ARTS-BASED PSYCHEDELIC INTEGRATION
Plant Medicine + Creative Alchemy
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The Creative Psychonaut is an explorer of consciousness who uses creativity as a tool for self-discovery and transformation.
Blending art, mindfulness, spirituality, and the wisdom of psychedelic experiences, The Creative Psychonaut navigates inner worlds to heal and bring the light of joy, love, and purpose into daily life.
The Creative Psychonaut engages in this exploration, not just for curiosity, but with the purpose of personal growth, spiritual development, and connection with a wellspring of creative energy, where fresh perspectives, profound ideas and visions, and new avenues of self-expression can surface and be integrated into their life and work.
Navigating the Post-Journey Transition
Returning from a plant medicine ceremony or psychedelic experience can be both profound and challenging. The insights you gained might feel vivid and transformative in the moment, but as the experience fades, you may find yourself struggling to integrate those revelations into your daily life. It’s not uncommon to feel disoriented, alone, or distant from the profound sense of clarity you once felt.
You’re not alone in this.
As an integration specialist, I’m here to support you through this critical phase of your journey. Together, we’ll explore the insights and messages you received, helping you to make sense of them and weave them into the fabric of your life.
I’ve developed the C.R.E.A.T.E. model—an arts-based integration framework—to guide this process with creativity, clarity, and compassion.
Here’s how we can work together:
Reflect: We’ll use creative tools—like art, writing, and reflective inquiry—to revisit your ceremony and uncover the deeper meaning behind what you experienced.
Anchor: In our guided sessions, we’ll transform insights into clear, aligned actions that reflect your core values and support your personal growth.
Empower Yourself: Reclaim your voice. Integration is a chance to strengthen your self-trust and speak from your truth. I’ll support you in setting empowered boundaries, making clear choices, and expressing yourself with confidence.
Sustain Change: You’ll be guided in breaking old patterns that no longer serve you and in building new, supportive habits rooted in the wisdom of your journey—so you can live with greater clarity, authenticity, and joy.
Your journey doesn’t end when the ceremony does. It’s a sacred opening.
Let’s work together to make sure the insights you gained continue to inspire and guide you.
Integrating Your Psychedelic Journeys
Your psychedelic experiences—whether with ayahuasca, psilocybin, or other plant medicines—hold deep, transformative insights that can guide you toward living a more authentic, joyful, and radiant life.
But how do you turn those powerful realizations into lasting change?
As an integration specialist, my focus is helping you bridge the gap between the profound insights you receive during your journey and your everyday reality.
Together, we’ll explore the spiritual messages, visions, and ‘downloads’ you’ve received, and work to turn them into actionable steps that align with your values and passions.
Your creativity is a sacred gift.
Healing, Balance, and Living in Harmony
Plant medicine and other psychedelic experiences can reveal insights into your emotional and spiritual blockages, ancestral patterns, and unhealthy habits, and the process of integration is about making conscious efforts to live according to the clarity and wisdom you received.
Integration after a ceremony or psychedelic journey is an essential aspect of the healing process, as it allows the profound insights and healing received to manifest in day-to-day life.
The visions, teachings, and cleansing experienced during a ceremony are meant to support you in living more harmoniously—with yourself, others, and the natural world.
Patience, discipline, and lifestyle changes after ceremonies ensure that the healing becomes tangible and long-lasting.
Through a blend of powerful therapeutic approaches — including art-making, cognitive, behavioral and somatic techniques, mindfulness, and more — let’s ensure your life is in alignment with the harmony revealed to you.
Hi! I’m Ali McKleroy.
I’m passionate about supporting people in using the creative process to explore and integrate lessons, insights, and visions gained from plant medicine journeys into lasting life changes that support radiant well-being.
With nearly twenty years of training and experience as a therapist, I now bring my expertise to integration, blending my therapeutic foundation with my long-standing personal exploration as a psychonaut.
I enjoy weaving together tools from therapeutic art, mindfulness, and somatic practices to support deep healing, meaningful integration, and space for more joy and lightness.
If you’ve experienced psychedelics or are considering their use as part of your healing journey and want support in navigating these experiences, you’re in the right place!
Why Integration Matters
The psychedelic journey may initiate deep healing, but integration is where that healing is embodied. It invites us to pause, reflect, and listen—guiding the journey inward and downward, grounding new awareness into our nervous systems and life structures.
Integration helps with:
Making meaning of what surfaced
Processing emotions that continue to ripple through after the experience
Creating new habits that support growth and alignment
Living in congruence with values and insights that emerged
Through integration, we begin to embody what we’ve learned—turning spiritual or emotional breakthroughs into sustainable ways of being. It’s not about doing more journeys—it’s about living the one you’ve already taken, deeply and fully.
