We acknowledge the indigenous origins of plant medicine traditions and commit to meaningful reciprocity with indigenous communities. We strive to honor, respect, and support the cultural heritage, wisdom keepers, and ongoing sovereignty of those who have preserved these healing practices for generations.

We recognize the profound responsibility inherent in guiding others through transformative experiences. We maintain the highest standards of therapeutic practice, ensuring all protocols prioritize client safety, informed consent, and evidence-based approaches while honoring traditional wisdom.

We believe healing should be accessible to all who seek it, regardless of economic status, background, or identity. We actively work to dismantle barriers to care and create pathways for historically excluded communities to access these healing modalities.

We recognize that true healing extends beyond symptom relief to encompass personal growth, connection to nature, and social harmony. We approach healing as a multidimensional process involving mind, body, spirit, and community.

We value our role as a healing resource within our local community and strive to build meaningful relationships with clients, healthcare providers, educators, and neighbors. We recognize that individual healing contributes to collective wellbeing.

We understand that human health is inseparable from environmental health. We commit to sustainable practices that minimize our ecological footprint and promote environmental regeneration.

We approach our work with humility and openness, recognizing that we are always students of these ancient traditions. We commit to ongoing education, professional development, and evolving our practices as new research emerges.

We operate with honesty, openness, and integrity in all aspects of our business. We hold ourselves accountable to our clients, our community, and the highest ethical standards of our profession.

We value the integration process as essential to lasting transformation. We support clients in weaving insights from their healing experiences into everyday life, recognizing that true healing happens in the days, weeks, and months following treatment.

Submitted as part of required documentation for state licensure as a micro healing center to the Colorado Department of Revenue.

Energy and Resource Conservation

LED Lighting Implementation

Therapeutic Benefit: While seemingly a small step, LED lighting provides better color rendering and can be dimmed to create appropriate therapeutic environments without the harshness or flickering of fluorescent lighting.

Strategy: We utilize energy-efficient LED lighting throughout The Clearing spaces.

Smart Power Management

Therapeutic Benefit: We want to reduce electromagnetic fields when equipment isn't in use, creating a "cleaner" energetic environment for sensitive clients during sessions.

Strategy: We utilize smart power strips and timers in therapy rooms, offices, and common areas.

Programmable Thermostats

Therapeutic Benefit: We want to ensure consistent, comfortable temperatures for therapy sessions while reducing energy usage during off-hours.

Strategy: We utilize programmable thermostats along with portable, energy efficient heaters and evaporative coolers throughout our facility to optimize heating and cooling efficiency.

Sustainable Operations

Comprehensive Recycling Program

Therapeutic Benefit: We want to create a visible commitment to sustainability that reinforces values of care and responsibility, complementing our therapeutic approach.

Strategy: We make visible clearly marked stations for recycling paper, plastic, glass, and compostables throughout The Clearing facility.

Eco-friendly Cleaning Products

Therapeutic Benefit: We want to reduce any/all chemical exposure for sensitive clients and creates a healthier indoor air quality, which is particularly important during psychedelic experiences when sensory perception is heightened.

Strategy: We source all of our cleaning and sanitizing products from environmentally responsible manufacturers and use non-fragranced and non-toxic supplies as much as possible.

Local and Organic Refreshments

Therapeutic Benefit: We want to provide clean, nourishing refreshments that support the preparation, administration and integration processes, and demonstrates attention to all aspects of client care.

Strategy: We source organic, locally grown teas, snacks, and refreshments for clients & facilitators.

Submitted as part of required documentation for state licensure as a micro healing center to the Colorado Department of Revenue.

Inclusive Hiring and Fair Compensation

Diversity-Focused Hiring Policies

Therapeutic Benefit: We aim to create a team that reflects diverse lived experiences, enhancing cultural competency in therapeutic settings and making more clients feel represented and understood.

Strategy: We have developed explicit hiring policies that prioritize diversity, with job postings planning to be distributed through channels that reach underrepresented communities.

Competitive Compensation Structure

Therapeutic Benefit: We aim to pay our facilitators and providers well, and also to reduce staff turnover, leading to more consistent client care and stronger therapeutic relationships.

Strategy: We implement compensation rates above industry standard with transparent pay scales.

Professional Development Fund

Therapeutic Benefit: We aim to ensure our facilitators and providers maintain cutting-edge skills and knowledge, directly improving client care quality.

Strategy: The Clearing plans to allocate a portion of its revenues to be applied to its regular facilitators for continuing education and professional development based on their preferences, desires and needs, such as becoming formally trained in trauma-informed and neurodivergent affirming practices, learning how to best support BIPOC and other historically underserved populations, and becoming trained in transgender healthcare, for example.

