EPIC Healing Eugene - Oregon’s & the Nation’s First Psilocybin Service Center - Celebrates its Second Year! (EPIC Newsletter - May 5, 2025)
Thank you all for your support. Help us celebrate our second anniversary.
Our Gift of Appreciation to All: $111 May discount - good for any session scheduled in 2025
The jewel of our EPIC service center - EPIC’s private and licensed courtyard attached to EPIC’s Garden Room, offering four seasons of beauty and access to the outdoors during a client’s psilocybin session. Our Garden Room is private, spacious, and plant-filled. Our Hummingbird Room also has indoor plants and a large picture window. Both have access to our own private bathroom. Our Radiant Heart Facilitators offer services at EPIC and at our other partnered service center locations in Oregon.
Our Gift of Appreciation to All: $111 May discount - good for any session scheduled in 2025
If you are new to EPIC Healing & Radiant Heart Facilitation Services, you are eligible for the May 2025 discount, please sign up for a Free Exploration Call.
If you’d like emailed information, send inquiry to EPIC Contact.
For past EPIC / Radiant Heart clients, this $111 discount can be added to any “returning client discounts” you are eligible for. Contact us at staff@epichealingeugene.com to learn more.
(Does not apply when clients are already receiving EPIC / RHC Pay-It-Forward Grants and Discounts)
EPIC Healing Eugene - Happy 2nd Birthday! 🎉
Cathy Rosewell Jonas / EPIC Healing Eugene was granted the first psilocybin service license in Oregon - May 5, 2023. Two years later, we’ve built a beautiful program of service and long-term support to clients that come to us.
A Walk Down Memory Lane - When EPIC Got Licensed (Part 1): On May 5, 2023, EPIC Healing Eugene received the first state-licensed for a psilocybin service center in Oregon (and the Nation), granted under Oregon’s Measure 109 in 2020. It took the state two years to develop rules for The Oregon Psilocybin Services Act, which grants licensure for service centers, facilitators, and manufactures (aka growers) to offer psilocybin under a strict, state-regulated framework. Cathy Jonas, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, is CEO for both EPIC Healing Eugene and Radiant Heart Consulting (EPIC’s sister facilitation services company), and a licensed facilitator herself. She shares the day she got the news and what followed:
“On May 1, 2023, which was also my birthday, I was outside gardening, as celebrating in nature is one of my birthday traditions. I noticed a message on my phone from Oregon Psilocybin Services. I returned the call feeling flutters in my chest and stomach. I wasn’t sure what the call was about, but I thought…. perhaps. I was soon congratulated that EPIC had been granted Oregon’s first service center license. I was also warned that there would be a lot of media attention, and I was asked if I was ready for it. It was a strange thing to hear and consider. I naively said I think I was, as I was making some Youtube videos about my process of trying to become a licensed facilitator, about psychedelic preparation, and eventually sharing the complicated process of trying to open a very small service center in the counseling suite I was leasing. In hindsight, I had a limited vision or awareness of what “going public” meant or would mean. They suggested that I get a publicist or someone to help me make a media statement. I was thinking, now this is really strange, who would be interested in psychedelic news and, if they were, it would just be a little flurry. I did agree to get some help and was connected with someone from the Healing Advocacy Fund who helped me write that very first public media statement. Still not knowing what that meant, it turned out that little news blurb went out to national and international news outlets, which landed EPIC Healing Eugene in the spotlight — and me. The attention was overwhelming, including regular calls for interviews and tours, reporters and others seeking statements about this and that, emails, and people just showing up, thinking we were a dispensary! (Oregon did not approve a dispensary model). (continued - Part 2 below).
Our Offerings and What’s New?
Join us for EPIC’s Monthly Public Q&A - Online. Trivia Question: What does EPIC stand for? Answer: Eugene Psychedelic Integrative Center
EPIC Healing Q&A: Free online educational opportunity to learn about Psilocybin for Healing, and Psilocybin Services in Oregon.
Tuesday, May 20th 5:30 - 6:30 pm
Tuesday, June 17th 5:30 - 6:30 pm
Time zone: America/Los_Angeles
Google Meet / Video call link: https://meet.google.com/yig-aard-xqk
EPIC / Radiant Heart Offers Clients a Community of Long-Term Support for Free
We are pleased to offer our clients a long-term supportive community for free
What does EPIC / Radiant Heart’s Traditional Individual Psilocybin Experience Include?
Three hours of thorough individual preparation
Unlimited group preparation meetings (bi-monthly)
Preparation guide with tips and journal prompts
One psilocybin administration session (a low- or high-dose session)
Two hours of individual integration
Unlimited group integration meetings (bi-monthly)
Unlimited access to EPIC / RHC personal growth & support groups including:
Trauma Healing & Transformation Group
Embracing Transitions
Psilocybin & Personal Growth
New Moon Healing Circle
EPIC / Radiant Heart Consulting Services Packages
Visit Radiant Heart’s services page to learn more about our other services:
Multiple session packages (We offer Low - High Dose Packages, & High - High Dose Packages)
Group sessions for couples, or up to 6 people (who know each other)
Hourly rate for customized individual and group offerings (psychedelic coaching, integrative support, energy healing)
EPIC / Radiant Heart’s Personal Growth Groups (Annual Membership option) for those not signed up for session with us, but interested in attending some of our groups.
A favorite of our offered retreats!
EPIC Retreats - Waitlist Open
We have two psilocybin retreats coming up in 2025.
