Discover your life from a new perspective with experienced and compassionate trip sitter Paul Antico. I am Los Angeles and Bay Area California, as well as O’ahu, Hawaii based psychedelic trip sitter/facilitator/guide since 2018. I create a safe, comfortable, accepting, and non-judgmental space, in a framework of growth, trauma healing, exploration and harm reduction for those I work with. I’ve been Compassionate Inquiry Certified (Gabor Mate’s modality) as well as Rosen Method Bodywork certified. I support your intention.
Grace & PJ
Grace & PJ
Location:
Akasa Journeys
46-153 Yacht Club St
Kaneohe, Hawaii, 96744-3639 United States
Kaneohe, Hawaii, 96744-3639 United States
Appointments:
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- In Person
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How Grace & PJ works with Clients
I come to you at your location as a sitter, guide, and facilitator.
Experience a psychedelic journey supported by an experienced, trauma-informed guide who holds a safe, sacred space for your process. Akasa Journeys is based in O’ahu, Hawaiʻi and Los Angeles, California.
What I bring:
-Trained in Rosen Method Bodywork, Compassionate Inquiry, Psychedelic Somatic Interactional Psychotherapy (PSIP), and Polyvagal Theory
-Personally experienced with a range of psychedelics
-Focused on optimal set and setting, ceremony, and presence throughout the full 6–8 hour journey
-Music available from established study protocols, Akasa’s special playlist, your own, or co-created with you
-Pre-session meeting in the days before your journey; post-session support in the days following — additional pre and post sessions available
-Available by email, text, or phone during the first two weeks for integration support
We do not provide or procure medicines. We work with what you bring, in a framework of harm reduction and support.
Serving Los Angeles and O’ahu; other locations by arrangement.
Featured in Vice Magazine, 2018 (google tripsitters and Vice Magazine)
Treatment Approach
A pre session, typically the day before, where we go over your intentions, tune you into the power of somatic attention and process through paying attention to your body sensations as a navigation strategy, discuss any past traumas and how they are affecting your current situation, discuss music choices and dosage. This is one to two hours.
The session day where we start with a simple ceremony to enhance the set and setting, a brief sound bath & somatic based meditation, and then send you on your journey fully present and supporting you in whatever comes up. We don’t leave until you are comfortable with us leaving. We have no time limit on your process. Typically this is six to ten hours.
The post session, typically the day after, where we go over your experience, help you integrate and provide resources for continued integration and support. This is one to two hours.
Grace & PJ's Background
HIPAA Compliant or conform to confidentiality agreement/NDA?
Yes
Payment & Insurance
Cost Per Session
$1,250
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$1,250
Accepting new clients?
Yes
Accepted forms of payment
- PayPal
- Cash
- Venmo
Offering financial assistance/scholarship?
Yes
Additional Provider Information About Grace & PJ
Religious affiliations
- Taoism
- Spiritual but not religious
- Other
Languages spoken
- English
Political standing
- Independent
Marital status
Committed Relationship
Services & Specialties
Body
- Somatic
Guidance
- Sitter
- PrePost Ritual Counseling
Issues
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Developmental Disorders
- Grief
- Harm reduction
- Holistic approach
- Life Transitions
- PTSD
- Relationship Issues
- Self Esteem
- Stress
- Trauma
- Terminal Illness Depression
Optimization
- Microdosing
- Wellbeing
- Growth
Types of Therapy
- Attachment-based
- Compassion Focused
- Relational
- Somatic
- Trauma Focused
Patient Focus
Knowledge
- Cannabis
- MDMA
- Psilocybin Mushrooms
Modalities
- Individual
Population
- Adults
- Elders
Gender
- Female
- Gender-neutral
- Intersex
- Male
- Non-binary
- Non-conforming
- Transgender
- Other
Ethnicities
- Asian
- East Indian
- Middle-Eastern
- Native American
- Pacific Islander
- Other
Communities
- Bixsexual Allied
- Gay Allied
- Lesbian Allied
- Non-Binary Allied
- Open Relationships Non-Monogamy
- Queer Allied
- Racial Justice Allied
- Sex-Positive; Kink Allied
- Transgender Allied
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