Sunrise Ranch
Loveland, Colorado
Sunrise Ranch is located in the scenic foothills of the Rocky Mountains, approximately one hour from Denver. In addition to serving as a resort and retreat center, Sunrise Ranch is an intentional spiritual community and a working sustainable ranch. Its farm-to-table cuisine is widely appreciated for its quality and care.
Registration cost does not include accommodations or meals.
In addition to submitting payment to PRATI, all participants are required to register separately with Sunrise Ranch for lodging and meals. Sunrise Ranch charges by the bed, rather than by the room, and this fee includes all meals provided during the training. Accommodation options include camping, shared and private rooms.
To support participant safety and foster group cohesion, all trainees are required to remain onsite for the full duration of the training. Family members and friends are not permitted to stay with trainees at Sunrise Ranch during the training experience, as their presence may disrupt the supportive container essential to the program.
Training Director: Stephen Thomas, LCSW, is a psychotherapist and KAP practitioner based in Fort Collins, Colorado. With a background in nonprofit development, Stephen has spent over a decade actively promoting psychedelic medicines through media, education, and events. Trained in MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy by MAPS, Stephen has contributed to clinical trial research on both MDMA and LSD-assisted therapies. He also served for six years as a board member of the Nowak Society, a Colorado nonprofit dedicated to fostering community and advancing meaningful dialogue within the psychedelic movement. Stephen is passionate about the potential of psychedelics in addressing psychospiritual distress and healing the disconnection at the root of ecological, social, and political crises. As the Director of PRATI's Foundations in Psychedelic Medicine program, Stephen combines his expertise with a love for music, curating therapeutic playlists to enhance growth and transformation.
Medical Lead: German Ascani, MD, has a broad range of clinical experience having worked over a decade in public psychiatry, community mental health systems, and private practice in California. In his current Colorado practice he uses an integrative approach and uses Ketamine, including Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy. He is a study physician and MAPS trained therapist working on the phase 3 study on MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD. German has particular interests in the potential for psychological, emotional and spiritual healing that new and emerging psychedelic medicines bring to the mental health field. He supports the clinical use of these powerful transformative tools to open up a process of deep exploration, self-reflection and lasting growth.
Medical Support: Kylie House, MD, is a board-certified psychiatrist who works at The Wholeness Center in Fort Collins, Colorado. Prior to signing on with the Wholeness Center, she spent the last five years down in Denver completing her psychiatry residency through the program at the University of Colorado as well as acquiring a vast array of experiences in the community mental health setting. All the while, she was waiting for the right time to strike and pursue her interest in psychedelic medicine. She is a PRATI-trained KAP therapist and is a certified MAPS therapist. Her clinical interests include integrative psychiatry, psychodynamic psychotherapy, and the utilization of ceremony as a means to facilitate transformation and growth. She takes joy in dancing and music and gets easily distracted by birds.
Lead Trainer: Christine Pateros, MA, RN, is a Shamanic Energy Medicine practitioner and ketamine therapist guiding and teaching private clients and groups to connect to their inner wisdom and essence. After “dying” in the Amazon jungle in 2011 in her own life affirming psychedelic journey, Christine’s course as a healer was transformed from nurse and clinical drug researcher to Cranio Sacral therapist, energy healing practitioner, and psychedelic therapist. Christine’s deep interest in research and the healing powers of psychedelics fuels her work so these medicines may be accessible to those they can help.
Lead Trainer: Jason Sienknecht, LPC, CAC II, is a psychedelic psychotherapist with an interest in the potential for expanded states of consciousness to bring about healing and wholeness. He is a trained ketamine-assisted therapist and currently uses oral and intramuscular ketamine to help people heal from treatment-resistant depression and PTSD. He is also a MAPS trained MDMA-assisted psychotherapist.
Trainer: Scott Shannon, MD, has been a student of consciousness since his honor’s thesis on that topic at the University of Arizona in the 1970s. Following medical school, MDMA assisted psychotherapy became a facet of his practice before this medicine was scheduled in 1985. Scott has published four books on holistic and integrative mental health including the first textbook for this field in 2001. He founded Wholeness Center, the largest integrative mental health center in the US, in 2010 with a group of aligned professionals to create innovation in collaborative mental health care.
Trainer: Jennifer Tippett, PsyD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and Director of Psychotherapeutic Development for atai Life Sciences creating therapeutic protocols and providing facilitator training for psychedelic clinical trials. She previously held an academic appointment and served as the Director of the Substance Use Disorder Specialty Program for the University of Denver’s Graduate School of Professional Psychology, training students in addiction and the neurobiology of trauma. Dr. Tippett’s early career focused on working with incarcerated populations as well as individuals struggling with severe and persistent mental illness, providing high quality therapeutic services in limited and under-resourced systems. This work became a driver to explore innovative means of delivering mental health care, to include psychedelic medicine. Dr. Tippett studied psychedelics through the lens of shamanistic/indigenous traditions as well as gaining formal certifications from Fluence, Polaris, MAPS, and Integrated Psychiatry Institute. She is also a level 1 Internal Family Systems provider and is dedicated to combining psychedelics and evidence-based therapy models. As the psychedelic field rapidly expands, Dr. Tippett continues to focus on removing barriers to cutting edge and effective mental health interventions to those who need them most.
Event Coordinator: Stephanie Thomas, PharmD, NTP, CGP, is a pharmacist, a certified Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, and a Certified GAPS Practitioner focusing on the interplay between nutritional and mental health. In conjunction with the experience she has gained through her 400-hour Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training, she is well versed on the delicate and complex synergy between the gut, mind and body and is passionate about the healing potential these holistic treatment modalities can provide.