
Do not start with me if
You are in crisis or destabilised right now
If your contact with reality is poor at the moment, if you have not slept for days, if you are having thoughts of harming yourself, this is not the moment for integration, it is the moment for medical help. Call 999, or Samaritans on 116 123, free and around the clock in the United Kingdom. What you experienced is not lost if you wait; it is lost if we interpret it on sand.
You have a history of psychosis or psychotic episodes
Here the work is of a different kind, and I will say so plainly. Someone who arrives spontaneously in non-ordinary states needs to reduce their influence rather than access more of them, and that work requires a different frame and usually a medical team. I will not turn you away with nothing: I will tell you what would make sense and where.
You want me to tell you whether to do it
I do not supply, recommend or administer substances, and my role is neither to encourage nor to discourage you. If you came for a blessing or for a prohibition, you will leave without one. What you get is accurate information rather than myth, and an honest conversation about risk.
You are looking for an experience rather than a conversation about one
We do not hold sessions with substances and I do not prepare anything outside the law. What is worked on here is before and after, within a legal framework, with the emphasis on reducing risk. If that is not what you are after, I am telling you now so you do not waste time and money.
What this looks like day to day
You saw clearly, perhaps for the first time, what needed to change. Three months have passed and nothing has. This is the most common complaint after a powerful experience, and it does not mean the understanding was false. It only means a revelation is not a change; it is raw material for one.
You tell nobody, or you told someone once and it did not go well. So the experience sits in a drawer, cut off from the rest of your life, and over time it becomes either sacred or embarrassing. Either way it is no use to you in there.
You feel lighter, forgiving, above the things that used to hurt. Sometimes that is real. Sometimes it is a form of detour: the calm arrived because you stepped over the hard part rather than through it, and it breaks at the first concrete thing. In the literature it is called spiritual bypass. It usually shows at about three months.
What we do together
Integration means what you experienced becomes usable, rather than a memory kept separate.
In current research the integration phase is considered at least as important as the experience itself, and it is also the most neglected. The serious protocols with MDMA, psilocybin or ketamine all include it. Outside them, people are left alone with very powerful material and nowhere to take it.
If you are before: we go through the context, safety, any medication you take, your history, your expectations. Most of the risk reduction happens here rather than afterwards. And if signs appear that this is not a safe choice for you, I will tell you directly and we will work with what you actually need.
If you are after: we take what you brought back and settle it slowly into your real life, at a pace that does not destabilise you. No grand interpretations and no treating every image as a message. If heavy material comes up, we return to stabilisation before any interpretation, in that order rather than the reverse.
And one part I say openly, because it is easy to miss: I also watch for progress that comes too fast. When someone feels healed within two weeks and no longer wants to touch the difficult subjects, it is usually not finished, only bypassed. That is not an accusation, it is a stage, and it can be worked with.
What I draw on: polyvagal work for stabilisation, Internal Family Systems for the parts that surfaced, and the transpersonal approach for the question of meaning, without steering it in any particular religious direction and without requiring any belief from you. If the question of meaning is not yours, it does not come up.
The psychometric questionnaires
The questionnaires here are more about safety than about profile.
I set you up with an account in the client area and send a small pack: general wellbeing, mood, anxiety. For someone arriving after a powerful experience, or before one, these are not a formality: they are precisely the baseline against which it becomes visible if something is destabilising.
If you are before, we add a few more about stress, sleep and, if your history calls for it, about dissociation and adverse experiences in the past. Not to tick a box, but because a conversation about risk is more honest with data than with impressions.
You fill them in on your phone or your computer, at your own pace, stopping halfway if you need to. The font can change and the automatic jump to the next question can be turned off.
We redo them as we go, and here it serves a precise purpose: if the integration is going well, it shows; and if something goes off course, it shows sooner than I would see it from what you tell me, because after a powerful experience people tend to minimise their own difficulties. You see the results too, in your own account.
The first few months
The opening conversation, 30 minutes, free
On Google Meet. You tell me where you are: before, after, or undecided. I tell you what I do and what I do not do, so you do not discover in the third session that you expected something else.
The small pack of questionnaires
In your account. Here it is also the safety baseline, not only an opening formality.
If you are before the experience
One or two sessions on context, safety, medication, history and expectations. This is where most of the risk is reduced. If it emerges from that conversation that this is not a safe choice for you right now, I will say so.
The first sessions afterwards
We do not hurry the meaning. Stability first: sleep, rhythm, body, the ordinary day. Only then what you brought back, piece by piece. Many people arrive needing to interpret everything in the first session, and that is exactly the moment not to.
The months that follow
This is where the real work happens: what you change concretely, which relationships settle differently, what you saw and would rather forget. Plus that check about bypass, if the peace arrived too quickly.
How we know it is working
The sign is not that you tell the story of the experience more beautifully. It is that it shows in what you do on a Monday morning. Plus two short questions at the end of sessions and the questionnaires redone.
How long it takes
Some people come for three or four sessions around a single event and that is enough. Others stay longer, because the experience opened something that was worth opening anyway.
Questions people ask me
No. I do not supply, recommend or administer substances, and sessions are not held under their influence. I work with the preparation beforehand and the integration afterwards, within a legal framework, with the emphasis on reducing risk.
No, and I will not congratulate you either. My role is neither to encourage nor to discourage you. What I offer is a place where the subject can be discussed openly, with accurate information rather than myth.
Confidentiality works as it does in any other session and has the same limits as in the rest of the practice, tied to risk to you or to others rather than to substances. I do not report anyone for what they have taken. The details are on the privacy page.
Because this subspecialty is essentially unregulated: almost anyone can call themselves an integration specialist with no clinical training at all. And the period after a powerful experience is precisely when mishandling can lead to retraumatisation. I am not saying every guide is unsuitable; I am saying it is worth asking what training the person in front of you has.
Yes, quite a lot, and it is why many people come to me with this subject. Sensory sensitivity, interoception, how you process afterwards, needing more recovery time, and the tendency to mask even in front of your therapist all change both the preparation and the pace of integration.
I press a little harder for the opening ones here than on other pages, and I will tell you why: they are the reference line against which I can see whether something is destabilising. If you still would rather not, we work without them, but I want you to know what we lose.
Integration sessions are 90 minutes at £130. The longer session is not a device: this material takes time and does not leave off halfway at minute fifty. The opening conversation is free, 30 minutes.
One small step
You do not have to write to me today.
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Psychedelic Integration — Meaning from Extraordinary Experiences
You have come back from a powerful psychedelic experience, planned or not, and you do not know what to do with what you found there.
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