Psychedelic Therapy
Psilocybin/Mushroom Therapy in Colorado
I have completed all training and am now licensed in Colorado as a Natural Medicine Facilitator In Training (license number NMIT.0000670) which means I am now fully able to offer safe and legal psilocybin therapy in Colorado! Psychedelic facilitation is available for both therapeutic use, as well as for things like personal exploration, seeking spiritual insight or simply curiosity.
Psychedelic therapy has shown incredible promise in helping people significantly reduce or heal PTSD, Depression and Anxiety symptoms, which is why I made the significant investment in training to be able to offer this service.
This service will be structured very similar to the Retreat Style EMDR Intensive service, customized to fit the psychedelic model. We can do the preparation work ahead of the journey and the post-journey integration work legally from Kansas or Colorado, in person or by televideo. The administration session, or journey, must be done at a Licensed Healing Center in Colorado. When we are ready to schedule the journey, we’ll schedule that to take place at a healing center. I encourage you to make this a retreat for yourself, and plan to be in Colorado at least a day before and a day after your scheduled Journey date.
Now that all of the training components are completed and I have my license, I can schedule Journey sessions with you and begin preparation work at any time. Please contact me if you are at all interested in this service.
Besides psilocybin therapy, I am also able to help you get the most out of your ketamine/Spravato treatments at other clinics and offer Ketamine-Assisted EMDR (see below).
Additionally, while I am not encouraging any illegal activity, I am willing to provide information to help someone make plans to engage in their own work in a safe manner, and integrate whatever may come up.
To learn more about the promise of psilocybin and how it has helped people from an outside source, along with discussion of other factors to consider-this article from ESPN is quite informative and well-balanced.
If you prefer podcasts, this episode of The Huberman Lab is an informative deep dive.
If you’d like to hear me talk about this offering with boiled-down and simplified information, I appeared on The P.A.C.T Podcast S3E14 back in April. (Note that as of the recording I wasn’t done with the training program and talk of the offerings as being in the future.)
Ketamine-Assisted EMDR
In addition to working toward offering psilocybin therapy in Colorado, I am now able to offer Ketamine-Assisted EMDR right here in Manhattan, KS!
Ketamine works in the brain in similar-but-different ways to psilocybin, and when a lower dose is combined with EMDR, it can help promote greater empathy and relaxation while diminishing the fear response. It can help people safely and effectively confront and process traumatic memories and emotions. Another way to think of it is, it can help ease mental barriers that may be making it difficult to access and heal trauma. Ketamine is legal in all 50 states and approved to treat depression and other concerns.
Ketamine-Assisted EMDR combines the healing potential of Ketamine with the healing potential of EMDR, and the result is likely greater than the sum of the parts.
Ketamine-Assisted EMDR sessions will be scheduled as Hybrid Intensive EMDR sessions. You will work with Roger Kirkwood, APRN FNP-BC, PMHNP-BC at Kansas Psychiatric and Wellness Services for the ketamine prescription. Roger will assess for medical appropriateness and schedule you for two Ketamine treatment sessions in his office, to ensure no issues arise (such as unanticipated increase of heart rate). Once the safety assessments are done, you will be allowed to take the ketamine nasal spray with you to self-administer.
While you are working through the safety protocol, we can work through EMDR preparation work.
Once you are able to self-administer the ketamine, you will bring it to your Intensive EMDR session with me. You’ll self-administer the ketamine (at a lower dose) and we will start the EMDR reprocessing. Please note that it will be important to have a ride home secured for after the sessions.
Please Contact Me with any questions or to get started with this new service!
I also recorded another episode of The P.A.C.T. Podcast S3E15 explaining this service and how it will work.
While I strongly believe in the Intensive EMDR model, I understand that insurance doesn’t cover it and that can be difficult. An alternative we’ve discovered to also be helpful, is to plan to self-administer the ketamine at home the evening prior to an appointment with me. Ketamine’s “neuroplastic” window seems to be about two days, so you will still be well within that window of “softening” when you come in for your therapy appointment.