Psychotherapist, Group Psychotherapist

Michael Ellis

I have been working as a qualified psychotherapist since 1987. I also work as a supervisor and trainer and have worked as a consultant with organisations. My primary modality is gestalt, I have an MA from the Tavistock and make use of psychoanalytic and systemic thinking and I have also trained in and use EMDR.

I know from my own experiences the importance of preparation, deeply considering intentions and the context prior to engaging in psychedelic work. Similarly, I appreciate the huge value in having a safe and confidential space to make sense of the experiences, ground them and consider how to integrate them into everyday life. My intention always is to develop such a safe space so that you can reflect and deepen your awareness of the meaning of the experiences for you and how you might change things following your experiences.

Person-Centered Psychotherapist, Brainspotting & Breathwork Practitioner

Eppie Wells

Research consistently shows that the most effective psychedelic experiences occur in a suitable setting, where you feel safe and held by grounded, compassionate, and empathic people. I believe the same is true for post-integration therapy, and I offer this environment.

As a person-centred psychotherapist, I am here to support you in preparing for or integrating a psychedelic experience, meeting you wherever you are on your journey. Whether you need to understand the science behind the experience, unpick what surfaced during it, connect with your intuition, or expand the imaginative and creative aspects that were unleashed, I am here for you. Additionally, if you have had a psychedelic experience that was not well-held and has left you feeling confused, I am here to support you in finding the answers you need.

With a specialism in working with trauma, I integrate ways of working that connect with deep brain-body processing, such as Breathworks and Brainspotting, to facilitate your growth and understanding. I also call upon my extensive knowledge of the psychedelic realms and neuroscience to support you. It would be a great privilege to be alongside you with compassion on your journey into your inner world.

Integrative Psychotherapist

Angie Wong

As a certified psychedelic practitioner with a comprehensive 15-month training at The Synthesis Institute, I bring a unique blend of expertise to guide you through the realms of body, mind, and spirit.

Understanding the intricate dance between psychedelics and the human experience, I prioritize harm reduction, particularly for those who may have encountered challenging moments during their psychedelic journeys. As a trauma-informed psychotherapist, I recognize the impact of our backgrounds on our well-being and offer a non-judgmental, safe, and warm space.

Your intentions for the journey are at the heart of our exploration. Together, we’ll navigate the landscape of fear and anxiety that may surround psychedelics, unraveling the layers to create a space for authentic self-exploration. Each psychedelic experience is a unique tapestry, and I am here to support you in making sense of even the most challenging aspects.

The journey extends beyond the psychedelic experience itself. Through integration work, we delve into the healing and processing of whatever emerges during your exploration. I firmly believe in the innate wisdom within us all, a guiding force for healing. My integrative approach seeks to deepen your knowledge, uncover insights, and facilitate positive changes in your life.

SHADOW WORK THERAPIST & EXPERIENTIAL PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC PROCESS FACILITATOR

Alasdair Kirk

In my therapeutic practice, I facilitate ‘deep-dive’ one-to-one 5-hour experiential psychotherapeutic sessions for men and woman. The work is rooted in Jungian psychology and archetypal theory and employs various tools and modalities to work with the inner experience and the inner and outer relational field. My therapeutic approach has strong parallels with the model of therapeutic work used in expanded states offered by MAPS and others.

Integration work can support you to preserve insight in well resolved experiences, helping you to harness meaning and transform the experience into enduring life change. Where there has been unresolved experience or overwhelm, integration can support you to slow down and ground, reviving the capacity for you to integrate through containment and closure of the emotional material, and supporting you to return to a sense of self that can sustain you in everyday life.

After transcendental experience, while the external world and the demands of everyday life may still be the same, there is an opportunity for deep change in personal meaning making, in how one makes sense of life at a fundamental level. Conscious integration maximises the potential of this being carried over into your ongoing relationship with others, with the world, and with yourself.

For more details about how I work and about me visit www.inner-truth.co.uk

Clinical Psychologist

Zahira Cohen

I am a clinical psychologist, PhD, interested in supporting people to make sense and use of their experiences in expanded states. I am also a researcher in women’s mental health, looking into links between female biology/psychology and psychedelic states.

My professional training includes psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioural approaches and experiential body-mind psychotherapy in Buddhistic philosophy orientation. I am currently completing the MDMA Therapy Training Program by MAPS. These trainings have given me an integrative, holistic and humanistic understanding of therapy. Over the years, I have gained rich experience in working with life crises, transitions and changes, trauma, mental health difficulties and expanded states. Psychedelics have the potential to offer us a deeper understanding of ourselves and the world and to show us how to lead a meaningful life; Our work together will be supported by creating a safe, compassionate, collaborative and trusting relationship between us.
I offer preparation and integration sessions online in Hebrew and English. In some cases, I can offer short-term in-person sessions in Cambridge.

Current Relevant Work: Clinical research fellow at Imperial College London: Guide therapist – psilocybin for fibromyalgia; Research of women’s mental health in relation to psychedelics; Research in psilocybin clinical trials in Israel

Online

The PsyCare Psychedelic Integration Circle

Psychedelic experiences can be extraordinary, beautiful, sensual, humbling, terrifying, healing, overwhelming, confusing – and usually some combination of the above! Sometimes it can feel jarring to be back in the mundane, or these ecstatic experiences can have a feeling of having more to reveal, repeatedly drawing our attention back to them to try and access meaning. The importance of integration when it comes to transformative psychedelic experiences is becoming more and more widely understood. When we have an experience that is so outside of our regular sense of self that we struggle to make sense of it, a supportive circle of fellow travelers can be just what we need to come into our own power and understanding. Here are companions who may well have an unexpected part of your own puzzle, or you might find yourself called to resonate or share with someone else’s little corner of the mystery. Here are humans who have been on their own journeys, and returned with unexpected treasures – and maybe some unfinished business. Together, we weave a space of mutual respect and support, where connection and compassion allow each of us to take another step forward on the path of self-knowledge.

The PsyCare Psychedelic Integration Circle usually runs on the first Monday of the month, via video call. All funds raised through the integration circle go towards the aims of the charity. 

For more details see: https://www.psycareuk.org/integration-circle

Or contact Sonal Kadchha listed on the directory.

Integrative Psychotherapist

Thomas Shutte

I am a psychotherapist and clinical supervisor who has been actively involved in the field of psychedelic therapy and research since 2010. My experience encompasses psychedelic harm reduction work at festivals, participation in a clinical trial investigating the impact of LSD on the brain, and research into the use of psychosynthesis for integrating ayahuasca experiences. More recently, I have been working as a lead therapist on clinical trials investigating Ibogaine for opioid use disorder, 5-MeO-DMT for treatment-resistant depression, and Methylone, a chemical analog of MDMA, for PTSD. Additionally, I work as a facilitator for psilocybin retreats in the Netherlands.

While integration can take different forms, I’ve found that people seek therapy when a psychedelic experience leaves them feeling overwhelmed or distressed. This often stems from encountering unexpected thoughts, feelings, or images during their experience. I’ve found that therapy can be beneficial through providing containment, grounding, meaning-making and relational support. Depending on the client’s needs, it can also assist in a process of existential enquiry, especially if the experience prompts a deeper questioning of existing beliefs.

Integrative Psychotherapist

Sonia Aurora

Psychedelic experiences can bring up a startling depth of contact with yourself, your psyche, and expanded meanings. Sometimes it can feel hard or confusing finding how to grasp what you’ve been shown; how to allow profound experiences to truly land, and how to take in new or perplexing insights. 

At times these experiences can create a sense of isolation until the process of integration feels sufficiently held. 

I can facilitate this important work, offering a safe and sincere relationship in which your experiences can begin to be assimilated and understood, in the context of you and your life.

I have a deep respect for the courage and trust involved in psychedelic inquiry. I am privileged to offer warm companionship to brave seekers and wayfarers.

I have offered integrative relational psychotherapy since 2004, both in NHS settings and privately, accruing a depth and diversity of experience. In addition to the use of psychedelics, I have over 15 years experience of intimate experience with expanded states of consciousness, including from reclusive prolonged periods of dedicated meditation, for the purpose of deep psycho-spiritual enquiry.

Integrative Psychotherapeutic Counsellor

Gemma Autumn

I (she/her) am a BACP accredited integrative psychotherapeutic counsellor, eco-psychotherapist and artist. I work with adults and adolescents struggling with anxiety, depression, grief, loss, low self-esteem, relationships, divorce, life direction, stress, burnout, trauma, attachment, creative blocks, insecurity, intimacy issues, abuse, sexuality, OCD, religion, family problems, money stories, spiritual disconnection, psychedelic integration and living abroad.

My training covered children, adolescents and adult treatments. This is important because so often when we are looking at our core wounds and what has emerged through expanded states, they are the conflicts of the inner child. 

I use talking therapy and creative interventions such as body awareness, visualisation, neurolinguistic programming, Internal Family Systems, EFT tapping and HAB breathwork where they may lead to the movement of emotion or insight. I will answer your questions and also challenge you in my attempt to be authentic and congruent in our relationship.

As an artist with a background in the corporate world, I can relate to those in business and creative fields. I have also lived internationally in London, New York, Doha, Italy, Geneva and Berlin.

As a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy I follow their guidelines and ethics.

Cambridge

Psychedelics Integration Circle

You may have used psychedelics and want to share meaningful or challenging experiences to help you make sense of them, or you may want to hear from others or have questions to help you decide whether using psychedelics is right for you.

As part of the Cambridge Psychedelics Integration Circle, you will be helping to create an inclusive, non-judgemental, confidential space for mutual support and learning. We hope being part of the group will help you integrate your psychedelic experiences into your everyday life in a way that is meaningful and helpful to you.

We meet the last Sunday of every month, starting on 28 May, ’23. Tickets are for sale through Eventbrite. You will find us if you search for Cambridge Psychedelics.

The group is not a therapy group. It is simply a safe, confidential space for you to share your experiences or hear from others if you are considering whether use of psychedelics is right for you.

We recognise the positive potential of the use of psychedelics, but as a group will work within the law, so we ask that you don’t turn up under the influence of substances and that you don’t take psychedelics in the session. We will also ask you not to share information about illegal psychedelic services.

Tickets are for sale through Eventbrite. If you search for Cambridge Psychedelics, you will find us. Our website and Facebook can be accessed at the links below.

Facilitators: Jeannet Weurman, Sara Lytle

Integrative Therapeutic Counsellor

Sonal Kadchha

A psychedelic experience can be intense – it can turn our reality upside-down – and we may not know what to do with it, or who to turn to when we return to the known world with fresh eyes.

I’m a therapeutic counsellor, registered with the BACP, and work with clients looking to integrate intense psychedelic or spiritual experiences. I am also the founder of a charity that empowers young women in Africa. Previously, I worked in Banking/Finance and lived across Europe, East Africa, and South-East Asia. My personal psychedelic journey was instrumental in my shift to a more ‘internally-aligned’ career and fulfilling life. I’m passionate about the therapeutic potential of psychedelics and Vipassana meditation. I work as a ‘space-holder’ for PsyCare, Medicine Festival, and Spiritual Crisis Network. In my Psychology thesis, I explored ‘How Psychosynthesis could provide a psycho-spiritual context and framework for challenging psychedelic experiences’. 

I will stand beside you as you make meaning of your experience, in a way that feels right to you. Together, we will create a safe and non-judgmental space to process your experience on a somatic, emotional, cognitive, and spiritual level. 

Psychedelics provide a unique opportunity to leverage the brain’s increased neuroplasticity to break old patterns and create new habits and mindsets. We will explore and ground your new values and insights into an ‘everyday way of Being’. Also, beyond the ‘set & setting’, we need to be psychologically prepared for the unknown journey by proactively working with the unconscious (e.g. through techniques involving psychoanalysis, dreamwork, guided-imagery, meditation). We will look deeper than ‘intention setting’ and also explore the ‘parts’ of us that are actually setting the intention. 

Psychodynamic, Humanistic Integrative psychotherapist

Rebecca Otero

Having worked as part of the research team at MAPS EU. I am passionate about the transformative potential of psychedelic therapy in trauma and PTSD. I am dedicated to advancing the understanding and application of these therapeutic approaches.

In my practice, I prioritise providing a safe and supportive environment where individuals can explore their experiences openly.

The therapeutic process can begin before with work in preparation and intention setting.

After a non ordinary state experience, we delve into the core beliefs that shape one’s perception of self and reality.

