CHARIOT
Portland, Oregon
A SANCTUARY IN THE HEART OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST
Nestled in Northwest Portland, Oregon and just 15 minutes from the airport, we offer our guests a balance of accessibility and tranquility. Our center is based in a converted craftsman home, with five unique client spaces for individuals or groups, in a charming neighborhood full of restaurants, shops, and towering trees.
Steps away, the trails of Forest Park await (one of the largest urban forests in the country) while our serene backyard garden offers clients a private, nurturing sanctuary. “Set and setting” are important elements of every psilocybin journey, and all details have been mindfully designed to support your comfort, safety, and inner exploration.
For those visiting from out of town, there are many options for nearby lodging, including short-term rentals and hotels within walking distance or easily accessible through the city’s mass transit network.
We can’t wait to welcome you.
Portland Rooms
ROOM ONE
Juniper
ROOM TWO
Ponderosa
ROOM FOUR
Cedar
ROOM THREE
Maple
Our Facilitators
All facilitators are independently licensed by the Oregon Health Authority
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Areas of Focus: depression, anxiety and substance-misuse & recovery
Courtney (He/Him) founded Chariot in 2022, grounded in the conviction that psilocybin offers the world profound possibility. A Portland native, he’s proud of Oregon’s pioneering leadership in launching the nation’s first regulated psilocybin program.
His personal journey—including treatment-resistant depression, anxiety, substance misuse and recovery—led him to psilocybin several years ago. The healing he found sparked a newfound purpose: to share the transformative power of psilocybin with others.
Founder & Facilitator
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Areas of Focus: Anxiety, Creativity, Depression, Grief and Loss, LGBTQIA2S+, Life Transitions and Identity Shifts, Marginalized Communities, Parenthood, Neurodivergence, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Spirituality, Trauma, Veterans
Mariah (She/They/Ella/Elle) has been sitting with mushrooms and other plant medicines for over a decade. She holds reverence for the journey, deep trust in the client’s inner healing intelligence, and a peaceful presence for others in the room. Her approach is client-centered. What is most important to her is that the client feels like they are being supported in a way that feels authentic to them.
Mariah graduated with an interdisciplinary studies degree from the University of Hawaii in Community-Based Healthcare. She was lucky to study relevant coursework such as Advanced Ethnobotany, Mycology, Medical Anthropology, Organic Chemistry, and Psychoactive Drug Plants. She is data/research informed and also draws from her experience in ceremonial settings that she participated in while in Peru and Hawaii.
Mariah is also a mother who will bring nurturing care to your journey. She gives consideration to many aspects of safety (physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual) to support overall wellbeing. Mariah warmly embraces people from all walks of life, welcoming all into a space of acceptance. She is honored to co-create a space with clients so they may comfortably navigate the depths of their consciousness.
Director of Operations & Facilitator
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Areas of Focus: Anxiety, Creativity, Depression, Eating Disorders, End of Life, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), PTSD/CPTSD, Substance Use Disorders & Recovery, Trauma
Tracey (She/Her) is a mother, Clinical Herbalist, Cranial-Sacral Therapist, and experienced psychedelic facilitator of individuals and groups. Psilocybin was her first journey 34 years ago, inspiring her to explore more plant medicines. Journeying has allowed her to view psychological conditions from a non-pathologizing perspective. She understands complex trauma and the resulting nervous system dysregulation disorders. Tracey’s empathic & compassionate space-holding allows her clients to access their innate inner healer. She’s also teaching psilocybin facilitation at Changa Institute, specializing in client preparation, journey administration, and integration coaching.
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Areas of Focus: Anxiety, Depression, Grief and Loss, LGBTQIA2S+, Life Transitions and Identity Shifts, Marginalized Communities, Medical Complexity, Neurodivergence, PTSD/CPTSD, Trauma
Elana (she/her) is a psychedelic facilitator with an academic background in psychology, philosophy, and neuroscience. Her journey into this work began with a deeply personal exploration of mental health, leading her to non-ordinary states of consciousness as a tool for transformation over a decade ago. She specializes in breathwork and somatic approaches to healing.
Elana’s facilitation is grounded in embodied liberation, intergenerational healing, and tuning into our intricate connections to the web of life. She believes that healing is not about “fixing,” but about creating space to reclaim our innate wholeness. As a queer woman and second-generation immigrant, she brings a deep awareness of cultural identity, ancestral influences, and systemic impact into her work.
