A guide for people coming from out of state
Traveling to Colorado for Legal Psilocybin Therapy
Everything you need to know before planning a safe, legal, professionally facilitated psilocybin experience in Colorado — the law as it actually reads, the timeline it really takes, and what the whole trip costs.
The first conversation is thirty minutes, by video, at no cost.
Quick answers
- Can I legally travel here for this?
- Yes. Colorado's Natural Medicine Health Act has no residency requirement. You must be 21 or older.
- Can out-of-state visitors participate?
- Yes, at a licensed healing center with a licensed facilitator. The medicine is consumed on-site only.
- How many days should I stay?
- Three nights minimum, four is better: a day to arrive, the session day, a day to land.
- Is preparation included?
- Yes — two preparation sessions before you fly and two integration sessions after you're home, all by video.
Why people travel to Colorado for this
Most of the people who write to me don't live here. They live in states where this work is either illegal or happening quietly in someone's living room, and they've decided they want it done properly — with a licensed person, in a licensed building, with medicine that's been tested.
Colorado voters passed Proposition 122 in 2022, creating the Natural Medicine Health Act. Facilitators are licensed by the state. Healing centers are licensed separately. Medicine is cultivated, tested, and tracked through a regulated supply chain. The framework is administered by Colorado's Department of Public Health and Environment and the Natural Medicine Division at the Department of Revenue.
That structure is the actual draw. Not the mountains, though they help. What people are buying is the ability to be completely honest about what they're doing — with a facilitator who can be named, in a place with an address, in a state where nobody has to hide.
The second reason is privacy of a different kind. Being a few states away from your job, your congregation, your practice, or your family means the days around this belong only to you. For some people that distance is the thing that makes it possible at all.
And the third is that preparation and integration travel well. The parts of this work that actually determine the outcome happen by video, before and after. Only one day of it has to happen in Colorado.
Can out-of-state visitors participate?
Yes. The Natural Medicine Health Act contains no residency requirement. You need to be at least 21 years old and physically present in Colorado for the session. That's the whole eligibility test as far as geography goes.
Here is the nuance that matters, and I'd rather you hear it from me than discover it at the airport:
- The medicine must be consumed on-site at a licensed healing center. You cannot buy it, carry it, or take any home. Crossing a state line with psilocybin is a federal offense regardless of Colorado law.
- Psilocybin remains a Schedule I substance under federal law. Colorado's program is a state framework. This distinction rarely affects participants in practice, but pretending it doesn't exist would be dishonest.
- Nothing about participating is reported to your home state, your employer, or your insurer. There is no registry of participants.
- If you hold a professional license, a security clearance, a commercial driver's license, or a pilot's medical certificate, the rules that govern you are a separate question with real consequences. Look into your own before you book anything.
In practice, working with someone out of state looks like this: the consultation and both preparation sessions happen by video from wherever you are; you fly in for the session with a day on either side; and integration continues by video once you're home. Distance changes the logistics, not the depth.
More on how I adapt the work for visitors, including what I won't compress to fit a return flight.
Is this the right thing, right now?
Work through this before you look at flights. Getting an honest no early costs you an afternoon. Getting it late costs you thousands of dollars and a difficult week.
1.Are you 21 or older and able to travel to Colorado for at least three nights?
Yes → Continue.
No → This program isn't available to you yet. Nothing about the law bends on age or on being physically present.
2.Do you have a personal or close family history of schizophrenia, other psychotic disorders, or bipolar I?
Yes → Stop here and talk to a psychiatrist first. This is the clearest safety line in the work, and I will not cross it to take a booking.
No → Continue.
3.Are you in an acute crisis — actively suicidal, in the first raw weeks of a loss, or in an unsafe living situation?
Yes → Not now. Stabilize first with ongoing care. This work asks something of you that crisis makes impossible. It will still be here in six months.
No → Continue.
4.Do you take lithium, tramadol, or an MAOI?
