Areas of Specialty

Overarching Themes:

Anxiety, Life Transitions, Adult Children of Unstable or Abusive Parents, Caregiver & Care Professional Needs, PTSD, Relational Trauma, Complicated Grief and Loss, Relationship Difficulties and Attachment, Self-esteem & Other Identity Issues, Psychedelic Integration.

  • Caregivers

    • Caregiver Burnout.

    • Caregiver Depression.

    • Vicarious Trauma.

    • Supporting caregivers of unstable or abusive parents

    • Self-care and Boundaries.

    • Caregiver guilt and shame.

    • Examing internalized narratives.

    • Issues with transference and countertransference.

  • Self

    • Supporting you to retune to yourself, your needs, and your boundaries.

    • Building trust after trauma.

    • Complex life transitions like divorce recovery, forced unemployment or career changes.

    • Grief and loss of a loved one.

    • Gender & sexuality exploration and expansion.

  • Family

    • Identifying needs and expressing boundaries.

    • Difficulty with familial (biological or chosen) relationships.

    • Healing from past or current abuse.

    • Disconnecting from or re-connecting to abusive family members.

    • Supporting caregivers of unstable or abusive parents.

    • Supporting adult children of parents experiencing chaotic substance use.

    • Conflict resolution and repair.

  • Intimacy

    • Relationship communication skills.

    • Addressing past hurts.

    • Creating boundaries.

    • Identifying and expressing needs and desires.

    • Conflict resolution and repair

    • Ending a relationship.

    • Opening or closing a relationship.

    • Negotiating consensual nonmonogamy.

    • Navigating desire differences.

    • Divorce or other relational recovery.

    • Infidelity

  • Psychedelics

    • Psychedelic-assisted therapy and integration.

    • Harm reduction and safety.

    • Read below for full description and services statement.

What is Psychedelic Integration?

Psychedelic Integration in my practice does not include the administration of psychedelic medicine but is here to help you make sense of your existing experiences. To those unfamiliar, plant-based psychedelics have played a traditional role in indigenous spiritual practices and mental wellness for millennia. You may have noticed a resurgence of media around the therapeutic use of psychedelics outside of the traditional and spiritual wisdom traditions and into the world of Western medical research where investigators are examining what makes psychedelic compounds (plant and synthetic-based) effective in clinical traditional, ceremonial, and recreational contexts. Western medical research in the US is privileged over other valid knowledge systems, and while this research is making a valuable and necessary contribution, it is also important to acknowledge that the success of this resurgence of research is owed to the history of indigenous healing practice.

Though psychedelic experiences take place in many contexts from clinical to spiritual or recreational, what they share in common are experiences that can be very complex, they can be helpful, but they may also bring up difficult experiences or memories (sometimes traumatic). Psychedelic integration is to help you explore and share any challenges and insights that occurred during your experience and provides support to help you process your experience and incorporate what you may have received into the conception of your self, your relationship to others, and the world at large.

Offering psychedelic integration is not an endorsement in using substances. By offering a confidential space using the principles of harm reduction, this service is a way to support people without judgment, stigma, or shame, through these experiences that may have left them with more questions than answers. For more information on the therapeutic use of psychedelics please visit psychedelic-ed.com.

How do I access Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy?

Currently, in the United States, commonly used psychedelics like Psilocybin (magic mushrooms), MDMA (ecstasy), LSD (acid), and Ayahuasca remain illegal outside of medical and psychological clinical research trial settings. Until clinical trials are completed, the only way to legally access psychedelic therapies using these substances is by participating in a clinical trial. While I do not advocate the use of illegal substances, I also understand that psychedelic medicine has been an impactful part of the human experience across cultural contexts, has been used safely, and is legal in several other countries.

Oregon Residents: Measure 109 in Oregon has created an opportunity for the legal and supervised use of psilocybin beginning in 2023 by licensed facilitators. However, this is not access to psychedelic therapy but rather access to use psilocbyin in a regulated legal environment with a trained facilitator. If this sounds confusing it’s because it is. To read further about the limitations of Measure 109 if you’re specifically looking for psychedelic therapy I recommend the following:

If you are looking specifically for a legal form of psychedelic-assisted therapy, you may be eligible to participate in a clinical trial or you can explore if Ketamine-Assisted Therapy is a fit for you. Ketamine is a dissociative anesthetic that has some hallucinogenic effects, it may work by affecting the brain chemical glutamate, which research has shown to improve mood and symptoms commonly associated with depression.

It is important to know your provider and their practices since psychedelics and dissociatives with psychedelic properties (like Ketamine) may induce non-ordinary states of consciousness (depending on dose). If you are in the Portland, Oregon area and are interested in learning more about Ketamine-Assisted Therapy, the following are clinics in Portland that are run by licensed medical professionals, uphold strong codes of ethics, and are experienced and mindful of the context of this type of therapy: Synaptic Integrative Care and Training Institute or Rainfall Medicine.

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