DENVER (KDVR) — Inside the walls of a grow room in downtown Denver sits a key piece to a new kind of therapy: Psilocybin mushrooms, some of the first in the state for legal therapeutic use, are ready to be sent out to therapist offices all over the metro area.
“I feel a lot of responsibility to the state and the market as a whole to make sure that this works well. So that we can prove it out to the rest of the country,” owner and founder of Mycosef Skyler Sepic said.
Sepic started his company after he tried microdosing mushrooms after the death of his daughter, experiencing firsthand the impact he says this type of therapy can have on a person.
He says it was a life-changing experience, and after Colorado legalized the therapy, he wanted to immediately hit the ground running, supplying offices.
“We talk a lot about how to continue to foster this into the future, far beyond what the state is doing as far as regulation,” Sepic said. “But really, really to help, uh, the population understand that this is a viable treatment.”
Clinical psychologist Adam O’Neil is among some of the first in Colorado to practice this form of therapy at his practice.
“We start to really try to figure out like, what are those big things in life that you’re ready to face or change or explore? O’Neill said. “The mushrooms can really help bring you a little bit closer to those changes that sometimes are hard to get when you’re going through a conventional therapy and things are working for a while.”
The newness of the treatment means several details still need to be ironed out. Rose Moulin-Franco with Bohdi Academy, a psychedelic facilitator training program, came from Oregon to Colorado, sharing her experience and working to get therapy offices in our state up to speed.
“I really want people to know that you can confidently go to a healing center in Colorado with a trained facilitator and have an incredible and safe and effective experience with psilocybin,” Moulin-Franco said.
This kind of therapy is not a one-size-fits-all; different trauma levels and needs require different doses and different levels of attention.
“It’s different for everyone. It follows a certain trajectory, of course, for everybody, and some things are pretty common. But for each person, the meaning that they take from it is very unique,” Moulin Franco said.
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