preparation & integration for working with plant medicines and psychedelics
Well-facilitated plant medicine and entheogenic ceremonies or facilitated journeys have tremendous potential for healing and transformation.
I have supported hundreds of people through their journeys with plant medicines such as Ayahuasca, Psilocybin Mushrooms and San Pedro over the years. In that time, I have witnessed the profound transformational impact these plant medicines can have when they are properly prepared for, facilitated, and integrated.
Along with the skill of the facilitator and the safety of the container they create, preparation work offers the best way to make the most of the experience and maximize the healing benefits of these remarkable psychedelic plant medicines. Conversely, people who are unprepared for a psychedelic experience and/or have a poorly-facilitated experience, can have challenging and sometimes even harmful experiences. The quality of both the preparation and the facilitation really matter.
Preparation
I offer preparatory counseling sessions to help prepare you mentally, physically and emotionally for healing or transformational work with Ayahuasca, San Pedro, Psilocybin mushrooms or other entheogens.
Topics addressed include:
What to look for in a facilitator or shaman
Knowing the potential risks involved
Pre-ceremony regimen for cleansing and preparing your mind and body for the work
Identifying the highest leverage intentions for ceremony and how to work with intentions during ceremony
Preparing for what can happen during a psychedelic session or ceremony
Strategies for managing what comes up during ceremony
How to create the best state for receiving wisdom and insights
How to use plant medicines for healing trauma, depression, and anxiety
Using plant medicines for self-mastery and life transformation
Integration
I have found that there is a post-ceremony window of opportunity following a plant medicine experinece during which people are more capable of making big changes and translating the transformational shifts experienced during ceremony into tangible life changes.
This period can typically last up to 6 months. This critical period offers an incredible opportunity to use this newly expanded and open state to manifest true transformation in your life.
People who don't take the proactive steps to make changes during this critical period often report that the ceremony effects "faded away."
Topics typically covered during post-ceremony counseling sessions include:
Help making sense of the powerful ceremony experiences and putting them into their proper place
Taking the lessons and insights and putting them into practice
How to create a daily practice of cleansing, balancing and grounding
Ways to continue working with the medicine when you are home
Addressing unfinished business that may have arisen during ceremony but feels incomplete or unsettled
Preparation & integration counseling package
I offer a plant medicine preparation and integration counseling package for those who already have a ceremony or retreat planned and want to make the most of their intentional work with plant medicines.
The package includes 2 preparation sessions and 2 integration sessions and is offered for $800.
intensive preparation counseling
I also offer more intensive counseling that delves more deeply into a client’s personal material to identify and begin addressing the root causes of their current pain points. By doing this kind of therapeutic work beforehand, you can go a lot deeper in the ceremony and get much more out of the experience.
Essentially the more you do ahead of time, the further you can go in the ceremony. It makes a massive difference and really allows for serious transformation in a much shorter period than is possible in traditional psychotherapy.
integration-only counseling
Plant medicine ceremonies and retreats can be really challenging and even in the best of circumstances the road back can be bumpy. I offer psychedelic integration counseling for people who have had a psychedelic or plant-medicine experience they want to work through or understand better. I also help people who have had negative experiences or “bad trip” and need assistance getting back to level ground.
Working with plant medicines has been a great joy and passion in my life and I feel truly honored to help guide others in their journey with these powerful medicines.
