Psychedelic Integration Therapy

Preparation, integration and support for psychedelic experiences — Melbourne and online

 

Psychedelic experiences can be among the most significant of a person's life.

They can bring profound insight, unexpected emotion, a sense of dissolution, or something that is simply hard to put into words. Sometimes they feel expansive and clarifying. Sometimes they feel confusing, destabilising, or difficult to settle from afterwards.

Whatever your experience has been — whether it felt meaningful, frightening, incomplete, or all of these at once — integration therapy offers a grounded space to help your system make sense of what happened, find steadiness, and bring what emerged into your everyday life.

 

What Integration Therapy Offers

Psychedelic integration is not about reliving the experience or analysing it intellectually. It is about helping your nervous system settle, supporting the emotional and psychological material that has surfaced, and finding a way to carry what emerged into how you actually live.

 

This work supports you to:

• Make sense of what you experienced, including experiences that were confusing or hard to articulate

• Process emotional or psychological material that arose during or after the experience

• Regulate and stabilise your nervous system after expanded or intense states

• Integrate insight into your relationships, work, and daily life in a grounded way

• Find meaning without forcing interpretation

 

Preparation Support

How you enter a psychedelic experience matters.

Preparation sessions offer a space to clarify your intentions, explore what you are hoping for and what you are afraid of, and prepare your nervous system and support structures for what is ahead.

We may work with intention setting, harm reduction and safety considerations, emotional readiness, grounding practices, and nervous system preparation. This is not about controlling the experience — it is about arriving with as much resource and clarity as possible.

 

Support for Difficult Experiences

Not all psychedelic experiences feel positive or resolved.

Some are frightening, disorienting, or leave a residue of anxiety, confusion, or emotional intensity that doesn't settle on its own. If you have had an experience that felt overwhelming, that has left you feeling destabilised, or that you are struggling to integrate, you are not alone and support is available.

The focus of this work is on restoring internal safety, steadiness, and clarity — and on helping your system find ground again at a pace that feels manageable.

 

How Sessions Work

Sessions are tailored to what you bring and where you are in the process. They may include Internal Family Systems (IFS), Somatic IFS, somatic awareness practices, breathwork, sound-based integration, and nervous system support

These are not applied as separate techniques — they are woven together in response to what your system needs in each session.

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I recommend approximately six sessions to allow adequate preparation, support and integration. Sessions are available in person in Melbourne and online for clients across Australia and internationally, including support for individuals, guides and practitioners working with psychedelic or expanded-state experiences.

 

Fee: $190 per session (inc. GST)

 

Psychedelic-Specific Training

The therapeutic landscape around psychedelics is evolving rapidly, and the quality of integration support varies significantly. The training I have completed in this area includes:

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• The Fundamentals of Psychedelic Psychotherapy — Mind Medicine Australia

• Introduction to IFS and Psychedelics — Nancy Morgan

• IFS and Psychedelics — Bob Falconer

• The Farther Reaches of IFS Therapy, Unattached Burdens and Guides — Bob Falconer

• Somatics and Psychedelics — The Embody Lab

• Somatic Relational Trauma-Informed Practices for Medicine-Assisted Facilitation — Rita Bozi, Brilliant Healing Systems

• Ethical Right Relationships in Psychedelic Therapy — Kylea Taylor

• Understanding Psilocybin: Effects, Neurobiology and Therapeutic Approaches

 

This training sits alongside my broader background in somatic psychotherapy, IFS, Somatic IFS and Advanced Integrative Therapy (AIT) — approaches that are particularly well-suited to psychedelic integration work because of their orientation toward the body, parts, and non-ordinary states of consciousness.

 

A Note on Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy in Australia

Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy is currently available only in specific authorised clinical settings in Australia. Psychedelic integration therapy — which is what I offer — is different. It supports you before and after your experience rather than being present during it. This kind of support is available privately and is not restricted to clinical trials.

If you are unsure whether what you are looking for is integration support or something else, the free 15-minute call below is a good place to start.