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psilocybin therapy in Boulder, Colorado
psilocybin therapy in Boulder, Colorado
Colorado is one of the first states in the country to create a regulated framework for psilocybin therapy — and if you've been following this space, or if you've had your own experiences with psilocybin and felt the pull toward something more supported and intentional, you're in the right place.
Psilocybin, the naturally occurring compound found in certain species of mushrooms, has been at the center of a growing body of research showing remarkable potential for healing depression, PTSD, end-of-life anxiety, addiction, and more. What the research is beginning to confirm, many people have known from direct experience for a long time: psilocybin, approached with the right intention and support, can open doors to healing that are difficult to reach any other way.
At Integrate Holistic Psychotherapy in Boulder, Emily Olsen Black, MA, LPC is a licensed clinical facilitator in training under Colorado's Natural Medicine Health Act. Once licensed in winter 2027, she will be offering psilocybin therapy that is grounded in somatic practice, trauma-informed care, and nearly a decade of facilitation experience.
what is psilocybin therapy?
Psilocybin therapy is not a single session or a standalone experience. It is a supported, structured process — held within a clinical and relational framework — that includes preparation, facilitation, and integration.
Under Colorado's regulated program, psilocybin therapy takes place in a controlled setting where clients are guided through a structured process including preparation, the psilocybin experience itself, and integration sessions to help process the insights gained.
What makes psilocybin therapy at Integrate different is the depth of the container. Emily's somatic, trauma-informed approach means that every phase of the process — from the first preparation session to the last integration conversation — is held with attention to your nervous system, your relational patterns, your body's signals, and your whole healing journey, not just the session itself.
unlike recreational use, psilocybin therapy is a process that includes three essential phases:
preparation
before a psilocybin session, we spend meaningful time together — clarifying your intentions, exploring your history and any areas of sensitivity, preparing your nervous system, and building the relational trust that is foundational to this work. preparation is not an intake form. It is the start of the healing.
journey
psilocybin sessions take place in a secure, regulated environment with Emily present to supervise and guide you through the entire experience. her role is to hold the space — attuned, regulated, and responsive to where you are — so you can follow the medicine as far as it takes you, safely and with support.
integration
the journey opens a door. integration is how you walk through it. following your psilocybin experience, we work together to make meaning of what arose — processing impactful material, grounding insights into lived change, and weaving the experience into your ongoing healing. integration sessions draw on the same somatic, relational, and experiential approaches that guide all of Emily's clinical work.
what psilocybin therapy may help with
research and clinical experience point to psilocybin therapy as potentially transformative for:
Treatment-resistant depression and persistent low mood
PTSD and complex trauma
Anxiety — including existential and end-of-life anxiety
Addiction and patterns of compulsive behavior
Grief and profound loss
A felt sense of disconnection from self, meaning, or aliveness
Spiritual emergence and existential questioning
psilocybin therapy is not a guaranteed cure or a substitute for other forms of care. It is a powerful tool that, in the right container and with the right support, may catalyze healing that other approaches have not yet been able to reach.
who psilocybin therapy is for
psilocybin therapy at Integrate may be a good fit if you:
Have had previous psychedelic experiences and want more depth, structure, and integration support
Want to work with someone who brings both clinical expertise and genuine lived understanding of this work
Are navigating depression, trauma, or anxiety that hasn't fully responded to conventional treatment
Are spiritually-oriented and want a facilitator who can hold both the psychological and the sacred dimensions of the experience
Are on a path of awakening — or have had a spontaneous spiritual opening — and need a clinician who truly understands that territory
Are ready to do real work — before, during, and after the session
the program is open to adults aged 21 and older who believe they can benefit from psilocybin therapy. unlike traditional medical treatments, there is no requirement for a formal diagnosis — individuals self-determine whether this therapy is appropriate for their needs.
emily’s background in this work
Emily has been facilitating non-ordinary states of consciousness with care and reverence for nearly a decade — long before Colorado's regulated program existed. She is currently completing her clinical facilitator training at Medicinal Mindfulness under Colorado's Natural Medicine Health Act, and brings her full somatic and trauma-informed clinical background to every phase of the facilitation process.
She understands this work from the inside — as a clinician, as a facilitator, and as someone who has walked her own path with psychedelic medicines. That depth of understanding, paired with her ongoing clinical and somatic training and expertise — shapes every session.
a therapist who speaks the language of awakening
Psilocybin has a way of opening doors that don't close — to non-dual states, ego dissolution, encounters with the numinous, or a fundamental reorganization of one's sense of self and reality. For those on a conscious path of awakening, this territory is familiar. For others, it arrives as a surprise — profound and sometimes disorienting, without a map.
Emily is fluent in this territory. Her own spiritual practice of classical yoga, years of neo-shamanic apprenticeship, and deep personal relationship with non-ordinary states of consciousness mean she can meet you wherever the medicine takes you — without pathologizing the mystical, spiritualizing the psychological, or losing sight of your nervous system in the process.