Flexible Scheduling System

Therapeutic Benefit: We aim to create a less stressed team who can be more present and effective during client sessions, and beyond fair payment for their services we celebrate flexibility and freedom of their schedules.

Strategy: We implement a flexible scheduling system that accommodates diverse needs and life circumstances.

Accessibility and Community Support

Sliding Scale Payment System

Therapeutic Benefit: We aim to make our healing services accessible to clients who might benefit most from plant medicines, yet those of whom who may have limited financial resources.

Strategy: We have established a transparent sliding scale fee structure with clear, fair and replicable guidelines. See our Restorative Pricing page, here.

Veterans Outreach Program

Therapeutic Benefit: We aim to address specific trauma needs common among veterans with protocols designed for their experiences.

Strategy: We aim to provide specialized services for veterans, including group integration sessions, reduced fees for administration sessions, ongoing counseling support options, and seeking related grants and scholarships in order to provide no/very low-cost services for veterans.

Education and Knowledge Sharing

Evidence-Based Protocols

Therapeutic Benefit: We aim to provide clients with treatments grounded in rigorous research while honoring the complex nature of psychedelic healing, balancing scientific validity with the wisdom of trained therapeutic presence for optimized outcomes.

Strategy: We implement protocols directly adapted from psychedelic research methodologies while integrating specialized training in psilocybin therapy for individuals, couples, and small groups; to maintain ongoing documentation of outcomes; and to regularly update clinical approaches based on emerging research in the field of psychedelic science.

Practitioner Mentorship Program

Therapeutic Benefit: We would love to help diversify the field of psychedelic therapy practitioners, ultimately making services more accessible and culturally responsive!

Strategy: We plan to develop a structured mentorship program for aspiring practitioners. Contact us for updates!

Environmental Education Workshops

Therapeutic Benefit: We aim to expand client education around holistic wellness and environmental connection, supporting deeper integration of their healing experiences.

Strategy: We would love to host regular workshops on sustainable practices, plant & fungi medicine traditions, and environmental stewardship, highlighting the work and traditions of local providers with specializations in related fields.

Indigenous Reciprocity

Indigenous Wisdom Acknowledgment & Reciprocity Framework

Therapeutic Benefit: We commit to the continued work to create a foundation of respect and ethical integrity by acknowledging the historical and cultural context of plant medicines, helping clients engage with their healing journey from a place of gratitude and proper reverence for traditional knowledge systems.

Strategy: We commit to working towards a living, multifaceted acknowledgment program that includes educational materials on the historical and cultural origins of psychedelic healing practices, a transparent statement whenever speaking about The Clearing and in facility spaces honoring indigenous contributions, allocation of resources for staff cultural competency training, and the establishment of an advisory framework to guide future reciprocity efforts as meaningful relationships with tribal leaders and indigenous communities develop over time.

Submitted as part of required documentation for state licensure as a micro healing center to the Colorado Department of Revenue.

Ethical Leadership Structure

Anonymous Feedback System

Therapeutic Benefit: We want to provide our clients with as much agency as possible in their healing journey, and we would love their feedback to help us identify areas for service improvement.

Strategy: We invite regular, anonymous feedback systems for clients to evaluate services and suggest improvements. We will also plan to have a parallel system that encourages our team members to provide feedback as well.

Ethics Committee

Therapeutic Benefit: We aim to provide a structured process for navigating complex ethical situations that arise in psychedelic therapy for our facilitators.

Strategy: We plan on continual consultation groups, such as collaborating with a committee of other facilitators in our community and expert consultants, collectively becoming a space for open conversation designed to address ethical questions and concerns.

Community Integration

Community Mental Health Forums & Ally Networking Events

Therapeutic Benefit: We want to enable holistic support for all of our clients before, during, and after psychedelic therapy, and a part of that process is to include other healthcare providers from around our community who may or may not be associated with psychedelic assisted therapies. We really want to host community events that helps to reduce stigma around mental health treatment (generally) and psychedelic assisted therapies (specifically), making it easier for people to seek and receive help.

Strategy: We commit to continue developing relationships with complementary healthcare providers for comprehensive client care, and to host regular public events on mental health topics that normalize discussions about healing, wellness, and psychedelic assisted therapies.

Highest Standards for Safety and Security

HIPAA Compliance

Therapeutic Benefit: We also aim to establish essential trust and confidentiality that allows our clients to fully surrender to vulnerable healing processes, knowing their sensitive information about non-ordinary states of consciousness and personal trauma is protected with the highest standards.

Strategy: We actively maintain rigorous protection of client information through a triple-secured paper filing system (requiring three separate physical locks accessed only by authorized personnel), coupled with encrypted electronic medical records that meet or exceed federal standards, and comprehensive privacy policies provided to all clients.