embodied microdosing: Integrative psilocybin program

Yes and there are a few options for out of state participants, including:

1. Clinical Mental Health Services: As a therapist, I am also licensed in New Mexico to provide clinical therapeutic services via telehealth. Therefore, I only provide clinical psychotherapy (holistic therapy, ketamine therapy, and psilocybin therapy) in the states of Colorado and New Mexico.
2. Psychedelic Coaching & Guidance: As a psychedelic and plant medicine coach, I offer microdosing and journeywork support (microdose coaching, mushroom journeys, Embodied Microdosing program) for people nationwide from an approach of personal sovereignty, harm reduction and safety.

It’s important to note psilocybin is federally illegal and only legalized, de-prioritized or decriminalized in certain areas. It is up to each individual person to know their local laws and regulations and make their own sovereign choices when it comes to microdosing psilocybin.

Psilocybin is not an FDA-approved prescription medication. Enrollment in microdosing coaching programs may offer participants education on contraindications or risks from a harm reduction approach and encourage everyone to speak to their appropriate medical provider with questions or concerns prior to microdosing.

It is up to you. Safe sourcing is covered as part of the Embodied Microdosing program itself – through safety and harm reduction education in Week 1 and typically source their medicine during the first two weeks, before the protocol begins in Week 3.

This program does not provide treatment that is billable to insurance and is offered in a coaching and group support model. It is private-pay only with a monthly payment plan available.

If you’re curious about building a safe, structured, supported relationship with psilocybin microdosing – rather than approaching it alone through trial and error – the next step is scheduling a screening call. That conversation is designed to help you and the facilitator determine together whether this program is the right fit and timing for you.

SSRIs work through continuous, daily serotonin reuptake inhibition, with effects building gradually over weeks of steady use. Microdosing psilocybin works differently: it’s taken intermittently (not daily), and appears to support neuroplasticity; the brain’s capacity to form new neural connections, through direct, acute interaction with serotonin 5-HT2A receptors rather than a sustained neurochemical shift. Many people also describe the felt experience differently: SSRIs are sometimes described as blunting emotion, while microdosing is more often described as increasing emotional access and a sense of reconnection, rather than numbing. Microdosing is not a prescribed medication and does not carry the same dependency or discontinuation profile as SSRIs, since it isn’t taken daily.

The group container is offered on a sliding scale of $850–$1,250 per participant, based on self-identified need. The individual container is $2850. The cost of the program includes screening for appropriateness and individual contraindications, pre and post program assessment, a full 3-month companion workbook with journaling prompts, session summaries, exercises, tracking log and other resources, and 13 weeks of inner healing work & coaching support alongside your 90-day protocol. Payment plans are available for both containers.

Both containers cover the same 16-week curriculum and 90-day protocol. The group container (up to 8 participants) adds shared community, peer processing, and group discussion each week – many participants find real value in realizing they aren’t alone in this experience. The individual container offers full privacy and individualized pacing, over 60-minute one-on-one sessions (opposed to 90 minutes group sessions), and may suit participants with less predictable schedules or a strong preference for one-on-one attention.

Each 90-minute (group) or 60-minute (individual) session opens with a brief grounding practice, followed by check-in, review of the reading/education on that week’s theme, a guided deeper practice (such as parts work, mindfulness, or meditation), and space for discussion and reflection. Participants receive a written reading and reflection questions before each session, so live time is focused on discussion and application rather than first-time instruction.

Integrative microdosing is a structured, professionally facilitated approach to microdosing psilocybin – built around clinical screening, a defined protocol, ongoing support, and integration work, rather than starting on your own and figuring it out as you go. Self-guided microdosing is what most people do by default: sourcing information from forums, podcasts, or books, and adjusting dose and schedule through personal trial and error, without professional oversight.