Recognising that everyone’s journey is unique, I assist clients in navigating the visual, physical, and psychological facets of their experiences. Together, we work towards gaining insights that inform their past, present, and future.

• To make sense of any aspects of the psychedelic experience that were particularly confusing
• In translating the lessons learned from these experiences into positive changes in daily life.
• If challenges emerge, I offer tools and strategies for coping.
• Managing any new perspectives around reality or relation to the self and others that may arise during a psychedelic experience.

I am BACP accredited Humanistic. trauma-informed Psychodynamically trained Psychotherapist. Drawing from methods, such as IFS, Gestalt, CBT tools and techniques, with a vast interest in development in Neuropsychology, and polyvagal-informed somatic awareness.

Transpersonal Psychotherapist

Alejandra Sarmiento

As a transpersonal psychotherapist, I offer holistic mental healthcare that recognises the interconnectedness between the mind, the body, and our work and personal environments. I support clients to reconnect with themselves and aim to respond to the individual needs of each client, using approaches from both formal trainings and intuition. 

I work with adults and couples who are experiencing complex trauma, PTSD, depression, anxiety, general listlessness and relationship challenges. I am passionate about helping clients gain insight through self-exploration, heal attachment through authentic connection and attunement, release trauma through embodied awareness, and experience breakthrough by dismantling old patterns of behaviour that no longer serve them.

I encourage clients to access their own inner healing intelligence as they work towards making new meaning from their past, softening their worries about the future, and arriving in the present moment with a sense of acceptance, connectivity, and strength.

Psychotherapist

Simon Turnbull

I offer a safe, accepting, exploratory space in which to explore whatever is going on in your life.

If you have had an experience with psychedelics that you are struggling to come to terms with, I can help you make sense of it.

Integrative Psychotherapist

Leah Christodoulou

I am an integrative psychotherapist with personal experience with psychedelics and am also training as a shamanic practitioner. These combined allow me to work alongside you in preparing for and integrating your psychedelic experiences with a sensitivity and relationship in which you feel held, understood and supported. 

Psychedelic experiences are profound offerings for us. I am passionate about helping to explore and understand on a mind-body, relational and spiritual level what wisdom may be being passed to you through your experience. I believe these experiences offer us the opportunity to heal, and in doing so allow us to be more open to connection -within, with others and to our planet. Working with intention creates the heart for your psychedelic journey to unfold and this dedication to intention remains part of the integration process when I am working with clients. 

Sometimes these experiences can bring to light difficult aspects of who we are or our history, which can be challenging. These moments are also precious gifts and I am committed to offering a relationship in which you have an ally and we can enter the exploration together, finding our way through with compassion, openness and even some humour along the way.

Core Process Psychotherapist

Patricia Taddei

My practice as a Core Process Psychotherapist is informed by a connection to the elements; to nature and the living spirit which courses through all and everything. It is also informed by a life-long interest in the science and practice of meditation; and by many spiritual voyages sparked by the teachings and insights of the great wisdom traditions. 

Life is a progression of states and stages. We are always in flux, even when we feel stuck between what is in the process of passing, and that which is yet to come. Core Process is a depth approach which offers a safe empathic space and receptive presence for that which seeks emergence, integration and completion. 

The essence of Core Process is the quality of being and presence within the therapeutic relationship. My intention and commitment as a therapist is to uphold the space for open-hearted enquiry, constancy of awareness and to provide a compassionate, grounded and spacious holding.

You are welcome to get in touch with any questions and for more information.

Transpersonal Psychologist and Psychotherapist

Kristina Kazaryan

I’m a transpersonal integrative psychotherapist with a background in psychology.

My special interest and training is in the most recent developments in relational neuroscience & trauma-informed psychotherapy. In my work I do not separate spirituality and a science & body from the soul.
I use UKCP and BACP ethical guidelines.

London

The Maudsley Psychedelic Society Integration Group

Integrative Counsellor

Eva Serra

I am a BACP registered adult Integrative therapist with an MA in child and adolescent psychotherapy. I have worked in schools for the past three years, working with metaphor, play, acting, and movement. I have witnessed firsthand how children naturally tap into altered states of consciousness. It is truly a privilege to be a part of their emotional, spiritual, and cognitive development.

In addition to my work with children, I have also been facilitating psilocybin sessions for friends, allowing them to delve deeper into self-discovery and expand their perception of reality. Personally, I find the true magic lies in the heightened awareness and the ability to shift entrenched neural patterns. While healing is undoubtedly important, my primary focus is on helping individuals thrive and integrate these experiences into their lives.

Within my private practice, I work with adults, guiding their attention towards their bodies, the present moment, and their breath. This approach enables them to integrate past experiences into their present reality, fostering an internal environment of love rather than fear.

To uncover any emotional blocks and work through painful memories, I use visualisation techniques and Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT). By personifying emotions or states and exploring narratives, I believe we can gain a deeper understanding of ourselves and our intricacies. Through accepting and embracing the natural ebb and flow of our own experiences, we embark on a path towards freedom and joy.

Integrative Psychotherapist

Noel Comer

Hi, I’m Noel Comer, a father, husband, musician (kinda!) and integrative psychotherapist living in Galway, Ireland. When I started on my deeper work in expanded states I found it difficult to find anyone in Ireland to help me integrate my experiences. It is a privilege to be able to provide such supports to others on their journey.  I aim to provide a warm, compassionate, safe and supportive space to work collaboratively on whatever may be troubling you. I want to ensure that whatever steps you take that the benefits are maximized while reducing any potential harm. I use a person centered relational approach, which means that I tailor the approach to meet your needs using interventions that are best suited to you at this time. 

I typically work with people who have experienced difficulties in their lives that may show up currently as anxiety, low mood, relationship difficulties, anger, shame, self-criticism, self-destructive behaviour, addiction, patterns of relating to oneself and others that are unhelpful, to prepare and support integration of psychedelic experiences. 

If you would like to know more about how I work and to decide if I am the right fit for you, please get in touch by email or visit my website – both linked below.

Qualifications:

Institute of Psychedelic Therapy: Diploma in Psychedelic Assisted Therapy 

Institute of Integrative Counselling & Psychotherapy, Dublin: B.A., (Hons) Degree in Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy.

School of Social Work, Boston University, Boston, MA: Post-Graduate Certificate in Treatment of Trauma.

School of Social Work, Beck Institute, Boston University, Boston, MA: Post-Graduate Certificate in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.

School of Social Work, Salem State University, Salem, MA: Master Social Work.

All Hallows College, Dublin City University, Dublin: B.A., (Hons) Theology & Psychology.

Psychotherapist and Psychiatrist

Neil Harris

With 25 years of experience as a psychotherapist, I specialise in Gestalt and transpersonal modalities, complemented by EMDR techniques. Transitioning from a 30-year role as a child and adolescent psychiatrist in 2022, I’ve redirected my focus to deepen my practice in psychotherapy and facilitate Holotropic Breathwork sessions as a certified facilitator.

My journey with therapy has been a thread in both my professional and personal life, exciting, challenging and healing by turns. Over the years, I’ve engaged in extensive personal therapy, initially with a Jungian analyst for 5 years and more recently with an integrative therapist. Supported by a supervisor well-versed in expanded states of awareness, I’m equipped to address such issues when they arise in my clients’ experiences.  I belong to a peer group of therapists working in the transpersonal domains.

At the end of 2023 I completed the ICEERS Psychedelic Integration Therapy training with Marc Aixala.

While my preference lies in face-to-face interactions, I’ve adapted to the demands of the pandemic era, becoming proficient in delivering therapy online.

Walking the dogs, swimming in the sea, travelling to the mountains, doing my best in the kitchen, and hanging out with friends, help me harmonise my life.

Transpersonal Psychotherapist

Agnieszka Jacewicz

I offer one-on-one integration and can help you prepare for the work with the entheogens. I have a lifelong interest in spirituality and overcoming trauma or learning to live and grow from it, which led me to my training as an Integrative Transpersonal Psychotherapist. 

I have worked with Ayahuasca since 2015 in Peru with the Shipibo shamans and in Europe. I am deeply interested in entheogen research and know how important it is to have a space where you can safely unpack and continue to process your experience. I am based in Brentford, London and online. 

Integrative Psychotherapist

Richard Jones

Psychedelic experiences can confront you directly with parts of yourself that are extremely challenging. Whether you felt overwhelmed or underwhelmed, it can be incredibly useful to build and refine a language that helps to orient and conceptualise your experience. Over time it can become increasingly clear how elements of your experience relate to the broader aspects of you and your life.

Psychedelics are incredibly powerful tools for unlocking your own innate, inner intelligence – this is often too much for one person to do alone. Together we will revisit your experience and aim to untangle strands of meaning, insight and your own inner resources to metabolise your experience and grow from it.

Integrative Clinical Psychologist

Leisha Davies

A warm welcome to whoever is reading this. My name is Leisha, and I am an Integrative Clinical Psychologist. I am trained in several different talk therapy models as I believe in a tailored approach. I have 15 years’ experience in a wide range of inpatient and outpatient settings both in South Africa and in the UK. I have completed a specialist 15-month psychedelic practitioner training program that equips me to work with people to integrate their psychedelic experiences within the legal framework. Facilitated integration is a psychological process that can be beneficial after a psychedelic experience to take advantage of the window of opportunity that emerges in the brain and mind. I also have skills in some somatic and mindfulness practices, such as breathwork and meditation. In addition, I am interested in the death and dying process, specifically how these relate to conscious living. 

Research in therapeutic expanded states of consciousness is yielding hopeful results for the alleviation of human suffering and for growth.

I offer individual sessions, and all sessions will take place via online-video platform.

Professional Memberships: HCPC-UK, British Psychological Society, Health Professions Council of South Africa, Institute of Psychedelic Therapy, Synthesis Institute Alumni

Clinical Psychologist

David Barry

I was drawn to becoming a therapist as I place great value on honest communication and connection. It is a tremendous privilege to be allowed a glimpse inside of someone’s internal world and I treat this privilege with the utmost respect.

As a therapist, I believe that mental health difficulties can serve as a natural starting point for longer-term growth. My intention is to create a space for you to develop a curious and non judgmental stance towards your internal world. Wise and effective paths towards recovery tend to emerge from those places.

I also believe that mental health is related to the larger questions in life, such as purpose and meaning. Throughout our sessions, we will work together to uncover what brings you purpose and fulfilment in life.

Brighton

Brighton Psychedelic Integration Circle

The Brighton Psychedelic Integration Circle is held on the last Sunday of each month. Please book early as we usually expect to sell out.

The Circle offers confidential and non-judgemental support to those who have used psychedelics or are considering using them. If you have had a challenging psychedelic experience and want to make sense of it, or wish to share meaningful experiences, then this is for you.

The Circle is facilitated by a small team of psychologists and counsellors with experience in the field of psychedelic support and contemporary psychedelic therapy research. The aim of the Circle is to support integration of psychedelic experiences into everyday life in a way that is helpful and meaningful to the individual.

The Circle runs on a monthly basis. We ask members to arrive 10 minutes before the start so we can check-in and start on time (late arrival may result in not being able to participate). The cost is £18 for each session.

The Circle does not permit use of psychedelics or other psychoactive drugs during group meetings. Integration works best with a clear mind. In accordance with the law, we neither encourage substance use, provide illicit substances, nor referrals to illegal psychedelic services.

Clinical Psychologist & Psychotherapist

Kamila Hortynska

My name is Kamila and I have 20 years of clinical experience as a psychotherapist and clinical supervisor. I have worked in the NHS for 11 years and in private sector for 14 years. I am also Mindfulness Teacher, Trainer and Supervisor working with both, groups and individuals.  I have a deep respect for plant medicines and the potential they offer us in growing and developing as human beings. 

I am a deeply spiritual person and an experienced clinician who is ready to meet you wherever you are in your personal development journey. I am happy to work with any mental health problems, that you may have developed, or one that have been exacerbated by your psychedelic journey. I can also help you make sense of your experiences and practically translate the lessons from the plant medicines into your daily life and relationships. Equally I would be very happy to help you prepare for any psychedelic experiences you have already planned and then support you in integrating them. I want to emphasise however, that I do not provide “sitting services” or referrals to underground providers. All my work follows the spirit of harm reduction practices. 

Integral Psychotherapist

Alistair Mayor

I offer one to one and group, counselling, psychotherapy, and supervision. My background is Humanistic Integrative, I teach counselling, and deliver trainings in various areas – midlife crisis, anger, trauma.

