All providers licensed under Oregon Psilocybin Services or Colorado’s Natural Medicine Program
5,000+ sessions and counting
4.9★ average client rating
You don’t need a diagnosis to want to feel more like yourself
Psilocybin therapy has been sold by the medical establishment as a last resort for intractable mental health conditions. We know it’s capable of much more than that. People come to Althea to process grief, break through creative blocks, reconnect with meaning and purpose, work through a challenging chapter, and explore their mind and spirit. Some are also managing mood disorders such as depression, anxiety, and PTSD. All of these motivations are valid and welcome.
Personal growth & self-discovery
Understand yourself with more clarity.
Creativity & getting unstuck
Break through a block, professional or personal.
Spiritual exploration
Explore meaning, connection, and deeper layers of reality.
Mental health & wellness
Find relief from symptoms of depression, anxiety, or PTSD and improve your mood.
Psilocybin works, and we can prove it
Althea has the largest real-world dataset on legal psilocybin services in the world
5,000+
psilocybin sessions tracked on Althea
97%
rated their experience as beneficial
67%
had a “complete” mystical experience, a strong predictor of lasting benefit
<1%
experienced a serious adverse event
Two weeks after a session, participants’ depression scores dropped 49%, anxiety scores dropped 51%, and well-being scores rose 22% on average. 62% met the clinical bar for a meaningful response.1
The vast majority of legal psilocybin sessions in Oregon and Colorado are processed on our platform, so we can see the results across thousands of real journeys with real people. The people who came in struggling most tended to see the biggest shifts. Dose matters less than the integrity of the container and how prepared people feel, which is one of the reasons Althea only works with licensed, vetted facilitators in state-regulated care models.
Psilocybin is unlike other medicine
Psilocybin doesn’t target symptoms the way traditional medications do. It works by temporarily changing how the brain processes experience itself, which is why the same underlying process can help someone move through grief, overcome a creative block, or break free from ruminative loops.
Subjective experience
Psilocybin journeys are not only visual but often felt. Embodied knowledge tends to land differently than insights grasped only intellectually, and it can be as clarifying as years of ordinary reflection.2
Cognitive flexibility
Psilocybin loosens rigid patterns of thought, making it easier to see old assumptions, stories, and defenses from a different angle. In this state of mind, you can try on different ways of relating to yourself, others, and the world around you.3
Neuroplasticity
In the weeks afterward, the brain enters a window of heightened capacity to form new connections. This biological process is what allows an insight to become lasting behavioral change.4
You’re never doing this alone
Your facilitator helps you prepare beforehand, holds space and keeps you safe during your journey, and supports your integration afterward. Every Althea client also gets a Psychedelic Care Navigator who guides you through the whole process, from matching you with the right facilitator to checking in with you along the way.
We work with only the most qualified facilitators
All 400+ facilitators in our network are licensed in Oregon or Colorado, and each one is vetted by our team before they can take clients. If a facilitator isn’t the right fit for you, we’ll rematch you at no additional cost.
Michaela Vogt
Trauma & addiction
Amy Charlesworth
Veterans & first responders
James Hoeffler
End-of-life & anxiety
Michele Koh
Life transitions
Char McKendrick
Trauma & reconnecting
I’ve dealt with a lot of trauma from my childhood, and I’m in the middle of a divorce, so I’ve been struggling with anxiety and depression. It doesn’t cure all your problems, but it’s helped me manage everything I’m going through, and I honestly feel like it accelerated the grieving process of my divorce by at least a year, maybe more.— William, verified Althea client
What to know before you start
Sources
- 1.Thompson, S. M., et al. (2026). “Real-world use, safety, and mental health efficacy of regulated psilocybin services in Oregon and Colorado.” medRxiv preprint.
- 2.Roseman, L., Nutt, D. J., & Carhart-Harris, R. L. (2018). “Quality of Acute Psychedelic Experience Predicts Therapeutic Efficacy of Psilocybin for Treatment-Resistant Depression.” Frontiers in Pharmacology, 8, 974.
- 3.Doss, M. K., et al. (2021). “Psilocybin therapy increases cognitive and neural flexibility in patients with major depressive disorder.” Translational Psychiatry, 11, 574.
- 4.Shao, L. X., et al. (2021). “Psilocybin induces rapid and persistent growth of dendritic spines in frontal cortex in vivo.” Neuron, 109(16), 2535–2544.