Spiritual emergency · online
Sometimes practice works "too well" and takes us too far: a retreat, years of meditation, a psychedelic experience or a life event opens something, and ordinary life stops fitting around it. IFS can support you in meeting what's happening part by part, so the whole of you doesn't have to take it all at once.
English · Italian · Polish (if you ask nicely)
First session 95 EUR, then 150 EUR an hour. By video.
Who it's for
"Spiritual emergency" is Stanislav and Christina Grof's term for a spiritual opening that turns into a crisis. It can look like many things, and meditation traditions have their own names for some of them.
How it works
Big experiences overwhelm the whole system at once. IFS slows things down to one part at a time, and it is comfortable with experiences that other approaches treat only as symptoms.
Before anything else: sleep, food, people, the body. The first sessions are often about stability, not exploration.
Some parts are terrified by what's opened; others are trying to shut it all down. Both are doing their job and both get heard.
Without forcing it closed or pushing it further. The model's idea of Self overlaps with what many traditions describe, and that helps.
Integration is ordinary: routines, relationships, work. That's where the opening either becomes wisdom or stays a wound.
Who you'd work with
Both of us have long meditation practices and have been through difficult territory ourselves. We won't be shocked, and we won't tell you it's all in your head, or that it's all enlightenment.
Level 2-trained IFS practitioner, coach & facilitator
English · Italiano
Spiritual emergency and deep transitions are central to Alex's work: 20+ years of meditation, a Mahamudra background, 10+ retreats attended or co-created, and experience supporting people through psychedelic integration.
Certified IFS Practitioner & Coach
English · Polish (if you ask nicely)
1,000+ hours of formal meditation, and the more experienced of us as an IFS practitioner. Good when what's opened has brought old pain with it, and needs slow, careful work.
The same full session as any other, with either of us.
185 EUR for 75 minutes
No commitment beyond the hour.
Weekly work often suits this — the rhythm itself is stabilising. See Ongoing weekly with Pau, or book regular sessions with Alex.
Spiritual emergency and psychiatric emergency can look alike from the inside, and sometimes they overlap. This matters more than anything else on the page.
It can be both, and it isn't always possible to tell from the inside. That's why we ask about sleep, safety and medical care early, and why we'll say so if we think you need more than we can offer.
No. Spiritual emergencies happen to atheists too, often after a psychedelic experience or a life event.
Not by default. Sometimes pausing or changing practice helps for a while; we'll look at that together, with the parts that have views on it.
No. We both come from meditation practice — mostly Buddhist, in Alex's case — and we work with whatever framework you bring, or none.
If you're not sure whether this is the right place, write to us and tell us roughly what's happening. We'll be honest about whether we can help.