Medicine Work

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A structured Preparation - Experience - Integration process for psychological exploration and spiritual awakening.

Who is this for?

  • You feel called to explore psychedelic therapy or entheogenic mysticism in a safe, legal, and relational container.

  • You want emotional clarity, healing, and deeper access to your inner world.

  • You’re navigating depression, trauma, relational patterns, or spiritual transformation and talk therapy alone hasn’t shifted things.

  • You want support before, during, and after a medicine experience - not just the experience itself.

Introduction to Medicine Work (free)

  • The lasting cost of the so called war on drugs.

  • Categories of medicines - Numbing vs Un-numbing

  • The Medicine work cycle - Preparation, Experience, Integration

  • Working with unconscious material - A Jungian Alchemical Approach

  • How to develop Set & Setting

  • Exploration of your needs and goals

This free session gives you clarity before you commit to the full process.

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The Medicine Work Cycle

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Preparation (~3 Session)

Sessions to prepare you for a medicine experience

  • Find the intention beneath the ego’s goals

  • Track emerging unconscious material through a Jungian lens

  • Set - develop and iterate your deepest intentions

  • Setting – create the container that can hold all of you

  • Role of the chaperone / sitter

  • Gain greater understanding of your chosen medicine

Experience

A medicine experience can support:

  • Releasing emotions you’ve been carrying for years

  • Gaining insight into patterns that no longer serve you

  • Reconnecting with your inner wisdom and intuition

  • Experiencing a sense of spiritual connection, meaning, or sacredness

  • Opening new possibilities where you once felt stuck

Integration (1 to 3 Sessions)

Integration helps your experience to land.

  • Reflecting on imagery, emotions, and insights

  • Exploring their psychological, symbolic, and spiritual significance

  • Connecting the experience to daily life, relationships, and choices

  • Identifying supportive practices, rituals, or meaningful changes

  • Discernment around whether additional cycles may be supportive

Meet Sophie Murphy

Sophie Murphy, LMFT

I am a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in Arlington Heights, Illinois, with extensive experience supporting clients in preparation and integration around psychedelic and entheogenic experiences. My work in this area is grounded in careful attention to ethics and the ancient traditions of sacred medicine work.

I have completed advanced training through the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago, IPI and MAPS with a focus on exploration of unconscious material within a solid, safe and secure container.

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