Conventional therapy is usually built around conversation, insight, and gradual change through understanding. That can be deeply valuable, and for many people it’s an essential foundation. What we do overlaps with that approach, but it doesn’t stop there.

Our work is experiential and embodied, meaning directly applicable to real life. Change doesn’t come only from talking about your life, but from directly engaging your nervous system, your emotional patterns, your body, and the way you meet stress, relationship, and meaning. We work with varied and overlapping cognitive systems, not just the stories your “rational” mind invents to maintain its sense of reality.

When psychedelic work is involved, it isn’t used as a shortcut or distraction. It acts as a catalyst: it temporarily reorganizes perception in a way that makes deeply held patterns visible, accessible, and available for transformation. Preparation and integration are what determine whether that access leads to lasting change or just an interesting memory.

In short:

Conventional therapy works primarily through understanding over time.

Our work combines understanding with direct experience, physiological regulation, and structured integration.

Neither is “better” in the abstract. They are different tools for different layers of change. Many people arrive here precisely because they’ve already done years of therapy and sense there is another dimension they are ready to engage.

On its own, a psychedelic experience is not inherently therapeutic. It’s a state—a temporary shift in perception, emotion, and self-experience. What makes it therapeutic is how that state is prepared for, engaged with, and integrated afterward.

In these states, the brain becomes unusually “plastic,” i.e., flexible. Rigid patterns of perception and response can loosen. Things that are normally defended against—memories, emotions, bodily sensations, core beliefs—can become directly accessible, sometimes for the first time. This access is not intellectual. It’s experiential. You don’t just understand something differently; you feel it differently.

That alone, however, doesn’t create lasting change. What makes the experience therapeutic is:

• Preparation, so what emerges isn’t overwhelming or random

• A clear container, so the experience unfolds safely and with intention

• Skilled support, so difficult material can be met without collapse or bypass

• Integration afterward, where insight is turned into actual changes in nervous system regulation, behavior, and relationship

Without these elements, the same experience can be confusing, destabilizing, or simply fade into memory. With them, the experience can become a catalyst for changes that would otherwise take years to achieve.

In short, what’s therapeutic is not the substance itself; it’s the way a temporarily altered state of consciousness undoes the knots in your mind, and then is woven back into ordinary life, where the real work begins.

Yes, or no. It depends.

A single experience can absolutely create a decisive shift: a new perspective, a resolution of a long-standing inner conflict, a felt sense of meaning, or the sudden collapse of a belief that has quietly organized a life for decades. These moments do happen. They can be real, and they can be lasting.

But what determines whether that shift becomes a turning point or just a colorful anecdote depends on everything that surrounds the experience.

Lasting change depends on:

• How prepared your nervous system and psyche were going in

• Whether the experience reached the deeper substrates of your identity or “ego”

• How well what emerged is integrated into daily life afterward

• Whether your environment and habits support or erode the growth you wish to sustain

Without skillful integration, even the most powerful experience tends to fade back into old patterns. With integration, even a relatively subtle experience can reshape a life in very concrete ways.

So the honest answer is this:

A single experience can open a door, or indicate a path.

Whether you actually walk through that door, or follow that path, is what determines whether the change lasts.

Depending on your goals and circumstances, we may well recommend a course of interventions, spaced out appropriately over a longer span of time. It is not uncommon for clients to work with us for a few months or even years.

That’s more common than most people admit.

From the outside, everything can look “right”: career, relationship, stability, accomplishment. And yet inside there’s a flatness, a restlessness, or a subtle sense that you’re living beside your own life instead of inside it. Not depressed enough to call it depression. Not unhappy enough to justify blowing things up. Just… underfed in some vague gnawing way.

This kind of emptiness isn’t a sign of failure so much as misalignment. A life can be functional, respectable, and even impressive, while still being disconnected from emotion, meaning, creativity, or genuine intimacy.

What we see again and again is that this emptiness is NOT solved by:

• More achievement

• More stimulation

• More self-optimization

• More distraction

It tends to shift when people begin to restore connection: with their own emotional life, with the body, with uncertainty, with relationships, and with the parts of themselves that were set aside in order to “make life work.”

Yes, but probably not in the way you’re imagining it.

Inner peace doesn’t mean permanent calm, the absence of conflict, or a life where nothing difficult ever happens. That version of peace usually collapses the first time reality pushes back. What is possible is something quieter and more durable: a growing capacity to remain present, responsive, and intact even when life is intense, uncertain, or uncomfortable.

Peace isn’t a mood or a feeling. It’s a fundamental component of the way we relate to the experience of living. It’s the difference between being constantly at war with what you feel or being able to observe, reflect, and engage with it calmly.

For many people, what blocks this kind of peace isn’t external chaos, but internal resistance: the constant tension of trying to control what can’t be controlled, avoid what needs attention, or optimize life into something it was never meant to be. When that resistance softens, peace often appears not as infinite bliss, but more as a sense spaciousness and ease.

So yes, inner peace is possible. Not as a final destination you arrive at and keep forever, but as a capacity you can develop and return to, again and again, even in the midst of the inevitable vicissitudes of real life.

Perfect. This, in fact, is where most real change actually begins.

You don’t need to dissolve your ego, transcend your personality, or adopt a new spiritual identity to benefit from this work. You don’t need to “wake up” in some cosmic sense. Most people who come here aren’t looking for enlightenment at all. They’re looking for freedom where there has been compulsion andclarity where there has been a vague, uncomfortable haze.

