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Psychedelic Integration Therapy

Plant Medicine & Psychedelic Integration Therapy

Plant Medicine and Psychedelic Integration Therapy offers a safe, confidential, and non-judgmental space to help you process, ground, and make meaningful sense of altered states of consciousness — whether those experiences felt profound, confusing, overwhelming, or somewhere in between.

As a psychologist, I do not provide, prescribe, endorse, or facilitate the use of any substances. This work focuses entirely on two distinct and clinically recognised phases: preparation and integration.

Preparation supports you before a planned experience — helping you clarify your intentions, address underlying psychological material that may surface, and approach the experience with as much groundedness and readiness as possible.

Integration supports you afterward — helping you translate what emerged into language, meaning, and practical psychological change that holds in everyday life. Without this phase, even the most powerful experiences can remain fragmented, confusing, or difficult to sustain.

MY APPROACH

• Trauma-Informed and Depth-Oriented — Integration is approached through a trauma-informed lens that takes seriously the depth of material that can surface during non-ordinary states. Having a skilled, grounded clinical space to process what emerged is often what determines whether the experience becomes genuinely transformative or remains confusing and incomplete.
  
  
• Somatic and Body-Centered — Not all of what surfaces during a journey can be captured in words. This work pays close attention to what the body is carrying, helping you discharge trapped physical tension and process material that may have emerged somatically rather than narratively.
  
  
• Parts Work and Ego-State Integration — Plant medicine experiences often bring different aspects of the psyche into sharp relief. We work with these parts directly, helping you understand, integrate, and build a more harmonious relationship between them.
  
  
• Mindfulness and Acceptance — Rather than rushing to resolve or explain what arose, we work with open, non-judgmental curiosity toward your experience, including the parts that were difficult, strange, or resistant to easy meaning.
  
  
• Meaning-Making and Depth Psychology — We draw on depth psychological traditions to help you find the personal meaning embedded in what emerged — symbols, themes, relational patterns, or insights that point toward something significant about your inner life.
  
  
• Grounding and Stabilisation — Particularly where experiences have been intense or destabilising, we prioritise practical grounding, helping you return to a stable, functioning baseline before moving into deeper processing work.
  
  
• Non-Directive — My role is not to interpret your experience for you or tell you what it means. It is to create the conditions in which you can find your own meaning, and to offer skilled support when the process becomes difficult, confusing, or overwhelming.
  
  

WHAT TO EXPECT

• Preparation Sessions — If you are preparing for an upcoming experience, we can use our time to clarify intentions, address psychological readiness, and discuss how to approach the experience in a way that supports rather than undermines your wellbeing.
  
  
• Ongoing Sessions — We work at your pace, moving between making sense of specific experiences, processing what has surfaced emotionally or psychologically, and grounding insights into your day-to-day life and relationships. There is no fixed template — integration looks different for everyone.
  
  

An important note: Psychedelic integration therapy is a legitimate and increasingly recognised area of clinical practice. It concerns the psychological processing of experience, not the facilitation of it. At no point does our work together involve the provision, prescription, recommendation, or procurement of any substance, legal or otherwise. If you are seeking guidance on accessing substances, I am not the right resource for that. What I can offer is skilled, ethical, and genuinely open-minded psychological support for what you have experienced or are preparing to experience, and help translating that into something that lasts.

IS THIS RIGHT FOR YOU?

This service is appropriate whether your experience was deeply positive and you want help integrating its insights, or whether it was difficult, destabilising, or left you with more questions than answers. Both are valid and both are workable.

If you are currently in acute psychological distress following an experience, please reach out promptly, and if the distress is severe, please also contact your GP or an appropriate crisis service. Integration therapy works best when there is enough stability to reflect, process, and make meaning. If we are not yet at that point, our first work together will be to establish that ground.

Assessments

Psychological & Diagnostic Assessments

A psychological assessment offers clarity where uncertainty has been sitting for a while — whether you’re seeking a formal diagnosis, trying to understand a pattern that’s been difficult to name, or simply wanting a clearer picture of how your mind works.

Moving beyond labels, these evaluations are designed to uncover the root causes of your challenges, identify your genuine strengths, and provide a practical roadmap for treatment or personal growth. They combine, as necessary, structured clinical interviews, standardised tools, and professional judgement to give you answers that are both meaningful and actionable.

ASSESSMENT AREAS

• Psychiatric & Psychological Conditions — Diagnostic clarification for mood disorders, anxiety-related conditions, PTSD, trauma-related symptoms, adjustment difficulties, bipolar disorder, personality disorders, schizophrenia & psychosis, and other complex psychological presentations.
  
  
• Autism & Asperger’s Profiles — Assessment for autism spectrum presentations in adults and adolescents, exploring your unique cognitive, sensory, and relational processing style in depth, rather than reducing it to a checklist.
  
  
• Personality (Clinical) — Formal personality assessment using validated diagnostic frameworks, used for clinical insight, differential diagnosis, and therapeutic planning.
  
  
• Personal Insight & Self-Understanding — For those wanting a different kind of self-reflection rather than a clinical result, I also draw on frameworks such as the Enneagram and Myers-Briggs (MBTI). These are coaching and self-development tools, not clinical diagnostic instruments, and are offered on that basis.
  
