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Psychedelic integration coaching

Psychedelic Integration Coaching

Psychedelic Integration Coaching Services

I offer psychedelic integration support for people who have had a psychedelic experience and are seeking to harvest greater understanding or resolution from it.

Psychedelics are profound substances that generate significant shifts in a person’s life as well as their understanding of themselves and reality. Such experiences can be very difficult to make sense of afterward, especially if they were characterized by fear, confusion, and/or pain.

My psychedelic integration coaching helps to identify and preserve the important personal and spiritual insights awakened during psychedelic experiences. And to help you weave them coherently into your daily life, even if those experiences were frightening.

Please know that this is not active psychedelic psychotherapy or encouraging psychedelic use. It is a service for those who have chosen to explore psychedelics and are looking for support in optimizing its positive impact in their lives, or help to rehabilitate from the damaging impact of a negative experience.

The integration coaching I offer is specific to psychedelics but is informed by non-psychedelic therapeutic training and can thus also be useful in supporting people in times of non-psychedelic emotional or psychospiritual distress.

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Educational Background and Training

My training is first and foremost from years of substantial personal exploration of psychedelics, as well as post-traumatic stress disorder, brain injury, and depression; as well has hundred of hours interviewing some of the top psychedelic practitioners, researchers, and explorers from all over the world.

On top of this, I have years of directly studying trauma, somatic-informed psychotherapy, psychedelic therapy, and grief-work. This includes training in Compassionate Inquiry with Gabor Mate, The Core Language Approach (inherited family trauma) with Mark Wolynn, Clinical Applications Of The Polyvagal Theory with Deborah Dana, Internal Family Systems with Dr. Frank Anderson, and The BioEmotive/Nedera approach with Douglas Tataryn; as well as various courses on psychedelic facilitation, aftercare, and pharmacology.

I have also had years studying a variety of other related disciplines from bodywork and energy healing. That continuing education includes participation at various medical and nonmedical conferences and workshops on trauma, dying, aging, neuroplasticity, internal family systems, meditation, psychedelic therapy, and shamanism.

I am, clearly indicated by the lack of letters after my name, not a certified therapist or counsellor. Although I trust that I can help you with your needs, certain conditions may be beyond my capacity. If that is the case, I will do my best to direct you to someone who can help.

If you are suffering from suicidal thoughts, please contact the suicide hotline in your area (USA | Canada)

What Psychedelic Integration Coaching Can Help You With

Support in deconstructing a psychedelic experience to understand where it fits into the narrative of your life. The core principle is to help you discover what emotional themes your psychedelic experience exposed and link those themes to both your personal history and future. This helps to give your psychedelic encounters digestible form, as well as place and meaning in your sober life, but without losing the magic and wonder of it all.

Support in understanding and resolving distress from a traumatic psychedelic experience (bad trip recovery). The core principle here is to help you reconnect with what happened in a way that allows you to feel safe. Safety enables curiosity. With that curiosity, we can uncover not only the place your fear and pain arose from, but how you can move forward in your life with that ‘bad trip’ now a ‘hard trip’ in retrospect. [see this article for understanding the bad trip vs hard trip distinction]

Support in generating awareness of what might have you ‘stuck’ in certain cycles of behaviour, as well as understanding and resolving general distress in your life brought on by current events or past trauma (including intergenerational).

Drug-positive advice and perspective on the personal use of psychedelics, including discovering/building intention, safe practices, microdosing, and even whether it is a good choice to take psychedelics at all.

(‘Drug-positive’, similar to ‘sex-positive’ is a term to describe a perspective that supports people in not only harm reduction, but benefit optimization)

What Integration Sessions Look Like

That depends on what it is you are looking for from our interaction. Is it rehabilitating from a bad trip, getting general support in understanding how to apply a profound realization; looking to get some feedback or support in preparing for an upcoming journey; or just wanting to ask me some questions about psychedelics and psychedelic practice? (The latter not being an ‘integration coaching’ session, so much as professional consultation.)

Psychedelic integration sessions, generally, look like us talking, mostly me listening and asking questions while tracking what you are saying and how your body is responding to what you are saying, and then providing feedback. Depending on the direction of the session, I am likely to invite you to close your eyes and go through some body-focused, visualization, or mindfulness exercises that will be specifically relevant to the issue you are facing.

Some sessions can be emotionally difficult, depending on the challenges you are carrying. It is not uncommon for people to cry, and so having a safe space (and some tissues nearby) will be helpful. We only go as deep as you are willing, and our time together does not end until you feel regulated.

Sessions happen over GoogleMeet and last for about 60min (sometimes up to 75mins). Integration coaching sessions all end with some type of ‘homework’ that will be supportive of your process, often intended to rewire your brain and nervous system, informed by the principle of positive neuroplasticity and the polyvagal theory.

