(Dis)Integration Therapy
“To disintegrate is not to vanish, but to emerge; to integrate is not to fix, but to unfold.”
Services
My practice is for those navigating the complexity of being human — when life feels scattered, heavy, or uncertain. I work with individuals who may be living with:
- Trauma, including relational, complex, religious, sexual, or physical trauma
- OCD and anxiety-related struggles, including panic
- Depression, including treatment-resistant depression
- Bipolar experiences and mood instability
- Chronic pain or illness
- Grief, loss, and the ongoing presence of death in life
- Neurodivergence and different ways of experiencing the world
- Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and its ongoing effects
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I offer personalized individual therapy for adults—virtually across Pennsylvania and in-person in Pittsburgh. My practice integrates evidence-based and experiential therapies, including:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Existential Therapy
- Somatic and trauma-focused approaches
- Psychedelic Harm Reduction and Integration
- Meditation/mindfulness, breathwork, and expressive arts
- Walk-and-talk therapy, nature therapy, and forest bathing
For individuals not seeking therapy, but curious about cultivating deeper awareness, regulation, and intentional practice. This is guiding—a collaborative, humble space where we explore what it means to be in practice. What this may include:
- Establishing or deepening a meditation, mindfulness, or somatic practice
- Reflecting on the nervous system as a living presently enacted process—not a problem
- Practicing philosophy as something embodied and enacted (e.g., mindfulness of time, nothingness, self, and change)
- Engaging creativity as a contemplative practice—from drawing, poetry... Read More
Beyond therapy, I am passionate about sharing knowledge and supporting colleagues through seminars, workshops, and consultation. My focus includes:
- Mindfulness and Psychoeducation — offering workshops on contemplative practices, regulation, and presence.
- Neuroscience & Interconnection — teaching on how brain, body, and environment shape lived experience.
- Consultation — partnering with therapists, counselors, and guides to explore psychedelic integration, trauma, ethics, and contemplative practices.
If you are a professional, researcher, or organization interested in collaboration, you can learn more and connect with me through my LinkedIn
Carter Cunningham
Licensed Professional Counselor
M.S. Neuroscience
M.S. Clinical Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling
(Dis)Integration Therapy is my solo practice, a space to notice, breathe, and unfold. Healing here isn’t about fixing or pushing parts of yourself away, but allowing them to be seen and move together with compassion. What may feel scattered can begin to find coherence — not as something to perfect, but as a way of living more fully.
I’ve always been drawn to the mystery of experience — not because it is something to be solved or mastered, but because so much of life is ineffable. That mystery has shaped my life and my pursuits.
My path has never been linear. I began in the arts — making films, painting — while also diving deep into science, studying chemistry and later neuroscience. I worked in Washington, D.C. in cognitive rehabilitation and neuropsychological testing, then moved to Bonn Germany for graduate research in neuroscience, completing an independent practicum in neurophilosophy, and teaching on consciousness and psychedelics. What became clear to me through all of this is that brain, body, and mind are never separate — we are whole beings, woven of experience, biology, environment, and story (a story, both creation and recollection, always unfolding).
My own journey includes seasons where the foundations of life felt gone — crises of identity, relationships, meaning, and belonging. I know what it is to lose a framework and to feel there is nothing underneath. That experience shapes the way I sit with others: your autonomy is central. I cannot presume to know your pain or your truth. You are invited to share at your own pace, to process, to be seen. Together we can allow what feels scattered or overwhelming to be gently disintegrated — released — and also integrated, woven into a life that feels more whole and authentic. We are shaped by our circumstances, experiences, and traumas, but we are not defined by them. We carry stories, and yet we are always more than any story.
I have lived in Missouri, Utah, California, Virginia, Germany, and now Pittsburgh, where I completed my master’s in Clinical Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling and trained at Western Psychiatric Institute. Alongside therapy, I continue to draw from neuroscience, contemplative practice, art, film, literature, and nature.
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