Psychedelic Integration Therapy
Psychedelic integration therapy is talk therapy for before and after a psychedelic or other expanded-state experience: preparation so you go in with intention and a safety plan, and integration afterward so what surfaced becomes something you can use. MindMorph does not provide, administer, or facilitate psilocybin or any other prohibited psychedelic. Sessions are with a psychiatric nurse practitioner, in Lakewood, CO or by secure video across Colorado and Oregon.
Integrative Psychiatry InstituteCertified Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Provider (opens in a new tab)I completed the Integrative Psychiatry Institute's year-long psychedelic-assisted therapy training, covering preparation, medicine sessions, and integration for ketamine, psilocybin, and MDMA. The only medicine I administer is prescribed, off-label ketamine; psilocybin and MDMA are not.
What MindMorph does and does not do
This needs to be plain, because the field is confusing and the law is specific.
MindMorph offers:
- Preparation consultations before a legal psychedelic experience, including a review of your psychiatric medications and history for interactions and screening concerns
- Post-experience integration therapy for ketamine-assisted, breathwork, ceremonial, or other expanded-state experiences
- Mindfulness and somatic grounding tools for emotional and physiological regulation
- Lifestyle and wellness strategies that help translate insight into daily practice
- Coordination with your ongoing psychiatric, therapeutic, or medical care
- Optional ceremonial and group experiences within a legal, trauma-informed framework
MindMorph does not:
- Administer, supply, or facilitate the use of any state- or federally prohibited psychedelic substance
- Conduct or promote unregulated psychedelic ceremonies
The only psychedelic-adjacent medicine given at MindMorph is prescribed, off-label, sublingual ketamine, inside ketamine-assisted psychotherapy. Integration therapy itself involves no substance.
What integration therapy is
A structured but intuitive psychotherapeutic process that helps you understand, embody, and apply the emotional and symbolic material that arises during a psychedelic or expanded-state experience, without returning to that state. Sessions may include reflective dialogue and guided meaning-making, somatic awareness and nervous-system regulation, mindfulness and breathwork, and practical sleep, lifestyle, and wellness planning. The aim is to turn a vivid experience into a sustainable change in how you live.
Integration therapy compared with ketamine-assisted psychotherapy
| Aspect | Psychedelic integration therapy | Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP) |
|---|---|---|
| Substance use | None administered at MindMorph | Sublingual ketamine (off-label) administered in clinic |
| Focus | Post-experience reflection and embodiment | Guided emotional exploration during treatment |
| Goal | Translate insight into sustainable habits and emotional balance | Access and process emotional material in real time |
| Availability | Open to anyone with prior expanded-state experience | Reserved for approved ketamine therapy patients |
The two complement each other: KAP opens access to emotional material in a clinical setting; integration grounds it.
Who benefits
- People preparing for, or returning from, a legal psychedelic experience, such as Colorado's regulated natural medicine program or Oregon's licensed psilocybin services
- Anyone feeling disoriented, raw, or unsettled after an expanded-state or ceremonial experience, recent or years old
- Patients who want to connect new awareness with ongoing therapy or psychiatric care
- People integrating spiritual or symbolic experiences who prefer a clinical, grounded setting
- Those on psychiatric medication who want a prescriber's review before any legal experience
Why integration matters
Profound experiences can open real awareness, and they can also leave emotional residue, confusion, or a sense of disconnection from ordinary life. Integration supplies structure, pacing, and safety. The framework here has four parts:
- Safety: grounding, containment, and emotional regulation first
- Meaning: exploring the symbolic and personal significance of what came up
- Application: turning insight into habits and lifestyle alignment
- Stability: strengthening nervous-system balance through mindfulness, breathwork, and wellness practice
Depending on your plan, nutrition and supplement guidance, yoga and movement, sleep and circadian work, and targeted lab or genetic insight (when clinically indicated) may be added.
How to prepare for a session
For a preparation consultation, bring a list of every medication and supplement you take, including doses, and any psychiatric or medical history that a facilitator should know about; that review is the main point of the visit. For an integration session, you do not need notes, a theory, or a tidy story. Jot down what you remember while it is fresh, including images, body sensations, and anything that still bothers you, and bring that. Arrive rested if you can, and plan nothing demanding immediately afterward.
Confidentiality
Integration sessions are clinical care and carry the same confidentiality as any psychotherapy session. What you did, where, and with whom is protected health information. You can speak about an experience plainly, within the usual legal limits of psychotherapy confidentiality.
Timing and course
Ideally one preparation session before an experience and one to three integration sessions in the following weeks, while the material is fresh. Some people feel grounded after a few sessions; others continue in ongoing therapy to deepen the work. Integration pairs well with therapy, medication management, or KAP. A free monthly integration circle exists for people who want community rather than clinical sessions.
