Leah Hoffman, LCSW
LICSW, LCSW
Minneapolis MN
I believe psychedelic work deserves space to be approached with curiosity, care, and respect for whatever may unfold. I work with clients before and after psychedelic experiences, and our work will look different depending on where you are in the process and what you’re bringing with you.
In preparation, we’ll spend time getting curious about what is drawing you to this experience, what you’re hoping for, what you may be nervous about, and what parts of you might have different feelings about moving forward. We can talk about intentions without putting pressure on the experience to unfold in a particular way.
In integration, we slow things down and spend time with what emerged. That might mean returning to an image or memory, sitting with an emotion or sensation, spending time with a particular part of you, processing something that still feels unresolved, or simply giving something more room before deciding what it means.
I don’t see my role as interpreting your psychedelic experience for you. I’m much more interested in helping you stay curious about what came forward, explore it from different angles, and listen for what may be asking for your attention.
I also work with couples in psychedelic preparation and integration. Here, we can explore what the experience brought forward about your relationship, the patterns between you, and what each of you may be seeing or understanding differently afterward.
My path into psychedelic healing has been both professional and deeply personal. I came to this work after years as a therapist, already drawn to experiences that invite us to slow down, turn inward, and relate to ourselves differently.
Over time, that curiosity led me into ketamine-assisted psychotherapy training, breathwork, and sacred space holding through immersive experiences with traditional teachers that have deeply shaped the way I understand this work. I’m also completing a upcomming MAPS MDMA-Assisted Therapy Training in Italy, continuing to deepen the clinical foundation I bring to psychedelic work.
What I’ve found along the way is a deep respect for the way psychedelic experiences can open something that may be difficult to access in our everyday lives. I’m especially drawn to the tenderness of this work—the opportunity to meet parts of ourselves we may have spent years avoiding, protecting, judging, or simply not knowing were there.
I bring my background in trauma, attachment, relationships, and parts work into this space, along with a genuine respect for the mystery of psychedelic experiences. I don’t believe everything needs to be explained or neatly interpreted. Sometimes the work is learning how to stay curious about what showed up and listen to what it may have to tell us.
Psychedelic Preparation
Individual and couples sessions for those preparing for an upcoming psychedelic or plant medicine experience. We’ll create space to explore your intentions, questions, fears, expectations, and anything else you want to bring into the experience with you.
Psychedelic Integration
Support following a psychedelic or plant medicine experience, whether it was recent or happened some time ago. Integration gives us space to explore what emerged, process anything that feels unfinished or difficult, and spend more time with the pieces of the experience that continue to stay with you.
Preparation + Integration
For those who want support throughout the process, we can work together both before and after your experience, creating continuity between preparation, the experience itself, and what comes afterward.
Healing Intensives
Extended sessions for those who want more time and space than a traditional therapy hour allows. Intensives can be particularly helpful for deeper preparation or integration work and may incorporate parts work, trauma processing, experiential approaches, mindfulness, and breathwork depending on what feels most useful for you.