Beginning in 2020, I began formal training in the use of legal psychedelics for therapy. I began by offering Cannabis Assisted Psychedelic Therapy and Ketamine Assisted Psychedelic Therapy and since November of 2022 when the Natural Medicine Regulation act passed in Colorado, I began formally offer psilocybin therapy.

For anyone interested in any kind of 1:1 therapy with me, you should know that I am an advocate of the responsible use of psychedelics for therapeutic use. The research is overwhelmingly showing that certain psychedelics have had a significant impact on participants with various mental health symptoms such as depression, anxiety, addictions, PTSD, and OCD. There is also significant anecdotal evidence to suggest that psychedelic therapy can make dramatic shifts to people’s self-perception, add meaning to life, change relationship and attachment patterns, assist in grieving, create a doorway into transpersonal states, and much much more.

For all 1:1 work, I aim to offer a safe space to share about your experiences, help with harm reduction, provide some psychoeducation on different medicines and microdosing, offer help with ceremony context setting, and be an ongoing bridge for integration of experiences into daily life.

For those wanting to educate themselves more, I have provided some excellent media links under “resources” in the tab “mindful media.”

Here are some excerpts from medicinalmindfulness.org on some of the terminology and information on some of the treatments I can offer:

Psychedelic Psychotherapy and Psychedelic Psychotherapist

Psychedelic Psychotherapy is the skillful use of psychedelics in conjunction with psychotherapy by a licensed or registered psychotherapist, psychologist or other mental health professional. These sessions might be psycholytic in nature, meaning they are psychologically enhancing, but not always fully psychedelic, and often have a clinical purpose, for example, for the treatment of trauma/PTSD, depression, anxiety, etc. This is the most common term being used in the field, and specifically denotes that the therapist has a base credentialing and is working within a clinical/medical framework, along with additional training in working with psychedelics.”

Mindfulness-Based Psychedelic Therapy® (MBPT)

Mindfulness-Based Psychedelic Therapy, developed by Daniel McQueen, is a psychedelic therapy modality that integrates mindfulness practices, Transpersonal psychotherapy and traditional guiding practices with somatic informed psychotherapies and the therapeutic and intentional use psychedelic medicines.

MBPT is the therapeutic modality that the Center for Medicinal Mindfulness teaches through Psychedelic Sitters School and is the modality our practitioners use during sessions with clients. The modality teaches that the presence of the therapist is central to the process, and that “Awareness with Acceptance is the Healing Process,” sometimes easier said than done. The modality combines somatic psychotherapies and mindfulness practices with an holistic approach that includes clinical and spiritual practices, intentional medicine use practices, mental health nutrition, research-validated therapies, as well as a deep sense of creative expression and appreciation for aesthetics.

While MBPT was developed in part by using Psychedelic Cannabis, it is a modality that stems from techniques used with other medicines and can therefore be incorporated into facilitating with these other psychedelics. Since cannabis experiences can “shapeshift” into and dance between states that are regularly described as similar to MDMA, psilocybin, ayahuasca, DMT and others, working with cannabis skillfully requires incorporating strategies and techniques that are specific to these other medicine experiences. MBPT is therefore a solid foundational system of theory and practice for working with all psychedelic medicines. Each medicine, therefore, represents a specialty within the MBPT modality.

Cannabis-Assisted Psychedelic Therapy® (CAPT)

Cannabis-Assisted Psychedelic Therapy, developed by Daniel McQueen, is a central specialty of MBPT that combines the modality with the medicinal effects of Psychedelic Cannabis. We call cannabis the “Somatic PsychedelicTM” because it effects both the 5-HT2A receptor of the brain (which other psychedelics activate) as well as the endocannabinoid system in the body.  These sessions provide a full body and soul holistic experience that is deeply healing, both physically, emotionally, spiritually and mentally. Cannabis allows clients to have increased awareness of difficult somatic sensations, memories, mental programs, judgements, and anxieties, and this exploration leads to a resolution and healing of unhealthy processes and clinical concerns. CAPT elicits a deeper awareness of emotional processes and activates physical and emotional discharges leading to release and healing. These are deep experiences that are typically experienced in a three to five-hour session. Sessions may include music and periods of the client turning inward and the therapist holding space. The trauma resolution protocol within CAPT is called the Captain ProtocolTM.

As noted earlier, the Center for Medicinal Mindfulness is taking the professional and political stance that Psychedelic Therapy is an emerging field that overlaps with but is different from psychotherapy. The Cannabis-Assisted Psychedelic Therapy credential is designed to provide all of the necessary theory, practice and oversight for non-therapy or medical professionals to ethically and competently enter the field of psychedelic therapy.

Medicinal Mindfulness is committed to exploring the highest ethical standards as we advocate for greater acceptance of these modalities in our culture.

Ketamine-Assisted Psychedelic Therapy (KAPT)

Ketamine-Assisted Psychedelic Therapy is a modality that combines our style of psychedelic therapy, MBPT, with the medicinal and clinical effects of ketamine. These sessions provide a full body and soul holistic psychedelic experience with the clinical and medical oversight required to work with this medicine safely. Sessions combine evidence-based therapy practices with mindfulness, ceremony, and somatic therapies, within a spiritual orientation and energetic/transpersonal paradigm (if requested). These sessions are conducted in beautiful and intentional settings. The typical duration of a session is about three hours, and can be accompanied by a medical professional to provide ketamine intramuscular injections or lozenges. Sessions include music and periods of the client turning inward and the therapist holding space. Typical duration of a session is about three hours.