Psychedelic Preparation & Integration
Inhabiting the liminal, where imagination, body and mystery meet.
Tending the dreams, visions and memories that arise from the soul’s most tender places.
In the ancient world, people travelled to dream temples to sleep, to dream, and to bring back an image that could guide their recovery. Many Indigenous traditions still hold the dream as a living teacher rather than a puzzle to be solved.
Visionary medicines open a door to the same territory. The images, emotions and body sensations that arise in ceremony speak the language of dreams, and they can be just as easy to lose, or just as hard to carry, once you return.
My work is to help you stay with the images, inhabit their mysteries, and allow them to alchemize new possibilities of selfhood.
Science is only beginning to unravel the mystery of how dreams and psychedelic visions emerge from the extraordinary interplay of perception, memory, emotion, and our sense of self.
Explore more on this topic in my interview with Dr. Sidarta Ribeiro →
The method
Developed by Jungian analyst Robert Bosnak, EI for PI treats an image, a sensation or emotion from a dream, memory or vision as a place you can return to. We re-enter it together, slowly, and notice what lives there.
Building your inner authority
So much inner work gets caught on the question of what things mean. We reach for a dictionary of symbols, an expert who tells us what a dream “means,” a spiritual framework laid over the experience from outside, and now AI chatbots ready with an instant reading. In integration, this can rob the person who lived it of their own experience, or move faster than the nervous system can follow.
We'll work the other way around: going slowly, staying close to what is actually present, and letting meaning arise from within you.
Read more: Tossing Water on Your AI Dream Interpreter →
My role
The images you receive are for you and you alone.
I help you re-enter significant moments through embodied awareness, explore multiple perspectives, and discover new relationships among seemingly contradictory experiences.
Through a carefully paced, attuned process, I guide the emergence of a composite: a constellation of felt experiences that becomes the foundation for a personalized daily practice.
I hold a grounded, nonjudgmental space for inquiry, support nervous-system awareness, and help you cultivate your discernment, self-trust and inner authority. The intention is not to explain away extraordinary experiences, but to create conditions in which their significance can continue to unfold in everyday life.
Why EI for PI
Many integration practitioners now turn to Internal Family Systems (IFS), and with good reason: it opens a valuable first door. But working with parts can also reinforce who we think we are, just when what’s asking to happen is a loosening of identity, and room for a larger, truer self to live in the body.
Psychedelics meet identity head-on. Yet what softens in ceremony doesn’t always stay soft. In the weeks that follow, old ways of relating can “snap back” and grip tighter than before.
EI for PI offers a compelling alternative. The numinous isn’t merely glimpsed; it’s fully felt, related with, and gathered into a bodily composite you can return to. Instead of slipping back into the old shape, you grow into a new one.
What was revealed shall take root.
Who this is for
Sessions & investment
Most sessions are held online.
Arrive with clarity. Make space for your intentions, questions, hopes and uncertainties.
Give your experience time, attention and room to unfold.
One preparation and one integration session. Begin with preparation and return for integration; each phase deepens the next.
A free 20-minute call to see whether we're a good fit and which support makes sense.
Book the free call →Clarify intentions, build resources and begin listening to your dreams before you go.
Book a preparation session →Your experience takes place with the practitioners and setting you've chosen.
Return to the images, track what shifts, and weave it into how you live.
Book an integration session →
In their words
“Having experienced many different approaches to psychedelic integration (including IFS), I can attest that Jenn’s mastery of Embodied Imagination for Psychedelic Integration allowed me to access the images and insights post journey in a completely new and profound way. It allowed me to weave together my own history, my dream images and a deep somatic understanding for a much fuller and richer grasp of meaningful insights to effect real lasting life shifts.”
“Jenn gently guided me into a deeply immersive hypnotic state where the images and feelings became incredibly visceral and real. Through this process, I reconnected with a childhood ally I had long forgotten, only to realize that this ally had always been there for me. Rediscovering that connection brought a profound sense of support that I can now carry into my daily life. As the different parts of my experience came together, I felt them become a beautiful, glowing light in my chest, helping me rebalance difficult emotions I had been carrying.”
