An Invitation to Transform
There are moments in life when insight alone is no longer enough.
You may understand your patterns intellectually and still find yourself caught in the same cycles of anxiety, shame, disconnection, grief, or relational pain. You may sense that something deeper is asking for your attention, something that cannot be accessed through thinking alone.
Psychedelic-assisted session offers an opportunity to approach healing from a different place. Through intentional preparation, supported experiences, and thoughtful integration, this work can create space for new perspectives, emotional processing, embodied healing, and meaningful change.
At The Pleasure Practice, Dr. Nicole provides psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy and coaching for individuals and partners seeking deeper connection with themselves, their relationships, and their lives. Whether you are navigating depression, anxiety, trauma, life transitions, relationship challenges, identity exploration, or a desire for greater authenticity, this work is designed to support transformation that extends beyond the therapy room.
Services are available through ketamine-assisted individual and partner sessions in Chicago, virtual sessions in participating states, the Queer Joy: Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy Group each summer, and psychedelic integration for individuals working with experiences involving other psychedelic substances.
Services
Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy for individuals and partners seeking deeper healing, emotional processing, relationship growth, and personal transformation. Sessions can be done in-person in Chicago or virtually in participating locations.
Begin your journey with Dr. Nicole: Here
Each summer during June, Dr. Nicole facilitates the Queer Joy Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy Group, a community-centered experience designed to support healing, connection, embodiment, and collective liberation within LGBTQIA+ communities.
Learn More about Queer Joy: Here
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For individuals who have engaged or are planning to engage with psychedelic substances outside of therapy and are seeking support to prepare and making meaning of their experiences. Integration sessions help translate insight into sustainable growth, healing, and action.
Begin your journey with Dr. Nicole: Here
Working with Dr. Nicole,
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Develop a deeper relationship with yourself by accessing emotions, beliefs, and patterns that may feel difficult to reach through traditional talk therapy alone.
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Strengthen intimacy and connection within your relationships by exploring attachment, communication, trust, vulnerability, and relational patterns.
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Reconnect with your body and cultivate a greater capacity for pleasure, authenticity, and embodied living.
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Integrate meaningful psychedelic experiences into lasting change so that insight becomes action and transformation becomes sustainable.
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Explore questions of identity, sexuality, queerness, non-monogamy, purpose, and belonging within a space that is affirming, relational, and deeply compassionate.
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Develop greater trust in your own inner wisdom and capacity to navigate life's complexity with clarity, courage, and intention.
Queering Psychedelic Therapy?
Watch this free Queering Psychedelics 101 workshop led by psychotherapists Dr. Nicole, Meggie, and nurse anesthetist Rick Clark as we explore ketamine-assisted psychotherapy through a queer, relational, and trauma-informed lens.
“I had spent so much of my life trying to understand myself intellectually. I could explain my patterns, where they came from, and why I did what I did, but I couldn't feel pleasure in my body. With this work, I felt safe enough to soften, to listen to my body, and to let pleasure be something I could actually trust.”
Psychedelic Client
“I came into this work thinking I needed some huge breakthrough. Instead, I learned how to stop trying so hard to heal. I could be messy, emotional, playful, and human. I have so much more compassion for the parts of myself I used to judge and so much more space now for curiosity, pleasure, and joy.”
Psychedelic Client
“From this work, I have started noticing where I was shrinking my desires and living according to what other people expected of me. What an eye-opener. I feel more grounded in my boundaries, more connected to what I want, and more willing to build a life that actually feels like mine.”
Psychedelic Client
Begin with Your Assessment
Working with Dr. Nicole begins with a complimentary 20-minute Assessment Call. After reserving your call, you’ll receive the Pleasure Liberation Assessment, a series of questions designed to help Dr. Nicole understand what you’re navigating, the patterns shaping your relationship with pleasure, and what you’re hoping to create next.
During the call, you and Dr. Nicole will explore your assessment together, clarify what you’re seeking, and consider what kind of support could best serve where you’re ready to go. If there’s a strong mutual fit, you’ll receive an invitation to work together.
This Work is for you if
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You feel called toward deeper healing and want support that engages both mind and body.
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You have reached a point where insight alone no longer feels sufficient and you are seeking a more transformative therapeutic experience.
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You are navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, relationship challenges, identity exploration, or major life transitions.
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You are seeking a therapist who understands the intersections of sexuality, relationships, queerness, non-monogamy, and personal growth.
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You want support integrating psychedelic experiences into meaningful and lasting change.
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You are ready to approach healing with greater intention, curiosity, courage, and care.
Ready to Begin?
Change is possible. Pleasure is possible.
Psychedelic-assisted session offer an opportunity to slow down, listen deeply, and engage with the parts of yourself that have been waiting for attention, compassion, and care. Through preparation, supported experiences, and integration, this work can help create lasting shifts in how you relate to yourself, your relationships, and the world around you.
Whether you are interested in individual sessions, partner work, psychedelic integration, or the Queer Joy Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy Group, this space is designed to support meaningful transformation grounded in connection, embodiment, and healing.