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Preparation & Integration Coaching

Thoughtful, grounded support for making sense of psychedelic experiences and the possibilities they open.

Psychedelic experiences can bring us into contact with parts of ourselves, our histories, and our imaginations that may be difficult to access in everyday life. They can open up new perspectives, surface unexpected emotions, and leave us with questions that take time to understand.

An experience may shift how you see yourself or the world, bring old material into focus, or leave you feeling unsettled and unsure what to make of what happened. Even meaningful or expansive experiences can be difficult to translate into everyday life.

You don't have to navigate this process alone.

Psychedelic Preparation & Integration Coaching offers a space to slow down, get curious, and explore your relationship with psychedelic experiences. We can work together to support you in preparing for an upcoming journey, developing an ongoing personal practice, or making sense of something that’s already happened.

Making space for the whole experience

Psychedelic work doesn't begin or end with the journey itself. The questions we bring into it, the conditions surrounding it, and how we make sense of what emerges can shape how we relate to the experience over time.

My approach makes room for that whole process, without assuming that every experience needs to be profound, transformative, or even positive.
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Preparation

Preparation offers an opportunity to get grounded and approach an anticipated experience with greater awareness and intention.

We might explore what's bringing you to this work, what you're hoping to understand or explore, and what feels important to consider beforehand. We can also talk through expectations, concerns, readiness, harm reduction, and the practical and relational conditions that may affect your experience.

Preparation isn't about trying to control what happens. It's about taking time to consider how you're entering the experience and what support, resources, and safeguards may be important.
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Integration

Integration is the ongoing process of making room for what an experience has brought into your awareness and finding ways to relate to it in everyday life.

You might be working with an insight that hasn't quite settled, an emotion that keeps resurfacing, a memory or experience that's difficult to make sense of, or a new possibility you're not sure how to live into.

Together, we'll pay attention to what is emerging without rushing to interpret it or turn it into a lesson. We might explore the experience through conversation, somatic practices, reflection, or other approaches that help you stay connected to yourself as you make meaning.

Integration isn't about finding the one correct interpretation of an experience. It's about developing a relationship with what happened and discovering what, if anything, you want to carry forward.

What we might explore

Your work will be shaped around your experience, questions, and needs. Some possible areas of focus include:

  • Intentions and readiness: Exploring what is drawing you toward psychedelic work, what you're hoping for, and what considerations may be important before an experience.
  • Harm reduction and support: Thinking through safety, setting, available support, and practical considerations as part of a thoughtful approach to psychedelic experiences.
  • Making meaning: Exploring images, emotions, memories, insights, and questions that have emerged during or after an experience.
  • Difficult or confusing experiences: Making space for experiences that feel unresolved, unsettling, or hard to talk about, without imposing a particular interpretation.
  • Embodiment and everyday life: Noticing how an experience is showing up in your body, relationships, choices, and ways of moving through the world.
  • Ongoing personal practice: Developing a more intentional relationship with psychedelic work over time, including questions about purpose, readiness, and integration.

My approach to care


I bring a queer-centered, relational, and consent-based approach to this work. I believe you are the authority on your own experience, and I won't tell you what your journey means or what you should take away from it.

My work draws on somatic coaching, emotional intelligence, intuitive listening, and a deep respect for the complexity of human experience. I'm interested in the places where insight meets the body, where old stories begin to loosen, and where something new might be asking for attention.

As a queer practitioner, I also recognize that our experiences don't happen in isolation. Identity, relationships, culture, and the systems we move through all shape how we experience ourselves and the world. I bring particular care to making space for those dimensions of your experience.

You don't need to share my spiritual beliefs or approach psychedelic work in any particular way. There's room here for curiosity, skepticism, mystery, uncertainty, and everything in between.

How this work is different from psychedelic doula care


Psychedelic Preparation & Integration Coaching is a coaching relationship focused on the questions, intentions, and experiences surrounding your personal psychedelic practice.

Unlike Psychedelic Doula Care, this offering does not include ceremony facilitation, journey sitting, or in-person support during a psychedelic experience. You may be preparing for an experience with another facilitator or provider, considering your own practice, or looking for support after an experience that has already happened.

If you're looking for dedicated support throughout the full arc of a psychedelic experience, including preparation, in-person journey support, and integration, I invite you to explore Psychedelic Doula Care.

Scope of care


My role is to offer coaching and relational support, not medical or mental health treatment. I don't provide psychedelic substances, prescribe or recommend their use, or determine whether a particular substance or experience is medically appropriate for you.

Psychedelic experiences can carry psychological and physical risks. Coaching is not a substitute for medical guidance, mental health care, or appropriate clinical support. When questions fall outside my scope, I'll encourage you to connect with qualified providers who can offer the care you need.

Practical details


Sessions are held remotely. You can schedule a single session to focus on a particular question, prepare for an upcoming experience, or explore something that has emerged from a past journey.

If you'd like more continuity or ongoing support, we can also discuss a coaching package shaped around your needs.

Investment

Single sessions are offered on a sliding scale:

Tier
Per-session Investment

Supported

$110 – $140

Standard

$150 – $200 

Pay It Forward

$210 – $250

Choose the tier that best reflects your current financial circumstances and capacity. The Pay It Forward tier helps make supported rates possible for others.

If you're interested in a package, we can talk about the structure and investment during an initial conversation.

Beginning a relationship


You don't need to arrive with a clear question or a fully formed understanding of your experience. You might be curious about preparing for a journey, trying to make sense of something that happened months ago, or simply wanting a thoughtful place to explore your relationship with psychedelic work.

If something here resonates, I'd love to talk.