Psychedelic Preparation and Integration Counseling
Your sacred place to explore your intentions, prepare psychologically to make sense of a psychedelic or nonordinary-state experience—without judgment and without the provision of any medicine.
This is counseling—not psychedelic drug treatment. Jennifer L. Hillier and Mending Hearts Counseling do not prescribe, recommend, supply, sell, purchase, possess, transport, administer, supervise, or facilitate psychedelic substances.
Psychedelic Preparation and Integration Counseling
Online, Trauma-Informed Counseling with Jennifer L. Hillier, M.A., LPC-S, CCTP
Psychedelic experiences can bring forward powerful emotions, memories, questions, insights, fears, and changes in perspective. Some experiences feel meaningful or healing. Others feel confusing, disappointing, frightening, destabilizing, or difficult to explain. Even a positive experience may leave you wondering what it means and how—or whether—it should affect your life.
Psychedelic Preparation and Integration Counseling provides a private, nonjudgmental therapeutic space to explore these concerns before or after a psychedelic or nonordinary-state experience.
This service is grounded in ordinary professional counseling. It may include psychotherapy, psychoeducation, mental-health assessment, values clarification, trauma-informed preparation, emotional processing, grounding, coping strategies, and the development of realistic therapeutic goals.
The purpose is not to encourage psychedelic use. The purpose is to support your mental and emotional health, strengthen informed decision-making, identify concerns that may require additional care, and help you make sense of an experience without pressure to interpret it in any particular way.
This is counseling—not psychedelic drug treatment.
Jennifer L. Hillier and Mending Hearts Counseling LLC do not prescribe, recommend, supply, sell, purchase, possess, store, transport, administer, supervise, or facilitate psychedelic substances.
All services are provided through online individual counseling only. No in-person services are offered.
Psychedelic Preparation and Integration Counseling is currently a private-pay service. Insurance is not accepted for this service, and Mending Hearts Counseling LLC will not submit insurance claims for it.
What Is Psychedelic Preparation and Integration Counseling?
Psychedelic Preparation and Integration Counseling is psychotherapy and psychoeducation offered before or after a psychedelic or nonordinary-state experience.
Preparation counseling focuses on your psychological readiness, intentions, expectations, concerns, mental-health history, coping resources, support system, personal boundaries, and current stability.
Integration counseling focuses on understanding and responding to thoughts, emotions, memories, physical sensations, relationship concerns, behavioral changes, spiritual questions, or distress that may emerge during or after an experience.
Preparation and integration are separate from the psychedelic experience itself. Jennifer does not attend, supervise, guide, monitor, or facilitate substance use. Counseling sessions do not occur while a client is using or acutely impaired by a psychedelic substance.
The counseling relationship remains focused on your mental health—not on planning or directing the use of a drug.
Preparation Counseling
Preparation counseling offers space to slow down and think carefully about what you are considering.
People may approach a psychedelic experience with hope, fear, curiosity, desperation, grief, pressure, or very high expectations. Some believe the experience will provide a clear answer, resolve longstanding trauma, repair a relationship, produce spiritual certainty, or change their life immediately.
Preparation counseling does not tell you whether you should have an experience. It helps you examine your decision, expectations, vulnerabilities, and alternatives with greater clarity.
Preparation counseling may include:
Clarifying your intentions, hopes, expectations, fears, and concerns
Exploring what you believe the experience will accomplish
Identifying pressure from friends, partners, facilitators, online communities, or treatment programs
Discussing whether you feel free to postpone or decline the experience
Reviewing your current emotional stability and coping capacity
Exploring relevant trauma history and trauma responses
Reviewing your mental-health history and current symptoms
Identifying a history of mania, psychosis, dissociation, suicidality, or severe substance-related problems
Discussing previous reactions to psychedelic or other substances
Identifying emotional triggers and warning signs
Developing grounding and coping strategies
Clarifying personal, physical, emotional, sexual, and spiritual boundaries
Discussing consent and the right to change or withdraw consent
Considering the role and reliability of support people
Developing an emergency and aftercare plan
Discussing transportation and practical safety concerns in general terms
Identifying circumstances that may indicate a need to postpone an experience
Identifying questions that must be directed to a physician, prescriber, pharmacist, or other qualified professional
Considering standard psychotherapy, psychiatric care, or other alternatives
Developing realistic expectations about uncertainty and outcomes
Preparation counseling is not an instruction manual for psychedelic use. It does not include advice about obtaining, selecting, measuring, dosing, redosing, combining, or administering substances.