I spent 6 years delivering psycho-educational and process groups to victims of trauma, and worked for many years with young people, and with people struggling addictions.

I’m drawn to mountains and novels and poetry; especially when they intertwine. I like myths; old and new that can teach us something of the soul, and the quest for existential meaning. I’m interested in new ways to meet the challenging and complex times we find ourselves in.

I work from a holistic integral perspective; paying attention to beliefs and the body, in relation to each other, and in context.

Integrative Psychotherapist

Isobel Hall

INTEGRATIVE PSYCHOTHERAPIST

I’ve been working with clients who use psychedelics from the start of my career as a psychotherapist. I’m also a specialist in Psychosexual Disfunction, and work with many clients who have experienced sexual abuse or sexual problems. 

·         I work with clients mostly online, both short term and long term. 

·         I offer preparation therapy for psychedelic experiences. 

·         I can work with you to integrate experiences you’ve had in the past.

·         I can also work with you to process particularly difficult or unsettling psychedelic experiences. 

I provide confidential and non-judgmental Psychotherapy and Counseling. 

I work with people who have had experiences with Cannabis, MDMA, LSD, Psilocybin mushrooms (magic mushrooms), DMT (N,N-Dimethyltryptamine) and many more. Get in touch and let’s have an informal chat, or visit my website to find out more about the way I work.  

Psychodynamic Psychotherapist

Leanne Hoffman

I am psychodynamic psychotherapist and psychedelic psychotherapist with 19 years’ experience working with clients to help them improve their mental and emotional health and wellbeing. I work with Compass Pathways and Transcend Therapeutics on clinical trials with a range of psychedelics to help treat Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Treatment Resistant Depression and for Healthy Volunteers. I believe that therapy combined with psychedelics can help the mind and body free itself from unhelpful thoughts, feelings, and older less helpful coping strategies. This allows people to change behaviours, have more meaningful relationships and feel better enabling them to thrive. It also provides an experience of being able to weather difficult emotions and situations. This reduces depression, anxiety, and other older less helpful coping strategies. The approach I use for the preparation and integration of psychedelic experiences is a blend of Psychodynamic Therapy (thinking about the past and the unconscious), Acceptance Commitment Therapy, Mindfulness, Cognitive Behaviorual Therapy and Body Work. I also have experience of helping clients process distressing or disturbing psychedelic experiences. In addition to my role as a psychotherapist, I am a Partner at HealthMinds@Work which is a consultancy that helps organisations improve the mental and emotional health of employees.

Integrative-Relational Counsellor

Kate Palmer

I work from an Integrative-relational theoretical basis which means that I draw on a range of different theories to support my work.

I believe that it is the relationship between you and your counsellor that is fundamental in supporting you when you are distressed, and in helping you understand yourself and your relationships, enabling you to move forward.

My priority is to create a warm, respectful, secure relationship where you can feel safe enough to explore and come to terms with whatever may be troubling you. I believe that psychedelic experiences can illuminate deep, unconscious material and can, therefore, be both potentially healing and challenging.

Art Psychotherapist, Clinical Supervisor, Jungian Analysis trainee

Diana Kayafa

I offer art psychotherapy, integration therapy and supervision in private practice. I am an accredited Art Psychotherapist with over 15 years of experience, a trained Clinical Supervisor (Integrative & Transpersonal approach) and a Jungian Analyst (in training) with a background in Psychology. I am also a Senior Lecturer, having lectured and held leadership roles in various academic institutions.  

I have worked as a therapist in various fields; palliative care, bereavement, acute and community mental health; with children, adolescents and adults; individually, facilitating groups and family work. In the integration field, I have worked in collaboration with Shipibo healers for a well known ayahuasca retreat centre in the Peruvian jungle offering creative integration; I work with elders of the Mexican Wirrarika tribe and assist in the integration of ceremony material; and I hold compassionate individual therapeutic space for people who are curious to explore challenging experiences.  

I believe in the transformative power of the arts and cultivation of the conditions for creativity and perspective broadening is key to my practice, as I believe in the growth and healing potential of non-ordinary states of consciousness when approached with respect, attunement, intention and… the commitment to do some homework 🙂 

Person Centered Experiential Expressive Arts & Psychedelic Integration Therapist

Heather Rimmer

Drawing on the experience gained from working on clinical research trials, exploring the use of psychedelics (DMT & Psilocybin) for depression, as well as facilitating non-psychedelic altered states, I offer a space for groups and/or individuals to prepare for and integrate altered state experiences.

Drawing from my Person Centered Experiential philosophical underpinnings, my practice focuses on ‘being with’ rather than ‘doing to’.

I also a small supervision practice.

Integrative Psychotherapist

Kirstien Bjerregaard

I support individuals, couples and groups to navigate tough times in life, address mental health issues, recover from trauma, improve relationships and realise their potential by becoming more aware of their natural wellbeing, wisdom and resilience.

I’m interested in how expanded states of consciousness (whether achieved through breathwork, meditation, plant medicine, or revelations) enhance people’s capacity to connect to their inner healing intelligence and inbuilt guidance system. I hold a compassionate, loving space for people to reflect on, work through and integrate their experiences in a durable way which is beneficial to their everyday life.

Based near Totnes in Devon, UK, I meet people in person indoors and outdoors as well as online, and offer retreats and nature immersions for people to realise the power of their psychological nature in nature.

Primarily a student of human experience and life long learner, I work as a transformative counsellor and coach, an educator of psychological flexibility, and three principles practitioner, with a doctorate in social and organisational psychology.

Integrative Psychotherapist

Wendy Hemmings-Quelch

Wendy is a qualified Relational Integrated Psychotherapist. Wendy is also Lecturer in Psychology. She has been working educationally with children and adults for over 25 years. She has worked with people in many diverse settings and with a range of difficulties: neuro-diversity, work and educational stress, addiction, homelessness, schizophrenia and acute clinical diagnosis. 

Her approach to therapy is concerned with individual growth and the relational needs of a person: the self, others we care about and the things we value and need. Her work embraces her interest in creative practices, writing and image making, in Buddhism and Existential ideas, she is a qualified Shamanic Practitioner and holds ideas of soul and spirit within the therapy. She aims to assist the person in becoming an authentic and self-accepting individual, who can practice choice over whatever life may throw, with kindness, heart and courage.

Wendy in trained in Compassionate Inquiry – a somatic approach – Gabor Mate.

Fully Accredited Psychotherapist

Rob Coffey

Rob is a university lecturer, has a Graduate Diploma in Counselling and Integrative Psychotherapy (Dublin City University), is an accredited psychotherapist and is a professional member of MIND- the European Foundation for Psychedelic Science. He is also a qualified Shamanic Counsellor at the Irish Centre for Shamanic and Transpersonal Studies, and has finished an 8 year training as a Transpersonal Therapist in the tradition of Dr. Stan Grof.

He passionately believes that only way to create change in the world is through inner psychological work, and his work has been around reconnecting people to themselves, to each other and to nature.

In his twenties he was one of Ireland’s top whitewater kayakers, leading expeditions to most of the most remote locations on the planet, including Iran, the Himalayas and Ethiopia to name but a few. He has 20 years experience guiding people in some of the most adventurous mountain and river environments on earth. As he evolved into a leading outdoor educator, he became convinced of the healing power of nature. After several near death experiences and the trauma of losing some of his friends to the river, Rob turned to Jungian psychology, yoga and meditation to rehab his body and mind. He has been practising yoga intensively since 2008, and teaching since 2015 when he trained as a Yoga Alliance Teacher (200 RYT) on Maui, He has also completed yoga and meditation trainings in Mexico, India, Guatemala and Spain.

Rob has been a student of Amazonian curanderismo for a number of years, having done several dietas with the renowned Shipibo curanderas in Peru. He co-wrote a code of ethics for plant medicine facilitators “A guideline for navigating sexual trauma and harm prevention in psychedelic ceremony space” (www.saferceremony.com), as well as helping to draft the dutch Guild of Guides Code of Ethics.

Before becoming a psychotherapist, Rob was a university lecturer and will be co-ordinating our Inwardbound Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy training programme.

Graduate Diploma (Level 9) in Counselling and Integrative Psychotherapy (Dublin City University)
Qualified Shamanic Counsellor at the Irish Centre for Shamanic and Transpersonal Studies, Dunderry Park
8 years training as a Transpersonal Therapist at the Irish Centre for Shamanic and Transpersonal Studies, Dunderry Park
Professional member of MIND- the European Foundation for Psychedelic Science (Berlin)
Trained with the Jung Society of Ireland
IFS (Internal Family Systems) for Psychedelic Guides training
Expanded Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Psychedelic-assisted Therapy: Trauma-focused ACT training
Trained as a Vision Quest Facilitator in the US
Trained in Trauma Release Exercise (TRE)
Professional experience as an Adventure Therapy facilitator in the US
Experienced Holiotropic Breathwork practitioner
6000m peak trekking leader, international Class 5 river guide
Co-Founder and facilitator Men’s Circle in Dublin
Yoga Alliance Teacher (200 RYT) , breathwork and meditative yoga teacher

Integrative Psychotherapeutic Counsellor

Ethna Vernon

I am an Integrative Psychotherapist with over 25 years experience.
Holding space for transcendence has been an interest of mine for over 30 years. I have years of experience working with clients wanting to prepare, share and integrate their experience in expanded states. 

I honour the mind-body connection and believe that the interconnectedness of our experiences are significant. My original training was Jungian in essence and used expression through story, body and the creative arts. Depth work, the transpersonal, and integration of our unconscious processes have always underpinned my work. I have qualifications in Drama Therapy, Integrative Psychotherapy, Family Systemic Therapy and EMDR. I work with couples and individuals.

I approach the therapeutic relationship from a foundation of mindfulness, compassion, curiosity and respect. I believes that each of us possess an internal source of wisdom that can be cultivated through psychotherapy, meditation practices, psychedelic medicines and other connecting practices which connect the brain, body and spirit. 

I am comfortable and familiar with sitting in, and co-creating, a safe environment and relationship which can contain and help make sense of experiences outside of the norm and every day existence. It brings me great joy to support this unfolding, and reconnection of repressed or hidden aspects of self, by co-creating a space with clients to be as they really are, in all their beautiful complexity.

Integrative Psychotherapist

Amy Durden

I am an integrative Psychotherapist, with 10 years experience working within mental health settings, private practice, academic institutions and the charity sector. My training includes many somatic approaches including Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, EMDR and IFS. I currently support psychedelic trial research at King’s College University’s Psychoactive Trials Group and co-facilitate the Maudsley Psychedelic Society Integration circle. 

I offer a safe and compassionate space to explore the potential of psychedelic experiences (pre and post) and bring a somatic approach to integration work, helping to deepen and embed the knowledge, insights and growth gained.

Sessions can be one-off or contracted at 3-6 sessions. Online sessions available via Zoom and Doxy.me or face to face in Canonbury, London on Wednesdays.

Chartered Counselling Psychologist

Josie Seydel

I am a Chartered Counselling Psychologist with over 20 years of clinical experience and am passionate about promoting positive mental well-being. I am a compassionate, friendly and highly skilled therapist, able to offer you confidential, non-judgemental and useful support. 

I am excited about the ‘psychedelic renaissance’, and the advances in clinical research suggesting many psychological benefits. But I also understand that integrating a psychedelic experience into your life may be disorienting, disappointing or even deeply distressing, even if you had a positive “trip” experience. You may find yourself with new perspectives, with new recollections, spiritual or existential questions or feeling flat, confused or unsure. Perhaps the experience wasn’t what you had hoped or expected? Whatever your experience, and whatever your personal mental health history, you can rest assured you will be receiving the most up-to-date, evidence-based support from a compassionate, experienced, and highly skilled human being. 

I offer online or in-person psychological therapy to individuals, couples and groups. I am a specialist in eating disorders, self-harm and suicide, domestic abuse and adolescent mental health, as well as psychedelic-integration psychotherapy. I am a trauma-informed, a trained mindfulness teacher and co-author of 2 successful books on mindfulness.

Looking forward to meeting you.

Integrative Psychotherapist & Systemic Constellations Facilitator

Maria Papaspyrou

The psychedelic experience is a powerful opening into the deep psyche and it requires our engagement and participation. This is the journey of integrating the insights and openings of the experience, in a form that can enrich our everyday lives, relationships, and sense of self. 

At times these experiences can leave us feeling disoriented and confused requiring support to help us re-member our sense of self and safety in the world within and around. If we support the aftermath of such challenging experiences we can harness their energy and process towards healing and growth.

