Plant Medicine Integration, Psychedelic Coaching & Healing Support in Denver, CO | Ember Integration

About Ember Integration

Based in Denver, CO, Ember Integration offers support for individuals exploring plant medicine, psychedelic experiences, and non-ordinary states of consciousness. Our services include integration coaching, mindfulness-based preparation, and emotional processing tools to help you heal and grow.

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Client Reflections

If you’re curious what it’s like to engage in this kind of work with me, here's what a few of my clients had to say about our time together.

Sam

"My experience with David as my guide was a gift. I felt safe and comfortable. He is thorough, yet it just feels effortless from him; which is such a reassuring energy to bring to what would otherwise feel like such a heavy experience.

The journeys I have taken subsequently have carried the best elements of my journey with David at my side."

Sheila Thiele
Therapist, MA Clinical Psychology
Connected Therapy

David was instrumental in my healing journey. He helped me integrate my journey experience as well as process residual trauma.

I work as a licensed therapist, and I am constantly impressed by David’s knowledge, intuition, and deep understanding of the psyche, IFS, and journey integration.

James

"David guided me through my life-changing experience. I gained a tremendous amount of understanding as a result of his knowledge and experience.

David ensured that I was comfortable and safe and monitored me throughout my journey. That kept me at ease and allowed me to focus on what I was learning. I highly recommend this experienced guide."

Olivia

"You can trust David to be with you every step of the way. As a woman looking to undergo this experience, it was important for me to be in safe hands. David came to me highly recommended for his sensitivity, empathy, and care throughout the process."

Jason

"This microdosing journey has been such an extraordinary one. I’ve never experienced a bliss like this. I look at things different now. I look at my son and can be present, and the mundane things in life seem to have more purpose.

This journey has been so rewarding and David is such a wonderful person to have in your corner with this experience."

Saif

"For the first time in a long while, it feels like I finally have control over my emotions...David also helped me recognize parts of myself I didn’t know existed."

Kim

"David has been instrumental in helping me connect the dots in my life and has made me feel comfortable sharing my story and the challenges I've overcome.

Thank you, David, for bringing clarity and balance into my life! Your empathy, passion, and understanding mean the world to me."

Carol

"I can't thank David enough for all the help and support he's provided me. For the first time in a long while, it feels like I finally have control over my emotions. He created a safe and judgment-free space where I always felt very comfortable to speak in.

David also helped me recognize parts of myself I didn’t know existed. Whatever you’re going through, I’m certain David can help."

Field Guides

A Light For You

Enjoy these free, downloadable guides I use with clients to support different stages of non-ordinary state and plant medicine journeys—from setting intentions, to assessing readiness and preparation, to integrating what you've learned along the way.

Guides Overview

Mindful Intention Setting

Craft a compassionate intention to anchor your journey. Reflective questions and exercises help you identify what you want to invite into your life.

Plant Medicine Preparation

Practical steps to assess readiness, set intentions, understand what may come up during a journey and navigate challenging experiences.

Post-Journey Integration

Use this workbook to reflect, integrate insights, and turn your experience into ongoing growth in the days and weeks after your journey.

Goal Setting & Action Planning

Transform insights into intentional action. Set meaningful goals and plan your next steps after a transformative experience.

Microdosing 101

A guide to help you assess readiness and risks, learn basic dosing protocols, and explore research-backed insight into psilocybin microdosing.

SSRIs & Psilocybin

Understand how SSRIs interact with psilocybin, their impact on experience, and what to consider before tapering or combining therapies.

"Within each of us, there once was a fire. For some of us, it seems as if there are only ashes now. But when we dig in the ashes we find one ember. The only thing that matters is that ember."

— Ram Dass

Start Your Journey

The Inner Compass

Writing devoted to one simple idea: you can trust yourself

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Mindful Microdosing: The Science, Benefits and Risks

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How to Set and Ground Your Intentions

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The Ultimate Guide to Morning Pages

"Each patient carries his own doctor inside him. They come to us not knowing this truth. We are at our best when we give the doctor who resides in each person a chance to go to work."

—Albert Schweitzer

Start Your Journey

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I offer flexible support designed to meet you where you are.

Sliding scale rates available to keep support accessible to all.

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$70 Initial Session | $50 Ongoing
Need flexibility? Reduced rates available for those with financial need—let’s talk

Microdosing Support & Personalized Protocols

Microdosing involves taking small, doses of plant medicine on a flexible protocol. People often turn to microdosing for help with anxiety, depression, burnout, or to deepen self-awareness and connection.

  • Guidance around common risk factors
  • Protocol planning with insight on strains, cycles, and tracking progress
  • Ongoing clients receive monthly consultation sessions plus responsive support between check-ins

I offer consultations that include readiness assessments, personalized protocol planning, and—where permitted by state and local law—support around cultivation and preparation for personal use. We can also explore how to track effects over time and stay attuned to your inner life through various practices.

Always speak with a licensed healthcare professional before beginning any microdosing protocol.

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Microdosing Support

New to microdosing or refining your approach? I offer one-time and ongoing guidance, protocol planning, and monthly support.

