Psilocybin-assisted therapy in Denver
Update: We have one therapist who has completed training requirements to provide psilocybin-assisted therapy in Colorado. We will have 3 therapists who can provide it by the end of 2025.
We plan to start contacting people from our waitlist starting in May 2025. Due to high demand, we will only contact people who complete our waitlist questionnaire.
Psilocybin-assisted therapy treatment plans will cost between $4,000 and $5,000 and will include preparation sessions, an all-day dosing session, and integration sessions. Dosing sessions will only be in person.
Note: We’re therapists, not a medical clinic or research facility. We don’t provide free sessions, microdosing, “trip sitting,” or psychedelic guidance for mushroom therapy.
How does psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy work?
In 2019, Denver made history as the first city in the United States to decriminalize the use of “magic” mushrooms for personal use. Now, many people are wondering when psilocybin and psilocybe therapy will be available in Colorado. Short answer, therapists who’ve completed required trainings should be able to use psilocybin with their clients starting in Summer 2025.
The active ingredient in these mushrooms is psilocybin, and growing research has shown that psychedelic drugs like psilocybin, Ketamine, and MDMA can help people seeking help for anxiety, depression, PTSD, and even addiction. After psilocybin was decriminalized, people 21 and older can grow or possess mushrooms in Denver, but sharing or selling them remains illegal, especially for state-licensed therapists.
Similar to how Ketamine is being used in therapy today, research has shown promising results for using psilocybin in a therapeutic setting. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University found that psilocybin dramatically reduced symptoms of anxiety and depression in patients with cancer. Their studies have also indicated that psilocybin can be extremely effective with helping people quit smoking and become “unstuck” so that they can get past damaging patterns and addictions.
Another study at New York University also found that up to 80% of patients with cancer who had psilocybin-assisted therapy had sustained improvement in their depression and anxiety 6 months after treatment. Most of the study’s participants said that their experiences with psilocybin therapy were life-changing and that they had near-immediate reduced feelings of anxiety and depression.
Some therapists in Denver have been providing psilocybin-assisted therapy (also known as mushroom therapy) illegally for clients, they’re risking their professional licenses by providing “trip sitting” or psychedelic guiding services without completing the required trainings. My Denver Therapy already has one therapist who has completed their required trainings for psilocybin-assisted therapy, and we’ll have two more by the end of 2025.
Featured on CBS Colorado
My Denver Therapy’s founder Courtneyrose Chung was recently featured on CBS Colorado for a story on psilocybin-assisted therapy in Denver.
Psilocybin-assisted therapy is still undergoing regulatory approvals in Colorado. We anticipate very high demand for psilocybin-assisted therapy and will start maintaining an active waitlist once treatment protocols, medication prices, and state regulations have been established that will determine how much treatment plans will cost.
When will psilocybin-assisted therapy be legal?
In 2018, psilocybin was designated as a “breakthrough therapy” by the FDA for treatment-resistant depression.
In Colorado, regulations are being finalized, and it looks like therapists will be able to provide this type of therapy for their clients starting in summer of 2025.
For people with certain conditions, the federal Right to Try law makes exceptions for terminally ill patients who have exhausted their government-approved options and can’t get into a clinical trial to access treatments.
What will psilocybin or psilocybe potentially be used for in therapy?
So far, research on psilocybin-assisted therapy has been focused on a few major areas and populations:
- Terminal illness, end-of-life, or life-threatening conditions
- Anxiety
- Depression
- PTSD
- Addiction
How much will psilocybin-assisted therapy cost?
There’s significant demand for psilocybin-assisted therapy in Colorado, but few people realize how much it will cost.
A recent study estimated that psilocybin-assisted therapy will cost between $7,638 and $9,532, depending on the price of psilocybin. In Oregon, for microdosing alone without therapy, a guided trip currently costs $3,500 per session.
We anticipate that our psilocybin-assisted therapy treatment plans will cost between $4,000 and $5,000.
What are some risks with psilocybin-assisted
therapy?
Outside of the very obvious risk that psilocybin-assisted therapy is currently illegal for therapists to provide, there is a risk of people having a “bad trip” when using psilocybin. This can cause people to have enhanced feelings of fear, anxiety, confusion, and even panic. How people react to psilocybin can be dramatically different from person to person.
Also, psilocybin can cause psychotic reactions in people with bipolar disorder and mental health conditions like schizophrenia. With ongoing research, these risks and challenges are likely part of why psilocybin is currently not available as a legal method for therapy.
Now that Ketamine-assisted therapy is being provided by therapists and online services like Mindbloom, there is some momentum for psilocybin-assisted therapy to be legalized in the not-so-far future,
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