About
Mark DiFilippo, MA, EdS, LPC, CMT-P
Mark DiFilippo, MA, EdS, LPC, CMT-P is a psychotherapist, psychedelic researcher and integration specialist, and personal and spiritual development guide devoted to helping people return to their true nature—before trauma, ego, and cultural conditioning shaped their lives. His work is grounded in wisdom, warmth, and embodied presence. He invites people to rediscover themselves—not as a project to fix, but as a sacred homecoming.
Mark’s approach is neither clinical nor esoteric, but something deeper: a practiced spontaneity that blends psychological precision with soulful care. He meets people as peers on the path—intelligent, capable, and ready to be held and witnessed in their fullness. His presence is loving, strong, and unflinchingly real.
This path is personal. Mark’s own journey includes deep healing from childhood trauma, estrangement from his family of origin, the dismantling of internalized sexism, racism, and homophobia, and coming out as a bisexual man. He’s walked through fire, and the clarity he offers is earned.
He holds a Master’s and post-Master’s degree from Seton Hall University and has trained extensively in the field of psychedelic-assisted therapy. His professional training includes the MAPS/Lykos MDMA-assisted psychotherapy program, Cybin’s EMBARK model, and Phil Wolfson’s Ketamine Training Center. For over seven years, Mark has worked as a ketamine-assisted psychotherapist, and for more than a decade, he has guided clients through psychedelic preparation, navigation, and integration with great care and clarity.
Mark is the founder of Return To Your Breath and the creator of The Return, a transformational experience that invites people into deeper truth, joy, and embodiment. He believes the work of healing is not about becoming someone new—but remembering who you’ve always been.
The Return
The Return is not a program, a formula, or a promise. It is a sacred space—a high-touch, high-impact container for those ready to come home to themselves in a profound and embodied way.
This is for people who have done the work, who carry wisdom and self-awareness, but who are still longing for something deeper. Not more knowledge. Not more hustle. But wholeness. Belonging. A return to the truth beneath all the striving.
Guided by Mark in an intimate setting, The Return offers a powerful combination of therapeutic insight, spiritual depth, and somatic presence. It includes personalized sessions, in-person retreats, integration support, and soul-level reflection.
There is no curriculum. No fixed method. Each journey is unique. What unites them is this: the courage to be seen, the willingness to be changed, and the readiness to live from a deeper place.
The Return is a remembering. A reclamation. A return to your original nature—wild, whole, and deeply alive.
Psychotherapy
Mark offers psychotherapy that is grounded, present, and relational. He works with individuals navigating anxiety, trauma, life transitions, identity questions, and spiritual emergence. His style is warm and intuitive, integrating evidence-based techniques with a deep respect for the soul.
Clients often say they feel truly seen and deeply supported in his presence. This isn’t therapy as performance or diagnosis—it’s a spacious and intelligent relationship where real change can happen.
Mindfulness
Mindfulness is at the heart of Mark’s work—not as a technique, but as a way of being. He teaches people to return to the breath, the body, and the moment. With compassion and clarity, he guides clients in building a nervous system that can hold more life.
Whether through meditation, somatic inquiry, or breath-centered awareness, Mark supports people in becoming more alive, more loving, and more themselves.
Psychedelic Research & Integration
Mark is actively involved in psychedelic research and has served as a therapist on clinical trials for MDMA and ketamine. His integration work is deeply respected across the field. He helps clients prepare for psychedelic experiences with skill and reverence—and he knows that the real work begins after the ceremony ends.
With over a decade of experience, Mark offers thoughtful, embodied integration that supports lasting transformation—not just insight, but real-world change.
Personal & Spiritual Development
Mark guides individuals in becoming more fully themselves. This is not a path of perfection or performance—but of returning to essence. He blends psychotherapeutic insight, spiritual wisdom, and radical presence to help people live with more joy, clarity, and integrity.
His work honors both the human and the divine, holding space for grief and laughter, rage and beauty, collapse and emergence. He meets people where they are and walks with them into deeper freedom.
Ready to return to your breath and transform your life?