If you have been searching for a clinician who is genuinely awakening-literate — someone who understands the difference between a spiritual emergency and a psychiatric one, who can hold the breadth of the psychedelic experience with both clinical skill and spiritual reverence — you may have found her. We are humbled and awed to serve you in your healing journey.
psychedelic therapy may be aligned if you…
Want to work with psychedelics but want to do so within a trauma-informed, somatically-grounded clinical container
Are an experienced journey-er looking for more depth, continuity, and integration support in your work
Have been navigating treatment-resistant depression, anxiety, or PTSD and are looking for a different kind of support
Are on a path of awakening — navigating spiritual emergence, ego dissolution, or a fundamental shift in your sense of self — and need a clinician who understands that terrain
Are a spiritual seeker ready to bring the insights from your practice into embodied, relational healing
Want to be supported by someone who understands both the clinical and the spiritual dimensions of this work from the inside
why invest in a guided experience?
Psilocybin is increasingly accessible — and the question of whether to work with it alone or with professional support is one worth sitting with honestly. Here is what a skilled, clinically trained guide actually provides:
Individualized dosing education that honors the whole picture.
Dosing recommendations are not one-size-fits-all. The right approach for your experience integrates current research, your unique physiology, clinical concerns and psychological history history, your current intentions, and the wisdom of traditional practices that have worked with these medicines for centuries. Emily brings all of these lenses to the preparation process — helping you arrive at the experience with a dosing approach that is genuinely calibrated to you, rather than a generic recommendation. This can make all the difference, and what differentiates working with a professional vs recreational or personal use.
The power of entering this space with intention.
A guided experience is a held experience — which means the journey begins long before the medicine does. The preparation work Emily offers helps you clarify what you are bringing to the experience, what you are hoping to open, and what you want to be different on the other side. That intentionality shapes everything about what the medicine can do.
Stepping into a transpersonal space with support — to build a healthy relationship outside it.
One of the most important things a guided experience offers is the confidence and relational template to engage with psilocybin wisely and consciously in the future. Working with Emily in a supported, intentional context helps you develop your own discernment — an understanding of how this medicine works with your specific system, what conditions support your most meaningful experiences, and how to approach the medicine with the respect and care it deserves outside of a therapeutic setting. A guided experience is not about dependency. It is about empowerment.
A regulated nervous system in the room.
The presence of a skilled, regulated facilitator changes the neurological experience of a psilocybin journey — not just before and after, but during. Co-regulation is real. When the space is held by someone who is genuinely attuned, unfrightened by what arises, and trained to support the nervous system in real time, the journey has more room to go where it needs to go. Emily's somatic training means she can work with the body throughout the experience — supporting difficult passages, helping move through activation or overwhelm, and keeping the container grounded when the medicine asks a lot.
Safety, screening, and care.
A guided experience includes a thorough preparation process that screens for contraindications, assesses your mental health history, and reviews any medications or supplements that may interact with psilocybin. This is not bureaucratic — it is care. Knowing your full picture before you enter this space protects you and allows the experience to be as beneficial as possible.
Integration that actually lands.
What the medicine opens needs somewhere to go. Working with Emily means you have a skilled, somatically-grounded integration partner who knows your story, was present for the experience, and can help you weave what arose into your nervous system, your relationships, and your daily life in a way that creates lasting change rather than a meaningful experience that slowly fades.
the two-day journey package — what to expect
Psilocybin therapy at Integrate is offered as a two-day journey package — a carefully sequenced arc designed to allow for genuine depth, integration within the process itself, and the kind of continuity that single-session experiences can't provide.
Every package includes two preparation sessions, two full journey days, and two integration sessions — held by Emily across the full arc of the work.
before the journey — preparation
Session 1: Intake & Orientation Our first meeting is a thorough intake — exploring your history, intentions, any areas of psychological sensitivity, current medications, and what you are hoping this work will open. Emily begins building the relational trust and somatic attunement that will hold the journey days. This is also where individualized dosing education begins — integrating current research, your unique constitution, and the wisdom of traditional practices to identify the approach best suited to you.
Session 2: Pre-Journey Preparation Held in the days immediately before your first journey day, this session finalizes your intentions, prepares your nervous system, and ensures you arrive at the journey grounded, resourced, and ready. We review what to expect, how to work with difficult material if it arises, and how to surrender into the experience rather than manage it.
journey day one — the opening
Journey days are eight hours, held in a comfortable, carefully prepared environment. You arrive having prepared as instructed, with your intentions held and your nervous system as settled as possible.
Morning — Arrival & Settling We begin slowly — a somatic grounding practice, quiet time together, a final orienting conversation before the medicine is taken. The container is established with care and intention before anything begins.
The Journey — Initial Dose The initial dose is taken, and Emily remains present and attuned throughout the full arc of what follows. Her role is to hold the space — regulated, responsive, and genuinely unfrightened by whatever arises — so you can follow the medicine as far as it takes you. Music, darkness or soft light, and a comfortable lying position support the inward journey. Emily tracks your nervous system throughout, offering somatic support, grounding, or gentle guidance if needed — and otherwise holding the space with quiet, steady presence.
