Christine Pateros, MA, RN

Artist . Soul Guide . Ecopsychologist . Teacher

Presenter. Speaker. Educator. Consultant.

Psychedelic-Assisted Nurse Therapist

~~energy flows through my heart and hands enlivening animistic soul interconnection.

Chris serves as a global spiritual guide, ceremonialist, psychedelic-assisted nurse therapist, artist, author, healer, teacher and presenter. Grounding in ecocentric ritual, ceremony and practices, and called to the exploration of existential work, Chris’ seeking and mystical soul-seeing has awakened her spirit to support others to own and share their potent gifts in the world by guiding groups and circles in embodied conscious living and dying practices as well as sacred art creation. Internationally, she guides journeys and shamanic energy and earth practices through workshops, presentations and private client work. Chris is a lineage carrier of the Qero mystics of the Peruvian Andes.

“Creative ritual process grounds. Rooting to Mother Earth strengthens the connection between heart and mind and fuels the stories we tell, to ourselves and others. Interacting with the natural world and the spirit world—in reciprocity, trusting, and calling in the magical and mystical, allows the spirit of creativity to flow through me. By being in service to and striving to be in balance with the Earth and all of life while honoring cycles of life and death, the planet, and the greater cosmos, I feel most present to create. Creative ritual practices not only ground me—rituals enliven me and support my purpose, bringing me to feel joy as well as grief as an embodied human in this middle world. Creative rituals embolden my love for Mother Earth and the ways in which I actively live.”

Chris’ expertise in Spiritual Event Creation, Direction, and Operations coupled with her love of and dedication to travel, cultural immersion and spiritual growth has organically brought her to lead groups in spiritual and cultural soul-centered immersions. Her love of creating sacred lived experiences that are overflowing with sites, sounds, smells, colors and textures of the land, the trails, indigenous animals and people, food, art, music, connections and healing rituals and ceremonies brings her fulfillment and joy as the travelers she guides experience journeys of their dreams. Chris is Course Director for Psychedelic Research and Training Institute’s (PRATI) End of Life Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy training for clinicians, Core Lead Faculty for PRATI’s Foundational Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Trainings and Directs Operations for other offerings at PRATI. Chris is faculty for Naropa University’s Ecopsychology Master’s program and has served as faculty and Central Medical Team in Naropa’s Center for Psychedelic Studies Certificate Program. Chris earned her RN in 1986 and her MA in Ecopsychology in 2022. She has served clinically as well as a clinical researcher over the decades since the ‘80’s in health care. She is a trained and certified ketamine-assisted therapist (Ketamine Training Center, 2019), is MAPS MDMA trained (2024) and is in the process of obtaining Colorado Psilocybin Facilitator licensing.

Chris is mother to two beautiful daughters, one in spirit form and one a thriving designer. As a mother who has lost a child, Chris is intimate with living and thriving with grief as a part of the medicine of life that she carries in her work in the world. Chris lives in Denver, Colorado with regular time spent in Chicago and Kythira, Greece both working and playing.