Take Your Healing Journey DEEPER
Explore evidence-based psychedelic therapy in a safe and supportive environment.
If you’ve been on a healing journey for a while, you’ve likely tried a variety of traditional therapies.
While these approaches may have helped uncover key insights into your emotions, behaviours, and past experiences, you may feel like you’ve reached a glass ceiling in your progress. If this is the case, you’re not alone.
Healing Recovery Centre was built on the belief that you deserve more than one way to heal. This is why we offer several alternative pathways to self-reflection, self-discovery, and transformation, which now includes our legal Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Program. Curious about whether psychedelic therapy is right for you?
Psychedelic Therapy for Your Mental Health and Wellness
In accordance with Health Canada’s Special Access Program (SAP) and the support of TheraPsil, our York Region Psychedelics program offers a legal avenue to access clinical Psilocybin and MDMA treatment in support of your deepest healing.
Research shows that when introduced in a safe and supportive environment, these medicines have the potential to effectively treat individuals experiencing trauma, PTSD, treatment-resistant depression, end-of-life distress, OCD, Eating Disorders, and other mental health concerns.
Through our York Region Psychedelics program at Healing Recovery Centre, we provide our clients with safe, loving, and trauma-informed therapeutic experiences to explore their innermost landscapes while being deeply supported by a team of highly skilled, specialized clinicians.
Accessing Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Services safely is not only a promise, it’s a value of ours. This is why our team consists of various interdisciplinary professionals, including highly trained therapists, nurses, Psychiatrists, pharmacy consultants, and spiritual practitioners. Our team specializes in bringing together the explained and unexplained to support all that can be explored in expanded states of consciousness.
Receive IN-DEPTH SUPPORT through Each Stage of Your Experience
Allow our skilled and specialized support team to guide you every step of the way.
Evidence from the phase two and three trials of Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy demonstrates profound potential for change. Our program is informed by the protocols outlined by MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies) to allow for optimized and safe participant experiences. This approach is emotion-based, trauma-informed, parts-focused, influenced by somatic practices and incorporates harm reduction principles.
The research for psychedelic-assisted therapy for both MDMA and Psilocybin demonstrates promising results and has the potential to revolutionize the mental health system. In the recently published phase three trials for MDMA and PTSD, participants with moderate to severe PTSD demonstrated that 88% of participants benefited from the treatment, with 67% no longer meeting the criteria for PTSD post-treatment. Many leaders in the field of trauma, including Bessel Van Der Kolk have stated firmly that MDMA-Assisted Therapy is the most successful treatment we have ever seen in the field of Trauma and PTSD.
Research for Psilocybin shows similar promising results, demonstrating greater effects than traditional anti-depressant medication. Psilocybin has demonstrated promising results in the areas of Eating Disorders, OCD, End of Life Distress, Cancer Related Anxiety and Treatment Resistant Depression. Research for Psilocybin demonstrates effectiveness in as little as one treatment round (one dosing session), with multiple dosing sessions required depending on the severity of symptoms.
What You Can Expect: An Overview Of Our Program From Start to Finish
Please note this journey will be different for everyone.
This overview is to provide an idea of what the process of treatment
may look like on average and is meant to be a flexible model.
Preparation
Positioning the logs for the fire.
The process starts with completing an intake form and a discovery call to determine your potential eligibility for this treatment stream. When accessing Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy through Health Canada Approval, all participants require a doctor or nurse practitioner (NP) to support their application as the “prescriber.” If you do not have a prescriber within your current health team who can support your application, we will connect you with one of our prescribers who can.
Once eligibility is assessed, we engage in a comprehensive preparation process. For a minimum of four sessions, you and your psychedelic-assisted therapist will complete the SAP application, set intentions, discuss relevant history, explore tools to help you navigate psychedelic experiences, and build a trusting relationship to lay a solid foundation for your journey.
In this stage, you will pause traditional therapy and focus on preparing your mind, body and nervous system for the dosing session(s). Together, we’ll create a safe and supportive container that invites you to approach this experience with clarity and confidence.
Experience (Dose Day)
The spark that starts the fire.
During your Psilocybin or MDMA-assisted therapy session —”the dose” — you will be supported by two psychedelic-assisted therapy guides (one of whom will be your therapist from your preparation sessions). Your guides will be right by your side while you navigate your inner world, including any emotions, thoughts, and sensations that may arise.
