Niko Skievaski
@nikoski.bsky.social
Co-founder of Althea, connecting the Legal Psychedelic Marketplace. Covering psychedelics for Boulder Weekly. FKA Redox.
https://withalthea.com
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Father of two. 📍 Boulder, CO.
https://withalthea.com
https://boulderweekly.com/author/nikoskievaski/
Father of two. 📍 Boulder, CO.
🚨 Colorado just passed SB25-297, requiring de-identified data collection from psychedelic healing centers starting in 2026.
It’s a big step toward evidence-based care—but raises real questions about privacy.
Why it matters & how we’re navigating it at Althea: withalthea.com/2025/05/07/w...
It’s a big step toward evidence-based care—but raises real questions about privacy.
Why it matters & how we’re navigating it at Althea: withalthea.com/2025/05/07/w...
What Colorado’s New Data Collection Bill Means for Psychedelic Therapy - Althea
On May 6th, 2025, the Colorado House passed SB25-297—legislation that adds a major new layer to the state’s evolving natural medicine framework. This bill directs the Colorado Department of Public...
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May 8, 2025 at 8:45 PM
🚨 Colorado just passed SB25-297, requiring de-identified data collection from psychedelic healing centers starting in 2026.
It’s a big step toward evidence-based care—but raises real questions about privacy.
Why it matters & how we’re navigating it at Althea: withalthea.com/2025/05/07/w...
It’s a big step toward evidence-based care—but raises real questions about privacy.
Why it matters & how we’re navigating it at Althea: withalthea.com/2025/05/07/w...
When we talk about psychedelics in mental health, the headlines often focus on the stats: reduced depression, eased anxiety, fewer PTSD symptoms.
But healing is not just the absence of suffering. Healing is presence. It’s feeling connected again — to yourself, to others, to the world around you.
But healing is not just the absence of suffering. Healing is presence. It’s feeling connected again — to yourself, to others, to the world around you.
April 24, 2025 at 2:38 AM
When we talk about psychedelics in mental health, the headlines often focus on the stats: reduced depression, eased anxiety, fewer PTSD symptoms.
But healing is not just the absence of suffering. Healing is presence. It’s feeling connected again — to yourself, to others, to the world around you.
But healing is not just the absence of suffering. Healing is presence. It’s feeling connected again — to yourself, to others, to the world around you.
20 drugs, ranked by harm to the user and society. Psilocybin ranks last, with MDMA and LSD also in the bottom quartile. withalthea.com/2025/02/17/i... @altheapbc.bsky.social
February 18, 2025 at 3:50 AM
20 drugs, ranked by harm to the user and society. Psilocybin ranks last, with MDMA and LSD also in the bottom quartile. withalthea.com/2025/02/17/i... @altheapbc.bsky.social
This is a tough one to share. I had tears in my eyes throughout this interview and again as I edited the video and wrote the post.
Jerry found psychedelic therapy at 61yo. His story illustrates the power of this modality, letting him rewrite the stories of his trauma that he carried on his back since childhood.
withalthea.com/jerry/
withalthea.com/jerry/
Rewriting PTSD with MDMA Therapy - Althea
Jerry was successful, a self-made millionaire. But the more success he attained, the angrier he felt. He found MDMA-assisted therapy at the age of 61.
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February 11, 2025 at 4:25 PM
This is a tough one to share. I had tears in my eyes throughout this interview and again as I edited the video and wrote the post.
👋 We're the team behind Althea! Our mission is to help psychedelics reach the people who need them the most.
February 9, 2025 at 5:22 AM
I made an AI bot to help us understand the CO Natural Medicine Program. It's trained on the law, rules, and guidelines published by DOR and DORA. Ask it all your questions about the program! altheapbc.com/2025/01/29/a...
An AI Bot for the Colorado Natural Medicine Program
The team is developing an AI model trained on Colorado’s Natural Medicine Program regulations to assist with inquiries regarding rules and compliance. Available through a custom GPT applicati…
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January 30, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I made an AI bot to help us understand the CO Natural Medicine Program. It's trained on the law, rules, and guidelines published by DOR and DORA. Ask it all your questions about the program! altheapbc.com/2025/01/29/a...
From clinical trials, to dosage and treatment methods, to pharmacology, I attempted to gather a review of psilocybin for depression. Let me know what I missed!