The differences that matter most in practice:

• Screening for contraindications. An integrative program includes an individual screening call to rule out factors that make microdosing unsafe for a given person – personal or family history of psychosis or bipolar disorder, certain medication interactions, pregnancy, and cardiovascular concerns, among others. Self-guided microdosing has no equivalent safety check; the person doing it is the only one evaluating whether it’s appropriate for them.
• A structured, evidence-informed protocol. Rather than guessing at dose and schedule, an integrative program uses a defined starting protocol (such as the Fadiman method) and teaches participants how to read their own data and adjust responsibly over time.
• Ongoing support and troubleshooting. If something feels off, isn’t working, or brings up more than expected, there’s an experienced provider to bring it to – not just an online forum or personal guesswork.
• Deliberate integration. Integrative microdosing treats the practice as one part of a larger mind-body-spirit process – pairing the dosing itself with intentional work around mental health psychoeducation, nervous system support, relationship, nature connection, and meaning-making. Self-guided microdosing typically has no built-in integration structure at all.
• Tracking and measurable outcomes. An integrative program uses structured tracking and pre/post assessments, so a participant (and their facilitator) can actually see what changed over time, rather than relying on vague impressions.
• Community or individualized clinical attention. Whether in a group or one-on-one container, integrative microdosing offers a relationship with a trained facilitator throughout the process – something entirely absent from doing this alone.

In short: self-guided microdosing is something a person does to themselves, on their own; integrative microdosing is something a person does with professional support, safety infrastructure, and a container built around sustained change.

The Fadiman protocol, developed by researcher Dr. James Fadiman, is one of the most widely referenced microdosing schedules: a dosing day followed by two rest days, repeated in a cycle. It’s used in the Embodied Microdosing program as a well-studied, conservative starting structure – most participants begin with a Fadiman-based protocol in Week 2 and, later in the program, learn to adjust toward a more personalized, intuitive rhythm as they build experience.

Individual results vary, and this program does not guarantee specific results, experiences or symptom outcomes. Many participants are drawn to this work seeking microdosing for a variety of reasons, from nervous system support to spiritual exploration, to emotional healing, and it’s important to note the program is built to support meaningful, sustained change through a full 90-day practice rather than a single experience. Pre- and post-program assessments are used to track each participant’s own outcomes over the course of the program.

Microdosing uses sub-perceptual doses – small enough that participants continue their normal daily activities (work, driving, parenting) without any noticeable altered state. A full “journey” or macrodose is an entirely different practice involving a much larger dose, typically taken in a supervised, ceremonial, or clinical setting with dedicated time set aside for the experience itself.

Sourcing is handled independently by each participant, at their own discretion, in conjunction with safety and harm reduction support within the coaching program and through the individual meeting before the program starts. Participants receive a detailed educational Sourcing Guide covering what to look for, safety and testing considerations, red flags, and proper storage, consistent with Colorado’s legal framework for personal use.

Ninety days isn’t an arbitrary number. It’s chosen because meaningful, lasting change takes more time to establish than a few isolated doses can show. A handful of dosing days might tell you how a single dose feels, but it can’t tell you whether a practice is actually working, because there isn’t enough pattern yet to separate a real shift from ordinary day-to-day variation. Ninety days gives enough dosing cycles – using a structured protocol like Fadiman’s – for real shifts in mood, energy, sleep, and focus to emerge clearly enough to read and act on.

It also matches how long sustainable behavior change generally takes to take root. Ninety days is long enough to move through actual seasons of a practice and life experiences: an initial adjustment period, a middle stretch where the real work of integration happens, and enough runway afterward to consolidate what’s changed before the container closes. Rushing that arc into a few weeks tends to produce insight without follow-through; stretching it out gives the nervous system, and the person, time to actually build something durable.

Practically, this plays out across a 16-week program: the first two weeks prepare for the protocol (safety, sourcing, and building a personal dosing plan), the 90-day protocol itself runs from Week 3 through around Week 15, and the final week closes the container with integration, post-program assessment, and a sustainability plan. Every participant in a given cohort begins and completes their 90 days together, which also means the program can track real, comparable data across the full arc – not just how people felt on day one.