Conditions integration therapy may support
- Depression and existential fatigue, holding motivation and balance after an intense experience
- PTSD and trauma recovery, safe processing of memories or emotions stirred during expanded states
- Anxiety and hypervigilance, regulation and grounding
- Spiritual and emotional growth, turning awareness into self-compassion and connection
Cost, booking, and safety
Integration sessions are billed as therapy; current fees and the insurer lists are on the insurance and payment page. Book a complimentary consultation or call (720) 504-2181. Results vary for each individual.
If you are in crisis, call or text 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline) or call 911. This practice does not provide emergency services.
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Transformation
A real shift after psychedelic-assisted therapy, whether the work involved Spravato, ketamine, or another approach, is what I reflect on in this 43-second clip filmed for the site. What stays with me is how often people arrive feeling stuck and hopeless, sometimes at the very….
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Freedom from Patterns
The change I see most often in the people I work with is a kind of freedom: the freedom to respond rather than react, and freedom from patterns they have carried for a very long time. In this 75-second clip filmed for the site I describe how it shows up: stepping out of the loops that….
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Integration Is Key
The biggest misconception I hear about psilocybin work, and psychedelic work in general, is that the medicine itself is the key to healing. In this 73-second clip filmed for the site I say the experience plays a part, but the real work is the preparation beforehand and the integration that….
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What people experience in deeper work
What actually surfaces when the noise quiets down. Deeper work, in this practice, means the sessions where the usual defenses step aside long enough for the material underneath to show itself: an image, a sentence, an old feeling that had been sitting on the chest. That happens in therapy, in….
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Psychedelic therapy is not just about the medicine
The relationship, preparation, and integration around the experience do the heavy lifting. That is the practice's most repeated idea, and this eight-second clip is its shortest statement. The medicine gets the attention; the work that decides whether anything holds happens before and after it.
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Psychedelic therapy is not the right fit for everyone
Screening, and why no is sometimes the caring answer. A practice that offers ketamine-assisted psychotherapy and Spravato has to be willing to say that a given treatment is not right for a given person, and to say it early, at the evaluation, rather than after a disappointing session. Eight….
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Preparation and integration determine outcomes
The field is accelerating; the fundamentals have not changed. New compounds, new programs, new headlines every week, and underneath all of it the same two things shape what a person carries out of a session: how they were prepared for it and what they did with it afterward. Eight seconds.
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You are not done just because the journey has ended
The days after a deep experience matter as much as the experience itself. The session ends; the work does not. For a day or two after ketamine, many people notice an unusual flexibility, an ease in stepping around old ruts. That window is real and short, and integration is the deliberate use of it.….
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Healing is not always dramatic at first
Quiet, early signs of change are easy to miss. People expect a before-and-after. What tends to arrive first is smaller: a morning slightly less heavy, a reaction that pauses before it fires, a conversation that does not go the way it always went. Those are easy to discount, and discounting them is….
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Healing, for me, feels like freedom
Healing, for me, feels like freedom: freedom from old patterns, old loops, and automatic reactions. Not a miracle, not a personality transplant; room between a trigger and a response that used to have none. It is the most personal of the shorts, the practice's definition of a good outcome stated….
Questions
Structured clinical support around a psychedelic or expanded-state experience: preparation beforehand, including a review of your medications and history, and meaning-making afterward so that insights translate into daily life. It is talk therapy, delivered with mindfulness and somatic tools, and it does not involve returning to the altered state.
No. Integration therapy is talk therapy. MindMorph does not provide, administer, or facilitate psilocybin or any other state- or federally prohibited psychedelic, and does not conduct unregulated ceremonies. The only psychedelic-adjacent medicine here is prescribed, off-label, sublingual ketamine within ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, a separate service.
People preparing for or returning from legal psychedelic experiences, such as Colorado's regulated natural medicine program or Oregon's licensed psilocybin services; anyone processing a past experience that still feels unresolved; and patients on psychiatric medication who want a prescriber's review before a legal experience. Prior experience of any kind qualifies.
Ideally one preparation session before an experience and one to three integration sessions in the weeks after, while the material is fresh. There is no expiry, though: an experience from years ago that still feels unresolved is a reasonable thing to bring. Some people need a few sessions, others continue in ongoing therapy.
MindMorph does not provide psilocybin sessions and does not run or partner with any facilitation program. What happens here is preparation, medication review, and integration before and after an experience you arrange elsewhere under the law of your state. Bring what you learned and I will work with it in a clinical frame.