Does Psilocybin Treat Depression?
The FDA has designated psilocybin as a Breakthrough Therapy for treatment-resistant depression and major depressive disorder, prompting clinical trials indicating its effectiveness in reducing symp…
altheapbc.com
January 18, 2025 at 4:54 PM
From clinical trials, to dosage and treatment methods, to pharmacology, I attempted to gather a review of psilocybin for depression. Let me know what I missed!
These were the top reasons people sought out facilitated psilocybin services, collected through Althea. altheapbc.com/2025/01/12/c...
January 12, 2025 at 5:14 PM
These were the top reasons people sought out facilitated psilocybin services, collected through Althea. altheapbc.com/2025/01/12/c...
Psychedelic assisted therapy is now legal in two states. But it's still difficult to find a facilitator that meets client preferences. The market is fragmented.
Althea is starting to match seekers with licensed facilitators in Oregon and (coming soon) to Colorado.
altheapbc.com/journeyers/
Althea is starting to match seekers with licensed facilitators in Oregon and (coming soon) to Colorado.
altheapbc.com/journeyers/
Psychedelic Journeyers
Assessments to aid in psychedelic journeys.
altheapbc.com
January 11, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Psychedelic assisted therapy is now legal in two states. But it's still difficult to find a facilitator that meets client preferences. The market is fragmented.
Althea is starting to match seekers with licensed facilitators in Oregon and (coming soon) to Colorado.
altheapbc.com/journeyers/
Althea is starting to match seekers with licensed facilitators in Oregon and (coming soon) to Colorado.
altheapbc.com/journeyers/
Anyone have experience with using the Mystical Experience Questionnaire post-journey? I've used it to quantify the experience and bring some structure to the ineffable. Althea provides an easy way to take it and will send a detailed report to help you interpret. altheapbc.com/mystical-exp...
Mystical Experiences
How do you make sense of a psychedelic journey? These experiences are often described as ineffable or hard to describe. So where to begin? Mystical Experience Questionnaire The revised Mystical Exp…
altheapbc.com
December 17, 2024 at 6:41 PM
Anyone have experience with using the Mystical Experience Questionnaire post-journey? I've used it to quantify the experience and bring some structure to the ineffable. Althea provides an easy way to take it and will send a detailed report to help you interpret. altheapbc.com/mystical-exp...
The world needs a standardized screening tool for psilocybin use. Each practitioner seems to have their own.
The Psilocybin Risk Assessment Collaborative will build and distribute a screener in an open and collaborative way. Learn more and join the collaborative here: practool.org
The Psilocybin Risk Assessment Collaborative will build and distribute a screener in an open and collaborative way. Learn more and join the collaborative here: practool.org
Psilocybin Risk Assessment Collaborative
practool.org
December 17, 2024 at 1:54 PM
The world needs a standardized screening tool for psilocybin use. Each practitioner seems to have their own.
The Psilocybin Risk Assessment Collaborative will build and distribute a screener in an open and collaborative way. Learn more and join the collaborative here: practool.org
The Psilocybin Risk Assessment Collaborative will build and distribute a screener in an open and collaborative way. Learn more and join the collaborative here: practool.org
Come 2025, Colorado will go live with the nation's second legal psilocybin program. I've been trying to find my Colorado folk here to pull together this starter pack, but it's slim pickings. Let me know if I missed you!
go.bsky.app/FZB7p4N
go.bsky.app/FZB7p4N
December 11, 2024 at 3:06 PM
Come 2025, Colorado will go live with the nation's second legal psilocybin program. I've been trying to find my Colorado folk here to pull together this starter pack, but it's slim pickings. Let me know if I missed you!
go.bsky.app/FZB7p4N
go.bsky.app/FZB7p4N
Oregon has the only legal psychedelic program in the country. It's explicitly non-medical, so HIPAA doesn't apply. We had to come up with a new data sharing heuristic from the ground up. I discussed a bit here, as Althea on-boards practitioners in Oregon. altheapbc.com/2024/12/10/o...
Oregon Psilocybin Program
Last week, we released a set of new features that fundamentally aligned Althea workflows with how the Oregon psilocybin program has unfolded. This not only includes the latest regulatory compliance…
altheapbc.com
December 11, 2024 at 4:17 AM
Oregon has the only legal psychedelic program in the country. It's explicitly non-medical, so HIPAA doesn't apply. We had to come up with a new data sharing heuristic from the ground up. I discussed a bit here, as Althea on-boards practitioners in Oregon. altheapbc.com/2024/12/10/o...