Healers of the Heart: Activating Your Healing Resources for Self & Others (Women’s Retreat) - 8/29/25 - 9/1/25, Eugene, Oregon; limit 5 people, private lodging rooms; this retreat will focus on Energy Healing for self and others, & self-healing and nurturing.
Senior Facilitators: Cathy Jonas, Heather Shelton, & Ciara Cuddihy
Release & Rise: A Psilocybin Grief Retreat (Coed) - 9/12/25 - 9/14/25, greater Portland location; lodging in house in 30-acre private forest or camping.
Senior Facilitators: Erin Baldwin Draper & Heather Shelton
If interested, please fill out a Retreat Application and/or submit an inquiry to EPIC Contact and we’ll send you written information. A Free Exploration Call can help you determine whether a retreat with others or an individual session is the best fit.
Some of our education team members, Cathy Jonas and Heather Shelton. Students can choose any of our Radiant Heart facilitators as their Internship Supervisor.
We offer two types of psilocybin facilitator Internships: Standard or Advanced Facilitator Training. Flexible timelines; individual or small group.
We are excited to share what we’ve learned about providing psychedelic-assisted facilitation and working in a legalized (above ground) setting. Learning and experience will focus on Intake & Assessment, Preparation, Facilitating Administrative session, Integration, and much more.
Be paired with one of our Radiant Heart Licensed Facilitators who will provide training and supervision throughout your training.
Gain practical skills, have a psilocybin experience of your own, and acquire real-life experience facilitating clients in a legal service center setting at EPIC Healing Eugene.
Visit website and FAQ on Internship page to learn more.
EPIC Healing Eugene was granted first psilocybin service center license in Oregon - May 5, 2023. We saw our first clients on June 23, 2023, and have had over 500 clients since.
A Walk Down Memory Lane - When EPIC Got Licensed (Continued, Part 2):
Getting that much media attention also came with an enormous flurry of referrals. In order to open our doors to serve our first clients, we worked on sorting out numerous logistics. This included developing policies and procedures, as well as staff training on how to work in a regulated setting and follow all the OHA rules, while thoughtfully considering our developing service model for helping the clients who came to us. After receiving our license on May 5, 2023 and shortly after I was approved for my facilitator license, our staff first practiced as being “clients” so we could develop our program, learn about dosage in milligrams of psilocybin (vs. grams of dried mushrooms) and steadily prepared for serving our first clients on June 23, 2023. Initially, I was the only facilitator, so I was extremely busy navigating both the world of service and that of business. Gradually, we built a skilled team of intake, service workers, and facilitators, as well as a thoughtful business structure that included a Pay-It-Forward program to provide discounted services and offering a comprehensive long-term community of support for all our clients at no additional cost. We have provided over 600 client sessions for over 500 clients since opening our service center. It continues to be some of the most meaningful work of my life. Two years in, we are feeling very thankful that we (with the primary help of psilocybin itself) can support people so deeply in a way that western medicine can’t really touch, helping a person tenderly explore their inner world. Witnessing how so many clients experience inner journeys of healing and connecting with something much greater than the smaller view they had of themselves (and their problems) is part of the mystery and magic of how psilocybin works. We are very grateful to be part of the magic. We extend heartfelt gratitude to those who have come and shared their lives and personal journeys with us. It is our continued honor to serve with heart, mind, and spirit.”
A Photo from our Winter 2025 Retreat: Featuring most of our EPIC Healing Eugene / Radiant Heart team including leadership team, licensed facilitators, service workers, and our staff education and medical consultant members.
The Garden Room at EPIC Healing Eugene
Meet our Radiant Heart Facilitator Team
EPIC’s Garden Room, view of private courtyard space. Client’s love the courtyard, staff do too! 💜
Are you Interested in Joining Our Team? We are accepting resumes and cover letters
Occasionally we add Service Workers and Facilitators to our team, ideally qualified candidates who would like to be crossed-trained into both roles but not always.
We do not rent out rooms to facilitators, but occasionally welcome new members to our Radiant Heart Consulting Team, based on our needs for rounding out the profile of our team and a candidate’s experience. We offer sessions in Eugene and Portland. Our intake team manages the screening and referral process.
Please submit your resume and cover letter (include details of your experience and why you’d like to work with the EPIC team as a Service Worker, or join our Radiant Heart Consulting team as a Facilitator).
We will keep your resume on file and reach out when we are ready to hire / interview.
Email you resume and cover letter to info@epichealingeugene.com
What are our clients saying?
If you’d like to hear from some of our past clients who’ve had an experience with us at EPIC Healing / Radiant Heart:
Check out EPIC’s Testimonial Page & our Google reviews
Check out spotify or apple for a great podcast: Mushroom Medicine: Unlocking Minds and Transforming Lives by Peter Sage, a past client of ours interviewing other EPIC / Radiant Heart clients about their experiences. Forthcoming, sincere, and captivating! Keeps you wanting to hear more…
Contact Us
We hope to hear from you. Please reach out if you have any questions.
EPIC Courtyard
To learn more about services, we invite you to sign up for a Free Exploration Call.
To receive written information about services, please submit an inquiry to our EPIC contact page.
We no longer operate by keeping a waitlist, and we process all referrals and inquiries as they come in.
Reach out to us at info@epichealingeugene.com with any inquiries or questions.
We wish you all the best. Thank you again for your support.
Warmly,
The EPIC Healing Eugene and Radiant Heart Consulting team