Please do not contact me requesting psychedelic psychotherapy as it is not something I offer.

Core Process Psychotherapist

Justine Corrie

The profound nature of a psychedelic experience can be overwhelming to make sense of on one’s own. I offer a safe & confidential space to integrate non-ordinary states of consciousness that are induced by psychedelic substances or spiritual emergence.

Integrating the psychedelic experience is absolutely essential for the achievement of personal growth. It’s easy to take a psychedelic and have your mind profoundly altered. But extracting all of the meaningful goodness out of a psychedelic experience requires intention and support; an intention to process the experience through reflection, introspection, writing, reading, talking to others, and other means of exploration. This helps to clarify and ground the insights and turn them into action in the real world.

I draw upon many different modalities & frameworks including Mindfulness, Archetypes, Somatic Bodywork, Internal Family Systems, Trauma Therapy & Embodied inquiry via body-based and movement practices.

I maintain ethical integrity of my psychedelic integration work via participation in MAPS Integration Providers network and engagement with latest developments in Psychedelic Science.

Gestalt Psychotherapist

Lizzie Kelly

The use of psychedelics can bring to light many aspects of our psyche and existence.  These experiences can be profoundly healing and insightful as well as difficult and challenging.  Making sense of these experiences in a way that is meaningful to you is an important part of integrating these insights into your life.  

I am a Gestalt and Integrative Psychotherapist offering both in-person and online sessions.  I work holistically taking an interest in all aspects of your experience and supporting you to become aware of your emotional, psychological, physical and spiritual self.   

Integrative Psychotherapist

Werner Kierski

Dr. Werner Kierski is a highly specialized psychotherapist. Werner integrates a wide range of clinical approaches. Most of his work is in private practise but he is also a member of the therapy team at Schoen Clinic. Prior to that he has been a senior member of the therapy team at the Nightingale Hospital. Before this he worked for several other organisations, including Freedom from Torture a service supporting people who have survived torture. He is one of but a few therapists in the UK who is extensively trained in Comprehensive Resource Model (CRM), which is a fascinating neuro-biology based therapeutic way of treating complex trauma and the way it works can be seen as akin to the release and insight gained through psychedelics. As a supervisor of doctoral candidates, he is involved in supervising a study that is exploring the effect of Ayahuasca on dissociative mental states.In addition to his clinical work Werner has held a number of teaching posts at several leading institutions. Outside of his activities as a psychotherapist he spent six years working with wolves. This deeply moving work has helped him to understand much better how questions of anxiety, survival, communication with others and resilience are interconnected.

Falmouth

Expanded States Integration Circle

This monthly in-person open group is a place to reflect on and integrate experiences of expanded states of consciousness.

Whether you’re a seasoned psychedelic explorer or simply finding your way, this circle offers a opportunity to share, listen and make connection. We invite you to bring expression of your experiences, whether transcendental, scary, troubling or inspiring; and whether they happened recently or long ago. Each person will have time to share, however it is also totally okay to simply be witness in the group. We will listen with open hearts, as this is not a time to offer judgement or criticism or even interpretation of someone else’s story. If we are moved by something we have heard, we will comment just in reference to what it brings up in us, or the themes that we are noticing. We may also want to share what is helping us integrate back into our everyday.

This confidential space will be facilitated by Rosa and Aaron Sefi. Rosa is a psychotherapist at the Bird House Therapy Centre and we will meet in her room there while the group begins to grow. Aaron is a trained Counsellor who now works in mental health research and service delivery. Both have extensive experience supporting people in deep process both individually and in groups and hold workshops together along these themes.

While we believe that expanded state experiences that are ignited by breathwork or plant medicines can offer deep insight and potential for healing, we ask that you please don’t come to the group under the influence of psychoactive substances. In keeping with the law, we do not encourage substance use or provide access to illegal substances or practices. We are simply wanting to offer a safe container in which people can come together to process and integrate their experiences.

We meet on the last Thursday of each month. Please book your seat using the eventbrite link below. Payment is by donation on the day.

Existential Psychotherapist

Adam Knowles

If you’re looking for support and understanding as you explore psychedelic experiences, I’d like to help. I have substantial personal experience with psychedelics (mainly ayahuasca). I actively research the use of psychedelics for healing and insight, giving talks from time-to-time and writing articles.

As an existentially-trained psychotherapist, I work with any presenting or underlying issues you may become aware of. I am comfortable working with questions big or small.

I offer open-ended sessions via Skype/internationally, or face-to-face sessions in London. Please, get in touch if you’d like to explore the possibility of working with me.

Integrative Psychotherapist

Tanyia Hughes

I work creatively, using the felt sense to guide me with a combination of psychotherapeutic models, neuroscience and intuition, where we can unpick the stories that have bought you to this point. Giving space for you to authentically expand.
I have a special interest in post traumatic growth, finding strength and value in our darkest experiences can catapult us to a place where our new found resilience and self confidence allows us to live beyond the perceived limitations of our pasts. 

I work in-person, walking and talking in nature or online.

Body Psychotherapist

Adam Bambury

Integrative Psychotherapist

Tati Silva

I am a qualified Psychotherapist and Counsellor, working with people going through challenging times in their lives. I have an integrative style which allows me to draw from a toolbox of different therapeutic techniques to suit your needs. I have worked with children, adolescents and adults with a wide range of issues including domestic abuse, complex trauma, anxiety and depression, self-harming, work-related issues, bereavement and loss, sexual abuse. The focus of our work will be on helping you to understand yourself better.

My client’s include those: Experiencing symptoms such as panic attacks or depression. Wanting to explore something from their past. Wanting to explore particular relationships. Feeling a sense of being “stuck” in life. Experiencing the effect of a trauma. Someone dealing with lost or bereavement.

“I don’t want to be your safe boat but a lighthouse. You sail, find a way, I’ll guide, orient. We work together to emerge the best of you”.

Integrative Psychotherapist

Jo Dice

“Psychedelics will be to psychiatry what the microscope is to biology and the telescope is to astronomy.” Stanislav Grof 

Landing in the real world after a peak psychedelic experience can be incredibly disorienting, bewildering and lonely. How do you make sense of these spectacular or frightening things you have experienced? How do you make decisions based on your insights? 

With a deep reverence for ancient and modern wisdom, my therapy process utilises knowledge, science, body, soul and spirit for holistic healing on a deep and cellular level.

I have undertaken comprehensive training within the field of psychotherapy and navigating psychedelics, as well as having twenty years of nursing experience, bringing a wealth of physical and mental health expertise. Having personally experienced transformational results from working with psychedelic medicine, and expansive states of consciousness evoked through breathwork and meditation, I believe wholeheartedly in this work. 

Psychedelic integration involves moving towards wholeness, bringing together your differentiated parts into the creation of a functioning whole. Making meaning of your experience and moving it forward into your every day reality.

If you would like to work with me, please get in touch and I will feel honoured and humbled to witness your healing journey.

Integrative Psychotherapist & EMDR Practitioner

Hannah Raine-Smith

I am an integrative psychotherapist and independent researcher with a specialisation in working with complex trauma using attachment-focused EMDR therapy. I have adapted EMDR techniques to aid the integration of material that has emerged from the subconscious during altered states of consciousness. I use bilateral stimulation of the brain to facilitate this process. I have experience working with clients receiving ketamine infusions via the NHS and in private clinics, as well as other legal treatments abroad.

I am experienced at holding the space for people integrating traumatic memories/experiences, and I am attuned and skilled at keeping clients in their ‘window of tolerance’ when integrating difficult material. You will be in safe hands. I believe that preparation is key when it comes to healing with altered states of consciousness, and I aim to guide you through your process.

I also offer supervision.

Please do not contact me requesting psychedelic psychotherapy, it is not something I offer.

Brighton

Psychedelic Integration and Therapy Group

A Psychedelic Integration and Therapy Group in Brighton, for those who have used psychedelics, and/or those considering using them. This is a safe space for people who have had challenging experiences and want to make sense of these, who wish to share meaningful experiences, and/or who wish to learn more about psychedelics, with harm reduction in mind. The group runs fortnightly on a Friday, 1pm til 3.30pm, and is charged on a sliding scale from £25 to £40 per session.

In order to maximise a sense of containment, consistency, and commitment for group members, the group is ‘closed’ (i.e. not ‘drop in’), and involves a maximum of ten group members (as well as 2-3 facilitators). At the beginning of each new month, we ask that all group members commit to two (occasionally three) group sessions, on a rolling monthly basis. New members can join at this time, as and when spaces become available.

In accordance with the law, the group does not provide psychedelics, nor permit use of psychedelics during group meetings, nor offer referrals to illegal psychedelic services. Again, the primary purpose of this group is to offer integration and preparation support, with harm reduction in mind.

If you would like more information or to join one of these groups please contact me at the links below.

Integrative Psychotherapist

Oliver Markham

Cognitive Behavioural Therapist and EMDR practitioner. Working collaboratively in a curious, authentic and human way to help clients overcome emotional, psychological and spiritual difficulties. Working holistically in integrating compassion focussed work, acceptance and commitment principles, mindfulness, parts work and solution focussed approaches.

Integrative Psychotherapist

Michael Ledden

Based in Dublin Ireland, Michael is a practising, fully accredited Integrative Psychotherapist (IACP, IAHIP, ICP Accredited, Msc. in Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy). Michael is an experienced psychedelic space holder and integration therapist who works as a facilitator and psychotherapist with InwardBound Psilocybin retreats in the Netherlands. Michael is also a co-founder and the chairperson of PsyCare Ireland: Welfare and Harm Reduction CLG, a non-profit social enterprise that supports members of the public at music events having difficult substance induced experiences or mental health crises. As an integration therapist in Ireland Michael provides: Psychedelic Integration Therapy, Shamanic Counselling for Psychedelic Integration and Shamanic Energy Therapy Technique.

Michael set up Psychedelic Integration Ireland in 2021 to provide information, safety advice and integration support to the many people using Psychedelics and Entheogens for personal and Spiritual development. Furthermore, the service is also here for you if you have had a difficult psychedelic journey by accident or are stuggling with a spiritual emergence/emergency. 

Michael set up Psychedelic Integration Ireland having felt lost returning to normal life after his own ceremonial and therapetuic experiences with psychedelics. Michael does not provide psychedelic assisted therapy or experiences in Ireland as this is illegal, but does provide: Psychedelic Integration Therapy, Shamanic Counselling, and Shemanic Energy Therapy Technique to assist clients navigate their inner and outer worlds following contact with psychedelic substances.

He also has a background in working in homeless services with clients in addiction and also worked as an advocate working with refugees. Previously, Michael was also a manager in a company that provides Employee Assistance Programs within large organisations. For the last number of years Michael has run his own psychotherapy service Anxiety Ireland. Michael maintains a private practice as a psychotherapist with short and long term clients.

“I’ve always had a fascination with personal growth and Psychedelics and first came across the realm of transpersonal psychology while studying for a BA in Religions and Theology: My first seed was planted through exposure to shamanic drumming as a 20 year old in college. My interest in the transpersonal paradigm simmered away while I trained as a psychotherapist learning about various styles and disciplines and developed further when I travelled to Latin America in 2017 for six months. However, my interest in Psychedelics stems from my personal explorations of various medicines. Despite years of group and individual therapy, the deepest and most impactful experiences of my life have come from working with psychedelics. The inner changes these experiences actualised for me are a gift I feel compelled to assist others to find in their own way. I also know how difficult integrating psychedelics can be, from feeling alone, to feeling frustrated, to being lost and having to make changes that not everyone will understand. The great writers that have influenced me most to date have been Stan Groff, Carl Jung, Anthony DeMello, Richard Roher and Etty Hillisum.”

Psychotherapist

Tamara Strachan

It is my belief that journeys that are consciously prepared for and carefully integrated can be particularly impactful and can help to ensure a reduction in potentially harmful experiences…better known as ’bad trips’

It would be my honour to walk alongside you during this time, holding a compassionate secure and individualised space for you.

