Our Values Embodied

Community healing supports both individual and collective growth in order to promote compassion, empathy, and increased levels of awareness.

We work from a cohort based learning model that is committed to individual personal growth, creating a supportive learning environment, and a network for ongoing peer support.

We believe ethical and compassionate understanding flows from our own intuitive access to presence, contemplative awareness practices, and a dedication to our own psychological healing.

Inward ethics is a guiding light within each and everyone of us. Inner ethics allows us to see reality with more clarity, interconnectedness, and compassionate understanding. We encourage personal mindfulness practices for each therapist such as contemplative awareness, inner work, and self care to be equally as important as reading academic literature. We believe that the chapters of our lives are the greatest classroom for learning and growth. Ancestral trauma and opportunity for healing is embedded in each and everyone of us, ongoing awareness practices by the practitioner allow for unhealed psychological patterns to be explored and healed.

Mentorship is the journey of guidance and support for our associate therapists through the realm of private practice. Mentors encourage the development of their mentee’s unique personal and professional identity as therapists.

Mentorship is an instrumental aspect of the training to offer guidance, professional development, and clinical oversight of client caseloads. This learning model helps practitioners develop their niche, nurture intuitive gifts and abilities, and lead to a thriving private practice.

We believe in empowering therapists to feel financially and energetically supported as they engage with clients.

We believe in setting a new example where right financial compensation is provided for the work provided. We hold the belief that healers should be fairly paid for their gifts and their dedication to our community's mental health. Therefore, we offer competitive compensation to our therapists, so they can deliver the best possible services to our community.

We believe that individuals, irrespective of their socioeconomic status, race, or background, should have access to psychedelic integration psychotherapy.

In order to address the historical and systemic disparities in access to healthcare and resources, we offer sliding scales, donation based integration groups, and free education to the community. Our services are intended to reach traditionally marginalized communities, LGBTQ+, BIPOC communities, and individuals with disabilities.

We practice humility and cultural respect for the profound knowledge and practices that have been developed and passed down by indigenous peoples over thousands of years.

We adhere to an ongoing commitment to foster relationships and partnerships with indigenous elders, leaders, and knowledge keepers of indigenous lineages. We invite their guidance and permission to incorporate their wisdom into our program. Guest speakers and experts from indigenous communities offer their teachings and knowledge with our program in order to deepen our understanding of plant medicine, healing, and wisdom traditions. Ongoing feedback and dialogue from indigenous wisdom keepers are essential to our reciprocity model, as we continue to adapt our program based on their input and preferences.

Transpersonal psychology integrates the spiritual and transcendent aspects of the human experience through Eastern wisdom, cross-cultural myths and archetypes, indigenous healing traditions, and East-West modalities of modern psychology.

In 1905, the “Father of Psychology'' William James first used the term transpersonal Psychology. In 1942, Carl Jung first used the term transpersonal in his publications, and in 1968 a human interest group (Including Abraham Maslow & Stanislov Grof) named Transpersonal Psychology as the “fourth force” of psychology. Western psychology is still in its infancy of understanding the realms of human consciousness.

We understand that psychedelic experiences are an unfoldment of a ‘spiritual emergence’ first coined by Stanslov and Christina Grof. Spiritual emergence occurs when an individual comes into a more expanded way of being, such as a deeper connection with themselves, other people, nature, and the cosmos. However, without the proper support and conceptual framework to understand and integrate their experiences, this emergence can quickly escalate into a ‘spiritual emergency’. Our psychedelic integration psychotherapy offers a trauma-informed lens of psychological support, somatic integration, and compassionate guidance to individuals at all stages of their healing journey.

Somatic awareness is foundational to our understanding of healing, trauma, and integration.

We believe in the profound connection between the mind and body, and the essential role of somatic awareness for psychedelic integration. The Integration Collective integrates somatic practices such as breath work, body awareness, and bioenergetic practices as a therapeutic modality for healing and stabilizing the body. Honoring the wisdom of the body is a cornerstone for psychedelic integration and healing trauma.

We provide a safe learning environment that fosters cultural sensitivity and diversity awareness.

Program facilitators and students receive cultural competency training throughout our curriculum. We consciously aim to avoid cultural appropriation and ensure cultural sensitivity in program content. Throughout the program, we invite guest speakers and experts from diverse cultural backgrounds to share their insights and experiences. These speakers provide valuable perspectives on the intersection of culture and psychedelics. Program facilitators and directors are open to on-going feedback from students, advisors, and speakers on how to make program content more inclusive and respectful to all cultures.

We are committed to creating an inclusive and welcoming environment for all individuals, regardless of their sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.

We proudly stand as allies of the LGBTQ+ community and firmly believe that diversity and respect for every person's unique identity enrich our learning community.

We offer risk reduction training and education in our program to minimize the potential risks associated with psychedelic medicine use across various contexts and stages of psychedelic work.

We provide comprehensive training on ethical considerations related to plant medicine & psychedelic integration that include historical and cultural contexts of ethics in this field and the client-therapist psychotherapy relationship. This includes risk reduction principles and risk assessment of preparation, identifying safe ceremony and facilitation settings, and post-session integration. Ongoing supervision with experienced and qualified practitioners to discuss ethical dilemmas, risk reduction strategies, and crisis intervention skills are provided.