Psychedelic preparation and integration is the work around the journey. An expanded states journey doesn’t begin when you close your eyes, and it doesn’t end when you open them. What happens before and after is just as essential as the journey itself. These sessions help your experience become a real turning point in how you live.
Preparation: laying the foundation
The more intentional you are before you journey, the more you’ll receive from it.
Through a detailed intake questionnaire and a series of open-ended conversations, we work together to surface what’s most alive in you right now, the patterns, the wounds, the questions, the longings. We bring into conscious awareness the things that most need attention, and we set a clear, meaningful intention to guide your experience.
My expanded states journey with Michael began with a very detailed questionnaire that spanned varied elements of my life. Though it took some time to complete, I realized later on how much of my past dictates how I am dealing with many of my current struggles.
Female in Her 40s
Preparation is the first act of the work itself, beyond the logistics. Many clients find that the process of preparing opens something up before the journey even begins.
Integration: making it real
The expanded state gave you something. Integration is how you keep it.
After a journey, the feelings, visions, insights, and sensations you experienced are potent material, but only if they’re worked with consciously. Without integration, even the most profound experience can fade back into the background of ordinary life. With it, that experience becomes a compass.
Together, we create space to make meaning of what arose during your journey. We examine what surfaced, reflect on what it’s pointing toward in your daily life, and co-create concrete action steps and practical homework you can carry forward to anchor the transformation in how you live.
The session summary broke everything down clearly, and the exercises provided were invaluable for integrating these revelations into my daily life.
Female in Her 40s
With Michael's guidance before, during, and after my journey, I have gained a truer understanding of myself. I now have tools and vision.
Male in His 50s
Who is this for?
Some people come to integration sessions after journeying with me. Others come having already done one or more expanded state experiences on their own, without a guide, and find themselves sitting with questions, unresolved material, or a sense that there’s more to unpack. Both are welcome, and so is anyone coming home from a retreat abroad, in a place where that work is legal. I help you make sense of what came up and bring it into your everyday life.
You don’t need to have journeyed with me to benefit from integration support. If you do journey with me, one or two integration sessions are part of it. If you’ve had an expanded state experience and you’re trying to understand what it means for your life, this work is for you.
While my first expanded states experience more than 53 years ago proved to be life-altering, I had no framework or container during the experience and no references for integration afterwards. This time, the framework beautifully woven in by Michael made all the difference.
Male in His 70s