Optional Booster If the initial dose feels incomplete or there is more depth available, a booster dose may be offered. This is always your choice, never a prescription — and is informed by what Emily is observing somatically and what you are experiencing.
Afternoon — Coming Through As the medicine begins to lift, Emily supports the transition gently — orienting you back to the room, offering nourishment and grounding practices, and creating space for the first wordless integration. What arose in the journey is held carefully, not immediately processed or analyzed. There is time to simply be with what has moved.
Closing Day one closes with a somatic integration practice and a gentle holding of intention for the night. What was opened in the journey has space to settle, to dream, and to continue its quiet work before the second day arrives.
journey day two — the deepening
The second journey day follows the same arc as the first — arrival, grounding, the journey with initial dose and optional booster, coming through, and closing — with one significant difference: you arrive having already crossed something.
What the first day opened, the second day can deepen and cultivate. What the first day revealed, the second day can begin to integrate from the inside — continuing the work in the medicine space with the relational and somatic container already established, the nervous system already more familiar with this territory, and your intentions refined by what the first journey brought.
Many people find the second journey day to be the more spacious and more profound of the two — not because it is more intense, but because they arrive with less to defend against.
integration sessions
The integration sessions close the arc of the package — weaving together what both journey days opened, identifying the threads to carry forward, and establishing a clear integration practice for the months ahead. Emily provides specific recommendations for ongoing support, whether that is continued therapy, somatic practice, community, or further sessions.
Additional integration sessions beyond the package are available at Emily's standard rate for those who want deeper or longer-term support.
investment
the two-day psilocybin journey package: $4,000
Includes:
2 preparation sessions
2 full journey days (8 hours each, with initial dose and optional booster)
2 integration sessions
what you're investing in
Transparency matters in this work — so here is an honest breakdown of what the $4,000 package represents in terms of Emily's time and presence.
Direct contact hours: 22 hours
Preparation sessions: 3 hrs // Journey day one: 8 hrs // Journey day two: 8 hrs // Integration sessions: 3hrs
Non-contact time per package: 8 hours
Behind each journey day is a significant investment of time that happens outside the room — preparation and space-setting before you arrive, clinical documentation and reflection afterward, and the energetic and mental load of holding an 8-hour facilitation with full somatic attunement. Realistically this adds 2–3 hours per journey day, and additional time for intake review, correspondence, and integration follow-up across the package.
Total time investment: approximately 30 hours
Effective rate: ~$133/hour
At Emily's standard therapy rate of $200/hour, 30 hours of her time would total $6,000. The package is offered at $4,000 because this work is held as a complete, contained arc — not a collection of billable hours — and because accessibility within this space is a genuine value.
A note on availability
Emily offers one psilocybin journey package per month. This is an intentional limit — not a logistical one. Holding this work well requires Emily's full presence, care, and energetic investment before, during, and after each container. One journey per month ensures that every client receives that fully.
If you are interested in working together, reaching out early is recommended — space is limited and typically fills in advance.
Additional integration sessions available at $200/session.
A small number of reduced-rate spots are available for those facing financial hardship — please reach out directly.
Please note: psilocybin facilitation is offered within the framework of Colorado's Natural Medicine Health Act. Sessions take place within a licensed, regulated environment. Emily does not provide, sell, or facilitate access to psilocybin or any other substance outside of this framework. This is not a substitute for psychiatric care or emergency mental health services.
a note on access and ethics
Psychedelic facilitation has been practiced with great care and integrity (and also without) in underground and ceremonial spaces for decades — long before any state legislature took notice. The legalization of this work is a complicated development. It brings real benefits — safer access, clinical accountability, continuity of care — alongside real concerns about who gets to participate, who gets to facilitate, and what gets lost when any sacred practice moves into regulated spaces.
I hold both of these truths. I pursued licensure not because I believe regulation resolves these tensions, but because I want people who understand the somatic, relational, and spiritual depth of this work to be present in this space. If this is going to exist in a clinical framework, I want it to be done with the reverence it deserves.
Accessibility and equity in psychedelic therapy remain important values for me. If cost is a barrier to this work, please reach out — I am committed to making this as accessible as possible within the constraints of a sustainable practice.
psychedelic therapy in Boulder, CO — getting started
Emily is currently in clinical facilitator training at Medicinal Mindfulness under Colorado's Natural Medicine Health Act and will be accepting psilocybin facilitation clients in March of 2027.
Integration coaching and preparation sessions are available now, and we are already building Emily’s waitlist and booking out for journey days in March 2027, so please don’t wait to reach out.
If you're curious about this work — whether you're ready to begin or still just exploring — the best first step is a free 20-minute consultation.
Please note: Emily offers psychedelic therapy facilitation and integration coaching within the framework of Colorado's Natural Medicine Health Act. Sessions take place within a regulated environment. This is not a substitute for psychiatric care. Emily does not provide, sell, or facilitate access to any substances outside of the licensed regulatory framework.
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