Register by email: GroupKetamineAssistedTherapy@gmail.com

Exploring

Growth and Transformation of Self

Through Community, Nature, and the Sacred

This 4 week KAT group series is designed for individuals seeking personal and collective healing experiences, psychospiritual growth, and greater access to inner wisdom. Our integrative approach draws on ecopsychology, ceremonial practices, and the dynamic potential of group healing to create a potent container for growth and transformation.

In-person ketamine journeys: June 3, 10, & 17, 2023

Prep session (online): June 1, 2023

Integration sessions (online): June 5, 12, & 26, 2023

Location: Denver, Colorado

Price: $2,000 (medical intake separate)

In this group experience, you will be treated to:

• 3 facilitated ketamine journeys (intramuscular or sublingual)

• 4 online group sessions (1 preparation, 3 integration) to support deep healing

• Diverse integration practices including art, movement, and nature

• Specially curated musical playlists for inner exploration and self-discovery

• Immersive live sound baths

• Ceremonial elements honoring the sacred

• Relaxing massage therapy (optional add-on)

Register by email: GroupKetamineAssistedTherapy@gmail.com

Co-Facilitators & Medical Team:

Christine Pateros, MA, RN

Christine Pateros is a global presenter and Founding Member, Lead Faculty and Course Director at PRATI. Chris is an ecopsychologist (Naropa University) and psychedelic nurse therapist (Ketamine Training Center, April 2019), and an initiated shamanic practitioner (Andean Qero lineage) who approaches the use of psychedelics as powerful tools to access the soul and to nurture root-grounded healing.  Chris teaches and co-facilitates groups and works with clients 1:1 including deep ceremonial immersions with curated treatment plans in collaboration with MD and NP prescribers as well as psychotherapists. Existential distress, grief, soul loss & retrieval, palliative care, end of life transitioning, and life-limiting and threatening-illness are Chris' passions and focused areas of clinical practice. Honoring earth as our precious and magical home within the cosmos, and the interconnectedness of all beings, she believes that befriending and honouring death as our greatest teacher—whether embodied or energetic/mythic — as an integral part of life, is transformational life-affirming work at any point in one's life journey. Chris cherishes time immersed in nature, expressing herself creatively making art, writing and dancing, traveling globally and spending time with her two adult daughters and beloved friends. She lives at the foot of the Rocky Mountains in Boulder, Colorado spending extended time in Kythera, Greece, her ancestral home.

Stephen Thomas, LCSW, CACII

Stephen Thomas, LCSW is a psychotherapist and Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy practitioner in Fort Collins and Certified Addiction Specialist based in Fort Collins, Colorado. He has been exploring the healing potential of psychedelic medicines for over 25 years. As a certified KAP therapist trained by the Ketamine Training Center in 2019, he supports individuals in addressing anxiety, depression, trauma, and existential/psychospiritual concerns through this powerful modality. Stephen is also a co-founder of the Psychedelic Research and Training Institute (PRATI) and serves as Course Director of its Foundational KAP Training program.

Additionally, he serves as a board member of the Nowak Society, a Colorado nonprofit that helps build community and advance critical discussions in the psychedelic movement. Stephen has a keen interest in the role that these powerful teacher plants and molecules can play in resolving psychospiritual distress and healing the wounds of disconnection behind our mounting ecological, social, and political crises. When he’s not supporting clients or trainees, you may find him hiking through mountains at dusk or dancing in the desert until dawn.

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German Ascani, MD, MS

German Ascani brings with him a broad range of clinical expertise having worked extensively over a decade in public and community mental health systems. He has experience in primary care and specialty clinics providing psychiatric consultation  to serve diverse clinical populations across the full spectrum of mental health and illness. His care philosophy prioritizes a health and wellness approach focusing on patient autonomy, shared decision-making and a healing intention.  He employs evidence-based and interdisciplinary approaches to mental health treatments. He combines the best of modern psychiatry with integrative practices that offer improvements in mental health outcomes often with less side effects than conventional psychotropic medication. He is experienced in the latest clinical treatment tools such as Ketamine for refractory conditions.  German has particular interests in the potential for psychological, emotional and spiritual healing that new and emerging psychedelic medicines bring to the mental health field.  He supports the safe use of these powerful transformative tools to open up a process of deep exploration, self-reflection and lasting growth. 

