The experience isn't the work. The integration is.

Psychedelic experiences can surface more in a few hours than years of talking manage to reach: grief, memory, connection, material that doesn't fit neatly into the life waiting afterward. Integration is the clinical work of metabolizing that material, whether the experience came from a ketamine series, a clinical trial, a retreat, a ceremony, or personal use you've told no one about.

Without integration, even profound experiences tend to fade into a story you tell. With it, they can become durable change in how you relate to yourself, your history, and the people around you. The work draws on Internal Family Systems, psychodynamic therapy, and Somatic Experiencing, because psychedelic material is rarely only cognitive. It lives in the body, and in parts of you that surfaced when the defenses stood down.

My own recovery began in abstinence-based settings. That foundation was real, and I don't disown it. Years later, psychedelic experiences became a significant part of my path: not a rejection of recovery, but part of how I came to understand what mine was for. They are part of why I became the clinician I am.

I say this because integration asks you to bring experiences most therapists never invite into the room. You deserve to know that the person across from you isn't evaluating your choices from a distance. I bring formal training (MAPS-trained in MDMA-assisted therapy, experience as a ketamine integrationist, an LCADC credential in substance use treatment) and a lived understanding of why these experiences can matter.

I do not provide, administer, source, or supply psychedelics or any other substance, in any setting, under any arrangement. I do not refer clients to underground practitioners. No session takes place while you are under the influence.

What happens here is psychotherapy: legal, confidential, clinical work before or after experiences you pursue independently or in legal contexts such as ketamine treatment or clinical trials. Harm reduction means you get honest information and real clinical care wherever you stand. It is not encouragement, and it is not judgment.

The work begins with a biopsychosocial assessment covering your history, your experiences with psychedelics or your intentions around them, the trauma and mental health context they sit inside, and what you're hoping the work produces. From there, sessions take one of two shapes. Preparation supports adults approaching a legal experience: clarifying intentions, building the somatic and psychological capacity to meet difficult material, and planning for what comes after. Integration works with what an experience already surfaced, at whatever distance: last week's ketamine session or something from twenty years ago that never settled.

Sessions are conducted via secure, HIPAA-compliant telehealth. The pace is set by your nervous system, not a protocol. Some experiences integrate in a handful of sessions; some open into longer depth work, because what surfaced was never really about the substance.

Adults processing a ketamine series who received the medicine but not the therapy. Adults back from a retreat or ceremony, holding something enormous with nowhere to put it. Adults who had a difficult or destabilizing experience and want a clinician who won't flinch or moralize. Adults whose experience from years ago has started asking questions again. Adults considering a psychedelic path who want preparation that is honest about both the promise and the risks.

Many of my clients are professionals who keep this part of their lives private: clinicians, executives, parents. Discretion isn't an accommodation here; it's the baseline. And for adults whose relationship with substances is itself part of the picture, I hold the substance use and the meaning-making in the same clinical frame, without pretending one cancels the other.

Alchemy Psychotherapy is a private-pay, out-of-network practice. A reduced fee is available in limited circumstances based on financial need and current caseload. I do not bill insurance directly, but I provide a Superbill on the first of each month for clients with out-of-network mental health benefits, and HSA and FSA cards are accepted. Under the No Surprises Act, you have the right to a Good Faith Estimate of expected charges before treatment begins.