Yes → Stop until that changes under your prescriber's supervision. These combinations are unsafe, not merely inconvenient.
No → Continue — bring your full medication list to the consultation regardless.
5.Can you protect the day after your session and, ideally, the week after you return home?
Yes → Continue.
No → Wait for a month when you can. The days after are not a luxury; they're where the value is.
6.Do you have somewhere to land emotionally at home — a therapist, a partner, a friend who knows?
Yes → You're a good candidate to start a conversation.
No → Build that first, even one person. Integration alone in an empty apartment is the most common way this gets wasted.
None of this replaces screening. It's the same ground I cover in the first conversation, put in front of you early so you can reach your own conclusion without talking to anyone. The full screening and safety process.
Colorado compared to the alternatives
Colorado isn't the only path, and I'd rather you choose it knowing what else exists than because it was the first thing you found.
| Path | Legal status | Support in the room | Typical cost | Worth knowing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colorado licensed facilitation | Legal under state law; medicine consumed on-site | Licensed facilitator present the entire session | $3,200 + medicine + center fee | No residency requirement; open to visitors from anywhere |
| Oregon supported adult use | Legal under state law; consumed at a licensed service center | Licensed facilitator present | Varies widely by service center | Also open to visitors; a genuine alternative worth comparing |
| Clinical trial | Federally sanctioned research | Study protocol, often two monitors | Usually no cost to participant | Narrow eligibility, waitlists, and you may receive a placebo |
| Retreat outside the U.S. | Depends entirely on the country | Highly variable; often unregulated | Often $2,000–$8,000 plus international travel | No licensing body to verify, and no recourse if something goes wrong |
| Underground session at home | Illegal in most states | Unverifiable; no license, no oversight | Varies | Some underground guides are excellent. You have no way to confirm which ones. |
Costs for other paths are general ranges reported publicly, not quotes. Verify anything you're seriously considering directly with the provider.
The complete journey, start to finish
From first email to the last integration session is usually six to ten weeks. Only three or four days of it happen in Colorado.
Day 0
First contact
You write or call. I answer, usually within a day, and often with questions of my own before I say anything about scheduling.
Week 1
Consultation
Thirty minutes by video, no charge. We talk about what's bringing you here and whether this is the right thing at all. Sometimes the honest answer is not yet.
Weeks 1–2
Screening
Health history, medication review, mental health history, and where indicated, written clearance from your prescriber. This happens before you book any flights.
Weeks 2–5
Preparation
Two one-hour sessions by video from wherever you live. Intentions, fears, what happens in the room, what to do when it gets hard.
Day before
You travel
Arrive at least a full day early. Settle in, hydrate, sleep at altitude once before the session rather than not at all.
Session day
Medicine day
A full day at a licensed healing center in Boulder, Denver, or Golden. I am present the entire time. No clock-watching, no handoffs.
Day after
The day after
Deliberately unscheduled. A short walk, food, a conversation with me if you want one. Not a travel day if it can be helped.
Weeks after
Integration
Two one-hour video sessions once you're home, while the material is still moving. This is where the work becomes durable or doesn't.
Ongoing
Long-term
Additional integration is available as long as it's useful, at $150 per hour. Many people check in months later. Some never need to.
What the medicine day is actually like
Nearly everyone arrives with a vague and slightly cinematic idea of this day. Here is the ordinary shape of it, hour by hour. Yours will differ in the details and not much in the structure.
Morning, before you leave
A light breakfast or none, depending on what we agreed. No caffeine if you can manage it. Bring your layers, your water bottle, and nothing you'd worry about losing.
First 30–60 minutes at the center
We sit and talk. Blood pressure is checked. We revisit your intention, the agreements we made in preparation, and I ask for consent one final time. Nobody is rushing this part.
Ingestion
The healing center provides the medicine at the dose we discussed. You take it in the session room. Then we wait, usually in quiet, and the waiting is often the most nervous stretch of the day.