German is a board certified psychiatrist and a graduate of the University of California Davis School of Medicine. He completed his general psychiatric training at the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, California.  He has a Masters of Science in Physiology from Georgetown University and a BA in psychology from the University of California at Berkeley. He has collaborated in the latest published research on Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP)

He also presently serves as co-faculty and medical lead for PRATI (Psychedelic Research and Training Institute) for their KAP trainings for mental health professionals. He is research therapist for the MAPS phase 3 research trial of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD in Fort Collins. (MAPS)

Prior to moving to Colorado, Dr. Ascani lived in California and founded Evolve Mind Wellness, a treatment center in Sonoma County, offering ketamine-assisted therapies for refractory depression, trauma, and other psychological disorders. 

German is a native of Argentina and is bilingual in Spanish and English and also speaks French.  He is a soccer enthusiast and has played competitively for many years as well as coached youth teams.  When not at work he likes to spend time with family traveling, camping, hiking and snowboarding.

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Psychedelic Mamas
​Journey Group

Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy for Mothers

Psychedelic Mamas is a group for those who identify as mothers and grandmothers of any age, gender, and stage along the parenting continuum. Please join us for an online group preparation session, a daylong immersion including ketamine medicine journey, and an online group integration session. 

This group stands alone and also will be offered quarterly with the intention to build community and intentional journey groups of mothers. Participants are invited to bring their whole selves to the groups. We lovingly welcome any and all experiences, the joy and the grief, including complicated or painful experiences on the path of parenthood including loss, postpartum mental health struggles, relationship conflicts or challenges with children. The group is a place where mamas can come together in community to embrace life, love, and spirit. Suitable for those who are new to psychedelic medicines as well as seasoned psychonaut mamas. 

Thursday, April 27 @ 4-5:30pm, Online Group Preparation Session

Saturday, April 29 @ 10am-5pm, In-Person Immersion Ketamine Journey Circle This daylong immersion includes gentle preparation and circle sharing, psychedelic medicine journey, gentle integration post journey and nourishing organic food.
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Sunday, April 30 @ 9:30-11 am, ​Online Group Integration Session

Cost: Sliding scale of $650-$950 Sponsors are Welcome
*Additional costs for medical evaluation and medicine may be necessary
Location: Denver, CO

Please contact us for more information. Prospective group members will be required to have medical screening with one of our prescribers. This group will offer either intramuscular or sublingual ketamine experience (route of administration to ultimately be determined by medical providers).
Contact: psychedelicmamas@gmail.com

Co-Facilitating Practitioners

Christine Pateros, MA, RN

Christine Pateros is a global presenter and Founding Member, Lead Faculty and Course Director at PRATI. Chris is an ecopsychologist (Naropa University) and psychedelic nurse therapist (Ketamine Training Center, April 2019), and an initiated shamanic practitioner (Andean Qero lineage) who approaches the use of psychedelics as powerful tools to access the soul and to nurture root-grounded healing.  Chris teaches and co-facilitates groups and works with clients 1:1 including deep ceremonial immersions with curated treatment plans in collaboration with MD and NP prescribers as well as psychotherapists. Existential distress, grief, soul loss & retrieval, palliative care, end of life transitioning, and life-limiting and threatening-illness are Chris' passions and focused areas of clinical practice. Honoring earth as our precious and magical home within the cosmos, and the interconnectedness of all beings, she believes that befriending and honouring death as our greatest teacher—whether embodied or energetic/mythic — as an integral part of life, is transformational life-affirming work at any point in one's life journey. Chris cherishes time immersed in nature, expressing herself creatively making art, writing and dancing, traveling globally and spending time with her two adult daughters and beloved friends. She lives at the foot of the Rocky Mountains in Boulder, Colorado spending extended time in Kythera, Greece, her ancestral home.

Shannon Darling, PMHNP

Shannon Darling specializes in women, children, and adolescent psychiatry. Shannon came into the mental health field and specifically integrative psychiatry because she recognized the gap in mental health care in overall wellbeing of patients that she worked with in the acute care setting. Her background is in acute care nursing, including 9 years in women and infant services. Shannon is a Colorado native who loves being outdoors with her kids, olympic weightlifting, mountain biking, and all the things to do with Colorado outdoor life. Particularly passionate about women’s health, Shannon believes in building therapeutic relationships and providing holistic tools to foster healing to meet individual’s needs.

