psychedelic assisted psychotherapy

Structured Portals for Intentional, Embodied Transformation

This is depth work

Coastal road along ocean cliffs symbolizing the complex and evolving landscape of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy in Minneapolis.

We are living in a time of renewed interest in psychedelic therapy. Medicines that have been stewarded for thousands of years are now re-emerging in clinical and retreat settings across the Western world.

With growth comes variation.

Approaches range from highly structured, relational models to high-volume systems that prioritize speed over depth. For those seeking meaningful transformation, discernment matters.

Psychedelic work is not inherently healing. Healing does not come from the medicine or the container alone. It emerges through your capacity to meet what arises.

You are your own best guide and your own best healer.

The container matters because it protects and steadies the process — but the work itself is yours.

In this practice, that container is intentional, time-bound, and relational. Preparation and integration are not optional additions. They are foundational. Expanded states are not pursued for spectacle or peak experience, but for sustainable reorganization.

This is not high-throughput work.

This work is intentional, deep, transformative.
And it is yours.

What Should You Consider When Choosing a Psychedelic Therapist?

When working in expanded states, your provider’s training and licensure matter. So do preparation, integration, and relational steadiness.

Consider:

  • Is the provider licensed within their scope of practice?

  • Is preparation required — or optional?

  • Is integration structured and ongoing?

  • Is screening thorough?

  • Does the model prioritize relationship over volume?

Psychedelic work is powerful. The container surrounding it determines what endures.

This work deserves depth. It deserves knowledgable preparation. It deserves heart-centered integration. It deserves relationship. If you’re seeking a grounded, clinically sound, spirit-forward and somatically anchored approach to psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy — one that prioritizes long-term wellbeing over quick fixes — let’s talk.

The Psychedelic Portal

A sacred passage of the self, through the self, to the self.

Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy in our work together unfolds within clearly defined Portals — intentional, time-bound seasons of depth held inside a somatic and creative therapeutic container.

This is compassionate, ethically grounded work that honors the symbolic, intuitive, and spiritual dimensions of expanded states while remaining rooted in the body. Expanded states are approached as thresholds — openings into your deeper places that have been awaiting your attention.

When you enter a Portal, you step into a focused arc of work — typically around three months — where your attention gathers and your inner life is given space to speak. Rather than circling the same patterns week after week, we move consciously toward what is ready to shift.

An old identity softening.
A life phase turning.
A sense that your body and spirit are asking for a more honest conversation.

Expanded-state sessions, when included, are prepared for carefully and integrated slowly. For some women, this may be familiar terrain. For others, it may be entirely new. In either case, the work is not about intensity. It is about readiness.

We build the ground first. We listen to the nervous system. We clarify intention.

Then, when the threshold opens, you are fully ready to receive.

Each Portal is individualized and may weave together:

  • Somatic psychotherapy

  • Breathwork and meditative practice

  • Creative and symbolic exploration

  • Trauma-informed psychedelic-assisted sessions

Many women experience bone-deep relief from anxiety, grief, relational strain, and long-held trauma. Others experience something subtler yet equally profound — a reclamation of voice, desire, creative vitality, or spiritual coherence.

A Portal is a focused initiation into a new relationship with yourself — entered with compassionate intention and completed with reverence and self-love.

I love my therapist... during my time with her I’ve learned and resolved so much about my patterns and beliefs. I had made real strides, but eventually I’d always hit a wall. Issues I thought I was done with would come back — sometimes stronger. Last year, my therapist referred me to a Portal with Zoë. Working with my nervous system, my body, and my breath fundamentally changed something core-level. It’s hard to describe, but I started to feel a flow — like a release that went down to my cells - embodied. The loops and stories I used to get stuck in let go. I noticed old triggers just… evaporate.
— 2025 Portal Client

What makes this different?

Forest road representing a structured three-month psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy immersion focused on somatic healing.

For twelve weeks, we move in rhythm.

A Portal is a focused, three-month initiation for those ready to meet their healing with steadiness, honesty, and depth. Rather than touching the surface and retreating, we stay with the work long enough for real reorganization to occur.

During this season, you receive:

  • Weekly 60–90 minute private sessions

  • Ongoing somatic processing and nervous system repair

  • Breathwork and Yoga Nidra to deepen regulation and access

  • Creative and subconscious exploration

  • Personalized integration practices to anchor insight into daily life

  • Consistent relational container so you are not navigating change alone

When appropriate and thoughtfully timed, a mid-Portal medicine session may be woven into the arc — prepared for with care and integrated thoroughly.

This work is clinically grounded and somatically centered. It is also spacious enough to honor the symbolic, intuitive, and spiritual dimensions that naturally arise when we engage the psyche at depth.

Above all, a Portal is a steady relational field — designed for safety, continuity, and meaningful momentum. We open it with intention. We move through it together. We close it with integration.

This work is the furthest thing from easy. But - you’ll be glad you did it.
— 2025 Portal Client

what to expect:

Weekly 1:1 Sessions (60–90 Minutes)

Each week, we meet privately for 60–90 minutes of focused, relational work. Sometimes, this will look like talk therapy, but most sessions weave together psychotherapy with experiential practices attuned to your nervous system and the season you are in.

