Psychedelics are inherently dis-integrating. They can disintegrate your ego or your sense of self. Often it can feel as if things are coming apart and that reality is not as you knew it. After such an intensely fragmenting experience, coming back together can be difficult. Everything may feel new, different, suddenly very wrong, or suddenly very right. It may have been the single most spiritual and wonderful experience of your life, or it may have been terrifying and traumatic.

Psychedelic integration therapy is the process of making sense of and reducing any harm associated with a previous psychedelic experience within the context of an ongoing therapeutic relationship. Integrating can mean continuing to process and make meaning out of what was experienced, restructuring your life on various levels, bringing awareness to what might be new for you, or paying attention to your dreams (where the journey continues).

Join integral psychotherapist Gisele Fernandes-Osterhold for a conversation with psychotherapist and integrationist Sara Ouimette exploring the process of integrating and making meaning from a psychedelic experience.

This is conversation does not promote, facilitate, or require the use of entheogens. This event and the views expressed by the presenter(s) are not a reflection of the views of California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), its Center for Psychedelic Therapies and Research, or the individuals employed by CIIS.