Preparation session 

• Guidance with setting an intention for your journey
• How past individual and generational trauma may show up
• Tools to keep you grounded and open
• Suggestions for self-care in the hours following your trip

Integration sessions 

• Making sense of the insights imparted during your journey
• Processing trauma that may have surfaced
• Debriefing any challenging or harmful experiences
• Considering how you might want to use your journey as an agent for change and growth

If you would like to discuss how we might work together, please email text/phone me for a FREE 15-minute consultation info@southlondontherapist.co.uk
07949037156

I work ONLINE or in person (at my private practice in South West London)
Sessions can be booked as one off’s or ongoing
Fees are £85 per session

Integrative Counsellor

Preethi Sutton

I am a humanistic, integrative counsellor using Transactional Analysis, Gestalt and Person Centred approaches to counselling. I am also a body therapist having trained in Embodied Relational Therapy, a branch of Wilheim Reich’s work. Having trained as a Health and Wellness coach and an acupuncturist, I support my clients in all aspects of their health to achieve their full potential.

Psychotherapist

Rosa Sefi

The bedrock of my approach is to provide an environment of warmth and safety in which people can dive deep into their thoughts, feelings and embodied sensations, while being met with empathy and clear reflection. My training has humanistic roots, with additional transactional analysis, interpersonal psychotherapy and group facilitation certification woven in. I also draw from Polyvagal, Compassion Focused and Internal Family Systems models. I am currently in training with the IPT on their depth relational training.

I’m guessing you have probably found your way here to this page by route of a psychedelic experience(s). Whether this has occured from a spontaneous, meditative, tantric, breathwork or plant medicine event; was predominantly scary, confusing or transcendental; and whether you’re left feeling high as a kite or disconnected from everything and everyone you thought you knew ~  the opportunity for greater self-connection, deep insight and meaningful change is the same. 

Or perhaps, instead, you are considering taking a path in this direction. You may be keen to prepare yourself for your journey and would like to begin a therapeutic relationship to be held around your experience? 

I see entering into an expanded state like consuming a really rich meal that can potentially feed mind, body and soul. How prepared we are for it; where we are and how we are feeling when we ingest it; who we are with and what we do with ourselves afterwards can all have a huge impact on how well we take it in, digest it, and also the amount of nutrients we gain from the process. 

I will work sensitively at your pace as you find ways to express the different dimensions of yourself and make sense of your experiences, free from judgment or criticism. We can also turn to visualisation, mindful practices and breath work as ways of grounding and resourcing in sessions.  I will be interested in what most appeals to you. I can offer you an honest yet loving and compassionate presence, and will be active in the process. 

I have over 2 decades of experience as a therapist, with 10 of these years online. I have worked for community and charity services, including those specialising in sexual health, trauma and abuse. I now work in private practice as a therapist and supervisor; run workshops on heart-led integration at psychedelic festivals; and also co-facilitate Falmouth’s expanded states integration circle.

Integrative Counsellor

Omar Malas

I offer psychedelic integration therapy to support you in processing after your experience or even in preparation before planning to undergo one. I work in a person-centred way, meaning that I work with you in exploring meaning, answers or direction to your asked question, instead of giving advice or posing as an expert in diagnosing you. I work relationally and it is the trust and non-judgement that I offer that allows for deeper relating between us.
I also like to work in an embodied way and I think that this is particularly valuable in psychedelic work. Noticing where in the body experiences are felt, where the tensions, discomforts and releases are located. I used breathwork as a tool to help you access these parts of your body and this can range from a few minutes to bring your body to a calmer more grounded state or 20-40 minutes of a breathing flow to help bring emotions to the surface.
Ultimately, how we work together is tailored to your specific needs and any combination of approaches can be discussed beforehand and modified to what you need at any particular time. Get in touch for a free introductory call.

Integrative Psychotherapist

Adrian Harris

I’m a psychotherapist with nearly twenty years of experience in ecotherapy. Expanded states first took me with a spontaneous mystical experience in my early 20’s. Soon after I came across psychedelics and later meditation. I became professionally involved with psychedelics in 2020 when I joined the Synthesis Institute as Director of Ecopsychology. I worked there as a Retreat Facilitator from July 2022 to February 2023.

An expanded state of consciousness can be beautiful, terrifying and bewildering. It’s likely that much of the mystery will remain, but there are seeds of wisdom that gentle cultivation can nurture into flowering. My approach to integration is rooted in our mutual embodiment and aims to facilitate your inner healing intelligence. Ecotherapy can play a crucial role in how we manage the power of psychedelic experiences and we may invite the more-than-human world to guide your process.

Psychotherapist

Sally Hayward-Young

I am a professionally trained Psychodynamic, EMDR, and Cognitive Analytical Psychotherapist. I have been doing this work for over 20 years.

In 2017 I started the practise of Holotropic Breathwork and immediately experienced the benefits first hand of working in expanded states. I have gone on to train professionally in this attending many breathwork residentials and modules in both the USA & the UK.

I understand first hand the importance of integration of both Holotropic Breathwork and psychedelic experiences.

Counseling Psychologist

Jon-Paul Marshall

I typically work with people wrestling with anxiety, despair, anger, and shame; who struggle with guilt, mistrust, addiction, and dissociation; who are self-critical, self-destructive, and who feel trapped in repeated patterns of hurting self and other. Such feelings, behaviours, and patterns of relating often stem from multiple and complex life events and circumstances, including past and present abusive and neglectful relationships, abandonment, bereavement, bullying, trauma, racism, sexism, gender expectations, parenthood, study/work/financial pressures, and more existential challenges such as finding meaning in life and death. I find that the use of entheogens / psychedelics often brings people closer to much of the above, which can of course be unsettling, terrifying, reorienting, and liberating, among many other things.

I offer a warm, nurturing space in which, collaboratively, we can explore and make sense of difficulties you are facing. My training in Counselling Psychology means I am skilled in working integratively, that is using several therapeutic approaches including systemic, internal family systems (IFS), psychodynamic, and existential models, and able to tailor my work to meet your specific situation. Primarily, my style is relational and contextual.

Internal Family Systems therapist

Chrissie Moulder

I offer a safe space for preparation and integration work, using Internal Family Systems therapy and Conscious Connected Breathwork. A space where you can get clearer on your intentions, as well as digest your experiences. 

Breathwork can be a more gentle and controllable entrance into working with altered states of consciousness, as well as a helpful way to integrate medicine work. 

The insights that emerge from experiences in expanded states can be profound and I see integration as an ongoing experience.

IFS is a great standalone therapy, which works well with therapy for altered states of consciousness. Altered states of consciousness, whether reached through breathwork, medicines or meditation, unlock a door which ‘parts’ (aspects of ourselves) can come rushing out of. These parts may have been out of conscious awareness for decades, and can upset the balance when they come back into awareness. IFS can help you to be less afraid of these parts, which then enables you to get to know them and work with them. Ultimately we find that all parts’ intentions are good, even if their way of going about things may be causing difficulty. The more in harmony our parts are the more access we have to Self (our True Nature). 

I am a long term student of AH Almaas, and draw upon the Ridhwan schools ‘map’ of our True Nature. I have over 15 years of meditation and retreat experience.

I don’t offer plant medicine sessions- only preparation, integration and breathwork sessions.

Psychotherapist

Myszka Fox

I am a BACP registered Psychotherapist, with a fascination around the impact on mental health of a range of plant medicines. 

I have personal experience of psychedelics, using them therapeutically, alongside talking therapies, for PTSD (2017 to 2018).  I have since supported many people through their psychedelic explorations, creating safe spaces to unwrap their experiences afterwards, as well as intention setting beforehand.

I am naturally supportive of diversity and difference, which I feel is vital when working with clients looking for less conventional ways to explore their inner landscapes and experiences. 

Having led teams at Welfare/Sanctuary at five different Burning Man regionals, I have extensive experience of being with and supporting those in altered states, and wanting to explore their own minds.

Psychotherapist Supervisor Facilitator

Clive Oxford

In practice since 1992 and supervising since 2001, I see individuals and couples and run personal development groups for therapists. I trained at both BCPC and Gestalt SouthWest and have enjoyed and valued the many and varied my approach is very much ‘tailored’ to the individuals, couples or groups I work with. My clients say they find me insightful, intuitive, humourous, pragmatic and down-to-earth. I hope I bring gravitas and integrity to my work, believing that my own limitations and imperfections are only human. I am fortunate to be able to draw on the rich experience of working with many skilful Counselling and Psychotherapy trainers and therapists, and the courage, integrity and uniqueness of my students and clients. My approach gives those I work with, the permission, support, and challenge, to be more of who they truly are. My more recent profound and revelatory experiences with Psilocybin have encouraged a deeper sense of curiosity, connection and courage into my work; where love and fear can co-exist with less inner conflict.

Integrative Art Psychotherapist

Cecilie Browne

I believe that each of us is on an individual journey through life carrying our own unique combination of strengths and challenges. Most of us have had difficult life experiences that need expressing, understanding and integrating in order for us to live life more fully, have positive relationships and find soulfulness and meaning in life as well as a connection to something bigger than ourselves.

My therapeutic approach is integrative and built on over 30 years of personal development and training. Therapy work is tailored to your individual needs and might include talking therapy, image-making, outdoor therapy, bodywork, ritual and psychedelic integration. I am available for face-to-face work in Sheffield and Derbyshire as well as online sessions. In addition to individual therapy I also offer group work and retreats in nature. Please contact me for more details.

Integrative Psychotherapist

Sophie Christie

I am a an integrative psychotherapist with a a deep interest in working with wisdom and experiences brought back from expanded states of consciousness. Whether you have had an experience, or are interested in exploring expanded states, I can help you. Any experience of an altered state can be worked, whether that through holotropic breath-work, dreams, or any other means.  It is my belief that psychedelics are not a magic pill, but coupled with psychedelic informed therapy, great changes can happen.

I provide a safe holding space to explore the things in the shadows, to shine a light into hard places, with love and compassion and an open heart. There is a new paradigm of psychotherapy revealing itself, that of going towards that which might hurt us, that which looks scary, rather than distracting, avoiding, or running from it. It’s deeper work, where more than just symptoms are treated, where a loosening is encouraged and courage is nurtured. A safe environment is key to this exploration, and it is my heartfelt work to create that for you.

I have worked with people’s minds and souls for 15 years. I have worked in a large secondary school, and in private practice with adolescents and adults. I use several different types of psychotherapy in my work depending on the needs of the client. I have an advanced diploma in CBT, and training in attachment and trauma modalities. I am also part of the inaugural cohort on the IPT’s Depth Relational Process. A two year a deep dive into relating deeply and expanded states as medicine. 

In my spare time I mother my three boys and run with my wolves in the fields and forests. I am a seeker of the truth, mine, yours, and the worlds, and this has been my intention, along with love, since time gone by. 

NB: It is important to note that I work from a Harm Reduction standpoint. The use of psychedelic substances is currently illegal in the UK, and I am not able to offer guidance or information about accessing illegal substances.

Online

Embodi Integration Group

Online integration group: Integration of non-ordinary states of consciousness

The EMBODI Integration Group and community project, is a collaboration between two IPT professional members, psychologist and psychotherapist Dr Sara Tookey and Alessia Chappino, who both have extensive experience with psychedelic states and supporting people in experiences for non-ordinary and expanded states of consciousness. 

We offer a monthly online integration group typically on the last Wednesday of every month, 7pm – 8:30pm BST/GMT

Tickets are £15, with concessions at £8. Advance signup is required. 

CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS AND TICKETS

The EMBODI Integration Group provides a welcoming, non-judgemental space for people to process and integrate psychedelic and other non-ordinary state experiences. By nurturing a supportive community, we hope to create a space for people to connect, share and learn from one-another.

We welcome anyone who has had transformative or challenging psychedelic experiences, is considering psychedelics, or has had non-ordinary states through other means (non-drug related).

Together we will share experiences, offer peer support, and explore integrating insights into life. 

Referrals for 1:1 integration or psychedelic-assisted therapy are also available.

*Please be aware that the group does not permit use of psychedelics or other psychoactive drugs during group meetings. Integration works best with a clear mind. In accordance with the law, we neither encourage substance use, provide illicit substances, or referrals to psychedelic services.

Jungian and Transpersonal Psychotherapist, Psychedelic Integration Therapist

Elise Wardle MA IPN

As an individual who has travelled through the deepest levels of personal, ancestral and collective trauma in the last few years through psychedelic assisted psychotherapy and continues the journey towards wholeness and integration, I am able to offer an informed approach to working with clients undergoing clinical trials, private psychedelic therapy, or undergoing their own personal journey with plant medicine.

My training background is extensive including a diploma in integrative counselling, Masters Degree (Distinction) in Jungian Psychotherapy/Analytical Psychology/Energy Healing, CPD training in other modalities and, most recently, extensive training both experiential and academic on the subject of plant medicine and psychedelic assisted psychotherapy.

