My Unique Blend of Psychology, Somatic Wisdom, and Shamanic Guidance

 

Embarking on a journey of personal or spiritual exploration through psychedelics is a deeply transformative process, but it’s also one that requires careful integration to ensure lasting change. My approach to psychedelic integration is uniquely grounded in a combination of psychology, somatic wisdom, and shamanic guidance. This holistic framework provides the support you need before, during, and after your journey, ensuring that each stage is approached with ethical care, mutual respect, and a deep commitment to your well-being.

 

Whether you’re working with plant medicines such as magic mushrooms (psilocybin), ayahuasca, ChanGa (DMT), or MDMA, integration is crucial for helping you navigate the profound shifts that can arise. My approach, centred on ethical care, ensures that your physical, emotional, and spiritual safety is prioritised at all times. This is essential, especially when using psychedelics for healing physical illness, trauma, spiritual crisis, depression, anxiety, grief, or coming to terms with death. For healers and sangomas, integration also offers a space to deepen your spiritual journey and expand your understanding of the tools available to you.

 

Why Integration is Essential

 

Psychedelic integration helps ensure that the insights from your journey are not lost. It allows you to ground and embody the transformations, whether you’re working through personal trauma, experiencing a spiritual awakening, or finding new meaning in life.

 

Some common reasons people seek psychedelic integration include:

 

• Confusing Memories of Childhood Trauma: Psychedelic journeys can sometimes bring up fragmented memories of childhood trauma, which may or may not be entirely accurate. Research indicates that psychedelics can unlock repressed memories, but it’s essential to approach these with care and not rush to conclusions. My approach helps you navigate this ambiguity, holding space for exploration while grounding the experience in psychological and somatic work.

• Overwhelm or Confusion After a Journey: Deep emotional or spiritual insights can sometimes feel overwhelming. Integration provides a structured environment where these emotions can be processed with care, ensuring that they lead to healing rather than confusion.

• Experiencing a ‘Spiritual Emergency’: Sometimes, powerful journeys can trigger spiritual emergencies—where you feel disconnected from ordinary reality or experience existential crises. Integration helps ground these experiences, ensuring that they result in personal growth rather than disorientation.

• Healing from Trauma or Physical Illness: Psychedelics are increasingly recognised for their ability to help people work through trauma and even physical illnesses. Integration ensures that these healing processes are properly supported and carried through, allowing you to maximise the potential benefits of your journey.

• Depression, Anxiety, Grief, and Death: Psychedelics have shown promise in helping people manage depression, anxiety, and grief, and in coming to terms with mortality. Integration helps you embody the insights gained during these journeys, turning them into tools for long-term mental and emotional well-being.

• Support for Healers and Sangomas: If you are a healer or sangoma looking to deepen your spiritual journey, psychedelic integration can help you explore new dimensions of your work. It provides space to process insights and connect with the spiritual realms in a way that supports your path as a healer.

 

A Holistic Approach: Before, During, and After

 

The psychedelic journey is typically divided into three stages: before, during, and after. Each of these stages plays a vital role in ensuring that the journey leads to lasting transformation.

 

• Before the Journey: This stage is about preparation. We work together to clarify your intentions and ensure that you are mentally, emotionally, and spiritually ready. Drawing on psychology and somatic practices, we set the foundation for a clear and grounded experience.

• During the Journey: I support you through shamanic techniques and somatic attunement, creating a safe, facilitated space where you can explore your consciousness fully. Whether you’re addressing personal trauma, physical illness, or seeking spiritual growth, my presence helps ensure you remain grounded throughout.

• After the Journey: This is where the real integration begins. Together, we reflect on your experiences, using psychological insight and shamanic wisdom to make sense of what arose. Somatic practices help you process any physical or emotional releases, grounding these insights into your body and everyday life. This ensures that the transformation becomes part of your ongoing journey of healing and growth.

 

What Makes My Approach Unique?

 

What sets my integration work apart is the blending of psychology, somatic awareness, and shamanic guidance. Each modality brings something essential: psychology offers insight into the mind and emotions, somatic wisdom reconnects you with your body, and shamanic techniques open up deeper spiritual understanding. This holistic approach allows for a personalised and supportive integration process, honouring the complexity of your experience and ensuring it leads to meaningful, lasting change.

 

Integration as a Shared Journey

 

Psychedelic integration is more than just processing an experience—it’s about stepping into a journey of lifelong healing, growth, and discovery. Whether you’re addressing trauma, physical illness, grief, or spiritual crisis, or you’re a healer deepening your spiritual practice, this process is about more than just you—it’s something we do together. With my support, you won’t have to navigate these changes alone. We will work as a team to integrate the deepest parts of yourself, turning transformative moments into lasting, empowered change.

 

If you feel ready to embark on this journey together, or if you’d like more information about how this unique approach can support you, reach out. Together, we can create the space for healing, clarity, and individuation.