Psychedelic Preparation & Somatic Integration Therapy in Long Beach, California

• Assessing Risk: Evaluating physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health factors to ensure safety.

• Intention Setting: Clarifying personal goals and intentions for the journey, aligned with spiritual and emotional needs.

• Grounding Practices: Developing techniques to stay centered and connected to your body before and during the experience.

• Processing Fears or Doubts: Addressing anxieties, uncertainties, and emotional blocks before the journey.

• Strategies for Managing Emotional Material: Creating a plan for coping with intense emotions and spiritual challenges during the ceremony.

• Pre-Ceremony Regimen: Establishing a routine for cleansing and preparing your mind, body, and spirit (e.g., diet, meditation, rituals).

• Educational Resources: Providing information on what to expect, how to navigate the experience, and the cultural context of the substances being used.

• Safety Planning: Developing a plan for physical, emotional, and spiritual safety during the experience.

• Mindset Preparation: Cultivating a receptive, open, and respectful mental state for the journey.

• Support Network Identification: Identifying trusted individuals to provide support during and immediately after the experience.

• Integration Planning: Outlining steps for integrating insights and experiences into daily life..

• Breathing and Relaxation Techniques: Learning methods to stay calm, manage stress, and remain grounded during altered states.

• Personal Rituals: Developing personalized rituals that honor your beliefs and enhance the ceremonial aspects of the experience.

• Cultural Education: Understanding the cultural and traditional significance of medicine and the ethical considerations surrounding their use.

• Connection with Nature: Incorporating practices that connect you with the natural world, reflecting the origins of many medicines.

• Spiritual Preparation: Engaging in practices that align with your spiritual beliefs and prepare your soul for the journey.

• Applying Insights to Daily Life: Translating the knowledge and insights gained from the journey into actionable changes, using somatic tools and body-centered techniques for grounding.

• Processing Difficult or Traumatic Material: Working through challenging emotions, memories, or traumas that surfaced during the journey, using trauma-informed and somatic approaches for safe and effective processing.

• Establishing Daily Grounding Practices: Creating routines that promote balance, grounding, and emotional regulation, supported by somatic integration techniques.

• Continuing Growth and Healing: Developing practices to sustain expansion, growth, and healing beyond the ceremony, including integrating experiences from master plant dietas and microdosing protocols.

• Maintaining Spiritual Connection: Nurturing spiritual wisdom and connection through subconscious illumination, dreamwork, and strategies to avoid reliance solely on psychedelics.

• Sharing Your Experience: Navigating how to communicate your experience with loved ones in a safe and supportive way, using tools to articulate complex emotions and insights.

• Navigating Ego Deaths and Psychotic Breaks: Providing strategies to manage and integrate experiences of ego dissolution and extreme altered states, ensuring safety and understanding during profound shifts.

• Balancing Entity Encounters: Addressing any entity encounters during the journey with respect and understanding, integrating them to support healing and growth.

• Developing a Spiritual Practice: Establishing practices that maintain spiritual connection, support ongoing transformation, and align with deeper intentions.

I take a holistic, body-centered approach to integrating psychedelic and plant medicine experiences; integration is about feeling grounded as you make sense of your experiences and create meaningful changes. Rooted in shamanic wisdom, somatic therapy, depth psychology, energy work, and parts work, my approach to psychedelic integration helps you bridge the gap between altered states and embodied healing. It’s not just about understanding what happened in a ceremony—it’s about weaving those insights into your daily life, your relationships, and your way of being in the world.

This isn’t about chasing peak experiences—it’s about integrating them in a way that actually changes your life. Psychedelic integration helps you take what the medicine showed you and make it part of who you are, how you move through life, and how you show up in the world.

Each session is unique and tailored to where you are in your integration process. We may explore somatic (body-based) practices, guided self-inquiry, ritual work, or energy practices to help you ground your experience in a way that feels embodied and meaningful. The process is fluid, balancing deep reflection with actionable steps to integrate your psychedelic journey into daily life.

Integration is an ongoing process—it doesn’t happen overnight. Some insights land quickly, while others unfold over weeks, months, or even years. Psychedelic integration helps you stay engaged with this unfolding, so your experience continues to evolve into embodied wisdom rather than fading away.

This is not psychedelic-assisted therapy, nor does it involve the use or facilitation of psychedelic or plant medicines (aside from maybe Ceremonial Cacao). Psychedelic integration is about helping you make sense of and embody the wisdom from your psychedelic or plant medicine experiences.