Psychedelic Assisted Therapy

Psychedelic-assisted therapy (PAT) is an emerging treatment in which a psychedelic medicine is used within a structured therapeutic and medical framework, under specialist psychiatric care.

Integrate Therapy & Consulting supports people considering, undertaking or reflecting on a psychedelic-assisted treatment or other altered-state experience, through psychological preparation and integration.

This is talking-therapy support. We do not provide, source or administer any psychedelic substance, and an enquiry here does not create or guarantee access to psychedelic-assisted treatment.

Integration is the process of exploring an altered-state or psychedelic experience, and considering how it might be understood and incorporated into everyday life. Experiences can be meaningful, challenging, confusing or emotionally intense. Integration offers a structured, supportive space to reflect, ground and make sense of what has occurred.

Preparation or integration therapy may suit people who are:

Not every psychedelic experience feels positive, clear or transformative. Some people feel unsettled, emotionally activated, confused or unsure what to do with what they experienced. Others may feel that something important happened but find it difficult to make sense of it or bring it into everyday life.

Sessions are client-centred and non-interpretive. We will not tell you what your experience “should” mean. Our approach is trauma-informed and harm-reduction informed: the focus is your safety and understanding, without judgement and without endorsing unlawful drug use.

As with any psychological therapy, outcomes cannot be guaranteed. What is helpful differs from person to person, and this support tends to work best as one part of your overall care, alongside your GP, psychiatrist or other treating practitioners where relevant.

We take a trauma-informed, non-judgemental, harm-reduction approach, supporting safety, understanding, stabilisation and integration, without assumptions or judgement about what an experience should mean.

Some people are using, or considering using, a psychedelic substance outside a clinical or medically supervised setting. We do not provide, source, or advise on how to obtain, dose or combine any substance, and nothing here should be read as encouraging or endorsing unlawful drug use.

If this applies to you, you are welcome to get in touch for a confidential conversation about psychological preparation, safety planning and integration support, from a non-judgemental, harm-reduction informed perspective. As with all our sessions, this is subject to the usual professional and legal limits on confidentiality, for example where there is a risk of serious harm to you or someone else.

Psychedelic-assisted treatment involving unapproved psychedelic medicines is subject to specific regulatory requirements. Access to certain psychedelic medicines for therapeutic use is restricted to authorised pathways, including the TGA Authorised Prescriber Scheme and clinical trials. These medicines are not approved for general use and are subject to strict controls.