20–45 minutes in
First effects: shifts in color and texture, a settling or a lifting in the body, sometimes a wave of nausea, often a laugh. Most people lie down and put on eye shades around here.
Hour 1 to hour 3
The strongest part. This can be beautiful, ordinary, or hard, sometimes all three in twenty minutes. I stay in the room. I don't narrate, interpret, or interrupt. If you want a hand, ask for one.
Hour 3 to hour 5
The tapering. People often begin to talk here, or cry, or want to sit up and look out a window. Water and something simple to eat. This is frequently when the useful material becomes plain.
Hour 5 to hour 6+
Landing. We talk if you want to talk and sit quietly if you don't. I don't ask you to summarize the day; meaning that gets forced into words too early tends to shrink.
Leaving
Someone drives you — your travel companion, a car service arranged in advance, or a ride I help coordinate. Never you. A quiet evening, food, sleep.
On touch
Whether any supportive touch is acceptable — a hand held, a hand on the shoulder — is decided by you in preparation, in advance, in words, and can be withdrawn at any moment. I do not initiate touch that wasn't agreed to beforehand. If a facilitator anywhere treats this as an afterthought, that tells you something.
Planning your trip
Flying in
Denver International Airport (DEN) is the only realistic option and it connects almost everywhere. It also sits well east of the city — budget 45 minutes to downtown Denver and about 70 minutes to Boulder, longer in weekday traffic.
Arrive at least one full day before your session. Not the night before at eleven. A same-day arrival means you'll do the deepest work of the year on airport sleep, and I've never seen that go as well.
For the flight home, give yourself a full day after the session. If you must fly the next day, take an afternoon or evening departure.
Getting around
The RTD A Line train runs from the airport to Denver's Union Station in about 37 minutes, and the AB1 bus runs from the airport to Boulder. Rideshare is everywhere. A rental car is convenient if you're staying outside town, but you will not be driving on session day under any circumstances.
Plan a ride to and from the healing center. If nobody is traveling with you, arrange a car service in advance rather than opening an app while you're still coming down.
Where to stay
Stay close to the healing center you'll be using — Boulder, Denver, or Golden. Twenty minutes of travel matters more on session day than any amenity.
Hotels are simpler than short-term rentals for this. Fewer logistics, staff on-site, and a late checkout is usually one phone call. If you prefer a rental, book a whole unit rather than a room in someone's home, and read the checkout rules before you commit.
Ask for a quiet room away from elevators. You'll want to sleep unusually early the night after.
Altitude, weather, and your body
Boulder is at roughly 5,400 feet and Denver at 5,280. If you come from sea level, expect to feel it: dry throat, shorter breath on stairs, poorer sleep the first night, and a headache if you're underhydrated. Drink considerably more water than usual starting the day before you fly, and skip alcohol entirely for the days on either side of the session.
The sun is stronger here at altitude — sunscreen and sunglasses aren't optional even in winter. Weather changes fast in every season; pack layers rather than a single heavy coat.
Keep food simple and light in the two days before. Eat a small breakfast on session morning or none at all, depending on what we decide together. Keep exercise gentle — a walk, not a hard workout, and definitely not a high-altitude hike the day before.
Time off work, and the days after
Take the session day and the following day off at minimum. A fuller week is a gift if you can manage it — not because you'll be impaired, but because the week after is when things reorganize, and returning straight into a full calendar wastes that window.
For the day after, gentle is the whole instruction: a slow walk on the Boulder Creek Path or through Chautauqua Park, a long unhurried breakfast, the Denver Botanic Gardens, a bookstore, a nap. Not shopping, not a brewery tour, not a fourteener.
Boulder, Denver, or Golden?
