PSYCHEDELIC INTEGRATION
You may be high-functioning, accomplished, and psychologically aware.
And still, a psychedelic experience may have shifted something you cannot yet fully name.
Integration therapy provides a grounded, trauma-informed space to process what was revealed and integrate it into your life with clarity and stability.
Psychedelic Assisted Therapy vs. Psychedelic Integration
Psychedelic assisted psychotherapy and psychedelic integration are not the same.
Psychedelic assisted therapy refers to the clinical administration of a legal psychedelic substance in a regulated medical or research setting, under the supervision of trained providers.
Psychedelic integration therapy, by contrast, is psychotherapy that helps you process and metabolize an experience you have already had.
Integration focuses on understanding the psychological, relational, somatic, and spiritual material that emerged during a psychedelic experience and translating that material into meaningful, grounded change.
You may have had your experience in a clinical trial, an international retreat, a medical clinic, or another setting. Some individuals have explored these experiences in informal or non-legal contexts. Regardless of the setting, the internal material that arises often requires careful psychological integration.
As a licensed psychologist in Marin County and a graduate of the California Institute of Integral Studies, Dr. Renye completed advanced training through the Center for Psychedelic Therapies and Research at CIIS. She currently serves on the admissions committee and as a mentor within the program.
In her clinical work, she sees firsthand how psychedelic experiences can surface trauma memory, archetypal imagery, unresolved grief, sexual energy, spiritual insight, or destabilizing material that is not easily understood without depth-oriented support.
Integration therapy is not about chasing peak states. It is about grounding insight into psychological stability, relational clarity, and embodied change.
ancient medicines, new in the west
Many psychedelic medicines are currently being explored for deeper ways of healing, which have been available as indigenous and ancient technologies that are now being better understood in the West. This type of integration work, again done after an experience that you have had elsewhere, is geared towards individuals who have explored their internal landscapes and are attempting to make sense of the messages that can be externally implemented. Some more common psychedelic, entheogenic, empathogenic, and empactogenic medicines are: psilocybin, cannabis, MDMA, DMT, 5-MEO-DMT, ayahuasca, san pedro, and ibogaine. These medicines have the capacity to raise the consciousness of the individual or group seeking guidance from and through them. Like all deep modes of psychospiritual healing, psychedelics have the capacity to raise the consciousness of the planet, for we are not separate from nature.
Currently Dr.Renye sees individuals for psychedelic integration, runs a women’s psychedelic integration circle with the focus of sexuality, and has an interest in researching and writing on the the topic of class diversity and states of consciousness. She has set up a scholarship fund through the Blue Collar Wellness Initiative to help fund the understanding of and clinical application of FDA approved therapies for individuals with a diverse class background.
Dr. Renye is certified through the Center for Psychedelic Therapies and Research (CPTR) at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), where she is on the admissions committee, a TA and mentor.
Neither Dr. Renye nor the entities of Whole Person Integration or Whole Person Psychology endorse or condone the use of illegal activity or substances.
Clinical Orientation and Specialization
Dr. Renye brings a depth psychological and trauma-informed lens to psychedelic integration.
Her work is informed by:
• Depth psychotherapy and Jungian training at the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco
• Trauma-informed psychotherapy
• EMDR
• Twenty years of work in sexuality and embodied practice
• Advanced training in psychospiritual process
She works with high-functioning professionals, couples, therapists, and individuals navigating complex psychological material after psychedelic experiences.
She also leads a women’s psychedelic integration circle with a focus on sexuality and consciousness.
Legal and Ethical Clarity
Dr. Renye provides psychotherapy for individuals who have had, or are considering, psychedelic experiences within appropriate medical or legal contexts.
Her work is grounded in psychological containment, ethical care, and clinical rigor.
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Coaching and psychedelic integration are not psychological services. If I identify mental disorder, I will refer you to a licensed mental health professional.