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Frequently Asked Questions
Your Questions Answered
Where can I access Psilocybin Services in Oregon?
Trellia is a site that where legal Psilocybin Facilitators in Oregon advertise their offerings. Trellia is a growing site, adding facilitators every month, including facilitators that offer Ketamine Therapy.
https://trellia.org/
The Oregon Health Authority offers information on their website about Oregon Psilocybin Services.
https://www.oregon.gov/oha/ph/preventionwellness/pages/oregon-psilocybin-services.aspx
What is Psychedelic Integration?
Integration sessions refer to time spent talking about the Psilocybin/plant journey and making sense about what happened as well as deciding how you want to integrate the new knowledge into your life. What many Facilitators have found is that Preparation is 25% of the work, the session is 25%, and what you do to integrate is 50%. That’s the place where people make big changes in their lives.
Integration can be useful if there are things that came up during the journey that are confusing, destabilizing or difficult for you as well as material that is mind expanding and exhilarating but difficult to bring into mundane life. It is a safe place to explore material that has been mined, to test out theories, ponder, question and sometimes change your worldview. It can be a place to connect sometimes odd material to every day life and investigate changes that you want to make in your life based on connections to new thoughts and/or feelings.
Do you offer Psilocybin Journeys as a mental health therapist?
No. Oregon has legalized the use of psilocybin under specific guidelines but hasn’t legalized the use of psilocybin mental health therapy. Measure 109 only allows what’s being called “supported adult use.” Basically, people can legally ingest "magic mushrooms" in a state licensed facility under a state licensed facilitator but it is not psychedelic-assisted therapy. State Licensed facilitators act as a sitter not as a therapist.
What are Integration session like?
Integration sessions begin by an assessment to get a birds eye view of your life and what led you to plant medicine. We then center the actual plant medicine experience you are wanting to integrate. Through questions and mindfulness based exercises, we work together to find meaning and look at ways you can incorporate this meaning into your daily life.
What are EMDR sessions like?
The process generally starts with talking about your history of trauma interspersed with a practice of focusing on comforting and supportive thoughts, memories, books, characters in movies, etc. We then identify a difficult memory that you would like to process, examine the ways that this memory impacts you physically, emotionally and mentally, for example, "When I think of this memory I feel a sick, tight feeling in my stomach, a feeling of fear and the thought that I'm not good enough". At this point you engage in bilateral stimulation (due to the constraints of telehealth, bilateral tapping is utilized in place of eye movements). The tapping and processing of the memory can take one or many appointments. Once the targeted memory loses it's impact you then engage in tapping to instill the intended, healthier belief(s) (belief(s) you would like to have about yourself or the world.
What insurances do you accept?
I currently am in network with Aetna, Providence, Regence BlueCross BlueShield, Optum, Trillium OHP and Care Oregon OHP. In addition, I am able to accept Medicare Part B for Integration work.
Other Resources
If you are interested in the Psychedelic movement and want to meet other like minded folks check out Portland Psychedelic Society
https://www.portlandpsychedelic.org/
Here are some other resources to check out for more general information.
Link to Interview about Michael Pollan's book "How to Change Your Mind"
You can also get the book from the library or neighborhood bookstore or watch the Netflix "How to Change Your Mind" series