Sunrise over Boulder this morning.
December 1, 2024 at 3:13 PM
Sunrise over Boulder this morning.
“We have the potential to treat thousands more patients here in Colorado than have been done in all of the academic trials,” @sthom003.bsky.social says. “We can learn from the experience of these Coloradans.”
coloradobiz.com/psychedelics...
coloradobiz.com/psychedelics...
Psychedelics: New paradigm in mental health care? - ColoradoBiz
With the 2022 passage of Proposition 122 decriminalizing psilocybin mushrooms and other psychedelic substances in Colorado, a new industry is taking shape: psychedelic-assisted therapy.
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November 30, 2024 at 3:23 AM
“We have the potential to treat thousands more patients here in Colorado than have been done in all of the academic trials,” @sthom003.bsky.social says. “We can learn from the experience of these Coloradans.”
coloradobiz.com/psychedelics...
coloradobiz.com/psychedelics...
Colorado psilocybin healing centers are gearing up for tourist season:
“We’re going to market primarily in the midwest and support our clients with a virtual 12-week program around their journey.”
boulderweekly.com/features/on-...
“We’re going to market primarily in the midwest and support our clients with a virtual 12-week program around their journey.”
boulderweekly.com/features/on-...
Psychedelics: Can we call it an industry? - Boulder Weekly
Oregon shows that healing centers will be few, likely serve out-of-towners. Boulder Weekly. Psychedelics. Niko Skievaski
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November 28, 2024 at 1:48 PM
Colorado psilocybin healing centers are gearing up for tourist season:
“We’re going to market primarily in the midwest and support our clients with a virtual 12-week program around their journey.”
boulderweekly.com/features/on-...
“We’re going to market primarily in the midwest and support our clients with a virtual 12-week program around their journey.”
boulderweekly.com/features/on-...
Insurance in the psychedelic space is ripe for a new entrant. Traditional carriers can't handle it. Naropa has to form a new corporate entity because their current provider won't insure their psilocybin training program.
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Naropa cancels psilocybin training course - Boulder Weekly
Applicants left with unanswered questions after an email from Naropa cites "unforeseen circumstances" for the unexpected cancellation.
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November 26, 2024 at 12:11 AM
Insurance in the psychedelic space is ripe for a new entrant. Traditional carriers can't handle it. Naropa has to form a new corporate entity because their current provider won't insure their psilocybin training program.
boulderweekly.com/news/naropa-...
boulderweekly.com/news/naropa-...
Thanks for giving us a place to start!
I have started a 'Psychedelics Starter Pack' of Bluesky accounts related to the field.
It's very much a Work In Progress - please reply or DM with suggestions.
go.bsky.app/VNupHtA
It's very much a Work In Progress - please reply or DM with suggestions.
go.bsky.app/VNupHtA
November 25, 2024 at 7:51 PM
Thanks for giving us a place to start!
1/ This type of question comes up frequently in this emerging psychedelic industry. It’s why we cringe at calling it an “industry”, why we have so many non-profits, and why sliding scale pricing models are fairly standard among practitioners.
Do profits have a place in the psychedelic industry?
Do profits have a place in the psychedelic industry?
November 25, 2024 at 5:52 PM
1/ This type of question comes up frequently in this emerging psychedelic industry. It’s why we cringe at calling it an “industry”, why we have so many non-profits, and why sliding scale pricing models are fairly standard among practitioners.
Do profits have a place in the psychedelic industry?
Do profits have a place in the psychedelic industry?
Why do we need software in this emerging land of state-regulated psychedelics?
Psychedelic system of record - Boulder Weekly
Althea, a Boulder-based company, has created software they hope will become the de facto system for providers of psychedelic-assisted therapy
boulderweekly.com
November 24, 2024 at 2:41 PM
Why do we need software in this emerging land of state-regulated psychedelics?
Just a baby on the trail.
November 23, 2024 at 11:19 PM
Just a baby on the trail.
Hello world! 👋 I hear it's nice in here.
November 22, 2024 at 7:25 PM
Hello world! 👋 I hear it's nice in here.