Psychedelic Support

Preparation and integration support for people engaging in psychedelic experiences

Many people are drawn to psychedelic experiences as part of healing, insight, or personal growth. These experiences can be powerful and clarifying, and they can also open internal material that benefits from thoughtful preparation and careful integration.

I offer time-limited therapeutic support to help people prepare for and integrate psychedelic experiences in ways that increase clarity, depth, and long-term benefit. This work is grounded in Internal Family Systems (IFS), EMDR, and trauma-informed clinical practice, with close attention to pacing, nervous system regulation, and meaning-making.

My role is not to facilitate psychedelic experiences, but to help you engage with them more intentionally so you can get as much from the experience as possible.

Who This Support Is For

This support is appropriate for clinicians and non-clinicians who are engaging in or planning psychedelic experiences and want grounded, psychologically informed preparation and integration. This includes individuals seeking depth and clarity, as well as people referred by other therapists for structured, intentional support.

Support can be helpful whether your experience is upcoming, recent, or occurred some time ago.

Preparation Using IFS (Parts Work)

Preparation is one of the most important and most overlooked aspects of psychedelic work.

In preparation sessions, I use IFS and parts work to help you:

• Identify parts of you that may feel fearful, skeptical, protective, or resistant

• Help those parts feel seen and supported rather than pushed aside

• Clarify intentions for your experience

• Create more internal space so you are less likely to feel blocked or overwhelmed

When preparation is well executed, people often find they can approach their experience with greater openness and less internal conflict. This can enable deeper engagement with the medicine and a more meaningful overall experience.

Preparation typically involves one to three sessions, depending on your needs and timing.

Integration, EMDR, and Neuroplasticity

Integration is the point at which the experience becomes meaningful in daily life.

After a psychedelic experience, we work together to make sense of what emerged and to support lasting change. This may include:

• Processing insights, imagery, emotions, or bodily experiences

• Working with parts that were activated or shifted

• Supporting nervous system regulation and grounding

• Translating the experience into changes that impact your life or clinical work

Psychedelic experiences such as psilocybin and ketamine are associated with periods of increased neuroplasticity, meaning the brain is more flexible and open to forming new connections. This window of plasticity can last for weeks to months after psilocybin experiences and for days to weeks following ketamine treatments.

During integration, we may use EMDR to reprocess material that emerged during the experience and leverage this increased neural flexibility. EMDR can help consolidate insights, reduce distress, and support meaningful, lasting change rather than leaving the experience unintegrated.

Integration typically involves one to three sessions, though this can vary based on your goals and what emerges.

If you are investing significant time, energy, and financial resources in psychedelic work, preparation and integration help ensure that investment yields lasting benefit rather than confusion or fragmentation.

My Experience and Clinical Lens

I am a licensed clinician with advanced training in EMDR and Internal Family Systems, and psychedelic work is an ongoing part of my own professional and personal development.

I engage in my own psilocybin work twice yearly in Bend, Oregon, and I work closely with Bendable, a legal psilocybin service center. Continuing my own psychedelic work is important to me as a therapist supporting others in this domain. It keeps my understanding grounded, current, and embodied.

I also approach this work as an autistic therapist with ADHD. This lens shapes how I support preparation and integration in meaningful ways:

• I notice patterns quickly and track them deeply

• I hold complexity without losing clarity

• I ask focused, curious questions that help meaning emerge

• I can see internal dynamics and themes others may miss

For people who are open to being seen with depth and care, this often becomes a stabilizing and clarifying part of the process.

Access and Referrals

If you are seeking legal, supervised psychedelic experiences, I can provide information and referrals to service centers in Oregon or Colorado, including Bendable in Bend, OR. If you choose to work with Bendable, I can also help you understand their process so you feel oriented and prepared from the outset.

You are also welcome to pursue psychedelic experiences through other pathways. My role is to support you before and after your experience, regardless of where or how it occurs.

I can also help connect you to ketamine providers in your area and offer preparation and integration support around ketamine work, including EMDR when clinically appropriate.

Format and Investment

Psychedelic support is offered as time-limited therapeutic work.

This may include:

• One to three preparation sessions

• One to three integration sessions

• A short series of sessions spaced over time

• An intensive format when appropriate

Structure and pacing are determined collaboratively.

• Investment: $250 per hour

• Sessions are provided via secure telehealth

• Availability is limited and assessed on a case-by-case basis

This work is intentionally focused rather than open-ended weekly therapy.

Getting Started

If you are interested in psychedelic preparation or integration support, the first step is to reach out to discuss fit and availability.

If you are seeking depth-oriented therapy not centered on psychedelic work, Individual Intensive Therapy may be a better fit.