physis integration

WELCOME TO PHYSIS

Physis [fahy-sis] offers Psychedelic-Informed Relational Psychotherapy as well as individual and group psychedelic preparation and integration for those who have experienced or will be experiencing the transformational processes of psychedelic-assisted therapies, plant medicine ceremonies, or any such experiences and practices that expand and deepen individual consciousness.

Psychedelic medicines have the capacity to reveal the depths of our psyche. However, while experiences with these plants and molecules act as catalysts for the therapeutic process, often by bringing deep unconscious material into awareness, they are not the therapeutic process itself. These experiences can leave us feeling confused or disoriented, requiring grounding and containment.

Psychotherapy and integration are key components for making the most of what emerges from experiences in expanded states. The work starts with harm reduction and preparation, and continues with integration after those experiences, creating lasting change by tending to and honouring what may have been revealed.

“Until you make the unconscious conscious,
it will direct your life and you will call it fate”

— C.G. Jung

PSYCHEDELIC-INFORMED
Relational PSYCHOTHERAPY

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Sharing
Circles

Physis Community and Integration

At Physis we aim to create a sense of community and belonging for people to come together on a regular basis, connect, and support one another. In addition to individual psychotherapy and psychedelic integration, we offer monthly integration group meetings - our sharing circles.

Our monthly meetings aim to provide the sense of collective healing through continuity, security, and support that you might currently lack or yearn for more of.

“We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep”

―William James

Philanthropic Support for Biocultural Conservation & Research

ALESSIA Chiappino

I am a London based, Italian-British relational psychotherapist (MBACP), group facilitator, and visual artist (MA), currently undergoing advanced clinical training for the Post-Graduate Diploma in Psychedelic Assisted Therapy at The Institute of Psychedelic Therapy (UK). My core training is in Integrative and Relational Psychotherapy with a trauma-informed approach. Further, I hold Post-Graduate Certificates in Somatic Attachment Therapy, Psychedelic Harm Reduction and Integration, and Integrative Psychedelic Therapies through various  institutions in Canada, Italy, UK and USA.

I have a strong interest in the ancestral lineages of healing through teacher plants of the native peoples of the Americas. I learn directly and experientially from Indigenous groups, specifically the Navajo-Diné in North America and the Shipibo-Conibo of the Upper Peruvian Amazon, with whom I have participated in Master Plant Dietas as well as ceremonial uses of plant teachers in various traditional settings.

These experiences have fostered my passion for cultural anthropology and biocultural conservation and have prompted me to support several NGOs and charities dedicated to protecting threatened habitats in the Western Amazon and regions of Africa. Through reciprocity projects, these organizations work to combat habitat loss, deforestation, and the impact of Ayahuasca tourism on native communities.

View fullsize Psychotria Viridis • • Chacruna, Chacrona, or Chaqruy in the Quechua languages. “We are being trained by the plants, the fungi and some other marvellous molecules to see what truly is.” — Kathleen Harrison 📸 by @ales
View fullsize A Very Swollen Salt River • • “The Navajo have that wonderful image of what they call the Pollen Path. The Navajo say, ‘Oh, beauty before me, beauty behind me, beauty to the right of me, beauty to the left of me, beauty above
View fullsize Hope • • Baby Hope, our four years old African Desert Elephant, browsing the Huab River area together with her mum. Thoughts on Reciprocity —- There is a term in the Quechua language “Ayni” - it reflects a world in perpe
View fullsize Saguaro National Park • “The Holy Land is everywhere” ― Heȟáka Sápa [ Black Elk ] 📸 by @alessia.chiappino Saguaro National Park #BlackElk #NativeAmerican #medicineman #lakota #oglala #ecology #spirituality #sacredp
View fullsize The Ayahusca vine - cleaned and smashed before being boiled. • On becoming the plant. Thoughts on the Dieta Vegetalista. SG: “That’s an important way that shamans gain knowledge of the objects of studies is rather than being detache
View fullsize Ceiba Lupuna [continued] • “Make yourself useful to many, and there will be many hoping for you to succeed.” – — Robin Van Loon “When we talk about the ecology of a forest, and the ecology for example of a tree sp
View fullsize The Italian Alps • “A human being, is a part of the whole, called by us “Universe”, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest — a kind of op
View fullsize Rescued Tamarin a La Isla de Los Monos • “Any little thing that brings us back into communion with the natural world and the spiritual power that permeates all life will help us to move a little further along the path of human moral and sp
View fullsize West and East Mitten Buttes • “The land is the real teacher. All we need as students is mindfulness.” ― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants 📸 by @alessia.chi
View fullsize Victoria Amazonica • “If diversity is a source of wonder, its opposite - the ubiquitous condensation to some blandly amorphous and singularly generic modern culture that takes for granted an impoverished environment - is a source of dism
View fullsize Tsé Biiʼ Ndzisgaii • • “Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.” — Chief Seattle&
View fullsize La Maloca at Nihue Rao • • Ayahuasca ceremonies are held in a large circular hut called the maloca, which is the traditional ceremonial space used by the Shipibo people for ceremonies. “These structures represent the largest works of
View fullsize The Red Rock Formations of The Colorado Plateau ‘All paths are the same: they lead nowhere. ... Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn’t, it is of no use. Both paths lead nowhere; but one has a heart, the
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