Being “less stuck” can mean very ordinary, very meaningful things:

• Reacting less automatically

• Feeling more at ease in your own skin

• Having difficult conversations without spiraling

• Making decisions you already know you need to make

• Feeling more alive in your work, your body, or your relationships

None of that requires becoming someone else. It usually involves becoming more yourself, with less fear, pain, or bullshit getting in the way of your day-to-day life.

If all that happens is that your life becomes a little more workable, honest, and spacious—that’s already an enormously profound achievement.

Yes, and yes.

We work exclusively with natural substances that have no known lethal dose; pharmacologically speaking, far safer than most over-the-counter medications you could get at your local pharmacy.

Biomedically speaking, they are neither dangerous nor addictive.

They are, however, quite powerful. They are catalysts that allow you to engage with your own mind in a way that you have likely never done before, and this experience does bring its own risks, of an entirely different nature.

Most of what actually creates risk in psychedelic work — the proverbial “bad trip” — comes from bad screening, lack of containment, poor preparation, or no integration, not from anything inherent in the psychedelic experience itself.

Consequently, we work hard to ensure safety through careful attention to how the entire process is structured: screening, preparation, dosage decisions, environment, guidance, and integration afterward.

We work slowly, deliberately, and with clear boundaries. We also have a consulting team of medical professionals available whenever necessary. Not everyone is a good candidate for every kind of work, and part of what we do is help determine what is appropriate, when, and for whom.

From a legal perspective, everything we offer operates within the legal frameworks of the locations where we work. These frameworks vary by country and by substance, and we are transparent about what is possible in each setting. If something is not legal in a given context, we simply do not offer it there.

Our aim is not to push limits recklessly, but to create the conditions necessary to allow for deep inner work to occur, with as much stability and clarity as possible. Safety and legality are essential components of that mission.

If you have specific questions about safety, screening, or legal context, feel free to ask for more details directly.

The specific substances we work with can vary depending on the legal framework of the location, the nature of the work, and the needs and suitability of each individual.

In contexts where it is legal and appropriate to do so, our work often involves:

• Psilocybin

• San Pedro (Huachuma)

• Ayahuasca

• Amanita muscaria

Each of these has a very different character, tempo, and depth of engagement. The choice of whether to work with a given medicine depends on your history, your current stability, your intentions, and what kind of process is actually being called for.

In some cases, no substance at all is the right starting point. In others, a particular medicine may become appropriate later, as part of a longer arc of preparation and integration. The work is always adapted to the person, not the other way around.

If you’re curious about a specific substance, feel free to reach out for a private conversation.

For people facing deep instability in their lives, whether through external circumstances or neurological imbalance, careful screening is required. For the vast majority of people, however, psychedelics present no risk of “going crazy” in the way popular culture often imagines.

The psychedelic experience temporarily intensifies perception, emotion, and memory; it destabilizes what we assume to be real, or true, or necessary.

In order for this experience to be therapeutic rather than chaotic, there needs to be (1) a certain base level of internal calm to return to, and (2) adequate screening, preparation, guidance, and integration afterward to help ensure that this “base” is deepened and enriched, rather than simply destroyed through the psychedelic experience.

To be clear, risk exists when there is:

• Poor screening

• Lack of preparation

• Chaotic or (even subtly) unsafe environments

• No integration afterward

• Repeated unsupervised use without grounding

This is why we move slowly and progressively through each stage of the therapeutic process. Not everyone is a good candidate for this kind of work at every point in their life. Part of our responsibility is to help assess readiness and to say no when something is not appropriate.

With that established, let’s add a bit of nuance:

There are close to 0 documented cases of someone “going crazy” from a psychedelic experience, but there are many thousands of documented cases in which people encounter material they had been successfully avoiding for years or even decades: fear, grief, anger, shame, vulnerability, etc.

This experience is by definition destabilizing in the short term. With proper context and support, however, it becomes the foundation for far greater stability moving forward.

The careless use of psychedelics can create many months or even years of confusion and chaos, while the exact same experience, with proper guidance and care, can catalyze profound healing and growth.

Short answer: No.

Long answer: No, not unless the only thing holding your life “together” is a thorough and systematic disconnection from who you really are and what you actually need.

This work won’t make you to chronically passive, vague, or mindlessly blissed-out.

In fact, what most people report is the opposite: clearer thinking, cleaner motivation, and a more precise relationship to what actually matters.

If anything softens, it’s the compulsive tension you’ve come to confuse with achievement; you will not in any way compromise your ability to act, decide, or perform.

As for your life “falling apart,” we strictly enforce a three-week moratorium on major life decisions post-experience. If it’s a wise decision now, it will still be a wise decision a few weeks or months down the line.

It’s essential to differentiate between a clear emotional signal — the need for calm, peace, clarity, etc. — and the wisest practical means to achieving that, given your actual life circumstances.

It may make perfect sense to quit your job, for example, or it might make much more sense to question the story you’ve been telling yourself about your job and start work on your less-than-ideal relationship with yourself, the symptom of which was showing up as frustration with your job.

So yes, eventually, after calm and careful consideration, some clients have chosen to make significant change in their lives:

• Leave the job they already hated

• Transform the relationship that was quietly eroding

• Quit the pace that was unsustainable

• Rewrite the destructive story they were telling about who they had to be

From a distance, that can sometimes look like things falling apart, especially to people still desperately clinging to their own dysfunctional life.

From the inside, however, it feels like things coming into alignment.

And even to an outsider, what they usually see most clearly is a life lived with more integrity, honesty, and clarity than ever before.

You’re not here to become a stereotype. You’re here to become more yourself, with fewer blind spots and less internal resistance. Ambition can stay. Intelligence can stay. Drive can stay.

What tends to go is the constant background friction that makes everything cost more than it should, or the internal confusion and doubt that is quietly eating you alive.