Over the last few years I have worked through over 60 years of deeply embedded trauma through working with plant medicine and Holotropic Breathwork bringing me towards wholeness and healing after a long ‘dark night of the soul’ and traumatic Kundalini awakening. This, after sixteen years of therapy including Jungian analysis which, at no time touched any of the deeper levels of trauma which needed to be addressed, worked through and healed. After forty years of alcohol dependency and addictions, I became sober four years ago through a journey with psychedelic medicine and from having no life, no wish to live and no future, I am enjoying a new level of freedom, joy, inner peace and a very different life!

As a professional member of The Institute of Psychedelic Therapy (www.instituteofpsychedelictherapy.org.uk) I continue to broaden my experience through training, research, experiential work in the UK through Holotropic Breathwork and psychedelic therapy in legal settings. I am thus able to offer my clients preparaton and integration therapy using an approach which is based on knowledge gained through personal experience and training.

Psychotherapeutic Counsellor

Joanna Woods

I have an interest in the healing potential of expanded states of consciousness, whether achieved through psychedelic plant medicine, meditation, breathwork or occurring spontaneously. These experiences can be transformative and healing, and can sometimes also be challenging, overwhelming or disappointing. I can support this process by bringing my compassion, curiosity and groundedness to help you create meaning from your experiences.

I offer a non-judgemental space for preparation and/or integration to help you: 

~explore your intentions and expectations

~make sense of the experiences and insights

~understand the implications for your personal identity, beliefs, daily life and relationships

Please note: My work comes from a harm reduction approach.  The use of psychedelic substances is currently illegal in the UK, and I am not able to offer guidance or information about accessing illegal substances.

I provide short, medium, and long-term counselling and psychotherapy in Brighton & Hove and online.

I am a professional member of the Institute of Psychedelic Therapy, and a participant in their Depth Relational Process psychedelic assisted therapy training programme.

Please do get in touch for more information or to book a session:
www.joannawoods.co.uk  joannawoods99@gmail.com

Accredited Psychotherapist

Larisa Mansfield

I know from my experience how important preparation is, a deep consideration of intentions, context and environment before engaging in psychedelic work. Likewise, I appreciate the enormous value of having a safe and confidential space in which to reflect on experiences, make sense of them, and think about how to integrate them into everyday life. My intention is always to create such a safe space for my clients to reflect and deepen their awareness of what the experiences mean to them and how they can make a difference in things by taking a risk and following their experiences.

Clinical Psychologist

Alexandra Dent

Alexandra is an experienced Clinical & Spiritual Psychologist, EMDR Consultant (children, adolescents and adults) & EMDR Training Facilitator and has over 25 years working clinically with individuals and families. She specialises in trauma and attachment work and integrates mindfulness and spirituality into her clinical practise. Alexandra is a published author of Heart Led Psychotherapy, a spiritually informed psychotherapy that teaches people how to find self-love and live an authentic life by making heart led (rather than ego led) choices.

Alexandra has a non-judgmental, compassionate and empathic manner which encourages the development of strong and effective therapeutic relationships, allowing individuals to explore the nature of their difficulties to facilitate healing. She is passionate about integrating energy work, including using Light Language, into her sessions if clients are open to this approach to facilitate multi-dimensional healing.

Alexandra set up and is current Chair of the EMDR Special Interest Group in Spirituality in 2019 which supports EMDR colleagues to be open to using a BioPsychoSocialSpiritual approach to treating trauma. She has also been a member of the BPS Transpersonal Psychology Committee 2020-2022. She has presented her work at conferences and workshops both regionally, nationally and internationally.

Person-centred and existentialist counsellor

Emma Hacking

I am a person-centred and existentialism counsellor offering bespoke therapy online. I work with people around the world on issues around sexuality, gender, relationships, polyamory, kink, activism, identity, psychedelic experiences and beyond. I offer a safe space to explore, experience, and express yourself.

My training is in person-centred and existential counselling with an integrative, anti-oppressive approach. This means that our work together is focused on you and directed by you. Counselling is a collaborative process: together we will create a therapeutic space to explore the emotions or blockages that are causing your dis-ease. I chose to train in person-centred counselling because I believe there is no authority but yourself, and that you are the expert in your own life’s experience. This is the place from which the therapeutic work begins – as Arthur Ashe puts it, “start where you are, use what you have, do what you can”. 

Integrative Psychotherapist

Kathy Osborne

I work with information from expanded states that my clients bring to sessions with openness, curiosity and grounded knowledge. Both my own personal experience and my clinical work inform my evolving perspective. Being embedded within a network of peers and elders who are like minded professionals enables me to hold this uncertain, exciting and often challenging new area of psychotherapy safely and with integrity.

The neuro-plasticity afforded to our minds following an event of expanded consciousness can be a window for change that will redirect our life trajectory. I feel strongly about keeping myself out of the way and allowing my client’s unconscious the opportunity to lead so that integration sessions become a space where new insights and links made during a ceremony or journey are taken very seriously. When integrating psychedelic experiences, I have often found both transpersonal exercises and EMDR to be helpful and non directive.

Integrative Transpersonal Counsellor & Somatic Experiencing Practitioner

Dylan Burns

Director since 2016 of the Psychedelic Society of Brighton, I am a facilitator of the Brighton Psychedelic Integration Circle and offer one to one integration, either face to face or by Skype.

I have a lifelong interest in Indian spirituality and am author of ‘Eastern Philosophy: the Greatest Thinkers and Sages from Ancient to Modern Times’. I am an experienced counsellor working in Integrative Transpersonal Counselling. A transpersonal approach is important when dealing with non-ordinary or mystical states of consciousness, which are not a part of most therapeutic models.

I am also qualified as a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner. Somatic work deals with the nervous system and the body, where trauma can be held out of ordinary awareness.

Integrative Core Process Psychotherapist

Nick Wolstenholme

I have been working as a Core Process Psychotherapist for over 10 years, which is an integrative psychotherapy that works with the formations in our personalities that can create disconnection and difficulty for us.

The use of psychedelics can be a powerful aid in this process and can provide beautiful shifts in our perspectives when the experience is safely held and allowed, reconnecting us with what is meaningful.

I am experienced at holding a space in which this can take place over time and feel passionately about the movement of healing from dark, limited, traumatic spaces towards the clearer, lighter aspects of life.

Body Psychotherapist

Rachel Hendron

I work in a Person-Centred, Relational and embodied way to accompany you in grounded and open exploration. Using the Felt-Sense as a guide we can slow down and really notice the richness of experience. I work in a trauma-informed way with modalities which enable us to work with disassociation and stuck habits and triggers. We can use 1:1 Systemic Constellations set ups to guide own work and draw on known spiritual traditions or more personal frameworks. Using an ‘animist’ approach and recognising the living world with an Ecopsychological Framework gives us a robust container to carefully explore and integrate difficult parts of our experience. I am open to exploring psychedelic and indigenous frameworks we might call spiritual, shamanic, near-death and other non-ordinary states of consciousness.. And I welcome the new and curious who might now be sure.I work online or in nature near to St Catherine’s Hill, Winchester. I am very happy to people who experience life at the boundaries, be that racial, gender, neurodiverse, dis/ability, people recovering from interpersonal and religious or institutional abuse and many other complexities to make this work accessible to you.I’m happy to offer a free chat to discuss further.

Psychotherapist

Sasha Bates

I am an integrative psychotherapist with an MA and an Advanced Diploma in Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy and am a registered member of the BACP. I have worked in the NHS and university settings, and now practice privately online. 

I work in a relational, holistic and trauma-informed way, understanding that one’s mind, body, environment and spirituality are inseparable, that all need to be held safely and compassionately, and are to be explored without judgement. 

I am qualified in hatha, restorative, and trauma-sensitive yoga teaching and hold my experience and knowledge of this embodied and spiritual tradition in mind, but will only bring it explicitly into my psychotherapeutic work if requested. 

I also offer psychotherapeutic support to those who are considering psychedelic medicine journeys, or who seek integration afterwards. Plant medicine experiences can be frightening, opening, beautiful, powerful instigators of growth. Integration can help you make meaning from these experiences and can be key to longer term transformation.

Integrative Psychotherapist

Steve Burchell

I initially studied as a Rogerian counsellor and then added a Jungian psychotherapy M.A. Over the years I have also participated, absorbed and trained in a variety of healing approaches and traditions. I am in private practice seeing clients usually suffering from trauma and often somatising their experiences. I also supervise on person-centered, humanistic and transpersonal trainings.

Long term interest in healing potential of altered states and experienced with holotropic breathwork and entheogenic integration

Integrative Psychotherapist

Jo Nicholl

As a psychotherapist with over 30 years experience working with individuals and couples , I bring a client focused approach to working with people who have had or are considering having a psychedelic experience in any context – including peer led, spiritual, therapeutic and alone.
I value a persons autonomy and decision making drawing on mindfullness based therapies and relational and analytical theories. I work with people preparing for a psychedelic experience: ‘the set’ and to think about ‘the setting’. Integrating the experience afterwards is pivotal to long lasting transformation; and it is in this process that individuals can make sense of and incorporate the insights and experiences they have had into their every day lives.

Humanistic Counsellor

Katrina Beath

Consciousness can be altered by many experiences; through breathwork, meditation, religious practices, spiritual awakenings, chemical substances such as psychedelics and empathogens, and sometimes even spontaneously. For some people the experience is blissful. For others, terrifying. Often, a blend of both. It might leave you questioning your experience, its reality or non-reality, and what it means for your life, especially if you have experienced a profound shift in your metaphysical or spiritual beliefs.

To support this process I offer a short-term focus of 6 sessions to integrate your experience. These can be online, or outdoors in Richmond Park, or a blend of both. This is a non-judgemental, safe space where you can explore your experience.

If your experience has left you in a state of continuing hallucination or other effects of being ‘stuck’ in the altered state on an ongoing basis and this does not feel safe for you, I will signpost you to specialised support.

Sessions are £65 each, and last 50 minutes.

Psychodynamic Psychotherapist

Lowdy Brabyn

Hello. I am a psychotherapist with extensive experience of psychedelics, meditation, contemplative prayer, shamanic practices and breathwork. I am especially interested in
• the intersection of psychedelics, psychotherapy and spirituality
• the relationship between mystical experience and psychological healing
• the dance between personal healing and collective healing

I support and accompany people in both their preparation for and integration of psychedelic journeys, combining the roles of psychotherapist and spiritual companion or guide.

My primary psychotherapeutic modality is psychodynamic, and I draw on other approaches as therapeutically indicated, including existential, systemic, cognitive behavioural, transpersonal, and somatic. I work from the premise that we are intrinsically whole, not broken, and that during our lives we construct defensive strategies to protect us from emotional pain. These defences are ingenious solutions to difficulties we have encountered, but lead to trouble when they become rigid and habitual. Maintaining defences takes huge psychic effort, and moving beyond them can bring greater meaning, richness and intimacy to the experience of life.

I love working with people preparing for and integrating psychedelic experiences because I trust the power of these plants and compounds to accelerate our healing and help us return to our intrinsic wholeness.

Relational Psychotherapist

Alessia Chiappino

I am a relational psychotherapist, group facilitator, and visual artist. After completing a Master’s Degree in Fine Arts at Central St. Martins (University College London) and working in the digital media and music industry, I trained with institutions in Italy, USA, UK, and Canada, with formal studies in Transactional Analysis and Relational Psychotherapy. Further, I have trained in Somatic Attachment Therapy, Psychedelic Harm Reduction and Integration, Mindfulness, and Trauma Treatment. My method is Integrative, meaning that I combine a variety of approaches so that I can tailor a treatment plan most suited to each individual.

Psychedelics are powerful tools that can expand our self-awareness, offering great insights into our unconscious and bringing to the surface deep and, at times, very challenging material that can leave us feeling overwhelmed and disconnected. I offer long-term psychedelic-informed psychotherapy and integration. I will hold space to help you prepare for these experiences, exploring your intentions and potential doubts and fears. I will hold space for you to make sense of and draw deeper meaning from your experiences – whether challenging or blissful – with expanded states of consciousness.

The process of sharing your emotions in a safe, confidential, and non-judgmental space can help you gain greater self-awareness. With greater self-awareness and a cohesive understanding of your personal story, you can start to re-evaluate your habitual thinking and behaviour and learn to live in ways that feel more authentic to you. Authenticity, unlike adaptation, brings fulfilment in life, and you will begin to respond creatively, rather than habitually, to circumstances and others.

