Biography

Donna Bellafiore is a licensed therapist in private practice specializing in psychedelic integration, somatic therapy, and ketamine-assisted treatment. Her practice brings together somatic body-based approaches to trauma work with the integration support that clients need following ketamine infusions and, where legal, other psychedelic experiences.

Her specialization in somatic integration addresses a gap in the psychedelic therapy field: where most integration work focuses on cognitive and verbal processing, somatic approaches work directly with how trauma and psychedelic insights are stored in the body. This is particularly relevant for clients whose psychedelic experiences surfaced early or pre-verbal trauma that cognitive talk therapy approaches alone may not reach.

Bellafiore has developed integration frameworks that help clients ground psychedelic insights through embodied practice, movement, breathwork, and somatic experiencing techniques alongside traditional talk therapy.

Why They Matter to the LearnShrooms Community

As ketamine-assisted therapy becomes more widely available and psilocybin therapy expands into regulated markets, somatic integration specialists represent a critical and underrepresented component of the full therapeutic infrastructure.

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