Audrey Keaney, MA
Psychotherapist
San Francisco CA
I aim to create a space where you can freely express and feel, while moving toward deeper engagement with your inner and outer worlds. In preparation work, we might explore your intentions, expectations, and inner resources, ensuring you feel grounded before entering an altered state. In integration work, I help you make sense of what has emerged — whether insights, difficult emotions, or expanded states — so these experiences can be carried into lasting change in your life. Together we will slow down, listen to the body, and make space for symbolic and imaginal material that often arises in these states. My goal is to help you connect with deeper layers of meaning and integrate these experiences into more authentic ways of being in relationship with yourself, others, and the world.
I am a therapist, researcher, and educator specializing in psychedelic preparation and integration within a depth-oriented and somatic framework. I am a doctoral candidate in Clinical Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute, where my dissertation research explores women’s experiences of awe during childbirth. This work reflects my broader commitment to understanding and supporting initiatory and transformative experiences, whether through birth, altered states, or the challenges of daily life. I hold a Master’s in Clinical Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute and a Bachelor of Science in Biopsychology, Cognition, and Neuroscience from the University of Michigan. In addition to my clinical practice, I am a certified yoga teacher and teach at the Palo Alto VA, where I also support clinical trials investigating yoga as a treatment for Alzheimer’s disease, chronic pain, and Lyme disease.
Psychedelic Integration and Preparation