After a psychedelic-assisted therapy journey, it is vital to do integration because if you don’t do
integration, you end up with disintegration. Humans need to process, integrate, and apply new
insights into their daily lives after a psychedelic journey.

A strong Integration Therapist, Coach, or Specialist is vital to properly assist journeyers in
navigating mystical and numinous content to assist them in making sense of their psychedelic
journey. Integration therapists or coaches can provide guidelines and tools to assist journeyers in
moving forward expediently.

Integration assists with……..

Identifying patterns and themes from the psychedelic experience. For instance, what symbols,
messages, or visuals stood out, and why were you shown these particular constructs?

To address challenges and obstacles that may have been holding clients back in their lives.
Clients may have gained a new perspective on unhealthy relationships or adverse habits. An
integration therapist can assist in co-creating an actionable plan.

Finding purpose and meaning. Psychedelics often provide a sense of connection and insight into
the client’s life direction, but translating that into practical steps can be challenging. Integration
coaching can assist in co-creating a concrete plan to make the appropriate life changes that align
with their purpose.

Staying accountable and motivated. Having the support of an integration therapist, especially in
the weeks after ketamine treatment or other psychedelic experiences, helps ensure new insights
become realized for real and lasting change. They provide a strong support tool for progress and
to navigate challenges.

Journaling is another important component of psychedelic integration. Writing down thoughts,
feelings, visions, and insights from a psychedelic journey can be profoundly useful for
integration. Journaling allows clients to refer back to their experiences in specific journeys for a
deeper understanding of what came through and the messages received during the journey.
Journaling also helps to reinforce new perspectives or thought patterns that need to be
strengthened.

Creative practices can also be part of integration. Engaging in creative activities like art, music,
poetry, or ecstatic dancing are all highly effective in facilitating integration. The act of creative
expression is therapeutic in itself, and allows journeyers to tap into parts of themselves they may
not have had access to before their journey.

Integration assists clients in making lifestyle changes. Ketamine and other psychedelics can
increase awareness and motivation to make positive lifestyle changes. Taking the time after a
medicine session to integrate new revelations into one’s life, to identify habits or patterns that need to change, and to reinforce progress is important. Small shifts in clients’ lives can yield major life shifts.

Integration assists in supporting clients to remain dedicated to new ways of being and practices.
Consistency strengthens new neural pathways and supports positive change. Integration ensures
the benefits received from the medicine ceremony are long-lasting. While the medicine may be
the catalyst, integration is what makes real transformation possible.