Psychedelic Integration: Psychotherapy for Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness

Marc Aixala is an engineer, psychologist, psychotherapist and certified Holotropic Breathwork facilitator, specialized in supporting people who face challenging experiences with expanded states of consciousness. Over the last 5 years, he has supported hundreds of people through the ICEERS Integration & Support Service and he has worked for KosmiCare psychedelic crisis intervention since 2010. He has been trained in the therapeutic use of Non Ordinary States of Consciousness as well as in MDMA assisted-psychotherapy for PTSD by MAPS and the use of psilocybin for treatment-resistant depression. Marc is now working as a therapist in a clinical trial with psilocybin in Sant Joan de Deu Hospital in Barcelona where he also mentors other psychedelic therapists. He has experience as a Team Leader and Trainer in emergency psychological assistance for people going through difficult psychedelic experiences at Boom Festival (Kosmicare 2010-2016). Marc collaborates with ICEERS (International Center for Ethnobotanical Education Research and Service) by offering integration psychotherapy sessions for people in challenging situations after psychedelic experiences, developing theoretical models of intervention and training and supervising therapists. He works as a psychologist in his private practice in Barcelona and offers trainings, lectures and talks related to psychedelic psychotherapy and integration.

Jose Carlos Bouso is a Clinical Psychologist with a PhD in Pharmacology. He developed his scientific actitives while at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, the Instituto de Investigacion Biomedica IIB-Sant Pau de Barcelona, and the Instituto Hospital del Mar de Investigaciones Medicas de Barcelona (IMIM). During this time, he developed studies about the therapeutic effects of MDMA (ecstasy”) and psychopharmacological studies on the acute and neuropsychiatric long-term effects of many substances, both synthetic and plant origin. As the Scientific Director at ICEERS, Jose Carlos oversees studies on the potential benefits of psychoactive plants, principally cannabis, ayahuasca, and ibogaine, with the goal of improving public health. He is co-author of numerous scientific papers and several book chapters.