Psychedelic Integration & Preparation

This is not a psychedelic therapy session

This is preparation and integration support — not the experience itself. It is for people getting ready for treatment in a legal clinic, trial or retreat, and for people processing something they have already been through, including a difficult one.

The importance of preparation

How you arrive shapes what unfolds. Preparation helps you set intention, understand what may come up, and build the ground of safety and support that lets an experience do its work.

Integration

The experience will always end. Regardless of how amazing, blissful or horrifying your experience is, it will end. Integration is how the insight becomes lasting change — turning what was glimpsed into how you live.

What a session involves

A preparation or integration session is a structured conversation, not a psychedelic experience itself — no substances are administered or discussed in terms of dosing, and nothing here replaces the clinical, legal or medical process you're already going through elsewhere. Sessions run 1.5 hours, either in person at La Tierra Curativa on the Central Coast, or online over Zoom or phone, which means the support travels with you whether you're preparing for something local or something interstate or overseas. In preparation work, the focus is on intention, expectation and building a felt sense of safety before you go in. In integration work, the focus is on making sense of what came up — including material that was confusing, difficult or hard to hold — and translating it into something that actually changes how you live, rather than a memory that fades.

Who this is for

This suits people preparing for treatment in a legal clinic, trial or retreat. It suits people who've already had an experience — recently or years back — and still haven't made sense of it. And it suits people who want ongoing support alongside their own psychologist, psychiatrist or prescribing clinician, or who've been sitting on something difficult with nowhere structured to bring it. You don't need a background in this kind of work. You don't even need to have decided what any of it meant yet — that's part of what the sessions are for.

How Andrew works with this

Andrew brings both sides to this work: formal training as a PACFA-registered counsellor in Counselling and Processwork Psychotherapy, Mind Medicine Australia's Certificate in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies (CPAT), and years of his own experience holding ceremony and shamanic healing space. That combination means the conversation isn't purely clinical or purely experiential — it holds both the psychological process and the more felt, symbolic dimension of what people bring back from these experiences, without collapsing one into the other.

In person on the Central Coast, Gold Coast and Sydney — or online anywhere

In-person sessions run at La Tierra Curativa on the Central Coast NSW, and Andrew tours regularly to Gold Coast and Sydney — so if you're searching for psychedelic integration support near you in any of these areas, an in-person session is a real option, not just words on a page. This work also travels well over a screen: online sessions over Zoom or phone suit anyone preparing for treatment elsewhere in Australia or overseas, or who'd simply rather not travel for a 1.5-hour conversation.