What is integration?

Integration is the process of consolidating the visions, experiences, insights, lessons, perspective shifts, and challenging situations that may come up during a psychedelic journey and evaluating how to incorporate them into your daily life. Non-ordinary (or altered) states of consciousness are unpredictable and sometimes can present difficult or challenging situations that we do not know how to interpret once we return to our normal state of reality. Guidance and support with deciphering the meaning and clarity of one’s medicine experience is immensely important and is crucial in turning a fun or bad trip into a healing journey. Our inner healing intelligence gives us the clues on how to heal, but it may not be a way or language that we are familiar with. The process of integration uses many different methods and tools to make the messages more clear.

Integration is not “trip sitting” or providing information on how to obtain illegal substances. Dr. Coleman does not condone or administer the use of illegal substances, but supports integration of experiences that people may have had. In addition, integration is essential for ketamine treatment and is a part of the ketamine therapy she provides.