Preparation, Journey & Integration Support
Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy in Colorado
Grounded, personalized psychedelic support for your natural medicine journey.
Awareness Peak, Littleton, CO
Is there more beyond where you’ve been standing?
Have you ever missed yourself? Or the person you were before life changed everything?
Psilocybin has a long and complex history, spanning Indigenous traditions, cultural practices, and modern scientific research. Explore some of the history and evolving understanding of this naturally occurring compound.
A Journey Begins Within
At Awareness Peak, I provide Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy in Colorado. Preparation, journey, and integration support for those over the age of 21 exploring grief, personal growth and meaningful change.
The Awareness Peak Approach
You will be guided through 5 elevations (stages) of the psychedelic journey
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1. Trailhead - Evaluation
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As we move forward, we will explore your medical history and intentions.
Together we will create a foundation for safety and expectations for your journey. We will begin the plan for the preparation and integration support in Colorado.
2. The Ascent - Psilocybin Preparation
- We will discuss the logistics of when, where and what to expect.
- Together we continue to build trust and emotional readiness through mindfulness, grounding skills, and intention setting.
3. The Peak - Psilocybin-Assisted Journey Support
- Awareness expands.
- Journeys have a peak moment when the landscape opens and the horizon expands. We begin to see ourselves with greater honesty, compassion, and clarity.
- I will remain by your side, providing a safe and respectful presence while allowing you to have your own experience.
4. The Descent - Psilocybin Integration
- The goal isn't to stay at the peak; it's to discover what you want to carry with you as you make your way home.
- Insights without action slowly fade. I create space for you to reflect & explore what emerged.
- This stage focuses on exploring your experiences and possibly translating them into sustainable changes that improve relationships, purpose, health, and daily living.
5. Beyond - Continuing the Journey
- Transformation continues long after your journey.
- I support you as you integrate what you've discovered within, into the bigger picture beyond.
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What Your Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy in Colorado Sessions May Include
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COMPLIMENTARY 15 MINUTE CALL
Start with a conversation
Before anything else, we connect.
This conversation gives you an opportunity to share what brings you here, ask questions, and ensure a good fit.
We may explore:
What you are hoping to understand, explore, or work through
What brought you to natural medicine. For example; are you curious about the effects of psilocybin and depression
What kind of support you are looking for
Your expectations and intentions
Whether the Awareness Peak approach feels like a good fit
What the next steps would look like
There is no pressure to move forward.
Sometimes just starting the conversation is a step forward.
EVALUATION & PREPARATION SESSIONS
Evaluation
Evaluation is an opportunity to explore your goals and readiness for this type of work.
We may discuss:
Your intentions for the experience
Relevant personal and emotional history
Current life circumstances and stressors
Previous experiences with psychedelics or other altered states
Medical history including current medications or other relevant considerations
Physical and emotional safety considerations
Your support system and environment
Expectations surrounding the experience
Your ability to work with challenging emotions or uncertainty
What you hope may change or become clearer
Our goal is to create a strong foundation for approaching your journey with safety, awareness, informed choice, preparation, and respect.
This evaluation may determine that natural medicine services are not the appropriate next step.
Preparation
Preparation helps you develop practical tools for your experience.
We may explore:
Setting intentions without becoming attached to a specific outcome
Understanding the nature of psychedelic experiences
Recognizing that difficult moments can be part of the process
Grounding and mindfulness practices
Breath and body awareness
Emotional regulation skills
Creating a supportive setting
Identifying personal resources and sources of comfort
Developing a plan for after the experience
Discussing boundaries, communication, and support
Preparing loved ones or trusted supports when appropriate
Psilocybin preparation is not about trying to predict or control the experience. It is about learning how to meet the experience.
PSILOCYBIN JOURNEY SESSIONS
The Psilocybin Journey
For those who are appropriately assessed, prepared, and choosing to participate within the applicable Colorado natural medicine framework, the psilocybin journey is approached with safety, intention, preparation, respect, and care.
Before the Journey
We revisit:
Your intention
Your plan for the experience
The environment and comfort
Communication and support
What to expect when your journey begins
Ways to respond if challenging emotions or sensations arise
During the Journey
Your journey may involve changes in perception, emotion, memory, sense of time, bodily awareness, or perspective.
You may experience:
Deep emotions
Memories or personal reflections
Shifts in perspective
Heightened sensory awareness
Periods of stillness or inward attention
Joy, gratitude, sadness, uncertainty, or other emotions
Journeys that are difficult to immediately understand
There is no predetermined outcome and no need to “do” anything.
I will provide a safe, grounded, respectful presence while allowing you to have your own journey.
You do not have to navigate this terrain alone.
After the Journey
Your journey does not end simply because the acute effects have subsided.
Time is provided to return gradually, reconnect with your surroundings, and transition out of your journey.
We may briefly reflect on what you are noticing without attempting to immediately interpret or explain everything.
Some journeys make immediate sense.
Others unfold over days, weeks, or longer.
That is why integration matters.
INTEGRATION SESSIONS
Integration
Turn experience into something you can live
A journey can be powerful.
But lasting change often comes from what happens afterward.
Integration creates space to slow down, reflect, and explore what the experience may mean within the context of your everyday life.
Together, we may explore:
What you experienced
What surprised you
Emotions or memories that surfaced
New perspectives
Questions that remain
Changes in relationships or priorities
Patterns you may now see differently
Insights you want to carry forward
Practical changes you may want to make
Ways to reconnect with your values and intentions
Integration is not about forcing an interpretation.
It is about making room for meaning to emerge.
How do I live differently because of what I experienced?
That might mean making a small change.
Having a difficult conversation.
Creating a healthier boundary.
Returning to something you love.
Letting something go.
Or simply becoming more aware of how you move through your life.
YOGA & MINDFUL MOVEMENT SESSIONS
Prepare through the mind & body
Yoga and mindful movement can be incorporated into preparation and integration to support grounding, body awareness and presence.
Sessions may include:
Gentle yoga
Breath awareness
Grounding
Body scanning
Mindful movement
Stillness
Meditation
Somatic awareness
The purpose is not performance.
It is learning to notice what is happening within you without immediately needing to change it.
These practices can become tools you can return to before, during, and after your experience.
Yoga sessions are offered as independent, substance-free experiences. These sessions do not involve the use or administration of psilocybin.
NATURE SESSIONS
Some conversations belong outside
Nature creates space to slow down, breathe, and reconnect.
Walking alongside the mountains can offer a different kind of environment, one that allows conversation, silence, movement, and observation to coexist.
Nature sessions may include:
Mindful walking, or hiking
Intentional conversation
Grounding practices
Breathwork
Sitting in stillness
Connecting with the natural environment
There is no need to force insight.
Sometimes clarity comes when we stop trying so hard to find it.
One step. One breath. One moment at a time.
Nature sessions are offered as independent, substance-free experiences. These sessions do not involve the use or administration of psilocybin.
Investing in yourself can be the beginning of a whole new perspective on life. Explore the pricing options & find the path that feels right to you.
MEET KRISTA
I hold gentle,
grounded space through
grief, transition, depression, trauma, curiosity…
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