What Is Psychedelic Integration Therapy?
What Is Psychedelic Integration Therapy?
Psychedelic integration therapy is a supportive process that helps you make sense of and embody insights that arise from psychedelic or non-ordinary experiences.
Rather than focusing on the substances themselves, integration work invites reflection on the emotions, patterns, and memories that surfaced — and how they connect with your deeper healing journey.
Why Integration Matters
A psychedelic experience can open profound states of awareness, but the real transformation often happens afterward, when you begin to bring those insights into daily life.
Without integration, people sometimes feel disoriented, flooded, or unsure how to apply what they experienced.
With skilled support, those same experiences can become anchors for growth, self-compassion, and meaning.
How Somatic and Depth-Oriented Therapy Supports Integration
At Inner Passage (or Melissa Taylor Counselling — whichever brand you’re using), integration therapy weaves together:
Somatic awareness – tuning into the body’s sensations, breath, and impulses
Depth-oriented dialogue – exploring the unconscious layers and symbolic meanings of your experience
Trauma-informed care – creating safety for the nervous system as it processes expanded states
Relational presence – being seen, heard, and supported without judgment
This combination helps your body and psyche digest what unfolded and restore a grounded sense of connection.
What an Integration Session Looks Like
Sessions are conversational and experiential.
We might begin by revisiting key moments of your experience, then explore what they meant, how they live in the body, and what feels unfinished or emerging.
You don’t need to be currently using psychedelics to benefit. Many people seek integration support after past experiences, or simply feel drawn to depth work that honors body, mind, and spirit together.
Ethical & Legal Considerations
Integration therapy does not involve providing or facilitating psychedelic substances.
The work is rooted in counselling, reflection, and meaning-making within a legal, harm-reduction framework.
If you are pursuing legal treatment options (such as ketamine-assisted therapy or the Health Canada Special Access Program for psilocybin or MDMA), integration therapy can help you prepare and process those experiences responsibly.
Working Together
Integration is an invitation to slow down, listen deeply, and translate altered-state wisdom into sustainable change.
If you’d like to explore this work, you can book a consultation or visit the FAQs page to learn more about how online therapy works across Canada.
