Sara Willott, PhD, LCSW
Psychotherapist • Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Psychedelic Integration Therapy After Difficult Experiences
Grounded psychological support after psilocybin, ayahuasca, ketamine, 5-MeO-DMT/Bufo, and other psychedelic experiences

​Psychedelic experiences can be meaningful and transformative. They can also be frightening, overwhelming, confusing, or destabilizing. Sometimes the experience ends, but the difficulty does not. You may be left feeling anxious, emotionally overwhelmed, disconnected from yourself, unusually sensitive, unable to sleep, or unsure how to make sense of what happened. You may feel unsettled in your identity, relationships, worldview, or sense of reality.

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When a Psychedelic Experience Doesn't Feel Healing

There can be an assumption that psychedelic experiences are inherently therapeutic—or that a frightening experience simply needs to be surrendered to or understood as meaningful. That is not always helpful.

Some experiences bring forward traumatic or emotionally overwhelming material. Others happen in settings that are poorly held or inadequately supported. Sometimes people return from an experience feeling profoundly different and unsure how to find their footing again.

You might be seeking support because you:

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• haven't felt like yourself since a psychedelic experience

• feel anxious, fearful, ungrounded, disconnected, or unusually sensitive

• are having trouble sleeping or feeling emotionally regulated

• keep experiencing memories, images, sensations, or emotions from the experience

• feel unsettled in your identity, relationships, spirituality, or worldview

• had a troubling experience with a facilitator, therapist, healer, ceremony, retreat, or group

• are still affected by an experience that happened months or years ago

You do not need to decide whether what happened was psychological, spiritual, biological, traumatic, meaningful—or some combination of these—before coming to therapy.

My understanding of psychedelic experiences is informed by clinical and doctoral study as well as personal experience with traditional plant-medicine practices, including plant dietas in Peru. This background allows me to approach these experiences with familiarity and respect while remaining grounded in psychotherapy.

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