Integration is partly a buzzword thrown around by corporate boards and clinicians everywhere, but it also has a simple and predictable meaning: putting things together to create something bigger. Here, we use the word to mean pairing psychedelic-assisted therapy sessions with smaller-scale, day-to-day stuff. The field of psychedelic medicine is currently exploring how this actually works, and we’ve invited three practitioners in the field to help the conversation along today:

Intro (0:00 – 1:34)

What Integration Means (1:35 – 2:31)

First Guest: Stephanie Dreis (2:32 – 7:18)

• How Everyone Else Understands Integration
• What It Means to Her
• Perspective From the Therapist’s Chair

Second Guest: Laura Mae Northrup (7:19 – 17:27)

• How Medicine and Integration Integrate
• Components of Integration
• Sitting With The Bad

Third Guest: Dr. Dan Engle (17:28 – 26:18)

• What Qualifies Someone As A Therapist?
• Challenging the Training Norms

Stephanie 2.0 (26:19 – 32:40)

• How Does A Group Integration Circle Work?
• Does The Inner Therapist Show Up?
• Common Integration Struggles

End (32:41 – 34:28)