Legal Psilocybin
Assisted Therapy
Legal, state-licensed psilocybin assisted therapy in Boulder, Colorado. Guided by Jeremy Nickel, Licensed Natural Medicine Facilitator (CO #54), under Colorado's Natural Medicine Health Act.
Legal psilocybin assisted therapy in Colorado
I work in Boulder, Colorado, under the Natural Medicine Health Act — the law Colorado voters passed in 2022 and that took effect for licensed facilitators in 2024. That means what happens here is legal, licensed, and above board. It also means I am among the first people doing this in the open, which I take as an obligation to be careful and to say true things.
License #54
I trained at the California Institute of Integral Studies and hold Colorado Natural Medicine Facilitator License #54. Medicine days happen at licensed healing centers, never in a private home.
I will tell you no
Screening is a real conversation, not a formality. If your history, your medications, or your timing make this a bad idea, I would rather lose the work than take it.
Twenty years of hard hours
I was a hospital chaplain and a minister before I was a facilitator. I learned to sit with grief, fear, and dying without flinching, rushing, or trying to fix it.
Who will be in the room with you
My name is Jeremy Nickel. Before I was a Licensed Natural Medicine Facilitator, I spent twenty years as a chaplain and spiritual leader — at bedsides at Massachusetts General Hospital, and with congregations moving through joy, loss, and renewal.
I have sat with people who were dying. What that taught me is that the most useful thing in a hard hour is almost never advice. It is someone steady who does not flinch, does not rush to fix, and does not leave.
I came to this work through thirty years of meditation practice and training at the California Institute of Integral Studies, and I am among the first generation of practitioners working legally with psilocybin in Colorado. I hold Natural Medicine Facilitator License #54.
Is this right for you?
This work is not for everyone, and it is not always the right moment. Deciding against it — or deciding to wait — is a good outcome, and one I will help you reach honestly.
This may be a fit if
- You have tried other approaches and something still hasn't moved.
- You are willing to do the work afterward, not just the day itself.
- You have people in your life you can talk to in the weeks that follow.
- You are choosing this yourself, not being pushed toward it.
- You are 21 or older and can be medically cleared.
This is likely not the time if
- You have a personal or family history of psychosis, or bipolar I disorder.
- You are in an acute crisis and need stability first.
- You take lithium or tramadol, or a medication your prescriber hasn't reviewed.
- You are looking for a guarantee, or a single-session cure.
- You have no support around you for the weeks afterward.
Find the path that sounds like yours
A veteran carrying combat trauma and a widow six months into grief are not the same person. Each path below is written for a particular life, not a general one.
Healing & Mental Health
Depression and anxiety that hasn't moved, trauma carried by veterans and first responders, and the quiet exhaustion of healthcare work.
Life Transitions
Grief and loss, the reordering that follows a relationship or a diagnosis, and the questions that arrive with age.
Performance & Growth
Leaders, artists, athletes, and seekers looking for clarity, creative opening, or a deeper spiritual life.
Where You're Starting From
Whether this is your first time, your hundredth, a visit to Boulder, or a private program built entirely around you.
Traveling to Colorado for this work
Most of the people I sit with fly in. So I wrote the guide I wished existed — timing, flights, altitude, lodging near the healing centers, medication review, honest total costs, and what the days before and after actually look like. It's useful whether or not you ever work with me.
Read the complete travel guideHow the work is shaped
Three parts. The middle one gets the attention, but the last one is where the change actually gets made.
We get to know each other
Two hours of conversation before anything else, plus medical clearance. We talk about what you are hoping for, what you are afraid of, and what happens if the day gets hard.
The medicine day
Six to eight hours at a licensed healing center, mostly quiet and mostly inward. I am in the room the whole time. I do not interpret it for you, and I do not leave.
Afterward
A medicine day can open something. Whether anything changes depends on the weeks that follow, so we keep meeting. This is the part I take most seriously.
Frequently Asked Questions
If something here resonates, let's talk
A complimentary 30-minute conversation with me — no pressure, no expectation. Just a chance to meet each other, answer your questions, and see whether this work and my approach feel like the right fit for you.