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.
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.
