Each person arrives with their own particular suffering and their own particular gifts. The work is always tailored to you.
A psychedelic experience — whether with psilocybin, MDMA, ayahuasca, ketamine, or another medicine — can open doors that have long been closed. But the opening is only the beginning. Integration is the work of understanding what came through, and weaving it into lasting change.
If plant medicine is a teacher, an integrative therapist is a tutor — helping you understand the teachings, process what arose, and carry the insights forward in a way that transforms daily life. This work is collaborative, non-judgmental, and deeply respectful of the intelligence of your experience.
Deborah is a MAPS-listed integrative therapist and has authored work on psychedelic integration therapy. She has traveled to Peru, Mexico, and Costa Rica to deepen her understanding of indigenous plant medicine traditions.
"Integration creates transformation."
Grief is not a problem to be solved. It is a natural response to love — and to loss. Whether you are moving through the death of someone central to your life, the end of a relationship, the loss of identity or health, or a trauma that changed everything, this work holds space for the full weight of your experience.
Deborah brings both deep clinical training and profound personal experience to grief work. Her book, The Alchemy of Grief, documents her own journey through the loss of her son, Sean — and her discovery that grief, when met with courage and care, can become a pathway to profound connection and meaning.
Sessions draw from somatic awareness, expressive arts, Ayurvedic wisdom, and relational depth to support you wherever you are in the process.
Most relational difficulties come down to a gap between what we feel inside and what we are able to say — and between what we say and what our partner is able to hear. This work focuses on building the language for interior experience, and the skills to share it in ways that can be received.
Whether you are navigating a long partnership, a rupture, a reconnection, or your relationship with yourself, sessions offer a steady, warm space to slow down, listen, and find a new way through.
There is no one way to heal from addiction. What is consistent is that beneath every addiction is a pain that has not yet found another way to be held. This work is not about willpower or discipline — it is about compassionate curiosity toward the parts of us that learned, at some point, that this was the only way to cope.
Together, we uncover what the addiction is protecting, develop the capacity to tolerate emotions that once felt unbearable, and gradually discover that beyond the pain lies freedom — and even joy.
Anxiety and depression are not character flaws. They are messages from your body and psyche that something needs attention. The work here is not to silence these signals but to learn to listen to them — with curiosity rather than fear.
What is your anxiety trying to protect you from? What is your depression mourning? These questions, explored carefully and at your own pace, often open unexpected pathways toward healing.
Ayurveda — the ancient science of life — offers a blueprint for human flourishing that Western psychology is only beginning to rediscover. It begins with the understanding that each person has a unique constitution, a unique way of being in the world, and that health means living in alignment with that nature rather than against it.
Ananda Therapy integrates Ayurvedic perspectives on mind, body, and spirit — examining how thoughts, sense impressions, environment, relationships, and daily rhythms either nourish or deplete us. This isn't about rigid prescriptions; it is about learning to recognize what your particular being needs in order to thrive.
The time will come / when with elation / you will greet yourself arriving / at your own door, in your own mirror / and each will smile at the other's welcome / and say, sit here. Eat. / You will love again the stranger who was yourself.
— Derek Walcott