Any psychedelic therapy experience will begin with an intake and eligibility process.  There are a number of contraindications for each compound, as well as eligibility criteria on top of this. This is to ensure the safety of the person and that they are seeking the right treatment for their specific area of focus.

These initial meetings and conversations will be done with a licensed practitioner who will review medical history, discuss intentions and aims, and help provide an overview of the experience and the specific program that the client would be embarking on. If a fit is determined by the clinician, the individual can begin moving through the program experience.

Each individual’s experience will vary. Some, all, or none of these experiences may happen in an individual psychedelic therapy session. These are generally accepted as notable characteristics of the psychedelic experience and the compounds that reliably induce some or all of these states.

A core component of a beneficial psychedelic therapy session and program is the preparation. Psychedelic therapy is not a magic pill, it requires a level of energetic investment from the client as well as the practitioner to ensure safety, comfort, and positive short and long-term outcomes as part of these powerful experiences. Preparation can include understanding:

• Richness of phenomenological/mystical experience

• An experience of selflessness or altered experience of Self (non-ordinary state)

• Timelessness, or a distorted/altered sense of linear time

• New or novel ways of thinking/feeling

• A feeling of unity or connectedness to others and to the world

Depending on the scope of the psychedelic therapy protocol the client is embarking on, the sessions can be anywhere from a single experience to several repeat sessions spaced out over a number of months. Each session can last up to 6 hours in length.

This quality of the experience is dependent on:

• The individual (mindset)

• The medicine being used

• The environment (setting, including music)

• Aims and goals of the client

• Specifics of the protocol/program

• Clinician’s discretion

In addition, it is strongly discouraged to engage in any social engagements on that same day, including writing/posting the experience on social media, watching or listening to news, or engaging in social events. Each person experiences it differently, but most will agree that the emotions immediately after a psychedelic experience are tender. Maintaining a calm nurturing environment is important for the next 24 hours.

Please note that we are not involved with obtaining or dispensing the medicine. Our role is to maintain a safe environment for you throughout the journey.

Integration is the process of beginning to explore the insights, experiences, or feelings that arose during the experiential session, and determining how to bring those lessons back into day-to-day life. This is done in the service of personal healing, transformation, and growth and are often done in sessions subsequent to the experiential sessions.

It is key to note that integration sessions are more key to growth than the psychedelic experience itself as these sessions allow you to encode the learning and shape how it can be implemented in real life.  Without it, much of the wisdom that could be gained from an experience can be lost.

Once the client has arrived at the end of the final session of their integration phase, it is highly contextual to the individual as to what happens next. Working with the clinician, the client can determine the next appropriate course of action, which is often one of the following:

• Continuing on with a new program/treatment

• Embarking on a different healing modality such as talk therapy to assist with the integration process

• If the psychedelic therapy protocol feels complete, and they return to life potentially healed or renewed

 As this is highly dependent on the individual, their results during the course of treatment, their intentions for the program, and the discretion of the clinician, this step will look different for each individual.