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Client Reflections

Curious what it’s like to work with me? Here's what a few of my clients had to say about our time together.

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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."

Sheila Thiele

Therapist, MA Clinical Psychology

Connected Therapy

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.

Adele

"My experience with David has been nothing short of transformational. He walked alongside me through every step of my healing journey, listening with an intuitive heart, offering support and guidance while sharing his expert knowledge of IFS and journey integration."

Amy

"If you are looking to expand your mind and open your heart, I can’t recommend David enough. The journey is mentally restorative, spiritually enriching, and profoundly effective."

Jasmyn

"It is not the traditional talk-style therapy that leaves many in a depressive cycle, as he pushes you to connect deeply with each of your emotions as a way to fully understand them and bring yourself relief."

Gabriel

"If you want to get everything possible out of your plant medicine journey, look no further than David. He is kind, supportive, and generous with his time — and extremely knowledgeable and compassionate. I wouldn't want anyone else, and I plan to be a repeat client."

James

"David ensured that I was comfortable and safe and monitored me throughout my journey, which kept me at ease and allowed me to focus. I highly recommend him."

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 highly recommended for his sensitivity, empathy, and care throughout the process."

Jason

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

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. He makes you feel comfortable sharing your story, and his empathy and passion mean the world to me."

Carol

"I can't thank David enough for the help and support he's provided. He created a safe, judgment-free space where I always felt comfortable. Whatever you're going through, I'm certain David can help."

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Ember Integration

You Are The Medicine

Based in Denver, Colorado, I’ve spent over a decade helping people safely explore non-ordinary states of consciousness through education, preparation, and intention-centered support.

I’m David, founder and private consultant at Ember Integration. I'm not a shaman or a therapist, not a guide or even a coach. I don’t “facilitate” anything.

You do.

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

Through education, preparation, and intention setting, I help clients meet their own inner healer and clarify what they want to bring into their lives before embarking on a plant medicine journey.

I also provide harm reduction and integration support, and help those interested in cultivating their own natural medicine in Colorado do so in accordance with state and local laws.

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

Each person carries his own doctor inside them. We are at our best when we give the doctor who resides in each person a chance to go to work.

Albert Schweitzer

Together we can:

  • Explore the transformative potential of plant medicine with personalized guidance.
  • Discuss safe microdosing protocols with initial and ongoing consultations.
  • Discuss how to cultivate your own medicine in one-on-one or small group sessions, where sanctioned by state and local laws.
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I occasionally share updates about upcoming retreats, live events, new offerings, and Inner Compass blog posts that explore psychedelic research, current news, and thoughtful ways to work with psychedelics safely and with intention. Now that you’re here, I’d love to stay connected.

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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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Microdosing Support
Microdosing Support

Microdosing support begins with an initial session focused on screening, readiness, and important cautions, including medication considerations such as SSRI use.

The process also helps clients clarify what they hope to cultivate through microdosing, understand limitations, research findings, what to expect, and establish a safe, sustainable protocol supported by journaling and regular reflection.

Ongoing sessions offer space to check in on the experience over time, track whether the process is supporting goals, and make careful adjustments when needed.

$90 Initial Session | $65 Ongoing Reduced rates available for those with financial need—let’s talk.
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Preparation & Readiness
General Journey Preparation

If you are considering an intentional natural medicine journey and want to make sure you are a good candidate, this support is designed to help you prepare.

We will explore physical health, mental wellness, medications and contraindications, set and setting, and intention-setting practices so you can move forward with greater confidence.

$100 / 1 Session | $180 / 2 Sessions Reduced rates available for those with financial need—let’s talk.
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Integration Support
Turning Insight Into Daily Life

Integration support helps clients make sense of a journey and carry its insights into daily life with greater clarity, confidence, and intention.

Sessions often begin by revisiting the strongest images, emotions, symbols, and themes that surfaced during the experience. From there, the work focuses on helping clients reflect, make meaning for themselves, and identify practical next steps, while keeping them in the driver’s seat of the process.

$180 / 2 Sessions | $210 / 3 Sessions Reduced pricing available for those with financial need—just let me know.
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Flexible one-time support for personalized natural medicine questions
One-Time Support
Single Sessions for Specific Questions
While I offer free one-hour initial consults, these one-time sessions are designed for people who want focused support around specific questions or custom concerns. You may want guidance around cultivation, preparation, or microdosing—or support that touches more than one area at once. This is a flexible space to get thoughtful, personalized answers without committing to a larger package.
$100 / 1 Session Reduced rates available for those with financial need—let’s talk.
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Preparation & Intention
Inquiry-Based Intention Setting

Before a natural medicine journey, setting a clear intention helps anchor the experience. Over 2–3 one-hour sessions, this process helps clients explore what they most want to bring into their lives by looking carefully at different areas of experience, including body, mind, relationships, community, nature, creativity, and spiritual life when relevant.

From there, the work focuses on identifying what feels most out of alignment and shaping an intention that supports deeper understanding rather than forcing a specific outcome.

$180 / 2 Sessions | $210 / 3 Sessions Reduced pricing available for those with financial need—just let me know.
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Inner Systems Prep
Preparing Your Inner System for the Journey

This offering goes beyond general journey preparation by helping clients understand the inner parts of themselves that may arise before or during an experience.

Across 2–3 sessions, we use a gentle Internal Family Systems-informed framework to identify protective patterns such as fear, anger, or control, build greater familiarity with how they show up, and strengthen trust in a more grounded inner leadership.

The goal is to help clients approach the journey with greater self-awareness and equip them with practical tools for navigating difficult moments if they arise.

$180 / 2 Sessions | $210 / 3 Sessions Reduced rate options available for those with financial need—just ask.
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Full Circle Support
Preparation, Intention Setting & Integration Support

This package combines preparation, intention setting, inner systems preparation, and integration into one more complete arc of support before and after a journey.

Clients have space to assess readiness, explore contraindications and practical considerations, clarify what feels most out of balance in life right now, prepare for protective patterns that may arise during the experience, and then return afterward to reflect, make meaning for themselves, and carry insight into daily life with greater confidence.

$340 / 4 Sessions | $420 / 5 Sessions Sliding scale available upon request.
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Cultivation Guidance
Hands-On Mushroom Cultivation in Colorado

This in-home service is designed for Colorado clients who want hands-on support learning how to cultivate, harvest, dry, and store their own entheogenic medicine.

Sessions cover the foundations of good mushroom cultivation, including clean technique, inoculation, contamination prevention, environmental conditions, and repeatable home-growing practices. A portable laminar flow hood is brought on-site for live demonstrations and technique training, with up to 4 people able to participate at once.

$300 / 4-Hour In-Person Class Includes up to 4 participants. Supply costs billed separately.
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Field Guides

A Light For You

Free, downloadable guides to support different stages of 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.

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Plant Medicine Preparation

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

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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.

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Goal Setting & Action Planning

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

Explore Guide

Microdosing 101

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

Explore Guide

SSRIs & Psilocybin

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

Explore Guide

"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

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The Inner Compass

Writing devoted to one simple idea: you can trust yourself

"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

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