Yes, clients can come from outside of Colorado for their psilocybin journey. If you are working with a provider who is a licensed mental health professional in Colorado, you will also have to complete your preparation and integration sessions while in Colorado. Non-clinical facilitators and licensed professionals in other states can provide preparation and integration support while you are based elsewhere.

Read more on coming from out of state and how therapists from outside of Colorado can refer their clients to us for psilocybin services.

This is unique to each person and will depend on your individual process. While one person may require fewer preparation therapy sessions, others may need to spend a year or more preparing for the psilocybin journey. This largely depends on the amount of inner work (therapy, healing practices, self-reflection, etc.) the person has already done and previous experience with altered states, as well as someone’s unique mental health needs.

Even if you’ve never done psychedelics before, you can undergo psilocybin therapy. Our therapists will complete a screening process to make sure you don’t have any medical or pharmaceutical contraindications, and will prepare you in the right time so that you may enter the psilocybin session feeling safe, grounded, and resourced.

Rather than “bad trip”, we prefer to use the term “challenging experience” in the context of safe, guided psilocybin journeys. While there’s no way of knowing the kind of experience you’ll have, we will help equip you with tools to navigate challenging moments. Oftentimes, the most difficult experiences are the ones that help bring about the most positive changes in the aftermath.

Psilocybin on its own is not a cure for depression. Research shows that it is most impactful when combined with sustained psychotherapy and support. While the psilocybin mushrooms can create a window of opportunity for habit change and perspective shifts post-session, the individual must take initiative around their own healing to experience long-term positive results.

Although one mushroom administration session may greatly improve your symptoms and help you to feel better, the most seasoned psychedelic users find that mushrooms (and other similar psychedelics) help to facilitate an ongoing path of internal exploration and healing.

It is uncommon that one psilocybin mushroom journey would be deemed “enough” to heal mental health struggles and challenges. At Reflective Healing, we believe that having mushrooms as a tool in our toolbox as therapists is great, but it is also just that – a tool.  We suggest recruiting many different tools while attempting to treat mental health issues and needs, and encourage clients to think more expansively about their overall healing journey when considering developing a relationship with psilocybin mushrooms.

This his greatly depends. PTSD is a broad term for post-traumatic stress disorder. There is currently little research that supports the use of mushrooms for the treatment of PTSD. That being said, some forms of trauma may be helped with the assistance of psilocybin therapy in combination with other healing modalities such as EMDR and/or ongoing talk therapy. 

Some clients experiencing PTSD may have already done a sufficient and substantial amount of work on their mental health condition, leaving them in a place where they feel well-resourced and regulated. For these clients, mushrooms may be a valuable next step. 

However, if you have never addressed your PTSD symptoms and diagnosis, and you're still deeply struggling with feeling regulated and somatically grounded, it may be best to seek other kinds of treatment first.

We encourage clients interested in psilocybin therapy to commit to the larger process of healing that mushrooms can be a part of, including talk therapy and other healing modalities. You are invited to fill out our interest form and complete the screening process.