Become a Psilocybin Facilitator — Your Path into the Psychedelic Therapy Movement
Join our trauma-informed, Oregon Health Authority-licensed training program to prepare for legal, ethical, and transformative psilocybin facilitation
Grounded in psychedelic-assisted care.
OHA & HECC Approved
Affordable, Flexible Psilocybin Facilitator Training — Built for Real Life.
At Emerald Valley Institute, becoming a certified psilocybin facilitator fits into your life — not the other way around. Our OHA & HECC Licensed Institute offers a flexible path to certification Gives students the freedom to move at their own pace — completing certification in as little as 11 weeks. Students learn through a blend of self-paced online coursework, live virtual lectures, and an optional in-person add on practicum for Oregon Licensure at Emerald Valley Holistic :Emerald Valley Holistic An OHA Licensed Service Center in Eugene Oregon. Every class, reading, and resource is included in your tuition
Accessible. Transparent. Realistic. Because everyone deserves a path into this work.
Our OHA & HECC Licensed flat-rate tuition training program model keeps psilocybin facilitator education accessible. Emerald Valley’s tuition is, on average, 60% less than other training programs. We’re more affordable because we’re pioneers the same community that helped legalize psilocybin therapy and fought for equity, access, and real-world inclusion.
“It is the best money I have ever spent on my education. The teachers are deeply knowledgeable, supportive and genuinely invested in our growth. My cohort was amazing as well; I found myself learning just as much from my peers as I did from the instructors, which was such an unexpected gift. For anyone considering joining Emerald Valley-don’t hesitate. You will not regret it. Come join our family and help build the shared dream of supporting communities through psilocybin therapies.” -Carla (Aug 2025)
Online Psilocybin Facilitator Training (168 Hours)
$2,995
168-Hour Online Psilocybin Facilitator Training
Complete your required training for Oregon licensure through a fully online, expert-led program designed for flexibility and real-world application. Includes 160 hours of live instruction and coursework covering ethics, safety, preparation, administration, and integration.
• 64 Hours Online Self Directed Learning
•64 Hours Live Lectures via zoom Lectures occur Mon, Wed, and Fri from 6pm – 8pm PST (all lectures are recorded for students to be able to review them).
I found at EVI was something very special and unexpected. I was fortunate to find a team, teachers, and a community of fellow trainees who seemed connected by a thread of authenticity, sincerity, and devotion to not only conduct this work (with psilocybin) with care and reverence, but to do so with a commitment to centering and creating, as best as possible, equitable access to these services across the whole ecosystem.
I also did not expect that the most valuable thing I would take away from this training would be a deep humbleness for my own privileges, a growing awareness of my limitations and biases, an acute understanding of how those privileges and biases impact my work as a facilitator… and a group of folks, trainers and trainees alike, who genuinely feel like family.
I would highly recommend EVI for anyone considering work as a licensed psilocybin facilitator, and I would wholeheartedly encourage anyone brave enough to commit to this path to put their whole heart in it — and to do it in the company of others who have their whole hearts in it.
Program Overview
Self-Directed Work
Engage in independent study sessions designed to deepen your understanding of psilocybin facilitation. Access a variety of resources and complete assignments at your own pace.
Throughout the program students will login to the classroom and complete self directed work. Weekly assignments include:
- Assigned Readings: Readings are currated from our college textbooks, research studies, scientific journals, topic specific books, and a variety of additional sources.
- Homework Assignments: Some assignments include creating a social equity plan, reflection papers and short essay assignments.
- Quizzes: Short comprehensive quizzes at the end of each learning module.
Live Zoom Class Schedule
Participate in interactive online classes led by experienced facilitators. These sessions cover essential topics and provide opportunities for real-time Q&A.
Join us for live interactive classes with our expert instructors. The live instruction schedule is:
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday: 6:00–8:00 pm PST throughout the 10 weeks of the program
- Zoom links for the live instruction are embedded in each weeks course content in the classroom
Optional Add on: 40 Hours of In-Person Practicum at Emerald Valley Holistic- OHA Licensed Psilocybin Service Center (Eugene, OR)
Join us on-site for hands-on training in psilocybin facilitation at Emerald Valley Holistic our OHA Licensed Psilocybin Service Center in Eugene Oregon. Gain practical experience through guided sessions and collaborative learning. The practicum is done over a 4 day intensive typically beginning after the last live lecture for the session. Practicum starts on Saturday and occurs Sunday, Monday, Tuesday from 8am – 6pm PST. You will learn how to do client intake, client preparation, client screening, administration of a psilocybin session, client integration and many other things. You must register for this Practicum through Emerald Valley Holistic and pay the practicum fee of $1500.00 directly to Emerald Valley Holistic.