This may include:

  • Somatic processing and nervous system repair

  • Breathwork

  • Yoga Nidra meditation

  • Subconscious and symbolic exploration

  • Creative inquiry and integration

Some weeks feel steady and grounding.
Some weeks open something new.
All of it unfolds within a consistent therapeutic relationship

Personalized Daily Practices

Between sessions, the work continues gently.

You are given sustainable, realistic practices that support integration and momentum — not as homework to perfect, but as touchstones that keep the portal alive in daily life.

These may include:

  • Breath and nervous system regulation

  • Meditation or Yoga Nidra

  • Reflective writing

  • Somatic awareness practices

  • Creative expression

Transformation does not occur through intensity alone. It occurs through repetition and relationship — with yourself and within a steady container.

Optional Mid-Portal Medicine Session

At the midpoint of the Portal, you may choose to engage in a carefully prepared and clinically supported medicine session.

This is never assumed. It is never pressured. It is considered only when readiness, stability, and intention align.

Preparation is thorough.
Integration is essential.
Safety guides every decision.

I had a HUGE experience in Costa Rica - it felt totally life changing, like I’d never see the world the same again. Then - on the trip home being herded through the Huston International like cattle— consensus reality flooded back in and I was so sad to already feel my wide open heart closing up some. I’m so glad I did this, I have tools now to connect back to my open heart, and ways to live in the world as it is while staying who I am.
— 2025 Portal Client

Why Twelve Weeks?

A Portal is typically about three months. Not because transformation fits neatly on a calendar, and not because you are a formula.

You are not.

The length is an average — a rhythm that tends to support depth without drifting. Some Portals are slightly shorter. Some extend a little longer. The structure serves the work, not the other way around.

Deep, systemic change requires repetition, consistency, and relational continuity. Expanded states can open powerful insight quickly, but integration — the part that actually reshapes your life — unfolds over time.

A three-month arc allows:

  • Safety and self-trust to develop

  • Core patterns to surface and be met consciously

  • Emotional material to move rather than re-cycle

  • The nervous system to stabilize after expansion

  • New internal and relational pathways to take root

This structure provides enough space for depth and practice, while maintaining momentum and clarity of intention.

It is long enough for something real to reorganize.
And contained enough to remain purposeful.

CannabiS-assisted PsychoTherapy (CAP)

Hands selecting psychedelic cannabis flower

By supporting your capacity to stay in your body while exploring sensation, emotion, and memory, cannabis helps release stored tension and protective holding patterns. Defenses soften without collapsing. Emotional material surfaces with greater compassion and less overwhelm.

You retain your agency.

The medicine does not force revelation. As a feminine intelligence, she invites consent. She invites your whole self forward — at the pace your body and spirit are willing to meet.

Cannabis is a deeply embodied psychedelic medicine.

Unlike many medicines that propel awareness upward and outward, cannabis most often draws attention inward — into sensation, into memory, into the subtle language of the body. We engage her at her most potent and ripened stage, a moment of feminine fullness that carries both strength and receptivity.

Cannabis interfaces directly with the body’s endocannabinoid system — an elegant network of receptors involved in regulating mood, sleep, energy, immune response, pain modulation, and perception. This system is designed for balance. It is designed for connection.

When engaged intentionally and skillfully, cannabis enhances the body’s innate capacity for homeostasis and interconnection. She quiets the analytical mind without erasing awareness. She heightens sensory clarity. She deepens presence.

Around here, we call her the somatic psychedelic.

Cannabis-assisted psychotherapy, in qualified hands, offers something uniquely adaptable within the current psychedelic landscape. Dosage is fully customizable. We can move slowly and subtly, or more deeply and evocatively, depending on your nervous system, your history, and your spiritual and psychological readiness.

I have to confess, I didn’t expect a cannabis experience to affect me this deeply - after all, it’s “just weed” right? That thing that “makes” me paranoid at parties? Yeah - that’s my old conditioning, I don’t think that way anymore...I had lost myself there for a while, and now not only have I started to feel like me again, I know how to find my way back - and that’s the best feeling EVER.
— 2025 Portal Client

your journey is uniquely yours

Psychedelic Therapist Zoe Johnson assisting a client during psychedelic trip

When you step into an Inner Roadtrip Portal, you enter a carefully held therapeutic container designed for depth, safety, and reverence.

No two journeys unfold the same way.

Medicine sessions often move in waves — moments of clarity, tenderness, insight, spaciousness. At times, more challenging terrain may surface. Old grief. Forgotten memory. Protective patterns loosening.

This is not resistance, it’s invitation.

Difficult material arises when the nervous system senses enough safety to metabolize what was once too much. What emerges is not random. It is timely - your journey is not happening TO you, it’s happening FOR you.

Throughout your experience, I remain present — steady, attuned, and grounded — helping you stay connected to your body, your breath, and your unfolding process. My role is not to direct your inner world, but to safeguard the container in which it reveals itself.

No matter where your inner landscape leads — into light, shadow, memory, silence, or insight — I walk alongside. Witnessing. Supporting. Holding a field that honors the fullness of who you are, exactly as you are.

If you’ve read this far…something in you recognizes readiness for a Portal season…let’s talk.