I work at licensed partner healing centers in all three. Availability and your own preference usually decide it. Here's the honest difference for a visitor.
| City | From the airport | What it feels like | Lodging | Gentle things to do after |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boulder | ~70 min from DEN | Small, walkable, mountains at the edge of town. Quiet evenings. | Higher nightly rates; hotels downtown and along Canyon Blvd | Boulder Creek Path, Chautauqua Park, the Pearl Street bookstores |
| Denver | ~45 min from DEN | A city. More flights, more lodging, more anonymity. | Widest range of prices and neighborhoods | Denver Botanic Gardens, Cheesman Park, the art museum |
| Golden | ~55 min from DEN | Small foothills town, very quiet, tucked against the mountains | Limited but pleasant; book earlier | Clear Creek trail, Lookout Mountain, a slow main street |
A sample four-day itinerary
Day 1 — Arrival
Land by mid-afternoon if you can. Check in, walk twenty minutes outside, drink a liter more water than you want to, eat something simple, and be asleep early. No sightseeing marathon.
Day 2 — Settling
Slow morning. A short flat walk. A brief video check-in with me if you want one. Light dinner, no alcohol, early night. Lay out your clothes for tomorrow so the morning holds no decisions.
Day 3 — Medicine day
Six to eight hours at the healing center. A ride back. Food, quiet, sleep whenever it comes. Nothing else on the calendar, all day, in any direction.
Day 4 — Landing
Late checkout. A slow breakfast, a park or a creek path, a bookstore. Write a little if you want. If you must fly today, take an afternoon or evening flight — never a 6 a.m. departure.
Optional Day 5
If you can afford the extra night, this is the one that most people wish they'd added. Unstructured, unhurried, and often where the day resolves into something you can carry home.
A countdown checklist
The order matters more than the timing. Screening comes before flights, always.
6–8 weeks out
- Initial consultation completed
- Health and medication review submitted
- Prescriber clearance requested if needed
4–5 weeks out
- Session date confirmed and healing center booked
- Flights and lodging booked (not before this point)
- Time off work requested — session day plus the day after, at minimum
2–3 weeks out
- Both preparation sessions completed
- Ground transportation arranged for session day
- Someone at home told where you'll be and how to reach you
1 week out
- Alcohol reduced or stopped
- Sleep prioritized; caffeine tapered if you're a heavy drinker
- Calendar cleared for the week you return, as far as possible
Day before
- Arrive in Colorado; hydrate heavily
- A light dinner, an early night, no alcohol
- Late checkout requested for the morning after the session
What should I pack?
Healing centers provide bedding, eye shades, water, and music. This list is for the rest.
- Comfortable, loose clothing you can lie down in for hours, plus layers — rooms run cool
- A sweater or wrap; body temperature swings during a session
- Eye shades if you already own a pair you like (the center provides them)
- A water bottle you'll actually drink from
- Any daily medications, in their original containers, plus your written list
- Lip balm and lotion — Colorado air is very dry
- A journal and a pen for the morning after, not for the session itself
- One or two small meaningful objects or photographs, if that's your way
- Simple snacks for after: fruit, nuts, something easy
- Sunglasses; the light here is stronger than most visitors expect
- Slip-on shoes, so you're not managing laces at either end of the day
- Contact information for someone at home who knows where you are
Where does the medicine come from?
Not from me. This matters legally and I want to be exact about it. Under Colorado's framework, natural medicine is cultivated by licensed cultivators, tested by licensed testing facilities, and distributed to licensed healing centers through a tracked supply chain. Facilitators are licensed to support and supervise sessions — not to manufacture, sell, or supply medicine.
What that means in practice: the healing center provides the medicine on the day of your session, at a dose we've discussed in advance, and it is consumed there. There is no prescription, no pharmacy, no purchase to take away. The cost of the medicine is separate from my fee and generally runs $50 to $200 per person depending on dose and center.
Anyone who offers to sell you psilocybin, mail it to you, or supervise you outside a licensed healing center is operating outside this framework, whatever they call themselves.
