Expanded States & Integration
Grounded integration for expanded states and psychedelic experiences
Online sessions across BC, Alberta, Ontario, Nova Scotia & The Yukon
Something opened. And you're not quite sure what to do with it.
Maybe it was a ceremony. A retreat. A solo journey that went deeper than you expected. Maybe it was breathwork, or a spontaneous spiritual experience that arrived without any substance at all.
Whatever the door, something on the other side was real.
You touched something that felt more true than your ordinary life. A sense of connection, of meaning, of something vast and quietly familiar.
And then you came back.
Now you're here. Trying to hold something that doesn't quite fit into language, into your daily life, into the person you were before it happened. Maybe it was beautiful and you want to honour it. Maybe it was terrifying and you need help making sense of it. Maybe it cracked something open that's still asking for attention.
You don't have to integrate this alone.
You might recognize yourself here
You had an experience that felt more real than real, and you're not sure how to talk about it
Something shifted in how you see yourself, your relationships, or your life, and you're still finding your footing
The experience brought up difficult material—grief, trauma, fear—that needs a grounded space to process
You're feeling unmoored, spacey, or ungrounded in the weeks or months since
The insights felt clear during the experience and are already starting to fade
You're not sure how to weave what you found into your actual daily life
You're planning a journey and want to arrive prepared, emotionally, somatically, and with clear intention
You want a clinician who won't pathologize what happened, and won't romanticize it either
This isn't about analyzing the experience. It's about living what it showed you.
Expanded states can be profoundly healing. They can also be profoundly disorienting. And what the research keeps confirming is that the experience itself is only part of the equation, what happens before and after matters just as much.
Integration isn't about extracting meaning and filing it away. It's about letting what opened actually change something, in how you relate to yourself, to others, to the life you are living.
That process takes time, and it takes support.
This is a space where what you experienced will be met with genuine curiosity and clinical groundedness.
No spiritual bypassing. No over-intellectualizing. Just a steady, attuned presence to help you find your footing and carry what you found back into the world.
What We Might Explore Together
Every integration journey is unique. Our work follows your pace, your nervous system, and what's most alive for you.
We might explore:
What the experience showed you, and what it's asking of you now
Difficult material that surfaced: grief, trauma, fear, or existential uncertainty
How to stay connected to the insights without losing them to ordinary life
Grounding and nervous system support if you're feeling unmoored or spacey
The parts of you that are resistant to what opened, and what they might need
How the experience connects to your relational patterns, your identity, your sense of meaning
Preparation and intention-setting if you're planning a future journey
Thinking About a Future Journey?
Preparation is where integration actually begins.
Before the experience, we can explore what you're hoping to open, what might surface, and how your nervous system and trauma history could shape what emerges. We look at how to set intentions that are genuine rather than performative, and how to resource yourself emotionally and somatically so you can meet whatever arrives.
Arriving prepared changes everything about what becomes possible. And when the experience is complete, you'll already have a relational container to bring it back to.
Many clients move through both preparation and integration work with me, creating a supported arc around the full experience.
Already had an experience and need integration support? You're in the right place too.
how i work
The experience gave you a glimpse. Integration is how you actually get there.
This work is somatic, parts-based, and integration-informed, which means we're not just processing the story of what happened, we're working with how it lives in your body, your nervous system, and the parts of you still metabolizing what emerged.
I bring genuine curiosity to expanded states and clinical groundedness to the difficult material they can surface, without spiritually bypassing or over-intellectualizing either.
A note on legal access
This is legal, regulated therapy provided within my full scope as a Registered Social Worker. Beyond preparation and integration support, I also offer legal psychedelic-assisted therapy through specific channels, including ketamine-assisted therapy and Health Canada's Special Access Program.
Ready to begin?
Here’s how we can work together:
Individual
Therapy
Ongoing depth-oriented somatic therapy if the experience opened something that wants longer-term exploration.
EMDR
Intensives
Extended sessions for processing difficult material that surfaced during or after the experience.
Psychedelic
Integration
Dedicated preparation and integration support — grounded, clinical, and genuinely curious about what you found.
FAQs
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Difficult experiences are often the most meaningful ones — once there's a safe, grounded space to meet them. What surfaced during your journey wasn't random. It was material your system was ready to bring forward — grief, fear, old trauma, unresolved parts. Integration therapy creates the container to explore that slowly and carefully, at the pace of your nervous system. You don't need to make it go away. You need support to understand what it was asking of you.
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It depends on what the experience opened. Some people need a few sessions to process and ground what emerged. Others find that the experience touched deeper layers of trauma, identity, or grief that want longer-term exploration. There's no fixed timeline — integration unfolds at the pace of your system. What matters most is having a consistent, attuned space to bring it back to rather than trying to metabolize it alone.
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This is more common than people expect — and it doesn't mean something went wrong. Expanded states can temporarily dissolve the defences and coping strategies that kept difficult material at bay. What you're feeling in the aftermath may be grief, disorientation, or old pain that finally has space to surface. That's not a sign of damage — it's often a sign that something real is asking for attention. Integration therapy is specifically designed to support this phase.
You don't have to make sense of this alone.
If something in this page met you where you actually are, that's worth paying attention to.