Antanika Hoberg

I’m Antanika Hoberg. I’ve been a peer worker, group facilitator, and advocate in mental health and recovery spaces for a decade. My work is informed by years of experience in harm reduction, trauma-informed care, and peer-led systems of support. It’s also shaped—deeply and unapologetically—by my own story.

Altered Integration was created as a space for those navigating altered states of consciousness.
I offer non-clinical well-being support, resources and alternative support networks for people working through the effects of our human experience. This can be general well-being, but my specific interest lies within the psychedelic experiences, & what evolves from the personal transformation, and recovery, in the integration and post traumatic growth that comes from there.

For most of my life, I lived with complex PTSD, treatment-resistant depression, and anxiety, stemming from complex childhood traumas. I was in a state of what I look back on as a state of arrested development-limited, inflexible, unreasonable. Like many people, I used alcohol, other drugs and substances to hold my suffering at bay, and this served me long enough until I was able to be supported enough to start recovery. But I discovered that the systems I needed couldn’t hold me. And I tried everything— I was ready to surrender.

Psychedelic-assisted healing gave me a way through, turned on a light, pulled down the walls, whatever analogy you use- it was a catalyst for a change in perception that I had been trying to embody in years of weekly, monthly, varying types of therapy. It wasn’t magic or an escape. It was a door left ajar to an altered- perception of what I had held. I was able to see ways I could slowly begin pulling apart, processing and reorienting the world I’d created in my mind when I was surviving—I found remission of my C-PTSD symptoms, for the first time. No more flashbacks. No more scary, intrusive thoughts. No more alcohol to numb the unbearable.

But so many more questions.

In time, I realised healing didn't stop at the experience. The insight, understanding, processing, rejecting and accepting unfolded for years after. I did not even know in those early days that’s where integration began—and where I found myself completely alone and a little empty without the trauma filling part of my identity.

The world around me wasn’t ready to understand what I was going through, we had not yet become the first country to allow people to have MDMA in a clinical setting. I searched online and I found the Australian Psychedelic Society, and through it, I found community. I found language for my experience. And slowly, I found a place for all the parts of me that had been silenced. What I have realised in this time is how much support, community and understanding of shared experience can provide if we can find others to connect, reflect and comfort.

This platform exists for the same reason I do anything. Because no one should have to walk this path alone like I once did, it can be hard to find others who can meet you where you are. Through Altered Integration, I offer support services for those looking for something a little different. Together, we explore not just what happened, but also make sense and find peace in what was revealed or will one day, be.

We have a come as you are approch. Anything goes, as long as you are willing to show up.