Psychedelic integration coaching, for men.
Because trips are great, but we still have to unpack when we get back.
Freedom to explore. Tools to transform.
This is Make The Turn psychedelic integration coaching.
Meet Eric
My Why
I’m a psychedelic integration coach because I love to work with people who are open. I think some of the best connections we can make to ourselves, to others, and to our world happen when our biggest questions are given space to stretch and spread. Psychedelic medicines provide all kinds of catalytic openings—some euphoric, others painful—but whether those openings actually transform us depends on how we carry them forward. Psychedelics really only start a process; it’s integration that deepens and extends it. My work as a coach is designed to help men translate what they have experienced in altered states of consciousness and apply it in everyday living. I believe we can experience tremendous personal and collective growth when we figure out how to sustain the openness, curiosity, healing, and expansiveness we experience in psychedelic journeys. I want to help folks do that.
What I Do
My job isn’t to fix you; it isn’t really even to teach you. I walk with you, and help you get where you want to go.
Practically, this means I help my clients prepare before, and integrate after a psychedelic journey by supplying:
a safe container for exploration
exercises to set your intentions and discern your truth
resources to metabolize your epiphanies
observations to inform your perceptions
tools to ensure you meet your goals
encouragement to keep going
guidance to plan your next moves
My Credentials & Training
I have 33+ years of experience in the investigation, cultivation, and preservation of learning environments that promote individual’s self-directed growth. I have a bachelors degree, a teaching credential, and a masters degree in education, all from UC Santa Barbara, and I have a masters degree in theological studies, and a doctorate in education, both from Harvard. I have written or co-written three books and have authored scores of research and practitioner articles in the field of education. In my numerous roles and projects over the years, I have always focused on what people need to optimize their learning, growth, and impact. In 2024, I completed the psychedelic integration training provided by the International Center for Ethnobotanical Education, Research, and Service (ICEERS; certificate on file). That course and my instructor, Marc Aixala, showed me how to take my experience and training in adult developmental psychology, culturally sustaining pedagogies, interviewing techniques, hermeneutical and constructivist philosophies, theological inquiry, and instructional design and apply it in my work as an integration coach.
Life Stuff
I live in the Wood River Valley of mountainous south-central Idaho. I’m in my late 50s, and I’m a husband, dad, coffee drinker, cookie-eater, avid reader, mountain biker, occasional paraglider pilot, skilled shirt ironer, expert garage organizer, mediocre guitar strummer, and wannabe drummer. I have a 4YO boy, so my Lego skills are rad.