Psychedelic Integration

Psychedelic Integration Therapy in San Francisco & Online

Navigate your consciousness expansion journey with compassionate, skilled support at Altar Of Now. Our MAPS-trained psychedelic integration practitioner offers safe, judgment-free guidance for processing and integrating plant medicine and psychedelic experiences both in-person in San Francisco and online throughout California and beyond.

Whether you're preparing for an upcoming journey or seeking support in understanding and integrating a recent experience, we provide a container for your expansion process, combining traditional integration practices with complementary modalities like breathwork, Reiki, and somatic expression.

What is Psychedelic Integration?

Psychedelic integration is the thoughtful process of understanding, processing, and incorporating insights from consciousness expansion experiences into your daily life. This work involves making meaning of what emerged during your journey and translating those revelations into lasting positive change.

Integration recognizes that the psychedelic experience itself is just the beginning. The real transformation happens in the weeks and months following, as you weave new perspectives, emotional releases, and insights into your ongoing life story.

Integration work typically involves:

  • Processing emotions and insights that arose during your experience

  • Understanding symbolic or visionary content

  • Navigating challenging or difficult material that emerged

  • Translating mystical insights into practical life changes

  • Developing practices to maintain connection to the experience

  • Working through any confusion or overwhelm from the experience

Online Integration Services - Serving Clients Worldwide

Secure, Confidential Virtual Sessions: Online integration sessions provide the same depth of support as in-person work, utilizing video platforms to create space for your process regardless of your location.

Why Choose Online Integration:

  • Access specialized support even if you're in an area with limited integration resources

  • Maintain privacy by working from the comfort of your own space

  • Flexible scheduling across different time zones

  • Continuity of care if you travel or relocate

  • Safe environment for processing vulnerable experiences

Who We Serve Online:

  • Clients throughout California and the United States

  • International clients seeking English-speaking integration support

  • People in rural or underserved areas without local integration resources

  • Those who prefer the privacy and comfort of virtual sessions

  • Individuals with mobility challenges or travel restrictions

Creating Sacred Space Virtually: The online approach can maintain the intimacy and safety of in-person work. Virtual sessions include the same depth of presence, skilled guidance, and somatic awareness as our in-person offerings.

Approach to Psychedelic Integration in San Francisco & Beyond

At Altar Of Now, we understand that each person's relationship with consciousness expansion is unique and sacred. Our integration work honors your individual journey while providing skilled support for navigating the sometimes complex territory of expanded awareness.

Our approach includes:

  • MAPS and Zendo Project training in psychedelic harm reduction and integration

  • Holistic healing background combining talk therapy with somatic practices

  • Deep respect for wisdom traditions and eons of human use

  • Trauma-informed care for processing difficult experiences

  • Integration of multiple modalities including breathwork, bodywork, and energy healing

  • Ongoing support as your integration process unfolds over time

We recognize that psychedelics can access the same healing territories as traditional therapy, and often in accelerated or intensified ways. Our role is to help you make sense of what you've encountered and support your nervous system in integrating these powerful experiences safely and sustainably.

Types of Psychedelic Integration Support

Pre-Journey Preparation

Intention Setting and Preparation Sessions: help you clarify your intentions, prepare mentally and emotionally, and create optimal conditions for your upcoming experience.

Preparation includes:

  • Exploring your motivations and hopes for the experience

  • Identifying any fears or concerns that may arise

  • Developing practices for staying grounded during challenging moments

  • Creating a supportive environment for your journey

  • Understanding what to expect and how to work with difficult material

  • Establishing post-journey integration plans

Post-Journey Integration

Integration Sessions: focused on processing and understanding your psychedelic experience, typically beginning within a few days to a week after your journey.

Integration work covers:

  • Sharing your experience in a safe, non-judgmental space

  • Processing emotions and insights that emerged

  • Understanding symbolic or visionary content

  • Working with challenging or difficult material

  • Identifying key insights and how to embody them

  • Developing practices to maintain connection to healing received

Ongoing Integration Support

Extended Integration Process: Monthly or bi-weekly sessions over 3-6 months to support the deeper integration process as insights continue to unfold and embody in your life.

Long-term support includes:

  • Tracking how insights are manifesting in daily life

  • Working through integration challenges as they arise

  • Developing sustainable practices for ongoing growth

  • Processing additional insights that emerge over time

  • Preparing for subsequent journeys if desired

Complementary Healing Modalities for Integration

Breathwork for Integration

Holotropic breathwork can be particularly powerful for integration, as it allows you to access similar states of consciousness without substances, helping you reconnect with insights and continue the healing process.

Somatic Integration

Bodywork and somatic practices help your nervous system process and integrate the energetic and emotional releases that often occur during psychedelic experiences.

Reiki for Integration

Energy healing can support your system in integrating the subtle energetic shifts and openings that occur during consciousness expansion experiences.

Experiences We Support Integration For

We provide integration support for a wide range of consciousness expansion experiences:

Classic Psychedelics:

  • Psilocybin (magic mushrooms)

  • LSD

  • Mescaline and San Pedro cactus

  • DMT and ayahuasca

Other Consciousness Expansion Experiences:

  • MDMA therapy sessions

  • Ketamine treatments

  • Cannabis experiences

  • Holotropic breathwork journeys

  • Meditation or spiritual experiences

  • Spontaneous mystical experiences

Regardless of the substance or experience, our focus is on helping you understand and integrate whatever emerged during your journey.

