Living with chronic pain or ongoing health concerns can affect much more than your physical body. It can influence your relationships, independence, confidence, and the way you think about yourself. For others, the struggle may be less about illness or pain and more about their relationship with physical health, exercise, athletic performance, or feeling held back by anxiety or mental barriers.
Psilocybin-assisted therapy can offer a different setting to explore your relationship with your body and physical health. Depending on what brings you to Reset, that might mean looking at the impact of chronic pain or health concerns, or exploring sports anxiety, endurance, performance, motivation, and the mental patterns that show up when you push yourself physically.
Psilocybin isn't a cure for chronic pain or a replacement for medical care, and we don't approach this work with the idea that physical symptoms are simply a matter of mindset. We take time to understand what you're experiencing and what you're hoping to get from the experience. Your facilitator will also consider your physical needs, limitations, medications, and comfort throughout the process.
What to Expect
Chronic Pain & Health Concerns
Preparation: You'll spend at least two hours preparing with your facilitator before your psilocybin session. You'll talk about your experience with chronic pain or health concerns, how they affect your everyday life, and what you're hoping to get from the experience. You'll also discuss your health history, medications, physical limitations, comfort needs, and anything else your facilitator should know to support you safely. With your consent, your facilitator may coordinate with your medical provider to assess any specific medical needs or adjustments to your care that could be helpful.
Administration Session: Your psilocybin session is private, with your facilitator there throughout the experience. You don't need to focus on your pain or health concerns during the session. You may notice physical sensations, emotions related to your health, or something completely unrelated. Your facilitator will be there to support you and help with comfort, positioning, movement, or grounding as needed throughout the day.
Integration: After your session, you'll have at least two hours of integration with your facilitator. You can talk through the experience and anything you noticed about your body, emotions, or the ways pain or health concerns have affected your life. There doesn't need to be a change in your physical symptoms for there to be something useful to talk about afterward.
Health & Performance
Preparation: You'll spend at least two hours preparing with your facilitator before your psilocybin session. This may include talking about sports or performance anxiety, endurance, motivation, mental barriers, your relationship with exercise, or goals related to your physical health. You'll also talk about what you've already been working toward, where you tend to get stuck, and what you're hoping to explore through the experience.
Administration Session: Your facilitator will be with you throughout your private psilocybin session. This isn't a performance exercise, and there's nothing you need to accomplish during the experience. You may find yourself thinking about your body, performance, fears, expectations, or the pressure you put on yourself, or the session may have very little to do with any of those things.
Integration: You'll have at least two hours of integration with your facilitator afterward. This is time to talk about the experience and anything you want to understand better. If you noticed something about anxiety, motivation, your relationship with your body, how you respond to pressure, or the way you approach physical challenges, you can spend time looking at that together and decide whether there's anything you want to approach differently.
Meet the Facilitators
Meet the Reset facilitators who have experience and interest in supporting clients with chronic pain, physical health, athletic performance, and the relationship between mental and physical well-being.
Chronic Pain & Health Concerns
Laurel Tropeano
LCSW, APHSW-C, NMIT
Rivkah Standig
LCSW, NMCF
Physical Health & Performance
Mieszka Pittsley
LSW, NMIT
Ellen Sandoval
LSCW, NMIT
