Antanika Hoberg
Integration Program Director, Facilitator & Peer Support Advocate
I’m Antanika Hoberg. I’ve been a peer worker, group facilitator, and advocate in mental health and recovery spaces for a decade. My work is informed by years of experience in harm reduction, trauma-informed care, and peer-led systems of support. It’s also shaped—deeply and unapologetically—by my own story.
Altered Integration was created as a space for those navigating altered states of consciousness.
I offer non-clinical well-being support and grounded resources and alternative support networks for people working through the effects of our human experience, this can be general well-being but my specific interest lies within the psychedelic experiences, & what evolves from the personal transformation, and recovery.
Why I Do This Work
For most of my life, I lived with complex PTSD, treatment-resistant depression, and anxiety, stemming from complex childhood circumstances. I was in a state of arrested development. Like many people, I used alcohol, other drugs and substances to hold my suffering at bay, and this served me long enough until I was able to be supported enough to start recovery. But I discovered that the systems I needed couldn’t hold me. And I tried everything— I was ready to surrender.
Psychedelic-assisted healing gave me a way through, turned on a light, pulled down the walls, whatever analogy you use- it was a catalyst for a change in perception that I had been trying to embody in years of weekly, monthly varying types of therapy. It wasn’t magic or an escape. It was a door left ajar to an altered- perception of what I had held. I was able to see ways I could slowly begin pulling apart, processing and reorientating the world I’d created in my mind when I was surviving—I found remission of my C-PTSD symptoms, for the first time. No more flashbacks. No more scary intrusive thoughts. No more alcohol to numb the unbearable. But so many more questions.
In time I realised healing didn't stop at the experience. The insight, understanding, processing, rejecting and accepting unfolded for years after. I did not even know in those early days that’s where integration began—and where I found myself completely alone and a l; little empty without the trauma filling part of my identity.
The world around me wasn’t ready to understand what I was going through, we had not yet become the first country to allow people to have MDMA in a clinical setting. I searched online and I found the Australian Psychedelic Society, and through it, I found community. I found language for my experience. And slowly, I found a place for all the parts of me that had been silenced. What I have realised in this time is how much support, community and understanding of shared experience can provide if we can find others to connect, reflect and comfort.
What I Offer
Altered Integration exists because no one should have to walk this path alone like I once did, it can be hard to find others who can meet you where you are. Through Altered Integration, I offer group peer support and one on one sessions for those navigating the complexity of healing.
Together, we explore not just what happened during the journey, but how to live with what was revealed. I run my sessions with a come as you are approch- need to snack? Snack. Need to hold your child. Hold that child. Anything goes, as long as you are willing to show up and bring your open mind.
-Experience and Credentials-
+President, Australian Psychedelic Society (APS)-Volunteer
+Womens Group Facilitator / Adelaide Integration Groups
+PACFA-Accredited Culturally+ Trauma-Informed Integrated Healing – IPAT
+Aftercare Facilitator – Monarch Mental Health with Monica Schweickle
+Specialised Integration Training – Dr. Bianca Sebben
-Elements of Integration
-Psychedelic Integration In Action
-Enhancing your Psychedelic Integration practice
+Supervision with Registered Clinical Psychologists
+Consumer Board Advisor – Monarch Mental Health Group (Past)
+Advisor – Australian Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Practitioner (Past)
+Ongoing studies 2007-current in Neuroscience, Psychology, Counselling, & Psychotherapy.
-Community & Advocacy Work-
+Psychedelic Integration Groups via the Australian Psychedelic Society – Monthly sessions to support post-experience reflection and integration.
Ethical Psychedelic International Community (EPIC) – Co-founded safe, inclusive spaces centred on harm reduction, ethics, and access.
Public Speaking & Media – Including SBS’s Insight (Illicit Medicine), DoubleBlind Magazine-Meet the Influential, Innovative, and Disruptive Women in Psychedelics and national panels on integration, ethics, and lived experience.
Restoring Hope Charity -Volunteered with a Victorian-based initiative providing crisis care packs to children in hospital following traumatic events. Focused on dignity, comfort, and restoring a sense of safety for young people in acute distress.
Digital & Strategic Support – Experience in website design, media strategy, policy development, and grants.
I’m a neurodiverse, homeschooling mother of three (two currently learning at home and an adult son in the work force), I have 3 dogs, 2 cats and 8 chickens, a writer, and an artist. I live in alignment with my changing values, beliefs, children, my connection to nature, and the evolving mystery of us.