Clarifying Intentions and Expectations
An intention is not a guarantee of what will happen.
You may enter an experience hoping to understand trauma, grief, depression, anxiety, identity, relationships, meaning, spirituality, or an important life decision. These intentions can be explored in counseling without assuming that a psychedelic experience will provide a reliable answer.
Preparation may help you distinguish between a flexible intention and a rigid expectation.
A flexible intention leaves room for uncertainty. A rigid expectation may create pressure to experience something dramatic, interpret ordinary reactions as profound revelations, or believe the experience failed if it did not produce the desired result.
Preparation counseling may explore questions such as:
What are you hoping to understand or change?
Why does this feel important now?
What expectations are you carrying?
Where did those expectations come from?
What would it mean to you if the experience felt ordinary or unclear?
How might you respond if difficult memories or emotions emerged?
Are you hoping the experience will make a major decision for you?
Do you feel pressured to proceed?
What alternatives have you considered?
What support might you need afterward?
What signs would tell you that postponing is the safer choice?
The goal is not to predict or control an experience. The goal is to help you approach your decision with greater self-awareness, realistic expectations, and respect for your emotional needs.
Trauma-Informed Preparation
People with trauma histories may have understandable concerns about safety, control, trust, vulnerability, consent, memory, bodily sensations, and emotional overwhelm.
A psychedelic or nonordinary-state experience may involve reduced control, increased emotional sensitivity, altered perceptions, intense physical sensations, or changes in a person’s ability to evaluate what is happening. These conditions may feel particularly vulnerable for someone with a history of abuse, neglect, coercion, exploitation, medical trauma, spiritual abuse, or boundary violations.
Trauma-informed preparation may include exploring:
What helps you feel emotionally and physically safe
How you recognize discomfort, fear, dissociation, shutdown, or overwhelm
How you communicate boundaries
Whether you tend to freeze, submit, appease, disconnect, or become unable to speak under stress
How authority figures affect your ability to say no
Whether a particular environment or relationship creates pressure
What you need from a support person
What forms of touch, language, music, spiritual practice, or physical proximity may be uncomfortable
How you want others to respond if you become frightened or distressed
What aftercare and therapeutic support may be needed
Preparation cannot eliminate risk or guarantee that boundaries will be respected. It can, however, help you identify vulnerabilities and take your own concerns seriously.
Integration Counseling
Integration counseling provides a place to process an experience after it has occurred.
An experience does not have to be positive, legal, spiritual, clinically supervised, recent, or easy to describe for you to discuss it in therapy. You may seek integration because an experience was deeply meaningful, emotionally painful, confusing, frightening, disappointing, destabilizing, or difficult to reconcile with your ordinary life.
Integration counseling does not impose an interpretation on what happened. Jennifer will not tell you that every image, feeling, memory, or belief revealed a hidden truth. You will be supported in exploring the experience thoughtfully while maintaining appropriate attention to reality, safety, context, and your existing mental-health needs.
