The Psilocybin Experience: Our Collective Journey

Aaron founded Ayeterra and facilitates as part of the licensed team, with a bioengineering background from Oregon State and 15 years in holistic wellness. He focuses on people navigating trauma, anxiety, and depression, and works often with veterans and first responders. His approach pairs thorough preparation with integration support after each session.

Jason is co-founder and Chief Business Officer of the Psilocybin Assisted Therapy Association, with 17 years of nonprofit leadership and a master’s in nonprofit administration. He advocates for access to psilocybin-assisted therapy for veterans and underserved communities, and is emceeing the day.

Matt is CEO and co-founder of Sacred Spore Company, an Oregon-licensed psilocybin cultivator. A self-taught citizen scientist, he came to this work through his family’s experience with terminal illness and end-of-life care. He speaks on cultivation and manufacturing standards.

Rob is co-founder of Sacred Spore Company and a clinical massage therapist of 18 years who moved into mycology. His focus is producing safe, high-quality psilocybin and sharing that expertise with the field.

Dan owns and runs Rose City Laboratories, the first fully licensed psilocybin testing lab in Oregon. He has contributed to studies on extraction efficiency, shelf life, and potency, and speaks on testing, potency variability, and lab safety.

Bjorn is Rose City Labs’ senior R&D chemist, with nearly 20 years in analytical and extraction chemistry. He develops the lab’s testing protocols and speaks on tryptamine chemistry and dosing kinetics.

Joya is a Portland artist and creative director, founder of Sacred Rebellion, and Marketing Director at Rose City Labs. She creates objects and spaces for intention setting and reflection, and helps organize the day.

Vesper is a board-certified clinical chaplain, sound healer, and somatic practitioner with eight years of military service and a background in hospital chaplaincy, behavioral health, and crisis care. Vesper guides the day’s group sound bath and supports plant-medicine preparation and integration.

Reed is co-owner and product engineer at Trip Time Essentials and is training as a naturopathic doctor. He focuses on preparation, harm reduction, and the science behind herbs and nutrients, and speaks on pre-session preparation.

Frank Li, MD, is a physician board-certified in interventional and complex pain management. After years directing pain treatment, he turned to psilocybin and co-founded Immersive Therapies. He joins the service center panel.

Jesse is Chief Operating Officer at EPIC Healing Eugene, where he builds and manages the behind-the-scenes systems that support EPIC’s work and its Radiant Heart facilitator team. He moved from California to work in Oregon Psilocybin Services after a career in aerospace engineering and electronics manufacturing, and holds an OHA worker permit. He is interested in how science and technology can work alongside indigenous wisdom to serve clients and practitioners well, and joins the service center panel.

Heidi is a facilitator and 2023 graduate of Synaptic Institute who came to this work through her own recovery from treatment-resistant depression. She focuses on creating a safe, comfortable, legal space and supporting clients throughout their sessions, and joins the service center panel.

Matt is a transformation and integration life coach who blends neuroscience-informed, heart-centered coaching with a trauma-aware approach. He works especially with former athletes, high performers, veterans, and first responders navigating stress, trauma, and recovery, and founded a psilocybin service center serving that community. Certified through Being True to You and polyvagal-informed, he emphasizes self-compassion, client safety, and meeting people where they are.

Erin is a trauma-informed social worker and licensed psilocybin facilitator with a background in counseling, group facilitation, research, and trauma-informed care. She began her career as a child and family therapist, healthcare researcher, and healthcare social worker, and now works with individuals, couples, and groups using a trauma-informed harm reduction approach. She especially enjoys supporting people new to psychedelics and those moving through big life transitions, and joins the facilitation practices panel.

Amy is a licensed Oregon psilocybin facilitator, 16-year Army veteran, and psychedelic policy advocate. She serves on Oregon’s 2026 Psilocybin Rules Advisory Committee, advises the Center for Psychedelic Policy, facilitates in OHSU’s OPEN Study, and spoke at MAPS Psychedelic Science 2025. She advocates for safe, evidence-based access for veterans and underserved communities, and joins the facilitation practices panel.

Matt is a practicing psilocybin facilitator in Oregon and an instructor with the Changa Institute’s facilitator certification programs in Oregon and Colorado. A former wildlife biologist, teacher, program supervisor for at-risk and marginalized youth, and end-of-life doula, he brings a wide range of experience to his facilitation and teaching. He joins the facilitation practices panel.

Jenna spent nearly 20 years in mental health before founding Nature’s Path Wellness, offering DBT skills coaching and non-clinical psychedelic preparation and integration support. Her integration work is trauma-informed and client-led. She speaks on integration and group dynamics.

Heidi is Oregon director for the Healing Advocacy Fund, a nonprofit working to protect and expand access to the state’s regulated psilocybin program. She brings two decades of experience across nonprofits, labor unions, and politics, including thirteen years at SEIU and work on the campaign to pass the Affordable Care Act. She is a leading voice in current debates over program costs and regulation in Oregon.

Sam managed the campaign for Measure 109, the ballot measure that created the first state-regulated psilocybin program in the country, and later served as founding executive director of the Healing Advocacy Fund. In 2025 he founded the Center for Psychedelic Policy, focused on affordability and on helping states move from interest to implementation. Under his leadership the Center published the first national assessment of state psychedelic policy and access trends.

Chris is a filmmaker with over 15 years of experience and director of JOURNEYS, a documentary built from 21 interviews with patients, facilitators, therapists, cultivators, and lawmakers across the field. He introduces the film and joins the post-screening Q&A.