  

WHAT TO EXPECT

• Initial Consultation — We begin with a conversation about what’s prompting the assessment, what you’ve already explored, and what you’re hoping to get from the process. This shapes everything that follows.
  
  
• Structured Evaluation — Depending on the referral question, this typically involves a combination of clinical interviews and standardised questionnaires. Where relevant, specific psychometric testing could be suggested. The process is conducted at a pace that feels manageable.
  
  
• Feedback Session — Findings are never simply handed over in a report. We meet to walk through the results together — what they mean, what they don’t mean, and what practical next steps look like for you.
  
  

IS AN ASSESSMENT RIGHT FOR YOU?

Assessments are appropriate whether you are self-referred and seeking personal clarity, or have been directed by a GP, psychiatrist, school, or another professional. You do not need a referral to book.

If you’re unsure which type of assessment fits your situation, feel free to get in touch before committing to anything. A brief conversation is usually enough to work out what’s needed and whether this is the right next step.

Hypnotherapy

Hypnotherapy is a therapeutic tool that uses deep relaxation and focused attention to help you access your mind’s natural capacity for healing and change. I will guide you into a calm, receptive state where we can safely explore and shift negative thought patterns and beliefs, reduce stress, and work through personal challenges at a pace that feels right for you.

WHAT IT HELPS WITH

• Anxiety & Stress — Calms the nervous system and reduces the mental habits that keep anxiety running in the background.
  
  
• Trauma — Helps you gently process past experiences, release stored emotional tension, and restore a sense of inner safety, without having to relive events in distressing detail.
  
  
• Persistent Triggers — Reduces the emotional charge attached to old memories, so present-day situations no longer pull you back into past pain.
  
  
• Deeply Held Beliefs — Helps identify and shift subconscious patterns and narratives that keep you feeling stuck, limited, or unsafe.
  
  
• Habit Change — Supports smoking cessation, weight management, and other habits you’re ready to change.
  
  
• Sleep — Promotes deeper, more restorative rest by quieting the overactive mind that often underlies poor sleep.
  
  
• Depression & Low Mood — Supports a gradual shift in outlook, self-perception, and motivation, ideally alongside other professional care where appropriate.
  
  

HOW IT WORKS

• Safe and Client-Led — You remain aware and in control throughout the entire session; nothing happens without your awareness or consent. Hypnosis is not sleep and not unconsciousness — it’s a deeply relaxed but alert state, similar to becoming absorbed in a book or daydream.
  
  
• Evidence-Informed — Hypnotherapy is supported by clinical research, and is used alongside conventional treatments for various conditions.
  
  
• Personalised — Each session is tailored to your specific goals, history, and pace. There is no one-size-fits-all script — what we work on, and how, is shaped by you.
  
  

IS HYPNOTHERAPY RIGHT FOR YOU?

Hypnotherapy is safe and effective for most people, but it is not suitable for everyone. I do not work with hypnotherapy as a standalone treatment where active psychiatric conditions are present, including psychosis, schizophrenia, or severe dissociative disorders. It is also not recommended during active substance intoxication.

If you are currently under the care of a psychiatrist, psychologist, or GP for a mental health condition, I warmly encourage you to continue that support alongside any work we do together — hypnotherapy works best as a complement to, not a replacement for, professional medical or psychological care where that is needed.

If you are unsure whether hypnotherapy is appropriate for your situation, please feel free to get in touch before booking, and we can have an honest conversation about whether it’s a good fit.

Family Therapy

Family Therapy offers a structured, collaborative space for families to address conflict, improve communication, and restore connection. Whether you are navigating a specific crisis or caught in patterns that have quietly built over time, this work helps each member of the family feel heard, while shifting the dynamics that keep the system stuck.

The focus is never on identifying a single person as the problem. Difficulties in families are almost always relational, maintained by cycles, roles, and unspoken rules that everyone participates in, often without realising it. That understanding shapes everything about how we work.

Important to note: family therapy is not the appropriate setting to address situations of active abuse, family violence, or immediate child protection concerns. If any of these are present, please seek appropriate individual support and/or the relevant protective services first — we can discuss from there whether and when family work might be appropriate.

WHAT TO EXPECT

• Flexible Format — Sessions may involve the whole family together, subsystems within the family, or individual members at different points, depending on what the work requires at any given stage.
  
  
• Honest and Respectful — Every member of the family will be treated with equal respect and without blame. The goal is not to take sides but to help the system as a whole find a healthier way of functioning.
  
  
• Inclusive — Works with families of all configurations, including blended families, single-parent households, and families navigating significant life transitions.
  
  
• Shared Effort — Progress requires a genuine willingness to engage from those involved. Not everyone needs to arrive enthusiastic, but everyone needs to arrive willing.
  
  

IS FAMILY THERAPY RIGHT FOR YOU?

Family therapy is well suited to families experiencing persistent conflict, parent-child relational difficulties, the impact of loss or trauma on the family unit, challenges around a child or adolescent’s behaviour or wellbeing, or significant transitions such as divorce, remarriage, or bereavement.

