From Trail to Therapy Room: Integrating Boulder’s Outdoor Life with Inner Healing
There’s something about the Boulder landscape—those foothills, the ever-changing skies, the hum of life on the trail—that gets under your skin in the best way. Living here, we move between the outer and inner worlds with a certain rhythm: hikes that clear the mind, rivers that echo our emotions, mountain stillness that asks us to listen more deeply.
For many of us, that deep connection with nature isn’t separate from our healing—it’s part of it. And in my work with ketamine-assisted therapy, I often draw from the same grounded wisdom that the land offers. The process doesn’t end when you leave the therapy room. It continues as you walk under cottonwoods, as your breath shifts climbing a steep path, as your nervous system settles into the quiet of an open view.
Therapy that Speaks the Language of the Land
When you’re used to moving your body outdoors, to being with yourself in motion and stillness, therapy needs to meet you there—not pull you away from it. That’s why my approach blends the somatic with the psychedelic, honoring how the body holds memory and how nature helps release it.
Whether we’re working with ketamine or other integrative tools, I pay close attention to how your system responds. Maybe the calm of Chautauqua or the sharp wind on Flagstaff echoes something from your session. These aren’t just poetic moments—they’re part of how we metabolize our experience.
Bringing Your Whole Self Into the Room
Boulder attracts people who want depth, but not dogma. You might already be tuned into breathwork, movement, or mindfulness practices. Maybe you’ve spent hours on trails sorting through thoughts that couldn’t be touched in conversation. Ketamine-assisted therapy can pick up where those moments leave off.
The medicine opens up access—to emotions, to forgotten parts of yourself, to insight—and the body helps you stay grounded in it. I work with lozenge-based ketamine in a held, therapeutic setting. That means we’re not just chasing intensity—we’re making space for real, embodied healing.
Integration That’s Rooted, Not Rushed
What you experience in a ketamine session isn’t meant to be boxed up and moved on from. I encourage you to walk it out, write it down, or sit quietly in the foothills with whatever showed up. Integration is a process. Sometimes it’s soft and slow, like moss growing. Sometimes it’s sharp and clear, like frost catching the morning sun.
Living in Boulder means you already have access to so many natural supports. Let’s use them—not just as a backdrop, but as part of the therapy itself.
A Place That Matches the Depth of the Work
Not every place holds space for this kind of work. Boulder does. Maybe it’s the openness of the landscape. Maybe it’s the culture of curiosity, the willingness to go deeper. Whatever it is, if you’re here, it’s probably not by accident.
If you’re called to work with me, know that I’ll meet you in that same spirit—open, grounded, and ready to walk beside you as you explore what healing looks like for you.