Psychedelic Therapy & Integration

The psychedelic experience can be incredibly meaningful, but it is not an end in itself. The real work comes with integrating the experience into everyday life."

- Rick Doblin, founder of Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies (MAPS)

Psychedelic integration supports the processing of profound realizations from mystical or challenging experiences to help to translate epiphanies and embed perceptual shifts into daily living. It means dedicating time to make sense of visions, lessons, and newly accessible neural pathways revealed in expanded states.

This category includes therapists who specialize in preparation, harm-reduction, journey guardianship, integration support and education for psychedelic and other experiences of non-ordinary states of consciousness.

Emily • Bright Ages Integrative Healing

  • Emily Jenkins is a neuroscience-trained registered nurse with over 5 years of experience exploring and integrating non-ordinary states of consciousness. Her clinical background, combined with her lived experience and dedication to transformation, provides a grounded and compassionate foundation for psychedelic preparation and integration.

    She understands the intricate relationship between brain, body, and spirit, and brings both scientific knowledge and intuitive wisdom to her practice. Emily specializes in helping clients process profound experiences, translate insights into daily life, and foster lasting growth, healing, and alignment.

    Her approach is supportive, non-directive, and tailored to each individual - drawing primarily on inner and intrapersonal work, CBT/ DBT, guided mediation, and Yoga Nidra. She creates a safe, inviting container for clients to process their journey and embody their fullest potential.

    Please reach out for a free consultation to see how psychedelic preparation and integration may serve you.

    • I offer services remotely

Ayala Kalisher

  • I have trained with MAPS in MDMA therapy for PTSD and previously worked in psilocybin assisted therapy research at UCSF.

    While these therapies are not widely available yet in this country I support people who are accessing them in both the preparation and integration processes as they explore how these profound therapies impact their lives.

    • I work out of my own space in Grass Valley

    • I offer services remotely

Dan Michels Psychotherapy

  • I offer Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy as well as psychedelic integration around a number of different psychedelic and plant medicines.

    I believe psychedelics and plant medicine are powerful catalysts for growth, healing and spiritual exploration.

    Combined with psychotherapy they can be tremendously helpful.

    • I work out of my own spaces In Grass Valley and Alta Sierra Neighborhood

    • I offer services remotely

Gavrila • Connected Roots Therapy

  • Somatic-Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (S-KAP) integrates psychedelic medicine with relational, attachment-centered somatic therapy that honors both the body's wisdom and the power of therapeutic connection.

    By combining ketamine's ability to create new neural pathways with somatic tools for nervous system regulation, S-KAP offers a more integrated path to healing trauma, depression, and anxiety within a supportive therapeutic container.

    This approach invites relational healing that addresses not just symptoms, but the deeper patterns and wounds that live in both mind and body, supporting you in reclaiming your authentic self and capacity for connection.

    Available in Nevada City for individuals and couples. 

  • The medicine is only half of the journey. While it is so powerful to have a psychospiritual experience, what makes it life changing is anchoring the insights into daily life. 

    Likely on your journey, you experienced a different perspective or received guidance in one way or another. The neuropathways that develop during a medicine journey are much shallower than our every day habitual neuropathways. Because of this, post journey, we want to nurture and cultivate these new and tender neuropathways. In integration work, we will re-establish and ground what was learned and find ways to continue deepening these grooves in daily life. 

    Integration sessions post journey (medicinal or transformational in nature) are recommended. Sometimes one is sufficient; however, multiple may be beneficial to fully integrate.

    • I practice out of my own space in Nevada City

    • I offer remote sessions