Healing that reaches the roots.
Training that changes the way care is delivered.
Embodied Illumination is a home for trauma-informed psychotherapy, psychedelic-assisted care, preparation and integration, professional consultation, supervision, and advanced clinician education.
We support individuals living with the lasting effects of trauma, chronic illness, attachment wounds, and nervous system dysregulation, while also equipping clinicians and facilitators to meet this work with greater skill, depth, integrity, and humanity. Our offerings include psychotherapy, ketamine-assisted therapy, psychedelic preparation and integration, professional consultation, supervision, and advanced clinical training.
With more than 25 years of experience in behavioral health, trauma treatment, somatic and attachment-based therapies, addiction recovery, and psychedelic medicine, our work brings rigorous clinical understanding into relationship with the sacred, embodied, and deeply personal nature of healing. We recognize that transformation rarely happens through insight alone. It unfolds through safety, connection, compassionate witnessing, and experiences that allow the body and nervous system to discover something new.
Whether you are seeking care for yourself, looking for support around a psychedelic experience, or wanting to deepen the way you serve others, you are welcome here. You do not have to arrive polished, certain, or untouched by the work. Come as you are. We will begin there.
Explore our Vision
Some people arrive here after years of understanding their lives intellectually while still feeling disconnected from their bodies, relationships, vitality, or sense of self. Others come because they are clinicians who love this work deeply and know they are being called into a more skillful, embodied, and sustainable way of holding it.
Wherever you are entering, you are welcome here.
Choose your pathway
Whether you are seeking care, deepening your professional practice, or following the evolution of the work, there is a place to begin here.
Healing + Personal Support
For those seeking a deeper relationship with themselves after trauma, chronic illness, emotional exhaustion, attachment wounds, or years of living in survival. Explore trauma-informed care, ketamine-assisted therapy, psychedelic preparation and integration, and other pathways designed to support meaningful, embodied healing.
For clinicians, facilitators, supervisors, and helping professionals who want to deepen their skill, strengthen their clinical judgment, and hold complex work with greater confidence, humility, and care. Explore supervision, consultation, advanced training, and professional education grounded in trauma, attachment, embodiment, ethics, and psychedelic-informed practice.
“We recognize that transformation rarely happens through insight alone. It unfolds through safety, connection, compassionate witnessing, and experiences that allow the body and nervous system to discover something new.”
Featured offerings
Ketamine-Assisted Therapy
A carefully prepared, trauma-informed approach to ketamine therapy that brings together psychological support, somatic awareness, attachment work, and meaningful integration. This work is designed to help people engage experiences that may be difficult to reach through insight alone, while remaining grounded in safety, relationship, and clinical discernment.
Healing deserves more than technique.
It deserves care that can hold the full complexity of being human.
At Embodied Illumination, we believe meaningful healing is both clinically rigorous and deeply relational. Our work is informed by neuroscience, trauma theory, attachment, somatic practice, contemplative wisdom, and psychedelic medicine, while remaining grounded in the understanding that no method or protocol can replace the experience of being met with safety, integrity, and genuine human presence.
We honor the body as part of the healing process, not simply a place where symptoms appear. We recognize the nervous system’s adaptations as intelligent responses to what a person has lived through. We approach psychedelic and altered-state work with humility, discernment, and respect for the vulnerability it can open.
Science matters here. Ethics matter here. Relationship matters here.
So do meaning, mystery, embodiment, and the sacred dimensions of becoming more fully alive.
Embodied Illumination exists to hold these ways of knowing together—and to help create care that is skillful enough, spacious enough, and human enough to meet the whole person.
Meet the humans
Professional Learning + Consultation
Why Embodied Illumination
Psychedelic Preparation + Integration
Support before and after psychedelic experiences can profoundly shape how those experiences are understood and carried forward. Preparation helps you approach the work with greater clarity, intention, and care. Integration creates space to make meaning of what emerged and translate insight into lasting changes in your relationship with yourself, your body, and your life.
Research, Writing + Emerging Work
For those who want to follow the ideas, questions, and developing work shaping Embodied Illumination. Explore writing, research, conversations, resources, and emerging initiatives at the intersection of trauma, consciousness, chronic illness, psychedelic medicine, and the future of human-centered care.
Supervision + Professional Training
For clinicians and facilitators who want to deepen their work without losing their humanity inside it. Our professional offerings bring together advanced clinical skill, trauma and attachment theory, psychedelic care, ethical reflection, and the inner work required to hold complexity with greater steadiness, humility, and integrity.
Michael Szymczak, Chief Strategy Officer
Come if you are seeking a deeper way of healing. Come if you are learning how to hold this work for others. Come if you believe science, relationship, embodiment, and the sacred belong in the same conversation.
Rooted in science. Guided by relationship. Open to Mystery.