physis integration

WELCOME TO PHYSIS

Physis [fahy-sis] offers Psychedelic-Informed Relational Psychotherapy as well as harm reduction, preparation, and integration for those who have experienced or will be experiencing the potentially transformational processes of psychedelic-assisted therapies, plant medicine ceremonies, or any other experiences and practices that expand and deepen individual consciousness. We also host monthly Reciprocity Circles.

Entheogens and techniques such as Holotropic Breathwork and various types of Kriyā have the capacity to reveal the depths of our psyche. However, while experiences with these plants, molecules, and practices can act as catalysts for the therapeutic process—often by bringing deep unconscious material into awareness—they are not the therapeutic process itself. Moreover, these experiences can at times leave us feeling confused or disoriented, requiring grounding and containment.

Psychotherapy, harm reduction, and integration, along with meaningful changes in lifestyle and habits, are key components for making the most of what has emerged or will emerge from experiences in expanded states. The work starts with harm reduction and preparation, then 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

“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.”

―William Blake

ALESSIA Chiappino

I am a London-based Italian-British relational psychotherapist (MBACP), group facilitator, and visual artist (MA). I am currently undergoing advanced clinical training for the Postgraduate Diploma in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy at the Institute of Psychedelic Therapy (UK), as well as a Certificate in First Nations Indigenous Studies from the University of Alberta.

My core training is in Integrative and Relational Psychotherapy with a trauma-attuned approach. Additionally, I hold Postgraduate Certificates in Somatic Attachment Therapy, Psychedelic Harm Reduction and Integration, and Integrative Psychedelic Therapies.

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 wildlife 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 organisations work to combat habitat loss, deforestation, the impact of post-colonial extractivism, spiritual appropriation, and forest and desert medicine tourism on Native communities.

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