Integration counseling may include:
Describing the experience in your own words
Processing emotions that emerged during or after the experience
Exploring memories, images, beliefs, physical sensations, or relationship concerns
Making room for grief, fear, anger, shame, relief, joy, awe, disappointment, or uncertainty
Grounding after anxiety, dissociation, panic, or emotional overwhelm
Examining changes in sleep, mood, energy, perception, or behavior
Exploring how the experience connects with your trauma history
Distinguishing reflection from impulsive action
Evaluating conclusions or beliefs that developed during the experience
Separating potentially useful insight from pressure to make immediate changes
Considering the effect on relationships, work, identity, spirituality, or daily functioning
Developing realistic therapeutic goals
Identifying practical steps consistent with your values
Rebuilding routine and stability
Recognizing when additional evaluation or a higher level of care may be necessary
Integration is not about forcing the experience to become meaningful. Sometimes the most honest conclusion is that the experience was unclear, unpleasant, neutral, or different from what you expected.
Integrating Meaningful or Positive Experiences
A positive experience may create feelings of connection, compassion, insight, hope, gratitude, or relief. It may also generate a powerful desire to change your life immediately.
Integration counseling can help you slow down and consider what remains meaningful after the intensity of the experience has passed.
You may explore:
Which insights continue to feel relevant
How an insight fits with your values and history
Whether a proposed change is realistic and sustainable
What evidence supports a new belief
How to translate an abstract realization into a specific therapeutic goal
Whether you are placing unrealistic expectations on yourself
How to discuss the experience with important people in your life
How to preserve useful insight without idealizing the experience
How ordinary psychotherapy may support continued growth
A powerful emotional experience can feel unquestionably true in the moment. Integration creates room to reflect before making significant decisions involving relationships, employment, finances, housing, medical care, religion, or other major areas of life.
Integrating Difficult or Frightening Experiences
Some experiences involve panic, shame, grief, traumatic memories, confusion, perceived loss of control, fear of dying, interpersonal boundary violations, dissociation, or a sense that something has gone seriously wrong.
Other difficulties may not appear until hours or days later.
You may experience:
Persistent anxiety or panic
Difficulty sleeping
Nightmares
Intrusive memories or images
Emotional sensitivity
Shame or self-blame
Feeling detached from yourself or your surroundings
Difficulty returning to ordinary routines
Relationship conflict
Fear that you permanently harmed yourself
Uncertainty about whether a memory is accurate
Changes in perception
Unusually elevated energy or reduced need for sleep
Racing thoughts
Paranoia or suspiciousness
Difficulty determining what is real
Suicidal thoughts or an inability to care for yourself
Integration counseling may be appropriate for some concerns, but it is not a substitute for emergency, medical, psychiatric, or higher-level treatment.
If symptoms indicate an urgent safety concern, medical complication, mania, psychosis, severe dissociation, suicidal or homicidal intent, inability to care for yourself, or another serious condition, you may be directed to emergency services or referred for immediate evaluation.
A Grounded Approach to Insight
An experience may bring forward a thought, belief, memory, image, or sense of certainty that feels extremely important.
Integration counseling allows these experiences to be explored respectfully without automatically treating them as literal facts.
A memory-like experience is not necessarily proof that a particular event occurred exactly as remembered. A sense of spiritual certainty is not necessarily a clinical fact. A powerful feeling about a relationship does not necessarily require immediate action. An altered-state conclusion should not automatically replace careful decision-making, medical advice, or ongoing mental-health treatment.
A grounded integration process may ask:
What did this experience mean to you?
What emotions did it bring forward?
How does it relate to your known history?
What parts remain uncertain?
What other explanations might be possible?
Does this interpretation support or disrupt your functioning?
What would it look like to explore this slowly?
Is there a safe, realistic action consistent with your values?
Would additional clinical or medical evaluation be appropriate?
The goal is not to dismiss your experience. It is to help you understand it without losing sight of context, uncertainty, safety, and your whole story.
Therapeutic Approach
Jennifer provides trauma-informed, collaborative, and client-centered counseling.
Her work may draw from approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Internal Family Systems-informed work, attachment-based therapy, existential therapy, and other evidence-informed counseling methods when clinically appropriate.
The therapeutic approach depends on your needs rather than on a belief that every psychedelic experience should be interpreted in the same way.
