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Psychiatry and Psilocybin, Kept Properly Separate

Masha Steiner-Renoir sitting on a granite shore at dusk with her chin resting on her hand, still water behind her.

Patients keep finding this out sideways, from a bio line or a search result, so it deserves a page of its own: I run two practices. MindMorph Holistic Psychiatry is this one, a psychiatric practice in Lakewood serving Colorado and Oregon by telehealth. MycoMuse is a licensed psilocybin facilitation practice under Colorado's Natural Medicine program. They are deliberately separate, and the wall between them is not bureaucratic decoration. It is the point.

What MindMorph is

MindMorph is medicine. Psychiatric evaluation, medication management, therapy, ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, and Spravato for treatment-resistant depression, delivered under my license as a board-certified psychiatric nurse practitioner. It bills insurance, keeps medical records, and prescribes. When you are a MindMorph patient, you are in a clinical relationship with a prescriber.

What MycoMuse is

MycoMuse is facilitation, not medicine. Colorado's voter-approved Natural Medicine program licenses facilitators to prepare adults for psilocybin sessions at licensed healing centers, sit with them through the session, and support integration afterward. A facilitator does not prescribe, does not diagnose, and does not treat. Psilocybin remains federally scheduled, so that practice runs on its own rails: no insurance, no medical claims, its own screening, its own website that explains how the licensed program works.

Why the wall exists

Because the roles are different in kind, not just in paperwork. A prescriber holds medical authority and the obligations that come with it. A facilitator deliberately holds something else: presence without prescription. Colorado's rules, and my own reading of good ethics, want those roles kept distinct, so a person always knows which relationship they are standing in. It also means each practice can be fully honest. MindMorph never has to blur what psilocybin legally is, and MycoMuse never has to pretend to be a clinic.

Where they rhyme

The deeper skills travel across the wall in one direction only: toward you. Screening carefully, preparing people well, taking integration seriously, treating altered states as meaningful rather than merely chemical. If you are a psychiatry patient curious about what facilitation involves, MycoMuse's writing on what a facilitator actually does is the honest version. If you are a psilocybin client who needs actual psychiatric care, medication questions, a diagnosis revisited, treatment-resistant depression, that is a referral to a practice like this one, with integration therapy that understands where you have been. The monthly integration circle is open to both.

Which one are you looking for?

If you want evaluation, medication, therapy, ketamine, or Spravato: MindMorph, this site, start here. If it is legal psilocybin facilitation in Colorado you are exploring, MycoMuse is that practice's own front door. If you are not sure, either door works; sorting that out is a conversation I am glad to have, and it costs nothing to ask.

If you are in crisis, call or text 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline) or call 911. This practice does not provide emergency services.

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