01. Set Solid Foundations for a Safe and Deeply Healing Journey Within

• A minimum of 2 prep sessions

• Guided experience

• Intention setting

• Skill-building

• 1:1 coaching

Setting you up for success in this healing and awakening process is my priority and commitment. Preparation is the first step towards your 'call to adventure' to dive into the depths of your psyche. By the end of this initial phase, you'll have examined your motivations, clarified your intentions for embarking on the journey, weighed potential risks and benefits of doing so and bring onboard gently and compassionately inner 'parts' showing up with concerns and resistance to surrender to the great unknown. You'll also better understand what to expect of the medicine journey and feel better equipped in meeting each moment with awareness, curiosity, a sense of inner safety, personal freedom and agency.

As part of this preparatory phase, we explore what set and setting can best meet your intentions, suit your unique inner operating system and build a sense of inner safety.

Might you most benefit from sitting in a ceremonial plant medicine context held by indigenous wisdom or would psychedelic assisted therapy best suit your needs?

What medicine, therapeutic approach & guide may serve the intentions you hold knowing your unique constitution and background?

These are all important inquiries worth thoughtfully reflecting upon with someone you trust.

Note that this phase includes 2 to 6 coaching sessions, sometimes more.

As part of the preparatory phase, I identify in collaboration with my clients what medicine, therapeutic approach, set & setting and guide may best serve their goals / intentions given their unique constitution, and history.

These are important inquiries worth thoughtfully reflecting upon with someone you trust.

If the fit feels appropriate, I offer Ketamine Assisted Therapy.

A few words about journeys

Each journey is unique and the effects are profound. The premise is that mind-expanding medicine can help us access an inner state where a higher intelligence is accessed for answers, guidance, healing and remembering; ways to incorporate lost, ancient embodied ways of knowing;

The psychedelic journey can be framed as a mythic quest; imagine an invitation to face set trials made of inner conflicts, buried longing, heart breaks, hidden desires and vulnerabilities, each invited to be seen and felt and confronted in their own time. Each layer is part of your inner fabric inherited by simply being human.

As you travel through the wild terrains of your inner world, parts of yourself, known and unknown, reveal themselves to be healed, felt, honored, reconciled, embraced while resources for guidance and support will likely show up, opening the space for fostering new levels of resilience, reframe distorted stories that might have been standing in the way of your flourishing and gather profound insights and pearls of wisdom.

What manifest itself during the journey can be unexpected and beyond logic. In the right set and setting, you can navigate each existential trial held in a field of curiosity, deep care and expanded awareness. Ultimately, each journey holds the healing power to help you deepen and embrace your wholesome nature, open new horizons while embracing your authenticity.

A meticulously designed experience for receiving deep personal support and maintaining momentum towards deep and lasting change

• Continue self-inquiry & build new habits

• Integration sessions

• Guided experience & skill-building

• 1:1 coaching

In the weeks following a psychedelic experience, the brain is in a state of neural plasticity and high suggestibility. This is an optimum window for anchoring in a positive mindset, productive self-reflection, and supportive integration practices.

The final leg of the psychedelic journey is about integrating insights and moving past a narrow, ego-dominated understanding of ourselves, others and the world. This crucial phase is essential to help stabilize new neuro-pathways in the mind accessed during the journey. Different parts of the ego become better known, seen, accepted and understood, and thus become more flexible, resilient, resourced and integrated as part of your Self. Parts driving the unconscious mind can then loosen their reigns as they find new levels of inner safety by examining their motivations, and discover new ways to respond to life's circumstances that are more generative, grounded, connected, trusting instead of reactive or oppressive.

The therapeutic modalities of Hakomi, a body-centered mindfulness form of therapy, combined with IFS (Internal Family System) and the co-active coaching model inform this integration phase.

We also design together a set of daily mindfulness and embodiment practices suitable to you and your lifestyle as part of this integration phase.

COMMITMENT

The integration phase usually includes a minimum of two coaching sessions. Most clients tend to commit to months of weekly coaching sessions in service to deep and lasting healing and transformation. Remember that if you put in the work and practices, the reward is yours.