Medications and medical conditions
This table is orientation, not clearance. Every one of these gets reviewed individually, and decisions about your prescriptions belong to your prescriber, not to me.
| Medication | Status | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Lithium | Contraindicated | Associated with seizures in combination. This is a firm no. |
| Tramadol | Contraindicated | Seizure risk. Also a firm no. |
| MAOIs | Contraindicated without prescriber management | Can unpredictably intensify effects. Requires your prescriber's involvement. |
| SSRIs / SNRIs | Often requires review | Frequently blunt the experience. Whether to taper is your prescriber's decision, never mine, and abrupt discontinuation is its own risk. |
| Antipsychotics | Usually blocks the effect; needs review | Also raises questions about the underlying diagnosis that we'd discuss carefully. |
| Benzodiazepines | Needs review | Can dampen the experience, and regular use raises questions about dependence and timing. |
| Blood pressure & cardiac medications | Needs review | Psilocybin transiently raises heart rate and blood pressure. Uncontrolled hypertension and significant cardiac disease are screening concerns. |
| Stimulants (ADHD medication) | Usually paused for the day; needs review | Discussed individually with you and your prescriber. |
Conditions that require a careful conversation
Personal or family history of psychosis or bipolar I, current suicidal crisis, significant cardiac disease or uncontrolled high blood pressure, seizure disorders, pregnancy or breastfeeding, and recent major surgery. Some of these are firm stops. Others are timing questions. How screening works in detail.
The fears people don't say out loud
These come up in nearly every consultation, usually near the end, usually prefaced with "this is probably a stupid question."
What if I lose control?
You will lose some control — that's part of what the medicine does, and it's the part people find most useful in retrospect. What you don't lose is safety. You stay in a room with a licensed person who is not going anywhere, for as long as it takes. In practice, 'losing control' usually looks like crying, or laughing, or lying very still while something rearranges.
What if something terrifying happens?
Difficult stretches are common and are not emergencies. Most hard passages last minutes, not hours, and they frequently turn into the most important part of the day. My response is not to sedate or interrupt but to be steady, to remind you where you are, and to stay close. We rehearse this in preparation so you already know what to do.
What if I say something embarrassing?
You might. People say a great deal, and almost none of it embarrasses anyone but themselves the next morning. I have heard whatever it is. Nothing you say is repeated, and the session is confidential.
What if nothing happens?
Occasionally very little happens, most often when the dose was conservative or medications interfered. This is disappointing and it is not failure. We look at why, and if it makes sense we plan differently. I will tell you honestly if I think another session is the wrong use of your money.
What if I don't like the facilitator once I'm there?
This is exactly why the consultation and two preparation sessions happen before you buy a plane ticket. By the time you land you should know me well enough that nothing about the day is a first impression. If it isn't a fit, we find that out on a video call, not in a session room.
What if it changes me in a way my family doesn't like?
This is a serious question, and people rarely ask it out loud. Sometimes clarity is inconvenient for the people around you. It's worth telling at least one person close to you what you're doing, and it's worth deciding in advance what you'll do if something you learn asks for a change. Integration is where that gets worked out slowly, rather than announced impulsively.
There are also things this work genuinely does not do, and I keep a whole page about them rather than burying it: what psilocybin therapy does not do.
If you hold a professional license or clearance
Colorado's law governs Colorado. It does not govern your employer, your licensing board, or the federal government. I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice — it's the short list of people who should get advice before booking anything.
Pilots and aviation personnel
FAA medical certification standards are strict about substance use. Consult an aviation medical examiner or aviation attorney before you plan anything.
Commercial drivers (CDL)
Federal DOT testing rules apply regardless of state law. Understand your testing exposure before scheduling.
Security clearance holders
Federal adjudication guidelines still treat psilocybin as a Schedule I substance. This is a real risk and I won't minimize it.
Licensed clinicians and nurses
Board rules vary by state, as do employer testing policies. Many clinicians participate; they do so having checked first.
Employees subject to drug testing
Standard panels typically do not include psilocybin, but expanded panels can. Verify with your own policy rather than assuming.
