Integration Sessions for Challenging Experiences
Professional support to guide, enhance safety, and reduce risks on your journey.
ICEERS’ Support Center has extensive experience supporting people going through difficult processes with psychoactive plants.
Integration sessions answer previous questions or help people make sense of the experiences that emerge as a result of taking psychoactive plants, and allow them to find a more constructive meaning.
This accompaniment is especially useful after a difficult experience, as it helps people process their situation, regain stability and autonomy, and make informed decisions about their process.
- The online sessions (up to five) are free of charge and are conducted by trained professionals with ample expertise in the field.
- The ICEERS Support Center is a risk reduction service. This support can be a complement but never a substitute for— medical, psychological or psychiatric psychiatric diagnosis, treatment or counseling.
- We do not offer ayahuasca or iboga sessions, nor can we recommend centers or people who do.
- If you have questions about interactions between psychoactive plants and pharmaceutical drugs or medical treatments please visit our Medical Questions service.
If you are in a time of crisis or if you or anyone else may be in danger or experiencing a mental health emergency, or in case of suicidal ideation or risk of suicidal behavior, contact your local emergency services immediately:
- Spain. Emergencies: 112. Attention to suicidal behavior: 024.
- Other international services
This is a free service operating on limited resources. We attend inquiries according to availability, while giving priority to the most grave cases. Thank you for your understanding.
About the Support Center
ICEERS Support Center began its work in 2013 and since then has attended more than one thousand cases, accompanying people who have doubts or difficulties integrating processes related to psychoactive plants.
In order to minimize the risks and maximize the benefits of these processes a team of experts with extensive experience in integration offers their skills.
We believe that integrating the work with psychoactive plants in our societies necessarily includes a response to the emergencies and accidents that might emerge. A response that should be accessible, culturally sensitive, and community rooted.
- Accessible: Our attention is free of charge up to a total of 5 sessions.
- Sensitive to ethnobotanical culture: We do not stigmatize users for their use of these plants. We do not psychopathologize by default, we believe instead that these are complex experiences that may be of another order.
- Community rooted: We understand that the answers to the challenges derived from the use of ethnobotanicals often can be found in the community itself. We consult and collect the best community practices to integrate them into our practice.
An effective integration process means the difference between clarity and confusion, safety and risk, balance and imbalance.