In addition to her facilitation practice, Elana has been an educator at SoundMind Psychedelic Training and is completing advanced trainings in End of Life Care, Somatic Psychedelic Facilitation, and Somatic EMDR. Due to her business background, she also supports corporate and executive clients in integrating altered states into leadership, creativity, and personal growth.
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Areas of Focus: Anxiety, Depression, Grief and Loss, Parenthood, Creativity, Trauma, PTSD/CPTSD, Spirituality, Veterans, Women’s Empowerment
Kayli (she/her) has a MA in Clinical Psychology and nearly fifteen years of experience, in a variety of professions, working with individuals to elevate their lives. While completing her psilocybin facilitation certification, she apprenticed in a ketamine clinic, although psilocybin remains the medicine with which she feels most aligned. Kayli intimately understands how this tool from nature can be used to assist us in removing blocks, allowing our light and insights to flow more freely. Kayli believes that we all have an innate capacity to heal. Working from a trauma-informed, mindfulness-based approach, she is deeply attuned to the mind-body connection. She has a warm, open, non-judgmental style and a unique capacity to hold space for those facing issues around self-worth, relationships, anxiety, depression, and intergenerational trauma. Her intentional and intuitive practice will guide you in your exploration as you work to break patterns, heal wounds, and move into alignment with your highest self.
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Areas of Focus: Anxiety, Creativity, Depression, Grief and Loss, Life Transitions and Identity Shifts, Marginalized Communities, PTSD/CPTSD, Spirituality, Trauma
Henry (he/him) is a licensed psilocybin facilitator, shamanic practitioner and hypnotist. He is well versed in the philosophy of perennial wisdom which he uses to guide his clients through the process of awakening. He believes that everyone can learn to connect to their intuition. The main obstacle to doing so is the ego's pervasive creation of rigid thought patterns.
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Areas of Focus: Grief and Loss, Life Transitions and Identity Shifts, Marginalized Communities, Spirituality, Trauma, Women’s Empowerment
Jin Sol (she/her) is a grief doula, photographer and experience curator. She specializes in grief-informed care and witnessing others in the fullness of their human experience. She is a biracial third culture kid, who was raised in a Korean Jewish household.
Jin Sol has been in relationship with psychedelics for the last decade, and through personal experience has come to see the transformative & healing capacity of these great teachers. She fully believes in psychedelics as a powerful pathway for those who are ready to dive deeper into their own self-discovery and see themselves in new ways.
She loves holding space for those on their grief journey, anyone who finds themselves navigating liminal spaces, exploring their identity or ready for deep transformation.
Her mission is to empower others to step into their unique expression through embodiment, vulnerability and authenticity.
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Areas of Focus: Anxiety, Depression, End of Life, Grief and Loss, Life Transitions and Identity Shifts, PTSD/CPTSD, Substance Use Disorders & Recovery, Trauma
My name is Kerry and I’m a fellow traveler. One of the first questions clients ask me is “How did you get into this field of work?”. That’s a wonderful question, because if you would have asked me even just a few years ago if I’d be a legal psilocybin facilitator I wouldn’t have been able to envision that future for myself. Not because it’s not absolutely what I should be doing now with my life, I just wasn’t ready to enter this new chapter. And I’ve had many chapters, indeed. Son, student, corporate employee, runner, small business owner, climber, husband, dog dad, and along the way I struggled mightily with alcohol use disharmony.
Once I used psilocybin I had a new insight, it was then I realized my addiction had stemmed from childhood trauma. That was when my real healing began. This has been my path of self discovery, and the integration of all my past chapters. That has led me to where I am today, humbly holding space for others to do their own profound work. I am continuously inspired by my clients; by their courage and their vulnerability.
The mushrooms show you yourself, it’s what you do with those insights that fulfills your intention. I’m grateful to be a part of my clients’ process.
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Areas of Focus: Creativity, Life Transitions and Identity Shifts, Spirituality, Substance Use, Disorders & Recovery, Trauma
Cindy (she/her) has worked as a psychotherapist and group facilitator for over 30 years and has had the privilege of accompanying many people on their journeys of self-discovery and healing. She assists people who are struggling with trauma, depression, anxiety, relationship difficulties and more. In addition to her therapy practice, Cindy has created and led many workshops and retreats facilitating personal growth through a variety of experiential explorations of the deep psyche. She is especially drawn to approaches that are holistic and include the mysterious language of the body and the unconscious, such as dreamwork, EMDR, expressive arts, and the visionary states of psychedelics. She has explored the depths of her own psyche through these practices which, along with mindfulness meditation, have helped her to cultivate presence, attunement, and an ability to trust the process. Cindy is continually amazed by the inner healing wisdom that can become available in these sacred journeys under the right conditions. She works with clients to create these conditions with compassion, humor, a warm welcoming presence, and deep respect.
