What are Consultation Hours?

As part of their requirements for full licensure, Colorado facilitator trainees to engage in Consultation with a working facilitator or other individual “experienced in the provision of natural medicine” for a total of 40 hours. Once Consultation hours are complete, the student may apply for a full Natural Medicine Facilitator License. This consultation can be done virtually.

How does it work?

Once you have successfully completed your coursework (didactic and practicum), you will need to take a Basic Life Support class (a CPR class), and you will need to be able to pass a criminial background check. With those three items, you can apply for a “Natural Medicine Facilitator in Training License” (NMIT) from the state. This license will allow you to see clients and to charge for services.

Once you start seeing clients, you will need to engage the help of a working facilitator or other qualified individual to help you debrief your experiences and to provide specific feedback in several key areas:

  • Non-directive facilitation approach

  • Relational boundaries and the use of touch

  • Cultural competence

  • Non-ordinary states of consciousness

  • Self-care

  • Ethics

Using APL facilitators to meet this requirement, trainees and consultants will meet virtually with a maximum trainee group of 6 trainees. The trainees will present “case studies” that lay out a client case and how they handled different aspects of the case. Then, with the consultant as discussion leader, the group will analyze what went well and what could have been better, and will set up the trainee for improved delivery of services. Trainee licenses will expire 2 years after issue, so Consultation Hours must be completed before that date for each student.

After each consultation session, trainees will receve a simple certificate showing the completion of the 90 minutes of consultation. They will need to keep these as proof of their participation. Additionally, students will need to create a log of their consultation hours including the dates, times, and consultant’s name. This log is a required item for submission to DORA for final licensure.

Consultation group meetings are available on Mondays beginning May 2025 from 6:30pm-8pm MT. There will be at least two mondays on the schedule each month but more or less depending on consultant availability. Scheduling is handled through Google calendar using the link below.

When is consulation available?

What does it Cost?

For 2025, each 90 minute session will cost $75