If you are unsure whether family therapy is appropriate for your situation, or how to begin the conversation with your family about seeking support, feel free to reach out. Sometimes the first step is simply understanding what the process looks like.

Couples & Marital

Couples and Marital Therapy offers a supportive, collaborative space for you and your partner to navigate relationship difficulties, heal relational ruptures, and rebuild a secure and lasting bond. Rooted in evidence-based frameworks, this focused approach helps you understand the dynamics driving your relationship, untangle repetitive conflicts, and reconnect with both shared purpose and genuine intimacy.

This is active work — not a space to simply vent or adjudicate who is right. Together, we work to shift the patterns beneath the surface so that lasting change becomes possible.

Important to note: couples therapy is not recommended as the primary space to address active intimate partner violence or ongoing coercive control. If either of these is present in your relationship, please seek appropriate individual support first, and we can discuss from there whether and when couples work might be appropriate.

MY THERAPEUTIC APPROACH

• Integrative Framework — Blends the relationally attuned, growth-oriented principles of Imago Relationship Therapy with the practical, research-backed tools of the Gottman Method — two of the most well-evidenced approaches in couples work, used together to address both the emotional depth and the practical dynamics of your relationship.
  
  
• Relational Systems — Draws on Attachment and Systems Theory to identify the hidden cycles, triggers, and survival responses that quietly drive conflict and distance, helping both partners understand not just what happens between you, but why.
  
  
• Practical Communication — Provides concrete, usable tools to navigate recurring conflicts, reduce tension, and move beyond the defensive patterns that keep you stuck in the same loops.
  
  

WHAT TO EXPECT

• Flexible Timeframe — There is no fixed duration. Some couples make meaningful progress in a relatively focused course of sessions; others benefit from longer, more sustained work. The timeframe is shaped by the depth and complexity of what you’re navigating, and we assess this together as the work unfolds.
  
  
• Shared Commitment — Progress in couples therapy depends on genuine engagement from both partners, and from me. You will be invited to show up honestly, to listen as much as to speak, and to take what emerges in sessions into your daily life together. That active commitment is what transforms the work from conversation into lasting change.
  
  

IS COUPLES THERAPY RIGHT FOR YOU?

This approach is well suited to couples experiencing persistent conflict, emotional distance, communication breakdown, difficulties recovering from betrayal or loss of trust, or a general sense that the relationship has lost its footing. It can also be valuable for couples navigating major life transitions — becoming parents, blending families, career changes, or grief — that place unexpected strain on the relationship.

Couples therapy requires both partners to be willing to engage, even if one is more reluctant than the other at the outset. Some ambivalence is normal and workable; complete unwillingness to participate is not. If you are unsure whether both of you are ready, or whether this is the right time, feel free to reach out before booking — that conversation costs nothing and may itself bring some clarity.

Individual Therapy

Individual Psychotherapy is an active, collaborative partnership designed to help you uncover the root causes of your struggles and create lasting change. Drawing on a Short-Term Dynamic framework, this focused approach works with both the conscious patterns you recognise in yourself and the unconscious dynamics that may be quietly driving them. Together we engage in focused, purposeful work — building emotional resilience, deepening self-understanding, and breaking free from cycles that have kept you stuck.

MY THERAPEUTIC APPROACH

• Integrative Framework — Blends ISTDP (Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy), Coherence Therapy, CBT, and Attachment and Systems Theory, drawing on whichever combination best serves your particular needs and presentation.
  
  
• Brain-Based Techniques — Utilises advanced modalities including BWRT® and Eye Movement Integration (EMI), which work directly with the way the brain stores and responds to experience, enabling change at a deeper level than insight alone can reach.
  
  
• The Change Triangle — A practical, accessible tool to help you identify and navigate core emotions, anxiety, and the defences that keep you from feeling fully alive and present.
  
  
• Clinical Precision — The therapeutic process is supported by targeted assessments and questionnaires that help track your progress, refine our focus, and ensure the work remains responsive to where you actually are, not just where we expect you to be.
  
  

WHAT TO EXPECT

• Focused Timeframe — “Short-term” is flexible, shaped directly by your unique situation, history, and healing needs rather than a fixed number of sessions. Some people find significant relief quickly; others benefit from a longer course of work. We assess this together as we go.
  
  
• Active Partnership — This approach requires genuine, continued effort from both of us. You will be invited to engage deeply, not just talk about your experience, but explore it. That active engagement is what makes change possible and lasting.
  
  
• Grounded Expertise — The work is rooted in clinical rigour, relational attunement, and over two decades of experience across a wide range of presentations. You will be met with both honesty and care.
  
  

IS INDIVIDUAL PSYCHOTHERAPY RIGHT FOR YOU?

This approach suits people who are ready to look beneath the surface — who sense that what they’ve tried so far hasn’t quite reached the root of things, and who are willing to engage actively in their own healing. It is particularly well suited to anxiety, depression, relational difficulties, unresolved grief, low self-worth, and patterns that repeat across different areas of life despite your best efforts to change them.

If you are unsure whether this is the right fit, please feel free to reach out before committing to anything.