What to Expect in Integration Sessions

Initial Integration Session

  • Safe space creation: Establishing trust and confidentiality

  • Experience sharing: Telling your story at your own pace

  • Emotional processing: Working with whatever feelings are present

  • Insight identification: Recognizing key themes and messages

  • Integration planning: Developing practices for ongoing work

Ongoing Sessions

  • Progress tracking: How insights are manifesting in daily life

  • Challenge navigation: Working through integration difficulties

  • Deeper exploration: Understanding layers of meaning that emerge over time

  • Practice development: Refining your integration practices

  • Preparation for future work: If additional journeys are planned

Integration Practices We May Explore

  • Journaling and creative expression

  • Meditation and mindfulness practices

  • Breathwork and somatic techniques

  • Dreamwork and active imagination

  • Ritual and ceremony for marking transitions

  • Lifestyle changes that honor your insights

  • Relationship and communication improvements

  • Creative projects that express your experience

Safety and Ethical Considerations

Legal and Ethical Framework: We provide integration support only, not access to substances. All psychedelic substances remain federally illegal, though some localities have different regulations. We support your integration process regardless of how your experience was obtained.

Confidentiality: All integration work is completely confidential. We create a safe, judgment-free space for you to process your experience openly and honestly.

Trauma-Informed Care: We understand that psychedelic experiences can sometimes bring up difficult material. Our approach is gentle, paced to your comfort level, and informed by trauma-sensitive practices.

Preparing for Integration Work

Before Your First Session:

  • Allow yourself time to rest and integrate naturally before scheduling

  • Consider what aspects of your experience you'd most like to explore

  • Gather any notes, artwork, or recordings from your journey

  • Approach the work with curiosity rather than expectations

  • Trust that integration is a process that unfolds in its own time

What to Bring:

  • Any journals, artwork, or creative expressions from your experience

  • Questions or concerns that have arisen since your journey

  • Openness to exploring whatever emerges in the session

  • Patience with the integration process as it unfolds

Frequently Asked Questions

How soon after my experience should I schedule integration work? This varies by individual and experience. Some people benefit from integration work within a few days, while others prefer to wait a week or more. Trust your instincts about timing.

Do I need to disclose details about how I obtained substances? No. Our focus is entirely on supporting your integration process, not on the circumstances of your experience. We maintain complete confidentiality about all aspects of your journey.

What if I had a difficult or challenging experience? Challenging experiences often contain the most potential for growth and healing. We're specially trained to help you work with difficult material safely and find the gifts within challenging journeys.

Can integration work help with ongoing mental health concerns? Integration work can be very supportive for mental health, but it's not a substitute for ongoing mental health treatment. We encourage you to work with qualified mental health professionals for any ongoing concerns.

How long does the integration process take? Integration is unique to each person and experience. Some people feel complete after a few sessions, while others benefit from ongoing support for months or even years. There's no "right" timeline for integration.

What if I'm not sure what my experience meant? That's completely normal and exactly what integration work is designed to address. Sometimes the meaning of an experience only becomes clear through the integration process itself.

Client Reflections

"The integration work with Bholenath helped me understand my ayahuasca experience in ways I never could have on my own. His gentle questioning and deep listening helped me find the threads that connected my visions to my daily life."

"I was overwhelmed after my psilocybin experience and didn't know how to make sense of what I'd encountered. The integration sessions provided a safe space to process everything and figure out how to honor what I'd learned."

"Working with someone who understands both the therapeutic and spiritual dimensions of this work was invaluable. The integration process became a journey of healing in itself."

Creating Sacred Space for Integration

Integration work requires a special kind of container - one that honors both the profound nature of your experience and the practical work of embodying insights in daily life. At Altar Of Now, we create this sacred space through:

  • Deep listening and presence with your experience

  • Respect for mystery and the unknowable aspects of consciousness

  • Practical wisdom for translating insights into life changes

  • Somatic awareness of how experiences live in your body

  • Mystical understanding of the nature of this work

  • Professional boundaries that keep the work safe and effective

Integration and Community

While individual integration work is deeply personal, we also recognize the value of community in the integration process. We can connect you with:

  • Integration circles and support groups in the San Francisco area

  • Community resources for ongoing support and connection

  • Educational workshops on integration practices and techniques

  • Referrals to other practitioners when specialized support is needed

Book Your Integration Session in San Francisco

If you're seeking compassionate, skilled support for your consciousness expansion journey, we're here to walk alongside you in this sacred work. Whether you're preparing for an upcoming experience or processing a recent journey, integration work can help you honor and embody the gifts you've received.

Schedule your integration session today:

Located in San Francisco, Altar Of Now serves clients throughout the Bay Area with both in-person and online integration sessions. We also offer complementary services including breathwork, Reiki, and therapeutic bodywork that can support your integration process.

About Your Integration Guide

Bholenath is a MAPS-trained psychedelic integration specialist and Zendo Project-trained trip sitter with deep experience in supporting people through consciousness expansion experiences. His approach combines professional training with personal understanding of the transformative potential of these experiences.

His background in multiple healing modalities - including Holotropic breathwork, Reiki, and somatic therapy - allows him to support integration from multiple angles, honoring both the spiritual and therapeutic dimensions of consciousness expansion work.

As someone who has walked this path himself, Bholenath brings both professional skill and personal understanding to the integration process, creating a safe container for your healing journey while respecting the sacred nature of consciousness expansion work.

Altar Of Now provides compassionate psychedelic integration therapy in San Francisco, serving the Bay Area with skilled support for consciousness expansion journeys since 2022. All integration work is confidential, judgment-free, and focused on supporting your unique healing path.