Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy
What is it?
Psychedelic-assisted therapy is a therapeutic approach that involves the use of psychedelics like psilocybin, MDMA, DMT, or ketamine, in a safe and supportive setting for the purpose of inner exploration and healing.
Because of the profound changes in perception, mood, and cognition induced by these powerful molecules, one's body and heart become more open to release deeply held emotions, receive deep insight, and experience emotional healing, self-discovery and personal growth.
Depending on where you live, these substances are at different stages of legalization. In Oregon, psilocybin facilitation is legal through the OHA Measure 109 and Ketamine is available through prescription for off-label use.
Dive deep.
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PSILOCYBIN FACILITATION
Psilocybin journeys with Anat offer a profound and musically curated opportunity to explore your inner world, heal old wounds, and reconnect with a deeper sense of self, purpose, and belonging. Anat has a special focus on working with folks with life-limiting illness, but really, this work is open for anyone.
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SOMATIC RELATIONAL KETAMINE
Ketamine offers a brief but potent dive into the psyche, softening defenses, melting protectors and opening new pathways for healing. Working together in the ketamine space, we work relationally and with your body. Together, we follow what’s unfolding—tracking sensations, emotions, and meaning—while gently rewiring the nervous system through moments of safety, care and attunement. Over the course of a 12-week protocol, this process can create profound shifts, offering not just insight, but felt experiences of change that ripple into your daily life.
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INTEGRATION SUPPORT
Integration is the process of understanding, processing and weaving your psychedelic experience into your daily life—so it becomes more than just a memory and truly supports your life. Have you had an intense or confusing psychedelic experience? Anat can help.
How do I choose a psychedelic facilitator?
The relationship you build with the facilitator or group leader shapes not just the journey itself, but often how deeply you’re able to heal, feel, and integrate afterward. This is true from Ayahuasca circles to 1:1 facilitators.
This is intimate work. Vulnerability is inevitable. Choosing well is an act of care for your psyche, your body, and your soul.
Here are the most important things to consider as you choose the right guide for you:
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Understand their guiding philosophy. Broadly, psychedelic work tends to fall into three models:
Non-Directive (Eye Shades & Headphones): You journey inward with minimal facilitator interaction. They act as sitter. For those who want to explore personal, existential, or spiritual realms without external influence.
Ceremonial circle: Ceremonial space where participants sit in circle and have their own quiet journey, curated and supported from a facilitator/shamanic practitioner at the front of the room with personal support as needed.
Relational & Interactive: A 1:1 experience where the guide stays present, attuned, and engaged, co-processing and exploring alongside you. This approach is good for those with attachment wounds or relational trauma, other kinds of trauma and those who need somatic processing, or emotional co-regulation.
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Shamanic / Ceremonial: These facilitators work within traditional or ritual frameworks, often invoking sacred space, prayer, song, or ancestral practices to guide the journey.
Clinical / Therapeutic: Rooted in psychology or psychotherapy, these guides approach the work through a therapeutic lens—focusing on trauma healing, mental health, and integration within a clinical framework.
Somatic: Somatic facilitators help you stay connected to your body, tracking physical sensations and nervous system responses as vital pathways for release, healing, and integration.
Relational: These guides see the relationship itself as the medicine—staying emotionally present, attuned, and engaged, especially if attachment wounds or relational healing are part of your intention.
Non-Directive / Minimalist: Some facilitators hold a quiet, spacious container, trusting the medicine and your own inner healer to lead the process, intervening only when necessary for safety.
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There’s a difference between intellectual knowledge and lived experience. Ask:
Have they done their own deep work in psychedelic spaces?
Can they navigate intense psychological or somatic terrain because they’ve been there themselves?
Do they continue to do their own personal work?
You want someone who can sit calmly in the face of grief, terror, ego death, or ecstasy—not because they read about it, but because they’ve experienced it.
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Experience matters—but so does humility about what they don’t know. Explore:
How long have they been doing this work?
What medicines are they familiar with?
What’s their training or lineage?