Whether you have already experienced, or will be experiencing, the transformational processes of psychedelic-assisted therapies, sacred plant medicine ceremonies, or holotropic breathwork, I can offer a space for you to discuss your thoughts and feelings. At our initial appointment, we can explore what you want to gain from psychedelic-informed psychotherapy and integration and see if it feels comfortable working together.

Psychotherapist specialising in Childhood and Relational Trauma

Morven Fyfe

I am a trained psychedelic preparation and integration coach and psychotherapist. Depending upon situational need in the moment, I bring Art Therapy, counselling, psycho education, trauma reduction techniques and EMDR to enable therapeutic process to move towards adaptive information processing that stems from greater depths of the psyche. These ways are brought to marshal response to your immediate needs, and support your process. Should you choose art materials, each mark, each colour, each shape you draw ‘tracks’ your experience. Your work will hold reflections of meaning, and you’re invited to gain insight to areas that are just coming into consciousness. Over time, whatever you create physically holds the narrative of your process and through this, newer sensitivities and layers of awareness may be born and revealed as you ‘make sense’ of your experience. You then find yourself set on a grounded path through your day-to-day life. It is sometimes more economical and enriching for clients to work together in small groups of up to eight people; I therefore offer both individual and group work in a safe, professional setting. Please note, that it is currently illegal in the UK to use psychedelic substances.

Newcastle upon Tyne

Psychedelic Integration Circle

Had a psychedelic experience that you’re still trying to process? An integration circle can help you make sense of it.

Perhaps you experienced something that felt meaningful and transformative, and you want to explore and maximise its impact on your everyday life. Or perhaps you had a challenging experience that you’re having difficulty coming to terms with. Whatever your journey, it can help to share your feelings about it in a confidential, welcoming space, where fellow travellers will understand and can offer support.

The group is facilitated by sympathetic professionals with an understanding of psychedelics and limited to a maximum of ten participants.

The circle meets in central Newcastle upon Tyne. It is free to attend. We usually meet on the first Monday of every month, at 7pm.

If you’re interested in joining us, please send an email to PsychedelicIntegrationNCL@gmail.com with a brief outline of what you’d like to explore during the sessions and what you hope to get from them.

Facilitators: Simon Critchley, Caroline Hayes, and Kate Kingsford.

London

Psychedelic Integration Group

If you’ve had a psychedelic experience that you are struggling to make sense of, this monthly integration group provides an opportunity to explore and understand its impact. In a supportive,  confidential, safe space you can share your story and learn from others’ experiences – both positive and negative. The group is facilitated by psychologists and counsellors with extensive experience of the use of psychedelics who will make suggestions on how to integrate psychedelic experiences into everyday life, in a way that is both helpful and meaningful to the individual.

Clinical Psychologist

Lucie Turner

I offer a fusion of modern psychology, ecotherapy and shamanic practices as methods to explore the transpersonal and the eternal questions of ‘who am i’ and ‘why am i here’. At the centre of my work is supporting a person to find and increase connection with their true self, their higher self, their heart.

The work is intrinsically relational, we explore the psyche, our sub-personalities, and the ways of being that either keep us stuck experiencing the same trauma or open up a greater sense of being. I work holistically, connecting mind, body and spirit, and draw flexibly on the range of therapeutic approaches to suit you (e.g. Internal family systems, Cognitive analytic therapy, Shamanic-inner journeying). Increasingly nature is a co-facilitator to my work and plant allies are guides that support a persons healing journey.

London

Therapy Group for Psychedelic Explorers

A paid, regular, termly therapy group for psychedelic explorers. Ahead of each term, you have the opportunity to join if space is available.

The group meets in-person or online for an agreed time each meeting, with an agenda set and revised as deemed necessary by the group itself.

My intention is to offer more consistency and commitment than free groups, a more local and on-going presence compared to retreat centres, and less of a teacher or expert-led approach than a course. Face-to-face meetings are near Old Street, London.

Clinical Psychologist

Gemma Knight

My name is Gemma and I am a clinical psychologist (ClinPsyD) registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC, PYL34050).

Alongside private work, I work as a clinical health psychologist in the NHS, and in research, as a lead therapist working on clinical trials with psychedelics at King’s College London. I have a strong interest in psychedelic-assisted therapy and harm-reduction, and have been following the research for many years. I have had the privilege of supporting many participants throughout the clinical trials process, and as a co-facilitator of the Maudsley Psychedelic Society Integration circle.

I am able to offer psychological support to help develop understanding and meaning in preparation for, or Integration sessions following, a psychedelic experience. I work with a range of therapeutic approaches including cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and compassion-focused therapy. 

Sessions are aimed at developing psychological flexibility to discover more ‘workable’ ways of relating to our experience. I can offer one-off sessions or a course of therapy. All sessions will be held remotely, via an online platform. 

Please feel free to get in touch to discuss what might be helpful for you. I look forward to hearing from you!

Depth Psychotherapist

Sarah Taylor

“If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.”

I am a psychotherapist with a decade of experience and a certified ShadowWorkTM practitioner. My intention is to support clients to come to know and accept buried parts of themselves and they tell me they gain a sense of self-trust and self-compassion that enables them to make long-lasting changes if they wish to.

I do not offer psychedelic substances to clients and I will not work with you if you are under the influence of any intoxicating substance. I do work with people who wish to explore and understand their own psychedelic experiences independent of the psychotherapy sessions. 

In your sessions I can offer depth support with:

Preparation for and integration around your attendance at separate legal psychedelic retreats 

Understanding and healing from challenging psychedelic experiences
Making meaning of imagery, thoughts, emotions, memories and somatic phenomena that you may have experienced when in altered states

Many people feel that the intensity of revelations from psychedelic-induced states can be harnessed for significant benefit in the immediate ‘window of opportunity’ of three months after the psychedelic experience. That said, I have also worked with people who have wished to understand experiences occurring many years ago. I’d love to hear from anyone wishing to prepare for and learn from their psychedelic experiences, in order to live well and fully. 

Professional Membership: UKCP Registered & MBACP Psychotherapist and Psychotherapeutic Counsellor, and certified Shadow WorkTM Coach. 

Integrative Psychotherapist

Raquel Scheid

I am a Mindfulness-based Core Process psychotherapist, working with a transpersonal, integrative, and trauma-informed approach. My experience with somatic and energetic therapies, in-depth Buddhist practice, and long-term interest in expanded states of consciousness inform my approach. I currently provide therapeutic support in the King’s College psychedelic trials.

You might be seeking support to make sense of a challenging psychedelic experience or spiritual emergence. Perhaps you want to work on your intentions in preparation for a journey, or you might need integration sessions to take advantage of the window of opportunity for learning and growth that non-ordinary states of consciousness facilitate. I offer a safe and compassionate space for you to explore your experiences and express yourself freely in ways you might not feel comfortable doing with people close to you. 

Short-term, long-term, and one-off sessions are available.

Integrative Psychotherapist

Liz Lilley

Sometimes psychedelic experiences can be challenging or overwhelming and having an empathic space to share what has emerged from these can support you to understand them in deeper ways and to integrate them into your day-to-day life, allowing for growth and positive change. 

I offer a warm, compassionate and non-judgemental space for preparation and integration work where we can explore your intentions as well as the insights that emerge from your experiences in expanded states. 
I have an ongoing interest in psychedelics, breathwork, meditation, shamanic journeying and bodywork. I work as the Project Lead for the Growthful Networks area of the IPT, I have facilitated breathwork sessions for the therapists training on the DMT for Depression clinical trial and I am a co-therapist on an upcoming psilocybin clinical trial. In my private practice I offer online psychedelic preparation/integration sessions and online or in-person breathwork sessions.

Please do get in touch for more information or to book a session:

www.lizlilley.com

liz@lizlilley.com

Founder and Director

Maria Papaspyrou

Maria Papaspyrou grew up in Athens, Greece and relocated to the UK in 1995 to pursue her interest in training as a psychotherapist. The last 30 years have been a rich journey of learning and growth. Her initial training in integrative psychotherapy taught her the power and value of the relational as a cornerstone of this work. Her later interest and training in Jungian theory added a much greater depth of inquiry. Her most recent training in systemic constellations is the thread that pulled all her earlier trainings together by adding the systemic lens that allows everything to come into a greater wholeness. Her training in the therapeutic field developed over these years alongside her interests in expanded states and the two would become life defining and enhancing in unforeseen ways and finally integrated in the field of psychedelic therapy.

As a psychotherapist Maria has worked in the field of mental health both in crisis services and in general support settings. She later worked in further and higher education settings with young people, offering individual counselling alongside group workshops and events.

Since 2013 she has been giving talks on psychedelic integration and therapy and has been actively supporting the re-introduction of expanded states in psychotherapy and the development of this field in the UK through her participation in many projects. She is part of the wider team in Breaking Convention, the co-editor of “Psychedelic Mysteries of the Feminine” (Park Street Press, 2019) and the co-editor of “Psychedelics and Psychotherapy: The Healing Potential of Expanded States” (Park Street Press, 2021).

Her professional creative collaboration with Tim over the last 10 years in various forms and formats has found its current expression in IPT where they work together to support the development of CPD structures and professional training in support of safe and skilful psychedelic work within a therapeutic framework.

She currently practices as a Senior Accredited BACP psychotherapist, clinical supervisor and systemic facilitator in private practice in Brighton, UK.

Clinical Psychologist

Itamar Cohen

My name is Itamar and I am a clinical psychologist (DClinPsy) registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC, PYL039102).

I have an ongoing interest in psychedelics, meditation and breathwork. I’m proud to be part of the IPT’s Depth Relational Process program which examines an integrative, experiential, and growth-oriented approach to allowing therapeutic work with expanded states of consciousness. Aside from this, I am part of an upcoming psilocybin clinical trial for individuals struggling with OCD.

It is my goal to promote understanding and meaning in the process of preparing for and following psychedelic experiences. I work with a range of therapeutic approaches including psychodynamic therapy, Systemic therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment therapy (ACT) and Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT). 

Sessions are designed to promote and strengthen psychological flexibility and are informed by the latest research in psychedelic assisted psychotherapy. I believe that psychological flexibility is the key to truly experiencing new ways of relating to one another, ourselves, our past, and our future.

To discuss what might be helpful, please do not hesitate to contact me. It would be great to hear from you!

Psychotherapeutic Counsellor

James Cullen

Psychedelics have had a profound impact on my life. I wouldn’t be where I am now without them. I understand the strength and significance psychedelic experiences can have and I am passionate about helping others get the most from their experiences.
I am a highly trained, qualified, and BACP registered person-centred psychotherapeutic counsellor. The integration I offer is centred around being in authentic human relationship with my clients, offering them total acceptance, as they are, in the present moment. I have studied and understand a number of relevant theories and techniques, and at times these can enter into our dialogue in a useful way. However, generally my role is to hold a safe, non-judgemental space for my clients. In this relational setting, most people, most of the time, are able to engage in their own process, and figure out (with a little support) what they need to understand about their experience, and how to integrate it into their own lives.
I offer sessions both online, and in Exeter. I offer a free initial consultation over Zoom. Please feel free to get in touch if you would like to find out more or book an introductory session.

Embodied Relational Therapist

Rob McIntosh

I’ve been practicing as a counsellor since 2005, and have 25 years experience of consistently working through my own issues in a variety of settings, because it is my understanding that as a counsellor I can’t go with clients where I haven’t been myself. I consider this an essential part of what I can offer as a therapist. This includes extensive ongoing therapeutic explorations including somatic awareness and integration of non dual and altered states of consciousness, as well as daily practice of grounding traumatised ego states. Everyone is unique, there are no formulas.

Integrative Counsellor

Daniel D’Innella

I have over six years of experience working formally with altered states of consciousness as part of a festival welfare service that specialises in psychedelic support. I stay present with people having difficult experiences at a variety of festivals every year, both at the peak of their altered state and in the integration of their experience. I have begun working as a coordinator/manager with the organisation at some of these events.

I am an Integrative Therapist whose practice draws from a range of theoretical modalities; the nature of our sessions will therefore be dependent on you and your specific needs.

My own self care includes practices of mindfulness and body movement.