Counseling may focus on:
Emotional regulation
Grounding
Trauma responses
Values clarification
Cognitive flexibility
Self-compassion
Boundaries
Attachment patterns
Coping skills
Meaning-making
Behavioral change
Relationship concerns
Grief
Identity
Life transitions
Restoring daily functioning
Psychedelic Preparation and Integration Counseling does not replace ordinary psychotherapy. For some clients, the most appropriate recommendation may be to continue standard psychotherapy without psychedelic-focused work.
Screening and Clinical Appropriateness
Psychedelic-focused counseling is not appropriate for every person or every situation.
Before or during this work, Jennifer may ask about your:
Current symptoms
Mental-health diagnoses
Trauma history
History of mania or unusually elevated mood
History of psychosis
Dissociation
Suicidal or homicidal thoughts
Self-harm
Substance use
Substance-related problems
Previous reactions to psychedelic or other substances
Current medications and supplements
Sleep
Current medical and psychiatric care
Recent hospitalization
Ability to care for yourself
Support system
Current functioning
Physical location during counseling sessions
Participation in other treatment programs
Honest and current information is important. Withholding significant information may interfere with Jennifer’s ability to assess whether outpatient counseling remains clinically appropriate.
Jennifer may decline, pause, or discontinue this specialty service when:
The service is outside her professional competence or legal scope
The client is outside a jurisdiction where she is authorized to practice
The client is acutely impaired during the scheduled session
The client requires emergency intervention
Medical or psychiatric evaluation is needed
A higher level of care is appropriate
Substance-use treatment is needed
Continuing the service appears harmful or ineffective
The counseling relationship cannot be maintained safely or ethically
Continuing would conflict with law, professional ethics, licensing requirements, or practice policy
When clinically appropriate, Jennifer will discuss referrals or transition planning with the client.
Confidentiality and Clinical Records
Information you share in counseling is handled according to the practice’s general informed consent, Notice of Privacy Practices, and applicable law.
Confidentiality is important, but it is not absolute. Information may be disclosed when you authorize disclosure or when disclosure is permitted or required by law. Examples may include certain circumstances involving:
Suspected abuse or neglect
Serious safety concerns
Court orders
Legal proceedings
Health oversight
Healthcare operations
Other disclosures permitted or required by law
Clinical records may include relevant information you disclose about substance use, psychedelic experiences, symptoms, risks, treatment needs, referrals, and clinical decisions.
Discussing an experience in therapy does not mean the counselor is agreeing to conceal evidence, make false statements, obstruct an investigation, or participate in unlawful activity.
Electronic communication may carry privacy risks and should not be used for urgent assistance.
Separate Informed Consent Is Required
Before Psychedelic Preparation and Integration Counseling begins, clients must review and sign a separate Psychedelic Preparation and Integration Counseling Informed Consent.
The specialty informed consent explains:
The nature and purpose of the service
The online-only format
The counselor’s professional scope
Activities the counselor does not provide
Legal limitations
Client responsibilities
Potential benefits
Material risks
Alternatives
Health-information expectations
Referral and discontinuation circumstances
Emergency limitations
Confidentiality
Provider coordination
Private-pay requirements
Voluntary participation
The specialty informed consent supplements—and does not replace—the practice’s general informed consent, telehealth consent, Notice of Privacy Practices, financial agreement, and emergency policies.
Signing the consent does not mean that a client intends to use a psychedelic substance. It does not mean that any proposed use is legal or medically safe. It does not mean that Jennifer has recommended a psychedelic experience.
A Thoughtful, Grounded Place to Begin
You do not have to describe a psychedelic experience as healing, spiritual, traumatic, or life-changing to discuss it in therapy.
You can be hopeful, uncertain, skeptical, disappointed, frightened, curious, or still deciding what the experience meant.
Psychedelic Preparation and Integration Counseling offers a grounded space to examine the experience without judgment, pressure, or the assumption that every altered-state experience contains a clear answer.
The work remains focused on your safety, mental health, history, values, relationships, and whole story.
