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.
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.