Do they know when something is outside their scope—and will they refer you out if needed?
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Your wounds will meet their way of being—sometimes beautifully, sometimes painfully. Consider:
If your core wounds are abandonment or neglect, will someone emotionally distant re-activate those patterns?
Do you need deep attunement, a warm nervous system, or someone steady but hands-off?
Ask directly about their relational style—and how they work with attachment dynamics.
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Different guides (and different medicines) excel in different terrains. Are you drawn to:
High-dose and ego-dissolution experiences?
Grounded, relational, human healing—grief, trauma, family patterns?
Spiritual exploration?
Existential and end of life exploration?
Choose someone whose strengths align with the depths you hope to explore.
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Psychedelic spaces often open existential or mystical questions. A good guide can:
Honor your spiritual framework, whatever it is
Hold space without imposing their beliefs
Stay open to the mystery, without needing to explain or fix
Ask how they handle spiritual content, especially if your views differ.
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Ultimately, trust your body. Safety isn’t conceptual—it’s visceral.
Do you feel seen, respected, and emotionally safe with them?
Can they meet your most vulnerable places with care, consent, and attunement?
Do they model the kind of grounded presence you might need when you’re raw or overwhelmed?
If your gut says no, listen.
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Especially if you carry trauma, your guide should:
Recognize trauma responses
Know how to pace the work
Support somatic releases safely
Help you regulate if things become overwhelming
Ask directly about their trauma training or experience.
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Psychedelic work creates intimacy and often stirs up transference. A skilled guide will:
Understand the power dynamics at play
Have support—supervision, peer community, mentors
Know how to navigate rupture and repair if something goes sideways
This is crucial. No one is perfect. What matters is their ability to stay in relationship when things get hard.
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Psychedelic work is vulnerable. You deserve clarity around:
Consent
Touch policies
Confidentiality
Protocols if harm or rupture occurs
Do they belong to a professional organization or accountability group? Do they welcome being held accountable?
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More than anything, trust your intuition.
The right guide might not feel perfect—but they will feel safe.
They will respect your sovereignty, meet you as a whole human, and walk beside you with humility and care.Choosing well is the first act of healing.
FAQ’s
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Preparation: Prior to the psychedelic session, Anat will have a number of preparatory sessions with you to establish trust, set intentions, and ensure you are well-informed about the process.
Administration: During the dosing session, you are given a dose of the psychedelic you are working with in a safe and supportive environment. Anat provides guidance and support throughout the experience.
Integration: After the session, the Anat will help you process the insights and experiences gained during your session and find practices and new ways of being to integrate these insights into your daily life.
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It’s true that psychedelics can be powerful on their own—and some people do choose to journey solo.
In psychedelic-assisted therapy, the alchemy happens through three essential elements working together:1. The Medicine — Catalyst
The psychedelic opens the door—loosening rigid patterns and allowing unconscious material to surface. It’s a powerful tool, but by itself, it doesn’t guarantee healing. The medicine creates the conditions for deep work, but it is not the work itself.
2. The Therapeutic Relationship —
Healing happens in connection. A skilled facilitator isn’t just a passive observer—they’re a living, attuned presence helping to anchor your nervous system as you navigate vulnerable, sometimes overwhelming territory.
The human relationship is a significant part of healing.
3. Your Intention —
Your intention shapes the journey—giving direction to what unfolds and anchoring you when things get disorienting. Psychedelics amplify what’s present, so entering the experience with clarity about what you’re seeking—whether it’s healing, understanding, release, or connection—can profoundly shape the outcome.
Intentions don’t control the journey, but they help guide it toward meaning and integration.
Healing Happens in the Space Between These Three
It’s the interplay of the medicine, the therapeutic relationship, and your intention that turns a psychedelic journey from a cool experience into a deeply reparative, transformative process.
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Emotional Healing: This work can facilitate the release and processing of repressed emotions, leading to emotional breakthroughs and healing.
Enhanced Self-Awareness: The altered state of consciousness can help you gain new perspectives on your thoughts, behaviors, and life experiences.