My goal is to make myself obsolete

My goal is to make myself obsolete, which is to say that I intend to offer you an experience and advice in a session that you can carry with you, so that you no longer need me.

Single sessions can be quite effective and are generally the standard. However, I have found that a package of three sessions is more ideal for this kind of work. I tend to recommend three sessions with about 7 to 10 days between each session, then step back to see how those three landed before going deeper. (Three integration sessions are generally sufficient for most people).

If you’re interested in the three-session package rather than a single session, mentioned that in the contact form below, and we will set up a free 15-minute consultation where we can discuss your specific needs and how the package might work for you.

Pricing for Integration Coaching

Both single sessions and three-session packages are offered on a sliding scale, based on:

  1. What you feel you can afford in your current situation.
  2. The value of my offering in your life.

I am offering my services on a sliding scale, as I believe poor economic context should not prevent people from getting the help they feel they need. I also understand the economic reality of the modern Western world, and so I suggest a baseline of $75-$135/hour as a starting point, as I believe this is an honest monetary value for my time and knowledge.

That said, if you are desperate and money is an issue, please don’t hesitate to reach out anyway, and we can sort something out that works for you. Alternatively, you can check out the ICEERS Support Center. They staff very experienced and knowledgeable people, and are able to offer you free integration sessions.

Contact for Psychedelic Integration Support

You can contact me via the form below, and we can arrange a time from there.

If you’re interested in the three-session package, please mention that in your message, and we will set up a free 15-minute consultation.

My response time is generally within a week. Please let me know if this is an urgent request in the subject line and I will respond more quickly.

Thank you and blessings on your journey.
-James

Frequently Asked Questions About Psychedelic Integration Coaching

How soon after a psychedelic experience should I seek integration support?

There’s no hard rule here, and it really depends on what you’re carrying from the experience. Some people reach out within days because they’re sitting with something heavy or confusing that they can’t quite make sense of on their own. Others come to me weeks or even months later when they realize the insights from their journey haven’t quite landed in their daily life the way they’d hoped.

That said, I find there’s often value in having someone to talk through an experience while it’s still fresh—usually within the first couple of weeks. The emotional and somatic impact of the journey is still alive in your system, which can make the integration work more potent. But honestly, if you’re feeling called to reach out at any point, trust that instinct. There’s no expiration date on making meaning from your experiences.

What’s the difference between integration coaching and therapy?

I want to be clear about this because it matters. I’m not a licensed therapist, which means I can’t diagnose mental health conditions or provide clinical treatment on any illness or disease.

What I offer is more akin to coaching or mentoring—I’m here to help you make sense of your psychedelic experiences and figure out how to weave whatever insights or challenges arose into your everyday life. The focus is specifically on your relationship with psychedelics and what they’ve shown you about yourself, your patterns, and your path forward.

While the work is definitely therapeutic in nature—it can be deeply healing and transformative—it’s not psychotherapy in the clinical sense.

Can you help with a “bad trip” that happened months or years ago?

Absolutely. I actually think this is some of the most important work we can do together.

Difficult psychedelic experiences don’t just disappear with time—they often sit in our system, creating anxiety around future journeys or leaving us with unresolved wounds that impacts how we relate to ourselves and the world.

The beautiful thing about this work is that we’re not trying to go back and change what happened. Instead, we’re helping you develop a different relationship with that experience. Often, what felt like a “bad trip” at the time was actually your psyche trying to show you something important—maybe about old trauma, deep fears, or patterns that needed your attention. Through integration work, we can help transform that “bad trip” into what I call a “hard trip”—something that was difficult but ultimately meaningful and even healing.

At the very least, we can work to come to some kind of neutrality in its ongoing impact on your life and/or future psychedelic explorations.

What if I can’t even put my experience into words?

That’s incredibly common, actually, and it’s something we can work with rather than around. Psychedelic experiences often take us beyond the realm of ordinary language—you might have encountered something so vast, so alien, or so profound that words feel completely inadequate.

This is where the somatic and emotional intelligence of the body becomes really important. Sometimes we start not with what you saw or thought, but with what you felt. What’s still alive in your nervous system? Where do you feel it in your body when you think about the experience? We might use visualization, body-scanning, breathwork, or simply sitting with the felt sense of what happened.

Often, the meaning isn’t in the specific details of what you experienced, but in how it impacted you—how it shifted your relationship with yourself, with others, with life itself. We can work with that embodied knowing even when language fails us. In my experience, the integration happens as much through feeling and being as it does through thinking and talking.

How many psychedelic integration sessions will I need?

