Chris Pateros is a nurse, ecopsychologist, lineage carrier in the Andean Q’ero mystical tradition, Colorado-licensed Natural Medicine Facilitator (NMF), and is the Founder and sole owner of Colorado licensed Natural Medicine healing center Natural Medicine Home located in the heart of Denver. Her work weaves ethical practice, client safety, presence, an open heart, compassion, sacred space, and a reverent relationship with spirit and the natural world, rooted in the foundation of mycelial interconnection. Chris offers licensed natural medicine sessions 1:1 and in groups, as well as licensed healing center space for NMITs, NMFs and NMCFs to serve clients, supervision in practicums and clinical session work and consultation in the regulated space. She leads in roles directing spirit-led projects, educating clinical professionals, speaking, and consulting. Chris brings decades of clinical experience, contemplative practice, clinical research expertise, and earth-based wisdom into regulated psychedelic care. She has worked as a clinician in the healing arts since the 1980s and has provided psychedelic-assisted care since 2019. She is trained in ketamine-assisted therapy through the Ketamine Training Center, is MAPS/Lykos-trained in MDMA-assisted therapy, and holds a master’s degree in Ecopsychology from Naropa University.

As a founding member and Training Director of the Psychedelic Research and Training Institute (PRATI), Chris leads as Course Director for the End-of-Life and Existential Distress Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Training which included work stateside as well as in Puerto Rico and serves as Lead Trainer for ritual and ceremony in foundational psychedelic-assisted therapy programs. Additionally, Chris is the Course Director for PRATI’s Embracing the Sacred psilocybin retreat offering in Mexico.

Her work is grounded in ecocentric ritual, ceremony, and earth-honoring practices, with a deep calling to conscious living and dying which includes existential, palliative and end-of-life care. She guides individuals and groups in embodied conscious living and dying practices, earth-based rituals, and sacred art creation as pathways of remembering, returning, and embracing joyful aliveness. Most recently, Chris has immersed in deep experiential learning with a Mazatec Abuela, which has included work with Ninos Santos in Huautla de Jimenez and the highlands of Mexico.

Chris’ most precious gift in life is being the mother of two daughters—one who is living and thriving as a graphic designer, and one who lives in spirit. As a mother who has lost a child, Chris carries embodied wisdom of grief and loss as sacred medicine. She lives in Denver, Colorado, with regular time spent in her birth home, Chicago and her ancestral home of Kythira, Greece.

Direct contact: christinepaterosrnma@gmail.com