This treatment is called “psychedelic-assisted therapy” because the dose session and the integration process after can feel like therapy with all the doors of your mind and body open.
Throughout your journey, you will be supported with love and compassion while being offered and guided with skills and tools to deepen your experience. This level of personalized support allows you to fully immerse yourself in the process and experience deep healing for body, heart, mind and soul.
You will never be alone during your experience. Your guides will stay with you throughout the entire session (approximately 5 – 8 hours) to ensure you are safe, thoroughly cared for, and have access to love and support at all times. Many describe this experience as the care they never realized they needed.
Integration
Maintaining the warmth from the fire.
Integration is best known as the meaning-making process, where insights from your session can be woven into your everyday life in ways that support the experiential and neurochemical changes that take place during the dosing session.
Post-medicine, our brains experience increased flexibility for a minimum of 30 days. This means when we return to our lives and face challenging things, whether challenging an OCD ritual, exposing ourselves to something anxiety-provoking, or experiencing a difficult thought about the past, our brains have an increased capacity to move through these challenges. This is where the skills and tools you have learned in previous therapeutic work may start to click, and things can begin to feel easier.
In this stage, it is normal for traditional therapy to restart to deepen and nurture this enhanced connection to ourselves and our inner world that has been opened up by the medicine experience. This is how we protect the new neuropathways that are built as a result of the dosing session to expand the healing.
Our integration process is a minimum of three sessions within a short time frame of your dosing experience. It includes various options to personalize your process.
You may qualify for the York Region Psychedelics program if…
You've already tried 2-3 other therapeutic modalities without achieving the desired results.
You’re experiencing mental health concerns that have been resistant to traditional treatments, such as medication.
You’re experiencing end-of-life anxiety or have a palliative illness.
You are open to exploring new avenues of healing.
Meet Your Guides
Hi, we’re Morgan and Katie, trained psychedelic-assisted therapists through TheraPsil and founders of York Region Psychedelics at Healing Recovery Centre.
The psychedelic therapy program we’ve developed is deeply rooted in a commitment to reducing human suffering and creating a better world. A world where people are truly at home with themselves – where they feel deeply connected to their bodies, to nature, to their wider communities, and to an enhanced quality of life.
The first step toward the world we envision lies in healing ourselves. As facilitators, it is our sacred responsibility to humbly approach this medicine with respect and integrity, so you can experience the depth of healing and personal growth that may be available to you.
We recognize your choice to embark on this experience with us is one step in a larger, lifelong process of healing. Our hope is to contribute to your journey by holding space and ensuring you feel empowered with the tools and resources you need to navigate this transformative process with confidence.
Join Our Commitment Towards Accessible Mental Health Care
Here at Healing Recovery Centre, we firmly believe that access to transformative and potentially life-saving mental care shouldn’t be limited to those in positions of privilege. As part of our commitment to enhancing the human experience and shifting the mental healthcare landscape for the better, we are advocating and making every effort to find ways to increase the financial accessibility of legal psychedelic-assisted therapy for all in need.
If you share our mission of making groundbreaking mental healthcare more accessible, we’d be honoured if you donated to our cause.
Get In Touch With Our Team
If you’re curious about our psychedelic therapy program and want to discover how it might help you, fill out the contact form. From there, you’ll be invited to schedule a complimentary consultation call with someone from our team. Together, we’ll explore whether our York Region Psychedelics program at Healing Recovery Centre is the right fit for you and provide you with the information you need to make empowered decisions on your healing journey.
We acknowledge the land in which we do this work is located on the traditional territories of the wendat, Haudeno-saunee, and the Anishinaabe peoples and the treaty land of the Williams Treaties First Nations and other Indigenous peoples whose presence here continues to this day. We also acknowledge the Chippewas of Georgina Island First Nation as our close neighbours.
We acknowledge all the wisdom keepers and the medicine men and women who have come before us, who have used these medicines to bring good into this world, and who have passed down their wisdom to be available to us as we join towards collective healing and consciousness. We acknowledge all of our teachers and their teachers who have had an impact on the practitioners that we are today and will continue to be in this world.
We specifically acknowledge María Sabina, a medicine woman from the Mazatec Indigenous community in Mexico, for her significant contributions and sacrifice, which resulted in sharing the healing power of magic mushrooms with the Western world.