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Areas of Focus: Anxiety, Depression, Eating Disorders, Life Transitions and Identity Shifts, PTSD/CPTSD, Spirituality, Trauma
Sara (she/her) is inspired by and grateful to the wisdom of the natural world and this continues to teach her how to hold the complexity and vastness of this human journey. She has extensive experience facilitating with psychedelic medicines and approaches this work with an open heart and humble mind that never ceases to be amazed by the inner wisdom of the clients she works with. She views work with psychedelics as just one of the many beautiful tools available for helping us remember our wholeness in the long story of our lives and loves helping clients find integration strategies that keep this inner wisdom alive. Her clients describe her as ""nurturing, grounded, and attuned to the needs of body, mind, and heart"" while maintaining a ""playful and curious spirit"". She emphasizes individualized and collaborative care and believes that safety and deep presence are foundational for healing.
In addition, she loves facilitating groups as well as providing education and safety for folks new to the psychedelic space. Finally, outside of her work as a Psilocybin Facilitator, her lens is influenced by her work in Naturopathic Medicine, Chinese Medicine, and Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy.
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Areas of Focus: personal growth, mystical insight, trauma release and addiction
Phyllis’ (she/her) introduction to psychedelics came at a young age and opened her eyes and heart to a sense of the oneness, awe and beauty of the human spirit. This set the tone for the rest of her life, leading to an exploration of Indigenous ways of healing and spiritual realization. She has taught yoga and meditation at schools, studios, meditation retreats, hospitals, corporations, and addiction recovery centers, and shared Sacred Dance based on an ancient practice of Tara from the Tibetan Buddhism tradition. Her interest is in holding space for each person to uncover their own natural wisdom, compassion, creativity, and life force to fully grow into their potential in this life. Working with what gets in the way is also welcomed. Integration of these expanded states is the path we walk each day. Phyllis’ personal work and understanding of neuroscience, along with somatic embodiment practices, and the breakthrough modality of utilizing psychedelics, has enhanced her wish to truly effect healing in the people she works with. She listens to clients' needs and helps formulate intention, sits with you during your journey, and again connects afterwards for integration, offering resources to add to your own growth.
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Areas of Focus: Anxiety, Creativity, Depression, End of Life, Grief and Loss, Life Transitions and Identity Shifts , Medical Complexity, PTSD/CPTSD, Spirituality, Substance Use, Disorders & Recovery, Trauma
Dr. Olivia Hicks is a naturopathic physician, teacher, and psilocybin facilitator specializing in holistic mental health care using psychedelic assisted ketamine therapy and psilocybin facilitation. She is trained in Hakomi and somatic techniques.
If you were to use three words to describe her approach to psychedelic therapy, they would be: Gentleness, Clarity, Calm-Abiding Presence
She draws from a deep well of personal experience in psychedelic states, which allows her to create a container that is safe enough for you to do your most vulnerable work. She has experience working with those with complex health histories, are on multiple medications, or have a history of mental illness, OCD, substance use disorder, and trauma.
It is her honor to work with grief. She will stand by you as you ask deep questions of yourself and reconstruct your life into a work of art. If you are seeking spiritual transformation, she will sit beside you in its infinite unfolding. She will be your co-pilot if you seek to explore the outer edges of consciousness.
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Areas of Focus: Anxiety, Depression, Neurodivergence, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), PTSD/CPTSD, Substance Use, Disorders & Recovery, Trauma
Evelyn (they/she) is an experienced psychonaut who would be honored to be considered to help you on your journey. She has 25 years of experience with psychedelics and helping people navigate their expanded consciousness. She specializes in working with addiction, depression, anxiety, OCD, ADHD, CPTSD, PTSD from violent experiences, gender dysphoria, and nuerodiversity which are all things she has experienced treating in her own healing journey. She’s worked hard to overcome these experiences to build an authentic life filled with connection. Hopefully some of the knowledge she’s gained along the way can help you achieve your goals. She’s been trained in the treatment of trauma and abuse. She’s also gained knowledge from her degree in Social Sciences, her psilocybin training through the Changa Institute, work experience in mental health, running ceremonies for a retreat organization in Jamaica, her insatiable research, her own guides, teachers, indigenous leaders, and colleagues. As one of the first licensed facilitators in Oregon, she’s also been working within this new legal system consistently since its beginning. She uses all of this knowledge and experience to effectively prepare you to navigate your subconscious mind. She practices radical acceptance and provides a safe place to process emotions without judgement while creating an environment of warmth, nurture, and playfulness. Your unique and authentic self will be validated as the wonderful human you are. Most therapy models do not go far enough in treating the underlying conditioning that is generally the root cause of the majority of our mental health challenges so she provides a unique perspective that you may not hear from traditional therapists. This perspective combines mindfulness practices, eastern philosophy, and evolutionary psychology in a way that can decrease your suffering. You will come away from your sessions with a holistic plan towards healing that helps you build a more authentic life.
