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
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