Anyone in a custody or legal proceeding
Ask your attorney. State legality doesn't guarantee how it will be characterized in a contested matter.
People in every one of these categories participate. They do it having checked first, which is the only responsible way to do it. If discretion is central to your situation, here's how I handle privacy.
What the whole trip costs
Travel estimates are ranges because they depend on where you're flying from and how you like to travel. My fees are not ranges.
| Line item | Estimate | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Facilitation — individual journey | $3,200 | Two preparation sessions, the full medicine day, two integration sessions |
| Facilitation — couples journey | $4,200 | Same arc, structured for two participants |
| Natural medicine | $50 – $200 | Per person, varies by dose and center. Not included in facilitation. |
| Healing center fee | Varies by site | Set by the licensed center, not by me. I'll tell you the figure before you commit. |
| Flights | $250 – $700 | Round trip to Denver International from most U.S. cities |
| Lodging | $450 – $1,100 | Three to four nights in Boulder or Denver |
| Ground transportation | $150 – $300 | Airport transfers plus rides on session day. A rental car is optional. |
| Meals | $150 – $350 | Three to four days, eating simply |
| Additional integration | $150 / hour | Optional, beyond the two sessions included |
A realistic all-in figure for one person traveling from out of state is roughly $4,600 to $6,300, depending on flights and lodging. A couples journey runs higher on facilitation and medicine and roughly the same on travel.
A $500 deposit is due only once you decide to schedule a medicine session. The initial consultation costs nothing. Insurance does not cover any of this in any state. Full pricing and what each journey includes.
How to choose a facilitator
You are choosing a person to sit with you during one of the more vulnerable days of your life. Do this carefully, and don't let the fact that you found me first make me the answer.
Verify licensure first. Colorado licenses facilitators individually. Ask for the license number and check it. Anyone hesitant to give it should be ruled out immediately.
Ask about training and about hours. State-required training is a floor, not a distinction. Ask how many sessions they've actually held, what they did when one went badly, and what they learned from it.
Ask what preparation and integration are included. A facilitator who sells you a medicine day with little around it is selling the least important part. Ask how many preparation sessions, how many integration sessions, and what happens if you need more.
Ask who stays in the room. Whether one person is present the entire session or facilitators rotate is a meaningful difference. So is whether they'll be reachable in the weeks afterward.
Ask what they won't do. Anyone who cannot name conditions they screen out, or who has never told a prospective client no, has not thought carefully enough about the risks.
Notice how they talk about outcomes. Guarantees, testimonials that sound like ad copy, and language about transformation are warning signs. Nobody can promise you a result, and there are real things this work does not do.
Then notice how you feel talking to them. Credentials get someone onto the list. Fit decides it. If something in the conversation is subtly off, believe that — and if that person is me, I'd rather you go elsewhere and do this well.
Related reading: screening and safety and what the research actually shows.
Twelve questions to ask any facilitator
Ask me these. Ask everyone else these. A good facilitator will be glad you did, and the answers will differ more than you expect.
- 1.What is your Colorado facilitator license number?
- 2.How many sessions have you personally held?
- 3.How many preparation and integration sessions are included in your fee?
- 4.Are you in the room for the entire session, or do facilitators rotate?
- 5.What do you do when a session becomes difficult?
- 6.Who have you told no, and why?
- 7.What are your total costs, including medicine and healing center fees?
- 8.What happens if I need to reschedule or cancel?
- 9.How do you handle touch, and how is consent for it established?
- 10.Can I reach you in the weeks after I go home?
- 11.How do you coordinate with my therapist or prescriber?
- 12.What do you believe this work cannot do?
The weeks after you get home
This is the part travelers plan for least and need most. Distance makes the return sharper: you go from a session room in Colorado to your own kitchen in about a day.
Days 1–3
Often bright, sometimes flat, occasionally both within an hour. Sleep can be unusual. Appetite shifts. Resist the urge to announce conclusions to everyone you know — write them down instead and see if they survive a week.