Psychedelic Mamas
​Journey Group

Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy for Mothers

Psychedelic Mamas is a group for those who identify as mothers of any age, gender, and stage along the parenting continuum. Please join us for a group preparation session, a daylong ketamine medicine journey, and a group integration session. 

This group will be offered quarterly with the intention to build an intentional journey group of mothers. Participants are invited to bring their whole selves to the groups. We lovingly welcome any and all experiences, including those which are complicated or painful on the path of parenthood including loss, postpartum mental health struggles, relationship conflicts or challenges with children. The group is a place where mamas can come together in community to embrace life, love, and spirit. Suitable for those who are new to psychedelic medicines as well as seasoned psychonaut mamas. 

Please contact us for more information. Prospective group members will be referred to our partnering psychiatrist for medical screening. This group will offer an IM ketamine experience.

Cost: Sliding scale of $500-$900
*Additional costs for medical evaluation may be needed
Location: Denver, CO

February 2nd, 4-5:30pm, Group Preparation Session, ONLINE

February 5th, 10am-5pm, Ketamine Journey Circle, IN PERSON
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February 6th, 2:30-4:30pm, ​Group Integration Session, ONLINE

Contact: psychedelicmamas@gmail.com

Practitioners

Christine Pateros, MA, RN

Christine Pateros is a global presenter and Founding Member, Lead Faculty and Course Director at PRATI. Chris is an ecopsychologist (Naropa University) and psychedelic nurse therapist (Ketamine Training Center, April 2019), and an initiated shamanic practitioner (Andean Qero lineage) who approaches the use of psychedelics as powerful tools to access the soul and to nurture root-grounded healing.  Chris teaches and co-facilitates groups and works with clients 1:1 including deep ceremonial immersions with curated treatment plans in collaboration with MD and NP prescribers as well as psychotherapists. Existential distress, grief, soul loss & retrieval, palliative care, end of life transitioning, and life-limiting and threatening-illness are Chris' passions and focused areas of clinical practice. Honoring earth as our precious and magical home within the cosmos, and the interconnectedness of all beings, she believes that befriending and honouring death as our greatest teacher—whether embodied or energetic/mythic — as an integral part of life, is transformational life-affirming work at any point in one's life journey. Chris cherishes time immersed in nature, expressing herself creatively making art, writing and dancing, traveling globally and spending time with her two adult daughters and beloved friends. She lives at the foot of the Rocky Mountains in Boulder, Colorado spending extended time in Kythera, Greece, her ancestral home.

Sara Lewis, PhD, LCSW

Dr. Sara Lewis is Associate Professor of Contemplative Psychotherapy and Buddhist Psychology at Naropa University where she also serves as Director of Training and Research for the Center for Psychedelic Studies. She is co-founder of Naropa's certificate for psychedelic-assisted therapies. Sara has completed her training as an MDMA-assisted therapist with MAPS and a ketamine-assisted therapist with PRATI. She is also a Somatic Experiencing practitioner at the intermediate level. Sara's clinical practice focuses on trauma, spiritual issues, grief, relationships, and fertility, pregnancy and birth. She is also committed to uncovering and healing unacknowledged harm and oppression in her familial and community lineages. Sara lives in Longmont with her husband, daughter, and their beagle-basset, Woodford.

Ashley Glowiak, LMFT

Ashley is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, birth and postpartum doula, Wife, and Mother.

Ashley understands that we are in a collective time of healing global and intergenerational traumas and believes cultural repair occurs most effectively and efficiently when mothers are positioned with reverence as the lifeline to the next generation. When mothers are supported, they are available to raise their children from their highest selves, directly influencing the health and well-being of future communities. In this way, maternal health is humanity's health.

Ashley is working towards her doctorate, researching the impact of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy on maternal and familial health. With passion, she dedicates her time to investigating how psychedelic therapy, held within a safe community and environment, can repair human physiology from trauma resulting in the restoration of fractured family constellations.

From lived experience and research, Ashley believes each mother holds the innate skills necessary to heal their family system and parent from a place of instinctual wisdom. She is honored to hold space, share resources, and build this community of mothers supporting mothers with you all.

Credentials
MA, Integral Counseling Psychology, California Institute of Integral Studies
Ph.D. student, Transformative Studies, California Institute of Integral Studies
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist California, LMFT118166
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Colorado, MFT.0001768
MAPS MDMA- Assisted Psychotherapy Trainee
Psychedelic Research and Training Institute, PRATI
Certified Birth and Postpartum Doula
RYT 500