About Rhiana:

I have dedicated more than half my life to the care and service of others. I come to psychedelic facilitation having accompanied clients, patients and friends in moments of profound transformation —through birth, death, and everything in between.

My path began in the early 1990s as a massage therapist, where I learned that our stories live not only in our minds but in our bodies. Supporting clients through pain and release taught me how healing unfolds when the body is heard.

From there, I became a birth doula, supporting women through the sacred threshold of childbirth. While studying to become a nurse-midwife, I attended to my grandmother while she was dying. Sitting at her bedside as she took her last breath, awakened something in me. I realized my calling was not at the doorway of arrival, but at the doorway of departure.

As a registered nurse, I gained a breadth of experience working in psychiatry, critical care, and oncology, before finally following my heart to hospice work. As a specialized hospice and palliative care nurse, I accompanied hundreds of individuals and families through dying and grieving. Walking with others facing their death deepened my trust in the wisdom of both shadow and light — the capacity of the human spirit to find meaning and peace, even in the midst of uncertainty and fear.

While continuing to serve those at end of life, I grew in my understanding of the sacred journey that we each must take as we encounter our death. I felt called to serve in the role of chaplain, pursuing my graduate degree and training in Buddhist chaplaincy. Since then, I have served as a chaplain in hospital, prison and crisis environments.

Encountering my own time of crisis during the COVID pandemic, I turned to the help of Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy. I experienced first-hand the healing these medicines offer which compelled me to pursue education and training to become a Licensed Facilitator in the state of Colorado (only the second state in the US to legalize PAT). I have since witnessed the intentional journeys of clients wading through the shadow side of things, and arriving in the light and healing they sought.