Hi! I’m Antanika.

Founder, Writer, Psychedelic Peer Specialist
Support & Strategy for Psychedelic Healing + women’s and Hormonal advocacy coaching.

I created Altered Integration as a space for people navigating altered states, psychedelic or otherwise, and for those seeking support that doesn’t fit neatly into boxes.

My work is grounded in lived experience, but I have been studying forever in some capacity in Counselling, Psychotherapy, philosophy, and neuroscience since 2009. I’ve lived and recovered from C- PTSD, after the classic diagnosis of treatment-resistant depression. I struggled for years with the impacts of Early ovarian failure, PMDD, Adhd and Autism for many years, before diagnosis and I have struggled with the kind of internal chaos that no system could ever fully hold, so here I have created my own.

My earlier years of writing for catharsis, followed by self-directed Psychedelic-assisted treatment, were a turning point -not a complete fix of course, but a catalyst. I realised how important storytelling was as part of a post-traumatic growth journey was and delved into what it means to suffer. What followed was years of reorientation, grief, growth, and eventually, remission. And then, the real work began: integration.

I often think of the psychedelic experience like a home renovation project.

Preparation is when we start to inspect the foundations. What’s not working in this old house? Maybe it’s just one cracked brick at the base. Or maybe the whole place is on a lean, and we’ve been pretending it’s fine. This is about observing, asking questions, and getting honest about what needs to change.

Then comes the psychedelic experience itself. An earthquake. For some of us, the whole house collapses. For many others, it’s just a wall or maybe the cracked brick finally falls out. The experience shows us what’s unstable, what’s salvageable, and what needs to be rebuilt. It doesn’t fix it for us. But it lays it out for us to see. Like seeing it from a noisy drone, you wish would just go away.

Integration is where we begin to rebuild our house. At first, it still feels like part of the experience. You might be sitting in the rubble, wondering what on earth just happened, or feeling fear that nothing looks how you thought it would. But if the supports you put in place hold, and if you gather the right tools, try them out here and there (the ones that feel intuitive to YOU ), you begin to reimagine the house. You replace what’s broken. Reinforce what matters. Let go of what no longer fits you or your decor.

And when the structure feels solid again, we get to decorate. With the things we need. The things we want. And yes, sometimes a few things we didn’t ask for but have learned or are at least learning how to live with.

I offer peer support, group spaces. I support people in person, online and by leading by example, in making sense of what emerges from the in-between: insight, identity, relationships, hormonal shifts, systemic friction. I love to create and design resources to fill gaps I needed, and here you will find my voice in articles and content across the platform.

I have a particular focus and interest in women’s health and the lack of education and care around our health. I am passionate about navigating and living to the innate rhythm of our cycles within and our cycles with nature, as well as healthcare systems, and the silence that often surrounds our culture.

I know all healing happens in community, close and extended, it comes in the way of self-education and in pattern-tracking, in conversation, in creativity, and in being met as we are right now.

If you’re here, you don’t need to pretend or be in the “right” place or space to be here.

Just come as you are. And I will meet you.