All Psychedelic Preparation and Integration Counseling sessions are provided online.
No in-person preparation, integration, administration, facilitation, guiding, monitoring, or trip-sitting services are offered.
At the beginning of each online session, you may be asked to confirm your physical location. You must be physically located in a jurisdiction where Jennifer is legally authorized to provide professional counseling when the service occurs.
Jennifer currently provides online counseling to eligible clients physically located in:
Texas
Colorado
Florida
Vermont
Licensure or registration in a state does not guarantee that this specialty service will be appropriate for every client.
If you travel outside an authorized jurisdiction, your session may need to be rescheduled or canceled. You are responsible for informing Jennifer of your actual physical location.
Online counseling also has practical limitations. Technology may fail, internet service may be interrupted, and electronic communication may carry privacy risks. Clients should participate from a reasonably private location and should not attend a session while driving.
The practice’s general telehealth consent and policies also apply to this service.
Private Pay Service
Insurance is not accepted for Psychedelic Preparation and Integration Counseling at this time.
This is a private-pay service. Mending Hearts Counseling LLC will not submit insurance claims for this service.
Clients are responsible for all fees under the practice’s financial agreement. The financial agreement also governs payment, cancellations, missed appointments, and other billing matters.
What This Counseling May Include
Within Jennifer’s professional counseling scope, this service may include:
Individual psychotherapy
Psychoeducation
Mental-health assessment
Exploration of intentions and expectations
Values clarification
Trauma-informed preparation
Harm-reduction-oriented discussion
Emotional processing
Grounding and coping strategies
Crisis and safety planning
Exploration of consent and boundaries
Identification of warning signs
Discussion of alternatives
Referral to qualified professionals
Coordination with authorized healthcare providers after receiving appropriate written permission
Development of realistic therapeutic goals
Support returning to ordinary routines and relationships
The counseling remains focused on your mental and emotional health.
What This Counseling Does Not Include
Psychedelic Preparation and Integration Counseling does not include:
Prescribing psychedelic substances
Recommending that you use a psychedelic substance
Providing or selling substances
Purchasing substances for you
Possessing or storing substances
Transporting or delivering substances
Helping you obtain a substance
Referring you to an underground supplier
Connecting you with an unlawful facilitator
Arranging a ceremony, retreat, or psychedelic session
Providing individualized dosing or redosing instructions
Advising you how to combine substances
Advising medication or supplement changes
Testing a substance
Confirming a substance’s identity, purity, potency, or safety
Medical screening or medical clearance
Monitoring blood pressure, heart rate, or other physical signs
Treating a physical reaction
Administering a substance
Supervising substance use
Guiding or facilitating a psychedelic experience
Serving as a trip sitter
Remaining on call during an experience
Providing emergency response
Concealing evidence or participating in unlawful conduct
These boundaries apply even if a client believes that a psychedelic experience may be therapeutic.
Medical Questions and Medication Concerns
Jennifer is a Licensed Professional Counselor. She does not provide medical care, medical advice, medical clearance, medication management, or pharmacological guidance.
Questions concerning physical risks, medical conditions, prescription medications, over-the-counter medications, supplements, interactions, contraindications, or the safety of a substance must be directed to an appropriately licensed physician, prescribing clinician, or pharmacist.
Jennifer will not advise you to begin, discontinue, reduce, increase, or otherwise change a medication or supplement.
A mental-health assessment is not medical clearance. Participation in counseling does not mean that a psychedelic experience has been determined to be medically safe.
Emergency and Crisis Limitations
Mending Hearts Counseling LLC is an outpatient counseling practice. It does not provide continuous monitoring, medical supervision, detoxification, emergency response, or on-call psychedelic support.
Do not rely on voicemail, email, text messaging, or the client portal for urgent assistance.