This varies from person to person, but I’ve designed my approach with the goal of making myself obsolete—meaning I want to give you tools and understanding that you can carry forward on your own.

Many people find that a single session provides them with what they need to move forward with their integration process on their own.

However, I usually find that a package of three sessions, spaced about 7 to 10 days apart, is more ideal for this kind of work. This allows time for insights to percolate between sessions and gives us space to build on what emerges. After which there is a break from further sessions for at least 2-4 weeks, before assess whether further sessions is appropriate or necessary.

Three sessions are generally sufficient for most people to feel like they’ve gotten what they need. I’m always honest about what I think will serve you best—I’m not interested in keeping you in coaching longer than necessary.

What types of psychedelic experiences do you work with in integration coaching?

Although psilocybin mushrooms are where primary experience and practice lay, I can help with the integration of all types of psychedelic experiences—be it LSD, ayahuasca, MDMA, DMT, or other psychedelic substances*. Each medicine has its own character and the insights they offer can be quite different, but the integration process shares common elements across all of them.

I also support people who’ve had difficult experiences with any of these substances. My work is drug-positive, which means I support people in not just harm reduction, but benefit optimization. I’m not here to judge your choices around psychedelic use—I’m here to help you get the most from whatever experiences you’ve had.

*One caveat I would add, though, is that 5-MeO-DMT is something that often presents unique opportunities and challenges that are best supported by a specialized practitioner. I would personally recommend Chad Charles of Breath Of Five (who has been on my podcast a couple of times). He is a highly-experienced 5-MeO-DMT practitioner who can likely either offer or refer you to integration support specialized to that experience.

Do you offer psychedelic integration coaching for microdosing experiences?

Yes, though the integration work around microdosing is often quite different from what we do with larger psychedelic journeys. With microdosing, coaching sessions tend to focus on supporting the subtle shifts in mood, creativity, emotional processing, and daily patterns that tend to happen within a microdosing protocol; rather than working to integrate any dramatic revelations or challenging experiences that tend to come with larger doses.

People often come to me for microdosing integration when they’re noticing changes in their life but aren’t sure how to optimize or understand what’s happening. We might work on developing better awareness of the shifts occurring, refining dosage and timing, or helping you integrate the gradual insights that emerge over time.

I also help people who are considering microdosing think through intention-setting, safety practices, and whether it’s the right approach for their particular goals and life circumstances.

If it is microdosing in particular that you are curious about, this specific episode of the podcast can offer you a great overview of the various ways you can engage that practice.

What if my situation is beyond what you can support in integration coaching?

I’m honest about my limitations, and there are definitely situations that fall outside my scope of practice or expertise. As I mentioned, I’m not a licensed therapist, so if you’re dealing with serious mental health conditions that require clinical treatment, I’ll be upfront about that and encourage you to seek appropriate professional help.

There are also times when someone’s psychedelic experience has brought up trauma or issues that would be better served by someone with specialized training in those areas. And occasionally, people come to me with situations that are simply beyond what integration coaching can address—maybe they need medical attention, crisis intervention, or a different type of therapeutic support altogether.

When that happens, I don’t just leave you hanging. I’ll do my best to connect you with colleagues or resources where you can get the support you actually need. I’ve built relationships with therapists, trauma specialists, and other practitioners over the years, and I’m always happy to make referrals when that’s what would serve you best.

The goal isn’t to keep you in sessions with me if I’m not the right person to help—it’s to make sure you get connected with whoever can actually support you in your healing and growth. Sometimes that means referring you to the ICEERS Support Center for free sessions, sometimes it means connecting you with a licensed therapist, and sometimes it means pointing you toward other resources entirely.

Can you help me access psychedelics or support me during a psychedelic journey?

No, I can’t help with either of those things, and I want to be clear about why.

When it comes to accessing psychedelics, I simply can’t and won’t provide information about sourcing or obtaining substances. The legal landscape around psychedelics is complex and varies widely by location, and getting involved in discussing around sourcing psychedelics or other illegal substances puts both of us at unnecessary legal risk.

Please know, and with no disrespect intended, any email sent to me with request to help source any illegal substances will not be responded to.

As for supporting someone during a psychedelic journey—what’s sometimes called “trip sitting”—that’s also not something I offer. Journey support is a different service entirely from integration work, and there are significant legal considerations around being present during someone’s psychedelic experience, even virtually.

Beyond the legal issues, I’d be extremely hesitant to provide that kind of support over the internet anyway. Psychedelic experiences can be unpredictable, and if someone needed immediate physical assistance or medical attention, being on a video call would leave me pretty helpless to actually help.

If you’re looking for journey support, I’d encourage you to connect with experienced trip sitters in your area, or look into legal psychedelic therapy options if they’re available where you live.

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