Theo Rabke

My background is in the study of Consciousness and Altered States, informed by psychoanalytic theory and Buddhist philosophy — including what the mind encounters at the edges of ordinary language. I'm drawn to what persists beneath the presenting problem: to symptoms, dreams, and recurring patterns as expressions of unconscious meaning.

My approach focuses on bringing the machinations of our unconscious minds into awareness. Together, we analyze symptoms, dreams, behaviors, and the therapeutic relationship itself — attending to what the mind has not yet found a way to articulate. This work can be slow, and it asks for genuine willingness, but it opens into something more fundamental than symptom relief: a freedom to choose, and a life that feels more fully one's own.

I hold a Master's in Mental Health Counseling from Hunter College and a Bachelor's in Consciousness and Altered States from NYU. I'm a teaching assistant in the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Studies department at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, where I've also lectured on the Ethics and Economics of Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy. I offer integration sessions for those who have encountered mystical experiences — whether through psychedelic medicines, meditation, spiritual practice, or other means — and harm reduction sessions for the mystically curious.