Seek immediate emergency help if you experience:
Suicidal or homicidal intent
Dangerous behavior
Severe agitation
Loss of contact with reality
Inability to care for yourself
Chest pain
Seizure
Loss of consciousness
A serious physical reaction
Another medical or psychiatric emergency
For an emergency, call 911 or go to the nearest emergency department. In the United States, you may call or text 988 for crisis support.
Emergency services may involve law enforcement or other responders depending on the circumstances.
Potential Risks and Limitations
Counseling itself may involve emotional discomfort. Discussing, recalling, or attempting to understand a psychedelic experience may temporarily increase:
Anxiety
Shame
Grief
Confusion
Dissociation
Sleep disturbance
Traumatic memories
Emotional sensitivity
Relationship conflict
Other mental-health symptoms
Psychedelic substances may be associated with serious psychological, physical, interpersonal, and legal risks. These may include panic, impaired judgment, accidents, exploitation, boundary violations, suicidal thinking, mania, psychosis, prolonged perceptual changes, substance-related problems, or destabilization of an existing mental-health condition.
Psychotherapy cannot eliminate or medically manage these risks.
Jennifer cannot confirm the identity, contents, purity, potency, legality, or safety of any substance. She cannot guarantee that an experience will be safe, therapeutic, meaningful, or beneficial.
No particular insight, symptom reduction, improvement, or lasting change is promised.
Clear Professional Boundaries
These boundaries protect the client, the therapeutic relationship, and the counselor’s professional scope. No referral relationship means endorsement. Coordination with another provider does not transfer medical responsibility to Mending Hearts Counseling or mean that Mending Hearts Counseling endorses every service or decision of that provider.
Coordination with Other Providers
With your written authorization, Jennifer may communicate with an appropriately licensed physician, prescriber, pharmacist, treatment program, therapist, or other healthcare provider when coordination is clinically appropriate.
Coordination may involve sharing information relevant to safety, treatment planning, continuity of care, or the appropriateness of continued outpatient counseling.
Coordination does not transfer medical responsibility to Jennifer or Mending Hearts Counseling.
A referral does not guarantee that another provider is appropriate for you, and coordination does not mean that Jennifer endorses every service, recommendation, or decision made by another provider.
If you are receiving psychotherapy from another mental-health professional, coordination may be necessary to prevent conflicting treatment, duplication of services, or confusion about clinical responsibility.
Safety, screening, and referrals
Psychedelic-focused counseling cannot eliminate risk. Honest, current health information helps determine whether outpatient counseling remains appropriate.
Information clients should disclose
Current symptoms and mental-health diagnoses
History of mania, psychosis, dissociation, suicidality, or severe substance-related problems
Prescription medications, over-the-counter medications, and supplements
Recent substance use, prior reactions, and significant changes in health or functioning
Concurrent therapy, medical care, or participation in another treatment program
When care may be paused or referred
The counselor may decline, pause, or discontinue this specialty service when it is outside the counselor’s competence or legal scope; when the client requires medical, psychiatric, substance-use, emergency, or higher-level treatment; when the work appears harmful or ineffective; or when continuing would conflict with law, ethics, professional standards, or practice policy.
An appropriately licensed physician, prescribing clinician, or pharmacist must evaluate physical risks, contraindications, and medication interactions.
Important legal and clinical information:
Legal status
The legality of psychedelic substances and related services varies by substance, location, setting, and program. Some substances remain illegal under Texas and federal law except in specifically authorized circumstances. Counseling does not make possession or use legal and does not approve, encourage, authorize, or facilitate unlawful conduct.
Clients remain responsible for their choices and for following the law where they are located and where any experience occurs. Jennifer L. Hillier and Mending Hearts Counseling LLC will not conceal evidence, make false statements, obstruct an investigation, or participate in illegal activity.
Not medical care
This service is not medical advice, medical treatment, medical clearance, medication management, or a substitute for care from a physician or other authorized medical professional. The counselor cannot confirm the identity, purity, potency, legality, or safety of any substance and cannot guarantee that an experience will be safe or beneficial.
