About Anne

Dr. Anne Metz is a licensed professional counselor, psilocybin facilitator, and counseling faculty member whose work spans psychedelic-assisted therapy, mental health policy, and counselor education.

She provides psilocybin facilitation through Colorado’s regulated natural medicine program at Numia Healing Center in Denver and serves as director of Fluence Training’s natural medicine program in Colorado. She is a member of New Mexico’s Medical Psilocybin Services patient safety subcommittee, where she contributes to the development of state policy around safe psychedelic access. She teaches graduate-level counseling courses as clinical faculty at Southern New Hampshire University.

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 in the application of alternative sentencing in Virginia, 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.

As host of The Psychedelic Skeptic podcast, she brings rigorous scrutiny and intellectual curiosity to psychedelic therapy — challenging overstated claims while offering realistic perspective to people considering this work.

Fun facts

• After college, I worked as a fashion model in Europe before returning back to Virginia to pursue a career in media. From 2005-2010, I worked as a reporter for an alternative newsweekly in Charlottesville, Virginia.

• I’m passionate about our connection to the natural world, and serve on the American Counseling Association Climate Crisis Task Force. I believe Climate Change presents a significant threat to mental health and wellness and mental health providers need to step up!

• I am prominently featured in the B-roll of a CNN documentary on the 1990s. I am still waiting for my residuals, unfortunately.

• I make it a habit to take up new activities that I am not good at; being a perpetual beginner helps me connect with my students who struggle to learn new psychotherapy skills. In the past three years, I’ve learned to ski (again after 20 years off!), throw clay on a pottery wheel, tap dance, produce a podcast, and sew my own clthes. I am a big believer that being bad at something can be good for you.

Licenses and certifications

• Natural Medicine Facilitator in Training, September 2025
  Colorado Division of Professions and Occupations, License No: NMIT.0000254

• Licensed Professional Counselor, October 2021 
  New Mexico Counseling Board, License No: CCMH0221571

• Licensed Professional Counselor, October 2021
  Colorado Division of Professions and Occupations, License No: 0017710

• Licensed Professional Counselor, August 2021
  California Board of Behavioral Sciences, License No: 10150 

• Licensed Professional Counselor, August 2021
  Oregon Board of Licensed Professional Counselors, License No: C6329 

• Approved Supervisor for Residents in Counseling, January 2020
  Commonwealth of Virginia, Board of Counseling

• Licensed Professional Counselor, March 2017
  Commonwealth of Virginia, Board of Counseling, License No: 0701007030 

• Certified Advance Directives Facilitator, March 2017
  Commonwealth of Virginia, Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services

• Certified Preadmission Prescreener, October 2016
  Commonwealth of Virginia, Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services