Integration
of Altered States and Experiences
Have you experienced an nonordinary state of consciousness from…
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Psychic Experiences?
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Psychedelics?
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Meditation?
Folks who respond yes to the above, and many more possibilities, are referred to as Experiencers.
What to expect:
I help to facilitate integration of these experiences, during weekly 50-minute sessions on video, helping you to feel more grounded, embodied, and connected. All of the sessions are collaborative. Using Somatic Experiencing, Internal Family Systems, relational therapy, & practical tools such as journalling, artwork, and movement I’ll help you to better integrate your body/mind/spirit and make meaning of these big happenings into your life. These tools are all guides, not dogma, so the work and goals stay responsive to you.
Your entire self including your bodies, spirit, traumas, pleasures, resiliency, guides and benign ancestors are welcomed..
The Tools
Additional Modalities
Sessions may include Internal Family Systems, Jungian or archetypal approaches, mindful movement, visualizations, Tarot, symbols, dream work, astrological considerations, existential components, and Process Work. Additionally, I have trained with MAPS in their MDMA therapeutic model and use some of their tools for integration as well. The models of trauma-informed meditation, from Willoughby Britton and David Treleaven, also inform the practices I offer.
What Integration Therapy Looks Like With Me
A psychedelic journey, a spontaneous altered state, a spiritual emergence: all of these experiences can bring real insight, but insight alone doesn't always translate into lasting change. Integration is the process of making sense of what came up and then consciously letting it shift how you live, rather than letting it fade into a strange memory, or a traumatic flashback, that no one seems to understand.
I work with adults across California via telehealth everyday, bringing a somatic, trauma-informed approach, grounded in Somatic Experiencing for their integration work. Thus we're not just talking about what happened intellectually, but tracking what it's still doing in your body and nervous system now to assist you to fee less fragmented and more whole.
People come to this work for things like:
Processing insights or difficult material from a psilocybin, MDMA, or ketamine session
Support before and after a legal psychedelic-assisted therapy session
Making sense of a spontaneous altered state, spiritual emergence, or mystical experience
Integrating material that surfaced through meditation, breathwork, or plant medicine ceremonies
Feeling flooded, overwhelmed, or destabilized by what came up and needing somewhere to slow down
Highly sensitive people, queer, and poly clients wanting an integration therapist who won't need context explained from scratch
This work isn't about correcting or pathologizing your experience. It's about giving what surfaced somewhere real to land and you the space to grow.
Somatic Experiencing
As a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, I will guide you with its tools so that you may learn to track your experiences, sensations, and emotions more effectively. This may assist you in turning overwhelming or awe-inducing experiences into an embodied and grounded reality. It helps to regulate the nervous system, and promotes a more robust capacity to hold and process emotions and meaning.
"I have been with Madeline for the better part of a decade. I have some significant trauma. And never found talk therapy useful. Madeline doesn't only listen, she uses various modalities to help you understand and work to improve the emotional symptoms of trauma now. So you're not just going to talk about your past over and over again. You're going to do something about how it's impacting you now. And when you can relieve some of those symptoms you can grow and heal and be a better self. I feel like I'm a better self than I was when we started. It's been work and it's been worth it."
- B.V.