PLANT MEDICINE INTEGRATION SESSIONS
The Head of Integration at AYA Healing Retreats, Atira has supported hundreds of clients with the preparation and integration of plant medicine journeys.
Atira is specialized in helping the trauma resolution of plant medicine and psychedelic experiences.
“Ayahuasca can evoke direct but long-suppressed memories of trauma. It can also trigger emotional states and visions of horror and pain that are not direct recollections, but emotional imprints of trauma.”
– Dr. Gabor Mate
Plant Medicine Integration Sessions
The Head of Integration at AYA Healing Retreats, Atira has supported hundreds of clients with the preparation and integration of plant medicine journeys.
Atira is specialized in helping the trauma resolution of plant medicine and psychedelic experiences.
“Ayahuasca can evoke direct but long-suppressed memories of trauma. It can also trigger emotional states and visions of horror and pain that are not direct recollections, but emotional imprints of trauma.”
– Dr. Gabor Mate
Plant Medicine Integration Sessions
The Head of Integration at AYA Healing Retreats, Atira has supported hundreds of clients with the preparation and integration of plant medicine journeys.
Atira is specialized in helping the trauma resolution of plant medicine and psychedelic experiences.
“Ayahuasca can evoke direct but long-suppressed memories of trauma. It can also trigger emotional states and visions of horror and pain that are not direct recollections, but emotional imprints of trauma.”
– Dr. Gabor Mate
In recent years, the literature and research around working with the sacred plant medicines and psychedelics have grown, however, what’s still missing in the plant medicine world is what comes after the ceremonies. This stage of the work is called integration, and where the “real” work starts in life.
The profound healing experiences with plant medicine do not end with the ceremony. The real work begins at this stage. How we integrate the insights that we’ve learned in the plant medicine ceremony, the application of the tools and perspectives we receive will ultimately determine the transformation in our lives.
In addition, the plant medicine experience often brings up traumatic imprints and memories from the past, and without the right awareness, understanding, and care, participants can be re-triggered and unsupported, leading to a deeper experience of re-traumatization. This is prevalent in the plant medicine world.
“Everyone deserves the right to compassionate care, support, and adequate preparation and integration support in their plant medicine and psychedelic journey.”
Plant medicine integration and preparation can often be a lonely one. Without the right guidance and care, trauma imprints that arise in the plant medicine experience can often be “stuck” in the body and mind, leaving an individual feeling dysregulated and re-traumatized.
Atira is the pioneer of the Somatic Plant Medicine Integration Practitioner Program which currently is being used by many plant medicine integration practitioners. She offers a unique and holistic somatic approach to the integration, preparation, and trauma resolution support often needed to understand and break free from trauma imprints.
Integration, in the trauma-informed paradigm, is about supporting participants to become an embodiment of their insights. Atira can help you to turn your insights from plant medicine into a living reality, in order to create new behaviors, new thought patterns, and ways of responding to difficult people and circumstances.
The objective of integration and preparation sessions with Atira is for the insights received through the sacred medicine experience to be embodied and a living reality, instead of a collection of experiences that fade into the background. This integration space is held with safety, care, and compassion, alongside the skilled guidance of breaking free from long-held trauma imprints.
“Prior to working with Atira, I had tried five other therapists and none of them lasted past three sessions. When I found Atira, it felt like a gift. She skillfully helped me to navigate difficult situations in my current life, helped me heal childhood trauma, and helped me differentiate between healthy and toxic patterns both in myself and my relationships with others. If I could give everyone the gift of her healing presence, I would.”
– Jackie Aherne, IFS Practitioner, Perth, Australia.
“Atira has been nothing less than a miracle in my life. The utter trauma & chaos that brought me to working with her all seemed to make more sense as we uncovered potentially lifetimes of buried trauma, that without her, may have taken a few incarnations to resolve.
With Atira, I remembered my capacity to space hold impeccably for myself. The unconditional support, loving care, profound breakthroughs & healing that have occurred since working together in the last 3 years has been absolutely life-changing, completely stabilizing & soul retrieving.”
– Emaleigh Kelly, Yoga Teacher & Musician, Ireland
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I am available online for individual sessions. Sessions are usually 60 mins, or 90 mins upon request.
I customize an integrative approach depending on personal needs, that includes a deep foundation in the psychological, social/cross-cultural, emotional, physiological, religious, and developmental issues. With 19 years as a licensed therapist, my expertise is in sexual abuse recovery, peri-natal trauma, as well as in attachment, complex and developmental trauma.
As a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, I use a somatic approach to support my clients in their preparation and integration journey. I also work alongside plant medicine facilitators to create a mental health care plan with individuals that are committed to a deeper healing journey.
“I met Atira at a retreat center in Peru, and she has been of great help to my integration journey. We worked with memories that came up for me in the plant medicine ceremonies, and these traumas have greatly held me back over the years. They affected me to the essence of my very core. Atira’s great skills helped me overcome the imprints holding me back. I am very grateful for her; insight, compassion, and wisdom that clearly shows in her work.”
– Roman Oscada, Artist, USA.
