Integration, in the context of ketamine-assisted therapy, refers to the process of making sense of and incorporating the insights, experiences, and emotions that arise during a psychedelic therapy session into one’s daily life. It’s a crucial phase that occurs after the psychedelic experience itself and is an integral part of the therapeutic process.
After your guided ketamine session, you will likely encounter a range of thoughts, emotions, and insights that might feel profound or challenging. Integration involves working with a trained professional to process and understand these experiences in a therapeutic and supportive environment.
During integration, you will explore the thoughts, emotions, and realizations that emerged during the psychedelic session. This phase aims to help you make meaning from these experiences and apply the insights gained to your everyday life. The integration process can vary widely based on the individual’s unique journey.
The main goals of integration are:
Understanding: Integration helps you make sense of any confusing or intense experiences you might have had during the psychedelic session. It allows one to explore the symbolism, emotions, and memories that surfaced.
Emotional Processing: Psychedelic experiences can stir up powerful emotions. The integration allows you to process these emotions in a safe and supportive space, helping you work through any challenges or traumas that might have arisen.
Personal Growth: Through integration, you can identify how the insights gained from the psychedelic experience can be applied to your life. This might involve making positive changes, adopting new perspectives, or letting go of unhelpful patterns.
Creating Lasting Change: The true value of psychedelic-assisted therapy lies in how you can translate the lessons learned into lasting changes. Integration provides the tools and support needed to turn insights into actionable personal growth and healing steps.
Building Resilience: Integrating challenging experiences can lead to increased resilience and a greater sense of self-awareness. By working through difficulties, you can develop coping strategies that enhance your overall well-being.
Integration therapists at Manifest Health bring diverse and multidisciplinary backgrounds, blending training in medicine, psychology, coaching, spirituality, and mind-body practices. Their expertise spans psychiatric care, trauma-informed therapy, health coaching, and performance optimization, allowing them to support clients through both medical and experiential healing processes.
Many have extensive experience in psychedelic-assisted therapy, including ketamine- and MDMA-assisted psychotherapy, and have completed advanced training through recognized organizations such as the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). Their approach integrates evidence-based psychiatric care, medicine management, and spiritual direction, creating a safe and supportive environment for clients to process and apply insights from transformative experiences.
Integration therapists at Manifest Health are skilled in combining mindfulness, somatic awareness, and movement-based practices with therapeutic conversation. Techniques may include breathwork, meditation, yoga, Qigong, primal movement, and functional strength training, all tailored to support mind-body connection and sustained behavior change.
With backgrounds that range from wilderness and tactical medicine to executive and athletic performance coaching, they bring a deep understanding of resilience, adaptability, and the interplay between physical, mental, and spiritual health. Their mission is to help clients bridge the gap between insight and action—transforming powerful experiences into meaningful, lasting change.