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Areas of Focus: Anxiety, Depression, Grief and Loss, LGBTQIA2S+, Life Transitions and Identity Shifts, Parenthood, Neurodivergence, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), PTSD/CPTSD, Spirituality, Substance Use, Disorders & Recovery
Erin Baldwin Draper, MSW, (she/her) is a trauma-informed social worker, music lover, mystic, mom, and state-licensed psilocybin facilitator. Erin comes to this work with a deep reverence for nature and the sacred wisdom of plants, a natural curiosity for the mystical, and a safety-first scientific mind. With a background in counseling, group facilitation, research, and trauma-informed care, she brings practical therapeutic tools into her work while also holding space for the ineffable.
Erin began her career as a child and family therapist and medical social worker. After a traumatic birth experience with her first child, Erin found that the traditional healthcare system failed to adequately address her trauma and she turned to psychedelics. Her first psychedelic experience helped Erin reconnect back to herself after motherhood and catalyzed a passion for supporting others through plant medicine.
Erin considers herself a PsycheDoula in this field, supporting the rebirth of the mind, body, and spirit. She loves supporting folks new to psychedelics, especially those going through big life transitions. She believes motherhood can be one of the biggest life transitions of all and yet moms are often last to care for themselves. Erin continues to support moms outside of plant medicine work as a new moms’ support group facilitator and also loves working with parents of children with special healthcare needs.
Erin strives to create a judgment-free, expression-positive container for inner work. She welcomes folks from diverse cultural and religious backgrounds and lifestyles, and she is LGBTQ+ affirming.
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Areas of Focus: Anxiety, Depression, LGBTQIA2S+, Life Transitions and Identity Shifts, PTSD/CPTSD, Spirituality, Substance Use Disorders & Recovery, Trauma
Sarah's first psychedelic experience was 29 years ago. That path eventually led her to the rave scene, where she found community and belonging, and deepened into travel, leading women's circles, and a lifelong practice in yoga, meditation, breathwork, and sound healing. For two years she sat with Soto Zen monks, meditating three hours a day, a practice that shaped her capacity to witness the mind without judgment.
Sarah believes self-acceptance is the foundation of real change, and brings warmth, humor, and zero judgment to every session. She is there to support clients while they find their inner wisdom and is with her clients the whole way.
She also leads the Soul Liberation Fund, a Sheri Eckert Foundation initiative funding psilocybin access for Portland's frontline workers and peer support specialists facing financial barriers to care.
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Areas of Focus: Anxiety, Creativity, Depression, Neurodivergence, Spirituality, Trauma
Officially trained as a Facilitator in 2023, James’ (she/her) relationship with psilocybin and her path to facilitation began over a decade ago, and has been laying roots ever since. James is passionate about the potential psilocybin has to reframe our narratives and our traumas, release what no longer serves us, and use that to fertilize our ever-expanding internal growth, compassion, and capacity for pleasure. Her personal healing journey has evolved with the support of psilocybin and it is her mission to support yours by cultivating safe, judgment-free spaces that nurture each step of your process with unconditional positive regard. James works through a counter-normative lens, welcoming and celebrating diversity in race, age, ability, gender, sex, sexual identity and relationship style (or absence of one), and all the ways in which these intersect. She encourages somatic and creative processes which can provide fertile ground to reconnect to your body, shift away from shame, decolonize your relationship to pleasure, and reignite your innate creativity. As a State-Licensed, consent and trauma-informed Psilocybin Facilitator, Herbalist and Somatic Sex Educator it is James’ aspiration to serve as a guide, companion, and observer on your personal journey of self-discovery and renewal.
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Areas of Focus: Anxiety, Creativity, Depression, End of Life, Grief and Loss, Medical Complexity, PTSD/CPTSD, Spirituality, Trauma, Veterans
Dr. Matthew Hicks (he/him) holds a doctorate in naturopathic medicine and a master of science in clinical research from the National University of Natural Medicine and a certificate in psychedelic-assisted therapy and research from the California Institute of Integral Studies. He is the founder and president of Synaptic Institute, a non-profit ketamine-assisted therapy clinic and entheogenic medicine training program. Currently a postdoctoral scholar conducting research in psychedelic therapy at NUNM and Oregon Health & Science University, he is a frequent speaker at conferences, public events, and CME courses and is a member of the Parapsychology Association and the Academy for the Advancement of Post-Materialist Science.
