About
Integrated Psychedelics
What Is Integrated Psychedelics?
Integrated Psychedelics is a harm-reduction–based counseling practice focused on helping individuals process and integrate the emotional, psychological, and spiritual material that arises from psychedelic experiences. It’s grounded in compassion, safety, and attunement with the belief that healing unfolds when needs are expressed rather than suppressed, and explored rather than observed from afar.
This work supports individuals in turning moments of expanded awareness into grounded insight. Sometimes that means integrating a difficult or confusing journey. Other times it means preparing for a future one with mindfulness and intention. Whether we are working with sober states or altered ones, my role is to listen deeply, help regulate the nervous system — sometimes through language, sometimes through silence or sound — and translate experience into lasting change at a pace your system can truly digest.
While much of this work involves psychedelic preparation and integration, I also offer ongoing therapeutic counseling for those seeking similar depth and support without the use of medicine. Different paths, same commitment to awareness and transformation.
Services & Pricing
I offer:
Individual Pre & Post Journey Integration Counseling
Psychedelic Guiding, Counseling & Real-Time Journey Facilitation
Group Psychedelic Sitting & Ceremony Support
Traditional Non-Psychedelic Mental Health Counseling (weekly or monthly)
Couples Counseling
Clinical Supervision for Counselors & Guides
Therapeutic DJ Training & Music Curation Support
Psychedelics for Recovery: Harm Reduction Addiction Counseling
Psychoactive Drug Education & Safety Planning
Confidential Encrypted Remote Sessions or In-Person (as available)
Current Rates:
Counseling: $150/hr
Couples & Joint Sessions: $250/hr
Professional Consultation / Training: $300/hr
Who I Support
Individuals preparing for a first psychedelic journey
Experienced psychonauts seeking deeper integration over time
People navigating grief, anxiety, trauma, or spiritual emergence
Those working with confusion, fragmentation, or challenging experiences
Clients committed to self-awareness, personal healing, and responsible use
Individuals who value therapy-style support without clinical coldness
How I Work
My approach is:
Nonjudgmental & trauma-informed — your experience is met with care, not scrutiny
Therapeutic, not dogmatic — no rigid models or spiritual bypassing
Grounded in both abstinence-based and harm-reduction counseling experience
Curious, collaborative, and embodied — we work with what arises, not just what’s expected
Matt Xavier CADC-II, CPDJ
Gestalt Therapist, Psychedelic Guide, Certified Psychedelic DJ
Who I Am
I am a counselor, psychedelic guide, and therapeutic DJ with over 30 years of musical immersion and 15 years of clinical experience in addiction and mental health counseling. My work bridges the worlds of electronic music, experiential psychotherapy, and psychedelic-assisted healing — blending intuition, structure, and care.
My Path to Psychedelic Therapy
My path began in the early 1990s electronic music underground of New York City, where I performed and produced under the name Matthew Magic. As co-founder of Tsunami Productions, I helped introduce psychedelic trance culture to the North American East Coast and later went on to run the techno label Railyard Recordings.
For decades, I witnessed how music could open emotional doors, dissolve barriers, and guide people into altered states of connection and catharsis. But over time, I felt called to work with those same states in a deeper, more intentional way.
I stepped away from nightlife to pursue professional training in counseling at Loyola Marymount University, becoming CADC-II certified through CCAPP. I went on to provide over ten years of individual and group counseling to people navigating substance abuse, trauma, grief, and co-occurring disorders, learning firsthand how resilience and vulnerability coexist.
The Return to Psychedelics
In 2015, after many years away from psychedelic use, I had a profound healing experience with psilocybin mushrooms. That moment catalyzed a full integration of my two worlds, music and therapy.
Since then, I’ve dedicated my work to supporting others through psychedelic preparation, journey facilitation, and post-experience integration. What began as a personal experiment evolved into a full-time practice.
The Psychedelic DJ Approach
Through Integrated Psychedelics, I developed Therapeutic DJing — a structured approach that unites music, psychology, and altered states into an intentional pathway of healing. It includes:
Therapeutic Music Curation
Designing cutting edge playlists that align with the emotional and energetic phases of a journey and the needs of each client
Psychedelic Soundtracking
Adjusting music in real time to support client’s inner landscape, emotional processing and spiritual emergence
Integration Counseling
Applying Gestalt and somatic-based techniques to turn insights into grounded change
My book, The Psychedelic DJ: A Practical Guide to Therapeutic Music Curation and Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy, shares this methodology and more in full.
Attunement as a Core Value
Whether I’m holding space as a counselor or guiding someone through music, my role is one of attunement. I see myself as one prong of a tuning fork and the client or listener as the other — listening, adjusting, resonating until there’s harmony between what is felt, needed, and expressed.
Even in music selection, I’m not just choosing tracks, I’m listening for frequency, pacing, and emotional resonance. Techniques like harmonic mixing may be considered advanced in DJ culture, but to me they’re essential in therapy and in life. When two keys align, the nervous system relaxes. The mind and body open. Something shifts.
Attunement, whether verbal or vibrational, is what makes the process safe enough to soften, surrender, and change.
My Commitment
My work is grounded in harm reduction, awareness, and deep respect for the psychedelic process. I do not glamorize these experiences or treat them as cures, I hold them as sacred and transformative when approached with preparation and integrity.
I believe music can serve as co-therapist, guide, and mirror, and that healing happens not only in peak moments, but in how we return afterward.
Contact
If my path resonates with yours, I’d be honored to work with you.
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