Chartered Psychologist & Psychotherapist

Dr. Lydia French

I am a Clinical Psychotherapist (Oxon, MBACP, UKCP), Chartered Psychologist (CPsychol), and Associate Fellow (AFBPsS) of the British Psychological Society (BPS) with over two decades of experience in adult mental health. My work has given me the privilege of working with many hundreds of people, listening to them speak about their life experiences and mental health. I know how difficult and challenging life can be, how overwhelming work, relationships, and family life often are, and how desperate the need to find purpose and meaning in our lives can be. As a Psychotherapist, my work is to listen carefully to what is said and unsaid while providing a safe, supportive, non-judgmental, and highly confidential place to explore thoughts, feelings, emotions, and self. My approach is warm and open but highly professional.

Core Process Psychotherapist

Jennifer Lewis

From my experience as a shamanic practitioner (working with others and my own expanded states of consciousness) I know the vital importance of integrating psychedelic journeys. Integration can provide a means to ground and embody, to gather and understand the insights as well as a way to maximise the potential of your experiences by ensuring that you live from them.

I offer mindfulness-based, trauma-informed Core Process Psychotherapy as a means to hold you as we work through your integration and, if useful, to delve deeper and longer into the way you experience life. I sit with the intentions of compassion, non-judgement and equanimity as we work together to allow you to bring all of yourself. My work is informed by an experiential understanding of somatic experiencing, ecopsychology, Dzogchen Buddhism and shamanic practices.

I look forward to hearing from you.

PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC COUNSELLOR | EMDR PRACTITIONER | CLINICAL SUPERVISOR | INDEPENDANT RESEARCHER

Jocelyn Rose

Jocelyn has extensive experience working as a research therapist on various psychedelic assisted therapy clinical trials. She also works as a therapist and clinical supervisor in private practice, and as an independent researcher and author.  Her special interests include exploring the unfolding potential of EMDR as a scalable, trauma focused psychedelic assisted therapy.  She holds a diploma in psychedelic assisted therapy from the Institute of Psychedelic Therapy.  Jocelyn is a bee keeper and a mother, with a keen interest in the healing properties of the natural world. 

Jocelyn offers a warm, perceptive, sensitive therapeutic approach, that moves at a pace appropriate for you.  A nurturing space to support and integrate growth, and to promote healing. She specilaises in complexity, using evidence based trauma focused interventions. 

If you would like to know a little more about how she works, to decide whether she is the right choice for you, or to establish whether she has availability, Jocelyn warmly invites you to make contact. 

All points of contact are confidential.

Trauma-Informed Integrative Psychotherapist

Fiona McAlister

Sometimes we become stuck in past pain, loss or trauma that we struggle to tolerate or understand, yet are unable to release. We have unanswered questions, painful and confusing thoughts that loop through our mind, and unhealed hurt deep within our body. 

Experiences with plant medicines can release those emotions and physical sensations and expand our consciousness – but sometimes this feels too powerful and bewildering to process and contain on our own. Psychotherapy with a practitioner experienced in working with the person’s holistic needs can help untangle and tune into this wisdom intuitively held in body, mind and spirit. 

I am a trauma-informed psychotherapist, experienced with working with non-ordinary states of consciousness such as holotropic breathwork, meditation and plant medicines. I will walk alongside you before and after your plant medicine experience to co-create your therapy together:

• Preparing for your journey by exploring your hopes and fears, and setting an intention as your inner guide

• Exploring what your plant medicine experiences have revealed and understanding how to integrate that knowledge into who you are and who you want to be

• Bringing your awareness to trauma, loss, pain held in your body through mindfulness, somatic work, breath work, movement 

If this resonates with you, please contact me to discuss how therapy could help and whether we’re a good match.

Clinical Psychologist and Existential Psychotherapist

Sara Tookey

I am a Clinical Psychologist and Existential Psychotherapist working in clinical, research and psychedelic advisory spaces. I have 12+ years experience working in mental health in the NHS, private practice, charities and academic settings in the UK, USA and India. I have experience and training as a psychological support and integration therapist  in psychedelic trial research at King’s College London’s Psychoactive (formerly “Psychedelic”) Research Team. Additionally, I co-facilitate integration groups in the community and provide advisory and consulting services to companies in the psychedelic medicine industry and research. I am also a private practice psychotherapist and specialist psycho-oncologist and palliative care psychologist, providing psychological support to people and families with cancer, palliative conditions and those facing mortality (nearing the end of their life). I am a researcher and registered practitioner with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), The British Psychological Society (BPS) and the Association of Clinical Psychologists UK (ACP-UK). 

I have a deep respect for psychedelic medicines and the potential for human growth and development that they can  hold. WIth this respect also comes an understanding of the risks and considerations necessary in engaging with them.

My approach: I am able to offer a compassionate, non-judgemental and exploratory space for psychological support to help a person to prepare for and integrate a psychedelic experience. I am committed to providing spaces that can support and guide people to explore meaning and move toward developing a deeper and more authentic connection with themselves, others and the world around them. 

Sessions are one-off or on a continual-basis. Sessions will take place via online-video platform or can be in nature (Richmond Park, London, UK).

Qualifications:

2020 Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (DClinPsy), University College London 

2016 British Focusing Association Cert. in Focusing Skills

2014 PhD Psychology, University of Birmingham 

2014 PGCert Higher Education Teaching & Associate Fellow of Higher Education Academy 

2011 MA Existential Phenomenological Psychotherapy, Seattle University w/ Year Internship at University of Washington’s Family Medical Centre 

2007 BA Psychology, with special emphasis in Cross-Cultural Psychology, Western Washington University.

For more information please see my website or contact me via email, both linked below.

The Somerset Psychedelic Integration Circle 

The Somerset Psychedelic Integration Circle is a safe, confidential, open and non-judgemental space for those who have used, or are thinking of using, psychedelics. If you have had a challenging or powerful psychedelic experience and want help to integrate and make sense of it, or if you wish to share a meaningful experience, we create circles that help to hold, unpack, process and share those experiences.

The aim is to help integrate psychedelic experiences into everyday life in ways that are helpful and meaningful to the individual. Integration supports us to make sense of those insights and translate them into real world actions.

Some psychedelic experiences can also be challenging, leaving us feeling vulnerable,  fragile or overwhelmed. Sharing these experiences and having others hear and understand them with us, can be an important part of the integration process.

As psychedelics become more mainstream, the psychedelic community are increasingly creating community spaces where we can support one another to make sense of our psychedelic experiences. With the guidance of facilitators, the circle offers a safe, confidential and non-judgmental space where open conversations can happen, so we can learn from our experiences and support each other to develop, heal and grow.

What shall I bring?

We encourage you to bring an object along that has personal meaning for you. It could represent your hopes/fears about the group or relate to your psychedelic experience. We place the objects in the middle of the circle when checking in.

We also ask attendees to arrive up to 10 minutes before the start time so we can settle-in, grab a tea and start on time. Late arrival may result in you not being able to participate in the session.

Please be aware that the circle does not permit use of psychedelics or other psychoactive drugs during group meetings. In accordance with the law, we neither encourage substance use, provide illicit substances, nor referrals to illegal psychedelic services.

Location: Birds Hill Farm, Upton Noble, United Kingdom

Dates: Wednesday 8th February     7.30-9.30pm

Wednesday March 15th       7.30-9.30pm

Wednesday April 26th          7.30-9.30pm

Wednesday  June 14th         7.30-9.30pm

Wednesday July 19th –         7.30-9.30pm

Tickets: £15 from the website linked below

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Justine Corrie is a Somerset-based Psychotherapist and facilitator who enjoys working at the intersection of embodiment, ecology and ritual. She is a psychedelic guide on the current clinical trial investigating dimethyltryptamine (DMT) as a treatment for depression. Justine also sits on the advisory board for The Institute of Psychedelic Therapy (IPT) and chairs the IPT Spiritual Emergence special interest group. 

Dr Tim Rigg is a local GP who is interested in the development of non-pharmaceutical & holistic practices to manage mental health and chronic disease. He has recently returned from a number of years working in New Zealand where the importance of the natural world and indigenous Maori practices have had a strong influence on his approach to health and healing.

Elsie Parker is a Clinical Psychologist based in Somerset. Elsie has over 16 years of experience working in specialist NHS services, including Complex Depression and Anxiety, Psychosis, PTSD and Perinatal Mental Health. In addition, Elsie has a private practice in Castle Cary. She has a strong background in Yoga and Vipassana Meditation, is a trained Mindfulness teacher, Emotional Freedom Technique (tapping) practitioner and in the final stages of completing her training in Transformational Breathwork. Elsie is a lover of nature and the natural world and incorporates this in her work wherever possible. 

Integrative Therapist

Kate Kingsford

My aim is to help you overcome your challenges and reconnect to life with authenticity, compassion, and humour.

I became a therapist because I’m interested in people, and believe that authentic conversations about our feelings and struggles are an essential part of healing, finding meaning, and moving forward.

I’ve always been driven to learn more about the human condition and understand different ways of seeing the world; in my earlier career as an anthropologist, I moved to Yemen to learn Arabic, and then to Zanzibar to do PhD research on gender dynamics on the Swahili coast. I also have a deep interest in mythology, existential philosophy, Eastern contemplative traditions, and meditation.

Psychedelics are a powerful tool for self-awareness and can help us reconnect with a deeper sense of meaning. They can also be extremely challenging. It’s important to prepare yourself for a psychedelic journey beforehand and to reflect on how to integrate your experiences afterwards: I can offer you a space to do this, and support you as you explore and map your inner landscape.

I work online or in person in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Integrative Psychotherapist and Breathwork Facilitator

Phoebe Sullivan

With the global (re)awakening to the healing potential of psychedelic medicines, many individuals are embarking on psychedelic journeys. These journeys can be both exquisitely beautiful and utterly terrifying. Whatever the experience, integration is an essential part of the process to process the insights so that they may be fuel for growth, healing and self-development. In understanding the innate compassion and intelligence of the medicines, anything that emerges during a trip does so to be healed.

I hold a warm, compassionate space for you to safely explore your journey of healing, growth and meaning making. Meeting discomfort, with gentle understanding, we can journey together to help you re-align with your essence and embody your full potential. I think of my approach as integrative, meaning I combine various skills and frameworks from my background in creative art psychotherapy, breathwork, transpersonal psychology and my interests in embodiment, IFS and archetypal ways of working. As each individual is unique, so is the journey. I hope my fusion of psychotherapeutic knowledge, study of psychedelic medicines, passion for breathwork and own humble experience as spiritual practitioner and student of yoga will display my sincere and heartfelt mission to guide individuals through their own healing journey, towards wholeness.

Clinical Psychologist

Evangelos Stephanopoulos

I am a Clinical Psychologist with diverse work experience in NHS and private roles. At present I work in a private capacity while I am also employed as a Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology at the University of Lincoln. 

My therapeutic approach can best be described as ‘flexible’, which involves remaining open-minded and adaptable when attending to individual stories and aspirations. I like to work from an ‘integrative’ perspective, bringing together elements of different treatment approaches as and when appropriate (e.g. CBT, ACT, Psychodynamic and EMDR). 

I also offer psychological support to individuals with personal experiences of using psychedelics, focusing on preparatory psychoeducation but also integration of the insights clients gained during these experiences. 

As a firm believer in the importance of the therapeutic alliance, I enjoy open and honest encounters with the individuals I meet, and I hope that the trust and respect in-built within the sessions may have a therapeutic effect each time.

Academic Qualifications: Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, MA in Psychoanalytic Studies, BSc Psychology with Criminology, PgCert Applied Psychology.

Compassionate Inquiry Practitioner and Mentor, Integrative Counsellor, Mindfulness Practitioner.

Tiph Fedor

I am an energy body worker, a registered Integrative Counsellor, Compassionate Inquiry Practitioner, and Mentor and Mindfulness Practitioner. I have my own private practice based in the Herefordshire countryside and work with couples and individuals from around the world both remotely, and in person.
With a passion for facilitating personal growth and transformation, I utilise my ability to hold deep presence along with my therapeutic skills to support individuals on their journey through trauma towards connection with their authentic selves.
Through my Compassionate Inquiry practice, I create a safe and non-judgmental space where clients can explore their emotions, beliefs, and experiences with curiosity and empathy. By gently guiding them through compassionate questioning, and working somatically I assist in uncovering underlying patterns and beliefs, fostering self-awareness and releasing emotions from the body. Having trained with Eckhart Tolle, I integrate mindfulness techniques into my work, empowering clients to cultivate present-moment awareness and connect with their deep self.
My approach is rooted in authenticity, empathy, humility, love and respect for each individual’s unique journey. My work is client led and I trust in the ability of each individual to access their own deep healing wisdom.