Reduction in Symptoms of Mental Health Issues: Psychedelic-assisted therapy has shown promise in reducing challenging symptoms, especially in those who have not responded to traditional treatments.
Improved Well-Being: Many people report a greater sense of well-being, increased mindfulness, and a deeper connection to themselves and others after psychedelic-assisted therapy.
Breaking Negative Patterns: This work can help you disrupt entrenched negative thought patterns, stories and behaviors, allowing you to develop healthier coping strategies and behaviors.
Spiritual and Existential Insights: Many experience profound spiritual or existential insights during psychedelic work, coming to know themselves experientially as lovable, precious and of profound worth.
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It’s a common phrase—and there’s truth in it. Psychedelics and medicines like ketamine can open access to layers of the psyche that might take years to reach in traditional talk therapy.
But the real change—the kind that lasts—comes from how you integrate what you experience. The medicine can show you what’s possible, it can help you touch and release buried emotion, it can help you reclaim split off aspects of yourself. But it’s the ongoing reflection, and application of the work into your daily life that helps those experiences take root.
So while it can feel like 10 years of therapy in a day, the journey of healing and change is still a process—one that unfolds over time.
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First, it’s important to know that what’s often called a “bad trip” is usually a challenging or uncomfortable experience—not a failure or something going wrong. In psychedelic therapy, these moments can actually hold the most potential for healing. Fear, grief, old trauma, or difficult emotions may surface—but you won’t be facing them alone.
Anat is trained to recognize these moments and help you navigate them safely. She’ll support you in meeting the discomfort, help you to move through it and in the process metabolize the charge this feeling had in your body.
Anat’s role is to:
Stay present and attuned to you
Help you breathe and stay connected to your body
Remind you that you are safe
Guide you through the experience, finding ways to move the stuck energy so you can return to flow again.
Challenging moments often become turning points—offering insight, release, or deep emotional healing. And once the journey is complete, you’ll work together in integration to help you make sense of what came up and find meaning in it.
You don’t have to face the hard places alone.
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Here are some of the ways integration helps you land what you’ve experienced:
Sense Making
Psychedelic journeys can be beautiful, confusing, intense—or all of the above. Afterwards, it’s natural to ask, “What just happened?” Integration gives you space to reflect, remember key moments, and explore what feelings, images, or insights want your attention. Together, we make sense of it and connect it back to your life.
Completing What Opened
Sometimes the medicine opens deep emotional or psychological processes—grief that never had a place to land, old traumas resurfacing, or parts of yourself returning after being lost or shut away. Integration helps you stay with those threads, so the healing can finish unfolding rather than getting stuck halfway.
Creating New Practices
Real change happens when you start living differently. Integration might mean setting healthier boundaries, shifting relationships, changing how you talk to yourself, or finding new practices—like time in nature, movement, creative expression, or ritual—that nourish what’s emerging.
Ongoing Reflection
Integration isn’t a one-time conversation—it’s an ongoing relationship with what the experience awakened. Journaling, mindfulness, body-based practices, or simply creating regular space to check in can help you stay connected to the wisdom the journey offered.
Whether your journey was with Ayahuasca, mushrooms, cannabis, DMT—or even an unexpected, intense trip with friends—you don’t have to process it alone. Anat offers a compassionate space to help you understand what happened and support whatever is ready to be healed, integrated, or reclaimed.
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If you've had any of the following experiences connected to a psychedelic or drug experience at any time in your life:
Depersonalization or out of body experience
Feeling like you were going to die
Repressed memories emerging into consciousness
A confusing or scary journey, a “bad trip”
A powerful ego-dissolution or loss of self
Mystical experiences or Unity Consciousness
Experience of other realms, dimensions and beings – celestial realms, hell realms, faery worlds, machine worlds, etc
Intense emotional release
Insights about your current and past relationships
Insights into your patterns and habits
Insights into your family lineage or ancestral trauma
Existential questions about the nature of reality, existence, and consciousness
Curious about the intentional use of psychedelics?
