We often are aware of the thoughts, beliefs, and stories that we tell ourselves day-to-day, but this is a very small part of who you are. Think of an iceberg, these are the things that are at the top of the iceberg that we are very aware of, our conscious. Often times these are the "symptoms" that bring us into therapy.
Our subconscious mind, the non-rational, non-verbal, and non-cognitive parts play a much larger role in our mood, emotions, reactivity, and the "symptoms" that are bringing you into therapy. This is the bottom half of the iceberg, the parts that we are not as aware of day-to-day.
Psychedelic medicines provide us access to our subconscious mind, allowing us to process psychological material that is much more difficult to be accessed during conscious states. We can process stressors, desires, relationships, needs, impulses and conflicts that may not be noticed during a conscious state.
Psychedelic Assisted Therapy can cultivate a space for you to navigate and process memories, images, feelings, sensations, and deep-rooted programming from developmental stages that lives in the subconscious mind.
For more information on how we practice Psychedelic Assisted Therapy, please visit the Psychedelic Somatic Institute website.