Week 1
The first integration session. Ordinary life reasserts itself and things learned in an altered state have to be retranslated into a language your Tuesday can hear. This is normal and it is the actual work.
Weeks 2–4
Second integration session. Often a dip somewhere here, when the immediate afterglow fades and nothing has structurally changed yet. Expected. Not a sign it didn't work.
Months 2–6
Whatever holds, holds because you built something around it: a practice, a conversation, a boundary, a habit. Additional integration is available at $150 per hour, and some people check in twice a year.
If you have a therapist at home, tell them the date. With your permission I'll coordinate directly. The people who do best after traveling for this are almost always the ones who arranged support on the other end before they left.
Questions people ask before they book a flight
Glossary
- Natural Medicine Health Act
- The Colorado law created by Proposition 122 (2022) that established regulated, supervised psilocybin services for adults 21 and over.
- Healing center
- A state-licensed facility where regulated natural medicine may be administered and consumed. Sessions cannot legally happen anywhere else.
- Facilitator
- A person individually licensed by Colorado to prepare, supervise, and support participants through a natural medicine session. Not a prescriber and not a supplier.
- Preparation
- The sessions before medicine day covering history, intention, fears, and what to do when the experience gets hard. For visitors, this happens by video.
- Integration
- The work after the session of translating what happened into ordinary life. Usually where durable change comes from, and easy to underestimate.
- Set and setting
- Your inner state and the physical and relational environment. Both shape the experience more than dose does.
- Contraindication
- A condition or medication that makes participation unsafe, either absolutely or until something changes.
- Screening
- The structured review of medical history, mental health history, and medications that happens before anything is scheduled.
If you decide to work with me
I'm Jeremy Nickel. I hold Colorado Natural Medicine Facilitator License #54. Before this was legal anywhere, I spent about twenty years as an ordained Unitarian Universalist minister and chaplain, much of it sitting with people at bedsides, in hospitals, and in the hours after the worst news of their lives. That is the training that matters most for this work. I've also been practicing and teaching meditation for more than thirty years.
What I do is stay. I'm in the room for the entire session — no shift changes, no stepping out. I prepare with you before you fly and I keep working with you after you're home. I don't interpret your experience for you, and I don't have a framework I'm trying to fit you into.
A good portion of the people I sit with come from outside Colorado. The rhythm of remote preparation, a few days here, and remote integration is familiar to me, and I've learned where it strains — usually in the days right after, which is why I ask you to protect them.
I won't promise you an outcome. I don't know what will happen in your session and neither does anyone else who's honest. What I can tell you is what I'll do: screen carefully, prepare thoroughly, stay present, and tell you the truth, including when the truth is that this isn't the right thing for you right now.
More about how I came to this work, or read what I've been writing.
Where to verify any of this
Don't take my word for the legal framework. These are the primary sources, and they supersede anything written here if they ever conflict.
- Colorado Natural Medicine Division (Department of Revenue)Licensing of facilitators, healing centers, cultivators, and testing facilities. Where to verify a license number.
- Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment — Natural MedicinePublic health guidance, participant safety information, and program background.
- Colorado General Assembly — SB23-290, Natural Medicine Regulation and LegalizationThe statute implementing Proposition 122, in its own words.
- What the clinical research does and does not showMy own summary of the evidence base, including its limits and the questions still open.
About the author
Jeremy Nickel is a Colorado Licensed Natural Medicine Facilitator (License #54), trained through the California Institute of Integral Studies' Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies and Research program. He spent roughly twenty years as an ordained Unitarian Universalist minister and chaplain and has practiced and taught meditation for more than thirty years.
He works at licensed partner healing centers in Boulder, Denver, and Golden, and a substantial portion of the people he sits with travel from outside Colorado.
Published August 5, 2026. Last reviewed August 5, 2026. This page is educational and is not medical or legal advice.
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