As a facilitator, Matthew draws from skills in Hakomi, a somatic and mindfulness-based counseling technique, Buddhist psychology, and a holistic perspective on wellness known as vitalism. All of this is used in the context of a client-oriented non-directive approach. Matthew is also an army veteran, father of two, athlete, and enjoys camping and travel.
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Areas of Focus: Creativity, Eating Disorders, Grief and Loss, Life Transitions and Identity Shifts, Medical Complexity, PTSD/CPTSD, Spirituality, Trauma, Women’s Empowerment
Christine Marie is a multi-faceted healer, blending her roles as an Energy Healer, Shamanic Practitioner, Author, and licensed RN. With a reverent dedication to healing and transformation, she creates ceremonial and sacred spaces for individuals to embark on courageous journeys towards emotional, physical and spiritual wholeness. Through her expertise in modalities such as reiki, shamanism, poetry, and sound healing, Christine Marie empowers individuals to embrace their true, multi-dimensional selves, enabling them to lead lives filled with peace, purpose, and sovereign well-being. Christine Marie firmly believes in the innate ability of every individual to become their own Inner Guide and Healer. Through safe and compassionate mentorship, she serves as a trustworthy companion on your Psilocybin journey. With her guidance, you are supported in unearthing your inner strength and embarking on a transformative journey towards self-discovery and empowerment. When Christine Marie isn’t in service to her clients & community, you can find her in a local coffee shop writing her next book, traveling to foreign countries with her partner, or catching her next favorite artist perform live in town.
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Areas of Focus: Anxiety, Creativity, Eating Disorders, Grief and Loss, LGBTQIA2S+, Life Transitions and Identity Shifts, Marginalized Communities, Neurodivergence, PTSD/CPTSD, Spirituality, Substance Use Disorders & Recovery, Trauma, Veterans, Women’s Empowerment
Gina (she/her) has been tending the ground of healing care for over a decade as a psychotherapist and grief tender. She holds a master’s degree in counseling for marriage and family therapy and has spent over a decade supporting individuals, couples, and families through the complexities of trauma, fractured relationships, and personal transformation. Gina specializes in psychedelic-assisted facilitation, deeply influenced by her work with individuals navigating trauma and eating disorders. Her experience has deepened through training with the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies with MDMA for PTSD and the Polaris Insight Center for Ketamine. She has also served as Program Coordinator and Lead Educator at InnerTrek, Oregon’s first school for psilocybin facilitation, nurturing future facilitators and expanding the scope of holistic healing practices. Gina is also engaged in psychedelic research at the Portland VA with the Social Neuroscience and Psychotherapy Lab as a research study therapist. Gina is a seeker, a playful dancer, an embodied woman, and a poet. She continuously moves toward her authentic Self and loves engaging others interested in this dance. Gina believes in the healing power of relationships, both with self and the world around us. As a white woman, she is committed to ongoing education on decolonization practices while understanding it will be a lifelong journey. She is engaged in continuing education to stay current on studies in the field of psychedelics, trauma, eating disorders and DEI work.
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Areas of Focus: Creativity, Grief and Loss Life, Transitions and Identity Shifts, Marginalized Communities, Neurodivergence, Spirituality, Trauma
Birdie (she/her) is a Native American woman (Seminole-Creek, Otoe-Missouria, Pawnee) whose path weaves together over a decade of experience in yoga, subtle body healing, and spiritual practice. Based in Portland, Oregon, she is a Licensed Psilocybin Facilitator trained through Oregon’s Changa Institute, where she became part of the state’s first certified cohort. Her work is rooted in a deep respect for the wisdom of plant medicines and the Indigenous traditions that have guided their use for generations. Birdie sees psilocybin as a sacred ally—one that helps us remember our connection to the Earth, our ancestors, and ourselves.
In both one-on-one and group settings, she holds space with great care, drawing on her background in yoga, meditation, and somatic practices. Her ceremonies are containers for healing that honor the full spectrum of the human experience—physical, emotional, spiritual, and ancestral. Birdie believes healing is not a solitary path. Much like the unseen network of mycelium, our growth is intertwined. Through reverence, ritual, and relationship, she invites clients to return to their own inner knowing—guided by curiosity, synchronicity, and the subtle voice of spirit.
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