Risks and results
Discussing or recalling experiences may temporarily increase anxiety, shame, grief, confusion, dissociation, sleep disturbance, traumatic memories, interpersonal conflict, or other symptoms. Psychedelic substances may be associated with serious psychological or physical harms, including panic, impaired judgment, accidents, exploitation, suicidal thinking, mania, psychosis, prolonged perceptual changes, and destabilization. No outcome, insight, symptom relief, or lasting change is promised.
Confidentiality
Clinical information is handled under the practice’s general informed consent, Notice of Privacy Practices, and applicable law. Confidentiality has legal exceptions, including suspected abuse or neglect, serious safety concerns, court orders or legal proceedings, health oversight, payment, and healthcare operations. Clinical records may include relevant information a client discloses about substance use or psychedelic experiences.
Insurance and billing
Insurance coverage is not accepted. This type of service under your mental health plan may be considered noncovered, experimental, investigational, or not medically necessary. Any claim will describe the psychotherapy actually provided and, when required, the condition being treated. The client remains responsible under the practice’s financial agreement and applicable law.
Informed consent
Before this specialty service begins, clients must review and sign a separate Psychedelic Preparation and Integration Counseling Informed Consent. That document supplements—rather than replaces—the practice’s general consent, telehealth consent, Notice of Privacy Practices, financial agreement, and emergency policies.
Emergency care
Mending Hearts Counseling LLC is an outpatient practice. It does not provide continuous monitoring, medical supervision, detoxification, emergency response, or on-call trip support. Do not use voicemail, email, text, or the client portal for urgent help.
For a medical or psychiatric emergency, call 911 or go to the nearest emergency department. In the United States, call or text 988 for crisis support.
Legal Status and Client Responsibility
The legal status of psychedelic substances and related services varies according to the substance, location, setting, and type of program.
Some psychedelic substances remain illegal under Texas and federal law except in specifically authorized circumstances. Laws in another state or locality do not necessarily change federal law or make an activity lawful in Texas.
Psychedelic Preparation and Integration Counseling does not make the possession, purchase, transportation, distribution, or use of a substance legal.
Receiving counseling does not constitute permission, approval, encouragement, or authorization to violate the law.
Clients remain responsible for their own choices and for learning and following the laws that apply where they are located and where any experience occurs.
Jennifer L. Hillier and Mending Hearts Counseling LLC will not:
Participate in illegal activity
Purchase or possess a substance for a client
Transport a substance
Arrange unlawful services
Connect a client with an unlawful source
Conceal evidence
Make false statements
Obstruct an investigation
This webpage provides general information. It is not legal advice.
Frequently Asked Questions:
Do you provide psychedelic-assisted therapy?
No. Jennifer L. Hillier provides psychotherapy and psychoeducation before or after an experience through Mending Hearts Counseling LLC. Neither the counselor nor the practice provides, prescribes, administers, or supervises psychedelic substances.
Can you tell me what dose to take or how to obtain a substance?
No. The counselor does not provide individualized dosing, sourcing, drug-combination, medication-adjustment, or administration instructions and does not connect clients with underground suppliers or facilitators.
Can you medically clear me for an experience?
No. An appropriately licensed medical professional must evaluate medical safety, physical contraindications, and medication interactions. A counseling assessment is not medical clearance.
Can I discuss an experience that involved illegal use?
You may discuss clinically relevant experiences in therapy. Confidentiality is governed by the practice’s policies and applicable law and is subject to legal exceptions. Counseling does not authorize or facilitate illegal conduct.
Is this appropriate for everyone?
No. Appropriateness depends on current symptoms, history, stability, treatment needs, location, and other clinical factors. The counselor may recommend standard psychotherapy, medical or psychiatric evaluation, substance-use treatment, or a higher level of care.
Is insurance accepted for this service?
No. Insurance is not accepted for Psychedelic Preparation and Integration Counseling at this time. This is a private-pay service, and Mending Hearts Counseling LLC will not submit insurance claims.
