Take Refuge on your healing journey Experiential and psychedelic-informed psychotherapy and coaching, from a network of experienced practitioners in Montreal. Refuge therapists and practitioners provide psychotherapy and coaching to adults working through a wide range of challenges — with depth, care, and evidence-informed methods. What we help with Depression & burnout Anxiety & stress Trauma & post-traumatic stress Sexuality & relationships Life transitions Addiction & habit change Spirituality & meaning-making Our approaches We specialize in experiential healing modalities — approaches that work with the body, emotions, and lived experience, not talk alone. Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Supporting deep therapeutic work with psychedelics, where clinically appropriate and legally accessible. Learn more → Internal Family Systems (IFS) A compassionate way of working with the different parts of yourself. Learn more → Mindfulness Present-focused practices for meeting your experience with awareness. Learn more → Breathwork Using the breath to access profound mental-health benefits. Learn more → Psychedelic Integration Making sense of psychedelic experiences and weaving their insights into lasting change. Learn more → Somatic Experiencing Releasing trauma held in the body and nervous system. Learn more → Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) Working with difficult thoughts and emotions in the service of your values. Learn more → Coaching Goal-oriented support for growth and change, alongside or beyond therapy. Learn more → What is experiential healing? Experiential healing works with the whole of you — body, emotions, and lived experience — not just talk. Where traditional talk therapy helps you understand your patterns, experiential approaches help you actually shift them, reaching the unconscious beliefs and imprints that drive them. This work draws on the brain’s own capacity to update those patterns — what researchers call memory reconsolidation — to create change that’s felt, not just understood, and that lasts. It’s the thread connecting everything we do, from IFS and somatic work to psychedelic-assisted therapy. Memory reconsolidation in experiential therapy Read → The brain (not the body) keeps the score Read → The Refuge vision Read → Getting started Refuge is a cooperative community, not a centralized clinic. There are two easy ways to begin. Reach out and we’ll help Tell us what you’re looking for through our contact form. Contact us Or choose a practitioner Browse our practitioners and reach out to whoever feels right. Meet our practitioners Joe and Andrew read every inquiry personally. Our practitioners set their own availability, focus, and fees — some may be full or focused on specific work — and we refer within our community to help you find the right fit. Learn more about Refuge and our philosophy →