Read more of Kris’s reflection
“I had the opportunity to experience Embodied Imagination for Psychedelic Integration with Jenn following a powerful ayahuasca journey in Peru. My visions were incredibly vivid and emotionally intense, but I struggled to understand their deeper meaning and how to bring that wisdom into my everyday life.”
“Jenn’s approach is incredibly gentle and supportive, and I felt safe throughout the entire process. She is highly professional, with wonderful intuition. What I especially appreciated was how she guided me without imposing her own interpretations, allowing my own inner wisdom to lead the way.
Most importantly, her work helped me hold on to the precious insights I felt I had been gifted during my ceremony, rather than letting them fade into a distant memory. I’m deeply grateful to Jenn for helping me turn such a profound experience into something meaningful and lasting.”
About Jenn
Storyteller, dreamworker, spiritual caregiver
Dreams, psychedelics, and ceremony have been intertwined throughout my life. Childhood nightmares inspired my first dream journals, and by high school I was studying psychedelics, from Alexander Shulgin’s research to the traditions of the Pacific Northwest, while heeding wise advice to wait until my brain had matured before exploring these states firsthand. That curiosity grew into decades of practice in dream yoga, Jungian and shamanic dreamwork, the dreambody, energy work and end-of-life care.
My first career was in storytelling. As a journalist in the Balkans, I listened to people carrying the aftermath of war, then spent two decades telling stories about the human impact of change, learning the importance of being truly heard and finding language for the ineffable. Today, as a guide in EI for PI, and as a chaplain and death doula, I have accompanied people across thresholds: of dreams, of visionary medicine, of life’s shifts and endings.
I hold this work with deep reverence for the Indigenous lineages that have safeguarded ancestral wisdom across generations. My practice is grounded in an unwavering commitment to safety, discernment, and helping you reconnect with your own inner guidance, in whatever form it chooses to reveal itself.
End-of-Life Psilocybin Care
Author and collaborator on training and therapeutic best-practice recommendations for New Mexico’s Medical Psilocybin Program.
5-MeO-DMT Conservation & Education
Advocate against harvesting Sonoran Desert toad (Incilius alvarius) secretions, and educator on synthetic, chemically pure 5-MeO-DMT alternatives that avoid wildlife exploitation.
Preservation and Benefit Sharing with Indigenous Spiritual Lineages
Communications Director and Board Member of ROOTS Fellowship Foundation, supporting the preservation of Indigenous spiritual lineages. Ceremonial pipe carrier.
Deepen your relationship to each other through shared dreams and visions, attuning to movement, earth elements and the field of waking awareness with a variety of techniques, including Embodied Imagination. Upcoming offerings are announced in the newsletter.
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Dr. Lawson has been initiated as a Maboundi within the Missoko Bwiti tradition of Gabon, Africa. She is an Embodied Imagination® practitioner with an MA in Counseling and Depth Psychotherapy and a PhD in Mind-Body Medicine, and certifies EI for PI practitioners.
Questions
This coaching container supports preparation and integration. If you're at the start of this process, I'm happy to refer you to resources about the medicines themselves, and about safe, ethical and legal facilitation.
No. This is coaching, not psychotherapy or a crisis service. It can complement work with a therapist or medical provider, and I'm glad to coordinate with your care team.
Not necessarily. Sessions can happen in person, but most often we work online over video. For online sessions, I ask that you find a quiet, private space where you can lie down in a comfortable position, with your camera placed so I can see you throughout the session.
After completing the initial steps of dream telling and associations, I lead you into a relaxed, in-between state with a slow countdown and a gentle body scan, while you stay aware of the room. From there I guide you back into chosen moments of your vision, noticing what you see, feel and sense, and where each lives in your body. We close by gathering these sensations together so you can return to them in your own practice.
Yes. Accommodations can be made to help you make the most of a microdosing session, deepening your exploration of your inner world during the hypnagogic part of our session. Please share what you're taking, and how much, during your free consultation, so we can plan the session together.
Yes. Many people start with little recall. We can work with a fragment, a feeling or a vision from ceremony, and I'll share practices that help dreams return.
If you're in crisis, call or text 988. For psychedelic peer support, contact Fireside's Peer Support Line at 62-FIRESIDE. Once you're feeling steadier, I'd be glad to talk about integration.
Start with a free 20-minute consultation. We'll talk about where you are, and whether preparation, integration or the full arc fits best.