What is Psychedelic Integration?
Integration is the bridge between insight and action—the process that transforms the revelations, sensations, visions, and emotions from a psychedelic experience into meaningful, lasting change. It's where the journey continues—off the mat, out of the ceremony, and into everyday life.
Without integration, even the most profound journey risks becoming a fleeting moment—an intense high that fades without anchoring into daily habits, choices, and beliefs. Integration is what allows these experiences to be transformative, not just memorable. It brings insight into the body, into the heart, and into aligned behavior.
True integration supports a person in making sense of what emerged—whether it was beautiful, painful, or confusing—and helps translate that experience into new patterns of thinking, relating, and living. Without this process, it's easy to fall into a cycle of seeking the next peak moment, rather than metabolizing the one you’ve already had.
“When you are in the flow of creativity, you are in harmony with life itself—fully present, open, and connected to something greater than yourself.”
What Are Some Reasons People Seek Arts-Based Psychedelic Integration?
They are curious about the benefits of psychedelics and art and want to learn more about their use as therapeutic tools.
They are wanting to explore art-making as a way to restore balance and deeper healing.
They are experiencing confusion and overwhelm following a psychedelic experience and want help in making sense of it.
They want support in understanding and moving past a challenging, distressing, or traumatic psychedelic experience.
They want help, structure, and accountability to take on minor or major life changes after gaining new insight during or after a psychedelic experience.
They enjoy hands-on, creative ways of exploring ideas, thoughts, memories, and visions.
They value creativity and self-expression and want to release unprocessed emotions in a way that’s easier to access without words or linear thinking.
WORK WITH ALI
Private Integration
The ideal choice if you want a personalized plan that is tailored to your goals and visions.
Integration Circles
Unpack and make sense of your psychedelic experiences alongside other like-minded creative psychonauts.
Workshops + Retreats
Engage in a hands-on, experiential process of applying creative expression to integration work.
Upcoming events
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Creative Integration Circle (ZOOM)
Join this 6-week in-person immersive experience crafted for the creative psychonaut within you.
This is your invitation to a sacred space, where journaling, art, and movement intertwine with mindfulness and somatic therapies to help you integrate the profound wisdom of your psychedelic journeys.
Together, we’ll share our stories, uncover fresh perspectives, and explore how to root these insights into the soil of your daily life.
Through the power of creative expression, you’ll learn to embody the transformation you’re seeking.
Join us and let’s let creativity lead the way.
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Arts-Based Integration Circle (Sebastopol, CA))
Join this 6-week in-person immersive experience designed for the creative psychonaut in you.
This is a sacred container for those ready to dive into the transformative power of creative practices—journaling, art, movement—woven together with mindfulness and somatic therapies to integrate the deep wisdom of psychedelic journeys.
Together, we’ll share stories, explore new perspectives, and learn how to ground insights into everyday life.
Through creative expression in community, you’ll discover how to embody the changes you’re longing to bring to life.
We’ll gather together and let the magic of creativity guide us forward.
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Cacao + Creativity Circle (Sebastopol, CA)
Experience the transformative power of cacao to deepen your creative flow and intuition in a supportive environment.
The natural properties of cacao—rich in theobromine, magnesium, and antioxidants—work together to open the heart, calm the mind, and enhance your ability to connect with your creative joy.
As the cacao relaxes your nervous system and elevates your mood, you'll find yourself more in tune with your intuition, free from creative blocks, and inspired to express ideas in new ways.
In this circle, cacao is combined with creative practices like intuitive art-making and journaling, guiding you to flow with your creativity and intuition.
What is Psychedelic Integration Therapy?
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Psychedelic integration is for anyone who has experienced or is preparing for a psychedelic journey—whether through plant medicine, ceremony, or solo exploration—and wants to make meaning of their insights and apply them in grounded, life-affirming ways.
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Integration is the process of weaving the insights, emotions, and revelations from a psychedelic experience into your everyday life. It includes reflection, support, creative practices, and intentional action to help you embody what you've learned.
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Psychedelic integration coaching is legal. It does not involve the use or provision of substances. Instead, it supports personal growth and well-being through conversation, mindfulness, and creative tools before and after a journey.
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Psychedelic-assisted therapy typically involves licensed professionals administering or sitting with substances during sessions. Integration coaching, by contrast, focuses on preparation and post-journey support. It does not involve administering psychedelics and is not a substitute for therapy.
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Integration is a deeply personal and nonlinear process. Some people find clarity in a few sessions, while others work with integration over weeks or months. The pace depends on your goals, the depth of your journey, and the support you need to embody change.