$70 Initial Session | $50 Ongoing
Need flexibility? Reduced rates available for those with financial need—let’s talk
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$300 | 4-Hour In-Person Class
Includes up to 6 participants • Supply costs billed separately

Hands-On Mushroom Cultivation in Colorado

I offer hands-on instruction in Colorado, right in your home (or home away from home). In these 3 to 4 hour classes, you’ll learn everything you need to prepare, grow, and harvest your own entheogenic medicine in alignment with Colorado’s Natural Medicine Health Act.

Learn how to:

  • Use a portable laminar flow hood to ensure clean inoculations
  • Safely inoculate grain spawn bags or jars in your own space
  • Cultivate, harvest, dry, and store your mushrooms
  • Operate within Colorado’s Natural Medicine Health Act for personal use and sharing

By the end of the course, you’ll have a cleanly inoculated grow bag—and the confidence to cultivate on your own (where sanctioned by state and local law).

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Grow Mushrooms at Home

With hands-on experience, I offer in-person guidance—at your home or home away from home—to help you grow your own entheogenic mushrooms safely, ethically, and legally.

$300 / 3-Hour In-Person Class
Includes up to 6 participants • Supply costs billed separately
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$180 / 2 Sessions
$210 / 3 Sessions
Reduced pricing available for those with financial need—just let me know.

Inquiry-Based Intention Setting

Before a plant medicine journey, setting a clear intention helps anchor the experience. Over 2–3 one-hour sessions, we’ll explore your inner life using a process rooted in somatic awareness and compassionate self-inquiry.

Each session offers:

  • Guided inquiry across four or five core lenses: Body, Mind, Community, Spirit, and Nature
  • Thoughtful intention refinement through compassionate inquiry
  • A full summary of insights, intention, and personalized practices to carry with you into your journey

Together, we’ll craft a journey intention centered on what you most want to understand, transform, or invite into your life.

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Inquiry-Based Intention Setting

Psychedelic journeys are shaped by mindset and environment. A clear, grounded intention can help focus your journey experience and reduce the likelihood of turbulence.

Over 2–3 sessions, we’ll explore the terrain of your inner life through a somatic and inquiry-based process. For new journeyers, these sessions offer:

  • Personalized pacing that meets you where you are
  • Guided Inquiry across four lenses: Body, Mind, Community, and Nature
  • Conversation-based intention shaping + optional rituals
$180 – 2 Sessions | $210 – 3 Sessions Reduced rate options available for those with financial need – just ask.
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$180 – 2 Sessions | $210 – 3 Sessions Reduced rate options available for those with financial need – just ask.

Preparing Your Inner System for the Journey

When we enter altered states, we don’t travel alone—a whole inner system comes with us. Sometimes, parts of us that are anxious, protective, or wounded by the past can shape the experience in ways we didn’t expect making even a well-intentioned journey confusing or overwhelming.

  • Meet inner parts most likely to surface in altered states—from anxious protectors to wounded exiles
  • Learn to relate to these parts with curiosity and compassion instead of fear or resistance
  • Understand your inner system’s needs so the journey supports healing rather than reactivation

In these 2–3 preparatory sessions, we’ll gently explore your internal landscape. Using Internal Family Systems informed approaches, we’ll get to know the voices and feelings that might show up during your experience and learn to interact with them so you'll be more grounded during your journey.

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Gentle Self-Exploration for Journey Prep

Before your journey, take time to connect with the inner parts of you that might show up during the experience. These 2–3 prep sessions use simple tools to help you understand your emotional landscape—and support a more grounded, insightful journey.

$180 – 2 Sessions • $210 – 3 Sessions Includes written summary + personalized practices
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$360 – 4 Sessions | $440 – 5 Sessions Let’s make it work — sliding scale available upon request.
Explore Full Circle Support

Full Circle Journey Preparation, Intention Setting & Integration Support

With over a decade of experience working with plant medicine, I offer personalized coaching to help you safely prepare for—and integrate after—non-ordinary states of consciousness. Full-Circle preparation and support includes:

  • Assessement of your readiness, clarifying potential risks, and learning what to expect and how to respond
  • Crafting a personalized journey intention using a structured, five-lens approach
  • Post-journey support with follow-up sessions, goal-setting, and microdosing guidance if needed

Reduced cost options are available for those experiencing financial hardship—just ask.

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Full Circle Journey Support

With over a decade of experience, I offer personalized coaching to help you prepare for—and integrate after—non-ordinary states.

I offer single sessions or 4–6 session packages to support you at every stage:

  • Readiness + risk assessment
  • Structured intention setting
  • Integration + follow-up support
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You Are The Medicine

Based in Denver, Colorado, I’ve spent over a decade helping people safely explore non-ordinary states of consciousness.

Together we can:

  • Discuss safe microdosing protocols with initial and ongoing consultations.
  • Learn how to cultivate your own medicine in one-on-one or small group sessions (where sanctioned by state and local laws)
  • Explore the transformative potential of plant medicine with personalized guidance
  • I’m not a therapist or guide. I don’t ‘facilitate’ anything. No one does.

    You're the guide, you're the healer. You can trust yourself.

    Through education, preparation and intention setting, I help meet clients meet their own inner healer and clarify what they want to bring into their lives.

    Think of me as a park ranger — someone who knows the trails and terrain, who helps you orient to where you are, and reconnect with your own intuitive compass. On your terms. At your pace.