Who You’d Be Sitting With
Before this, I was a Communications Sergeant in U.S. Army Special Forces — an 18E. On paper it was radios and encrypted systems. In practice it was people: building partner forces from nothing, earning trust across language and culture, and being the steady voice on the net when a team needed one most.
Later I studied computer information systems and data analytics at Colorado State. That taught a different discipline. Don’t mistake a plausible answer for a true one. Sit with incomplete information until the real pattern shows itself, instead of forcing it early.
Both turned out to be preparation for this. Done well, facilitation asks for the same two things: steadiness under pressure, and the patience to let the truth surface in its own time.
What Shaped the Approach
I came home before I understood that coming home was its own operation. I watched good men get back inside the wire and never quite get back inside their own lives. I did some of that myself.
The work I do now is the work I needed and couldn’t find described in language I trusted. No incense, no performance, no promises that a single hard day would fix a life. Just preparation, a legal and careful container, and someone steady for the long part afterward.
Training & Affiliation
My facilitator training came through Elemental Psychedelics. I facilitate in affiliation with Reflective Healing Center in Fort Collins, alongside their community of licensed psilocybin facilitators. I’ve also completed the Hakomi Institute’s introductory training in mindfulness-centered somatic psychotherapy — a way of tracking what the body already knows, even when the words haven’t caught up yet.
What I Claim, and What I Don’t
I am a licensed Colorado Natural Medicine facilitator. I can hold a legal, careful, unhurried container for psychedelic work, and I can walk with you through the long part afterward.
I am not a doctor, a therapist, or a chaplain. I don’t promise to fix you, and I won’t pretend a single day will. What I offer is presence, preparation, legal medicine, and a steady hand on the return.
If we work together, you’ll find I say less than you expect and mean all of it. That’s the job. It always was.
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