CREATIVE PSYCHEDELIC INTEGRATION
Your creativity is a sacred gift.
The Creative Psychonaut is an explorer of consciousness who uses creativity as a tool for self-discovery and transformation.
Blending art, mindfulness, spirituality, and the wisdom of psychedelic experiences, The Creative Psychonaut navigates inner worlds to heal and bring the light of joy, love, and purpose into daily life.
The Creative Psychonaut engages in this exploration, not just for curiosity, but with the purpose of personal growth, spiritual development, and connection with a wellspring of creative energy, where fresh perspectives, profound ideas and visions, and new avenues of self-expression can surface and be integrated into their life and work.
Navigating the Post-Journey Transition
Returning from a plant medicine ceremony or psychedelic experience can be both profound and challenging. The insights you gained might feel vivid and transformative in the moment, but as the experience fades, you may find yourself struggling to integrate those revelations into your daily life. It’s not uncommon to feel disoriented, alone, or distant from the profound sense of clarity you once felt.
You’re not alone in this.
As an integration specialist, I’m here to support you through this critical phase of your journey. Together, we’ll explore the insights and messages you received, helping you to make sense of them and weave them into the fabric of your life.
Here’s how we can work together:
Reflect: We’ll use creative practices, such as journaling and art, to help you revisit and deepen your understanding of the insights from your experience.
Anchor: Through guided sessions, we’ll anchor your insights and transform them into actionable steps that align with your values and goals.
Build Support: Feelings of isolation are common after such profound experiences. We’ll work to create a supportive environment where you can express your feelings and connect with others who understand.
Sustain Change: We’ll develop strategies to incorporate the wisdom from your journey into your daily routine, allowing you to live more authentically and joyfully.
Your journey doesn’t end when the ceremony does. It’s a beginning.
Let’s work together to make sure the insights you gained continue to inspire and guide you.
Integrating Your Psychedelic Journeys
Your psychedelic experiences—whether with ayahuasca, psilocybin, or other plant medicines—hold deep, transformative insights that can guide you toward living a more authentic, joyful, and radiant life.
But how do you turn those powerful realizations into lasting change?
As an integration specialist, my focus is helping you bridge the gap between the profound insights you receive during your journey and your everyday reality.
Together, we’ll explore the spiritual messages, visions, and ‘downloads’ you’ve received, and work to turn them into actionable steps that align with your values and passions.
Healing, Balance, and Living in Harmony
Plant medicine and other psychedelic experiences can reveal insights into your emotional and spiritual blockages, ancestral patterns, and unhealthy habits, and the process of integration is about making conscious efforts to live according to the clarity and wisdom you received.
Integration after a ceremony or psychedelic journey is an essential aspect of the healing process, as it allows the profound insights and healing received to manifest in day-to-day life.
The visions, teachings, and cleansing experienced during a ceremony are meant to support you in living more harmoniously—with yourself, others, and the natural world.
Patience, discipline, and lifestyle changes after ceremonies ensure that the healing becomes tangible and long-lasting.
Through a blend of powerful therapeutic approaches — including therapeutic art-making, cognitive behavioral and somatic techniques, mindfulness, and more — let’s ensure your life is in alignment with the harmony revealed to you.
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Hi! I’m Ali.
I’ll be your guide.
I’m passionate about supporting people in using the creative process to explore and integrate lessons, insights, and visions gained from psychedelic journeys into lasting life changes that support radiant well-being.
With nearly twenty years of training and experience as a therapist, I now bring my expertise to facilitating integration, blending my therapeutic foundation with my long-standing personal exploration as a psychonaut.
I enjoy weaving together tools from therapeutic art, mindfulness, and cognitive and somatic practices to support deep healing, meaningful integration, and space for more joy and lightness.
If you’ve experienced psychedelics or are considering their use as part of your healing journey and want support in navigating these experiences, you’re in the right place!
Integration work allows us to transform our intentions, lessons, and insights into reality.
We can release old, stuck patterns that no longer serve us, cultivate new habits that support our health and well-being, and set empowered boundaries so we can live aligned with our values.
What is Psychedelic Integration?
Psychedelic experiences can bring up radically new ways of viewing ourselves, others, and the world.
They can bring to light new goals, dreams, purpose, and visions for our lives.
After a psychedelic experience, it can be challenging to understand, integrate, and implement these experiences without effective support.
Psychedelic integration coaching offers a safe space to process and explore the challenges and insights gained to facilitate personal and habitual changes.
Integration is a vital and important part of long-lasting growth and on-going well-being.
“When you are in the flow of creativity, you are in harmony with life itself—fully present, open, and connected to something greater than yourself.”
What Are Some Reasons People Seek Creative Psychedelic Integration?
They are curious about the benefits of psychedelics and art and want to learn more about their use as therapeutic tools.
They are wanting to explore art-making as a way to restore balance and deeper healing.
They are experiencing confusion and overwhelm following a psychedelic experience and want help in making sense of it.
They want support in understanding and moving past a challenging, distressing, or traumatic psychedelic experience.
They want help, structure, and accountability to take on minor or major life changes after gaining new insight during or after a psychedelic experience.
They enjoy hands-on, creative ways of exploring ideas, thoughts, memories, and visions.
They value creativity and self-expression and want to release unprocessed emotions in a way that’s easier to access without words or linear thinking.
WORK WITH ALI
1:1: Integration
The ideal choice if you want a personalized plan that is tailored to your goals and visions for your life.
Integration Circles
Unpack and make sense of your psychedelic experiences in a safe environment alongside other like-minded creative psychonauts.
Workshops + Retreats
Engage in a hands-on, experiential process of applying creative expression to psychedelic integration work.
Upcoming events
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Creative Integration Circle (ZOOM)
Join this 6-week in-person immersive experience crafted for the creative psychonaut within you.
This is your invitation to a sacred space, where journaling, art, and movement intertwine with mindfulness and somatic therapies to help you integrate the profound wisdom of your psychedelic journeys.
Together, we’ll share our stories, uncover fresh perspectives, and explore how to root these insights into the soil of your daily life.
Through the power of creative expression, you’ll learn to embody the transformation you’re seeking.
Join us and let’s let creativity lead the way.
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Arts-Based Integration Circle (Sebastopol, CA))
Join this 6-week in-person immersive experience designed for the creative psychonaut in you.
This is a sacred container for those ready to dive into the transformative power of creative practices—journaling, art, movement—woven together with mindfulness and somatic therapies to integrate the deep wisdom of psychedelic journeys.
Together, we’ll share stories, explore new perspectives, and learn how to ground insights into everyday life.
Through creative expression in community, you’ll discover how to embody the changes you’re longing to bring to life.
We’ll gather together and let the magic of creativity guide us forward.
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Cacao + Creativity Circle (Sebastopol, CA)
Experience the transformative power of cacao to deepen your creative flow and intuition in a supportive environment.
The natural properties of cacao—rich in theobromine, magnesium, and antioxidants—work together to open the heart, calm the mind, and enhance your ability to connect with your creative joy.
As the cacao relaxes your nervous system and elevates your mood, you'll find yourself more in tune with your intuition, free from creative blocks, and inspired to express ideas in new ways.
In this circle, cacao is combined with creative practices like intuitive art-making and journaling, guiding you to flow with your creativity and intuition.
What is Psychedelic Integration Therapy?
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I don’t condone the use of illegal substances, and do not provide psychedelic-assisted therapy.
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The psychedelic therapy process is unique and highly dependent on the individual.
As with any life change or new habit, your level of commitment and the time and energy you put into it will play a big role in how long it takes.