Psychedelic Therapy - Preparation & Integration

Seeking out plant medicine is both an ancient and increasingly common contemporary approach to personal growth and healing. Taking such a journey can involve a number of different psychedelic agents. Depending on the agent involved, and the dosage taken, this journey can provide an opportunity to encounter an other, and in so doing, lead to opportunities to encounter yourself - in different, deeper, more meaningful ways.

The therapeutic modality I work with (ISTDP) seems to me to uniquely complement psychedelic therapy processes. This is because it is intensively focused upon the psychodynamic and somatic factors involved in emotional experiencing and therefore on the wounds and responses to those wounds that we all carry within us - which then lead to psychodynamic and somatic issues. 

That which may be encountered via psychedelic work can assist in engaging with those wounds and subsequent responses within us. When combined with the ISTDP process, we may find ourselves well positioned to not only receive and make sense of what psychedelic work can facilitate a connection to, but also then - to act upon it.