Veterans and first responders often face experiences and pressures that can be difficult for others to fully understand. Repeated exposure to high-stress situations can have a lasting impact.
Responsibility for others safety can also leave a mark. Loss can affect you over time. Changes in identity or purpose can have lasting effects.
Experiences that challenge or contrast deeply held values can also stay with you. This can include moral injury, emotional or psychological impact of experiences. Sometimes these conflict with one's sense of values and what is right or wrong.
Psilocybin-assisted therapy for veterans and first responders can offer a different space to explore these experiences. It can also help you explore emotions, relationships, identity, and patterns. These patterns may have developed over years of service.
The psychedelic-assisted therapy session does not have to center on a particular event or diagnosis. It can also provide space to reflect on who you are outside your role, what matters to you now, and where you would like to go from here.
At Reset, psilocybin therapy is individualized to your experiences and what you hope to explore. Your therapist will take time to understand your background and approach the process without assumptions. Everyone processes experiences through filters unique to them, and we respect that your experiences belong uniquely to you.
What to Expect
Preparation: Preparation gives you and your therapist time to talk. You can discuss what your psilocybin-assisted therapy session might be like. This may include experiences related to service, stress, loss, relationships, identity, purpose, or moral injury. You will also discuss what to expect and how your therapist can best support you throughout the experience.
Administration Session: Your psilocybin session is private and supported by your therapist throughout the experience. During the session, there is no expectation to revisit a particular event, memory, or aspect of your service. Your therapist allows the experience to unfold naturally while providing reassurance, grounding, or support when needed.
Integration: After your psilocybin-assisted therapy session, you will meet with your therapist. You will receive at least 2 hours of integration to discuss your experience. You can also review anything you want from the session.
This may include service memories, relationships, moral injury, identity, purpose, or something you did not expect. Integration is a time to reflect on your experience and explore how it may inform your life moving forward.
Meet the Facilitators
Meet the Reset therapists who have experience and interest in supporting veterans and first responders as they explore the unique experiences, challenges, and transitions that can come with service.
Mieszka Pittsley
LSW, NMIT
Michelle Ertl
PsyD, CST, NMCF
