The container around the medicine.
Integration is not a checklist. It is the unfolding work of letting the experience give you a new perspective on your life.
Psychedelic experiences, whether with psilocybin, ketamine, MDMA, ayahuasca, or other medicines, can open something profound. They can also leave you unsure what to do with what was opened. That is where integration comes in.
Integration is not a debrief. It is not a protocol. It is the ongoing practice of letting the experience change you: following the threads that the journey left, grieving what it surfaced, noticing where old patterns return and where something has genuinely shifted. This work is often longer than people expect. A single meaningful experience can open material that unfolds over months or years.
What I offer
I do not administer psychedelics. What I offer is the clinical container around them: careful preparation before a journey, and the deeper work of integration afterward. I work with clients in Seattle and throughout Washington State who are engaging psychedelic experience through legal channels: ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, Oregon's psilocybin service centers, clinical trials. I also work with people who bring other experiences into the room.
Most of my integration clients are not new to this territory. They have sat with medicine before. They know something important happened and they are not sure what to do with it. What they are looking for is not a protocol. It is a relationship in which the experience can continue to unfold.
Why depth matters here
There is a version of integration that treats the psychedelic experience as raw material to be extracted and applied: a list of insights, a set of intentions, a plan. That version has its place. It is not what I do.
In my experience, the most important things that happen in psychedelic experience are often the things that resist being turned into a plan. They ask instead for a witness, for time, for someone who can sit with the ambiguity without rushing it toward meaning.
I bring psychoanalytic depth to this work because the psyche that the medicine touches is the same psyche we have always had. The old wounds are still there. The defenses are still there. The unconscious material that surfaces does not arrive with instructions. Depth therapy is the practice of learning to read what the psyche is offering.
The medicine opens something. The therapy is how you learn to live with what was opened.
Preparation
Before a planned journey, we spend time on what you are bringing with you: the hopes, the fears, the conscious intentions, and the material the unconscious is already working on even if you cannot yet name it. We talk about set and setting, about the practical logistics, about how you will come back into your life afterward. I do not tell you what to intend. I help you notice what is already there.
Integration
After an experience, the real work begins. Integration sessions are the ongoing practice of letting the experience work on you: following the threads, sitting with what is uncomfortable, noticing where old patterns reassert themselves and where something has genuinely loosened. This work requires patience. It requires a witness. And it requires a therapist who is not afraid of what the medicine surfaces.
For whom
I work with clients in Seattle and throughout Washington State — those engaging ketamine locally, clients traveling to Oregon for legal psilocybin services, participants in clinical trials, and those bringing other experiences into integration work. I am clear with every client about my scope of practice and the current legal landscape in Washington.
If something here is resonating, I would welcome a conversation — whether you are preparing for something upcoming or still working with something that happened months ago.