Full Biography
About Anne
Dr. Anne Metz is a licensed professional counselor and counseling faculty member whose work spans psychedelic-assisted therapy, women's mental health, and counselor education.
Based in Taos, New Mexico, she provides psilocybin facilitation through Colorado's regulated natural medicine program, including at Numia Healing Center in Denver, and plans to offer treatment in Taos once New Mexico's medical program begins. She brings her full clinical background — not just facilitation training — to every stage of the work. She serves as Director of Fluence Training's natural medicine program in Colorado and serves on rulemaking subcommittees for New Mexico's Medical Psilocybin Program, contributing to state policy on safe psychedelic access.
She teaches graduate-level counseling courses as clinical faculty at Southern New Hampshire University and hosts The Psychedelic Skeptic podcast, where she brings rigorous scrutiny and intellectual honesty to a field that often needs it.
Dr. Metz holds a PhD from James Madison University, where she completed a research fellowship in criminal justice reform at the University of Virginia School of Law. Her research on judicial sentencing practices — one of the first qualitative studies of its kind — led to significant policy changes enabling nonviolent drug offenders to access community-based treatment instead of incarceration.
She holds active clinical licenses in Colorado, New Mexico, Oregon, California, and Virginia, and has advanced training from Fluence, MAPS (now Lykos Therapeutics), and PsychAlchemy, among others.
On working with women
I specialize in women's mental health not because it is a niche, but because women's experiences — the physical, hormonal, relational, and existential dimensions of a woman's life — are too often undertreated and underestimated by mental health care.
Perimenopause and menopause are identity events, not just medical ones. Infertility is grief that rarely receives the acknowledgment it deserves. The transitions of midlife — shifting sense of purpose, emptying nests, aging bodies, changing relationships — ask women to rebuild their sense of self without a roadmap. This is profound work. It deserves a therapist with both clinical depth and real investment.
That is what I offer.
On psilocybin
I came to psychedelic-assisted therapy through the clinical evidence, not the culture. The research on psilocybin for depression, anxiety, grief, and existential distress is among the most compelling in modern psychiatry. The capacity of psilocybin to create genuine perspective shifts — to temporarily loosen the rigid self-concepts that keep us stuck — is directly relevant to the work I do with women navigating major transitions.
I am also honest about its limitations. Not everyone is a good candidate. The preparation and integration work is where the lasting change actually happens. And the quality of the facilitator matters enormously — which is why I completed training at Fluence, received education through MAPS, and hold an active clinical license in Colorado.
I am not a guide who happened to get a license. I am a licensed therapist who chose to add this tool to a robust therapeutic practice.