Additional Resources
Program Admission Requirements
To enroll in the Oregon Psilocybin Facilitator Education training program, applicants must meet the following criteria:
Be at least 21 years of age.
Provide proof of High School Diploma, GED or other Higher Education.
Complete the application process.
If you have questions or need assistance with the application process, our admissions team is here to help. Schedule a discovery call to get started on your journey toward certification.
Program Over and Curriculum Breakdown:
- ✔️ 64 Hours live online classes *Prior learning credit available for accelerated program
- ✔️ 64 Hours self-paced online classes
- ✔️ 40 Hours live in-person intensive practicum (•Only Included in the Standard and Accelerated Program)
- ✔️ Program Duration: 10 weeks
Historical, Traditional, and Contemporary Practices and Applications (12 Hours)
- Historical, traditional, and contemporary practices and applications
- Current and historical use of plant and fungal medicines in Indigenous and Western cultures
- The Controlled Substance Act and its effect on psilocybin research and drug policy
- Overview of historical and recent academic research
Cultural Equity in Relation to Psilocybin Services<br /> (12 Hours)
- Cultural equity and its relationship to health equity and social determinants of health
- Racial justice, including the impact of race and privilege on health outcomes and the impact of systemic racism
- The impact of drug policy on individuals and communities
- History of systemic inequity, including inequity in healthcare, mental health, and behavioral health services
- Intergenerational trauma
- Responsible referral and support
Safety, Ethics, and Responsibilities<br /> (12 Hours)
- Awareness of facilitator’s personal bias, including examination of motives
- Training on the Oregon Psilocybin Services Act, scope of practice, and expectations of referral
- Ethical issues related to psilocybin facilitation, including:
- Oregon’s Facilitator Code of Ethics
- Ethical considerations relating to equity, privilege, bias, and power
- Appropriate emotional and sexual boundaries between facilitators and clients
- Financial conflicts of interest
- Reasonable expectations regarding client outcomes
- Appropriate use of touch and client consent to physical contact
- Appropriate emotional and sexual boundaries between facilitators and clients both during provision of psilocybin services and at other times and potential harm to clients and consequences for facilitators for breaching those boundaries
- Accurate record keeping and client confidentiality>
- Historical and Contemporary abuse of power associated with psychedelics including sexual, emotional and physical abuse and implications for facilitators
- Awareness of new research related to safety and ethics of providing psilocybin services
- Appropriate measures to mitigate risks associated with psilocybin services including: harm reduction, de-escalation, and conflict resolution
- Appropriate measures to mitigate risks, including harm reduction, de-escalation, and conflict resolution
- Accurate record keeping and client confidentiality
- Awareness of new research related to safety and ethics of providing psilocybin services
- Appropriate measures to mitigate risks associated with psilocybin services including: harm reduction, de-escalation, and conflict resolution
Psilocybin Pharmacology, Neuroscience, and Clinical Research<br /> (12 Hours)
- Pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics of psilocybin
- Drug and supplement interaction
- Primary effects and mechanisms of psilocybin on the brain, including connectivity and serotonin receptor activation
- Key areas of psilocybin research
- Models of substance use, addiction, and recovery
- The metabolism of psilocybin and psilocybin products including concentration of psilocybin and psilocin in available psilocybin products
Core Facilitation Skills<br /> (16 Hours)
- Client communication, empathy and rapport, including a nondirective facilitation approach, cultural attunement and a nonjudgmental disposition
- Response to psychological distress and creating a safe space for difficult emotional experiences
- Physical reactions and side effects of psilocybin
- Trauma informed care including physiology of trauma, vicarious trauma, empathetic stress and compassion fatigue
- Identification and facilitation of a variety of subjective psilocybin experiences including experiences related to physiological sensations, cognitive, emotional and mystical states, and traumatic memories
- Appropriate modes of intervention, understanding when intervention is necessary and when a client may need a higher level of care
- Recognizing and addressing adverse behavioral reactions and adverse medical reaction
- Identification of the unique health, psychological and socio-cultural presented by persons with terminal illness; and awareness of the appropriate knowledge, skills and approach needed to provide safe facilitation to such persons in a manner consistent with client goals, values, heritage and spiritual practices
- Repressed trauma emerging during a psilocybin experience
- Trauma and traumatic stress resulting from systemic oppression
- Safety for trauma resolution and risks associated with re-traumatization
- Protocols for ensuring facilitator safety and responding to emergencies
- “Set and Setting” including environmental considerations for administration sessions such as lighting, sound and temperature
- Completion of administration session
Preparation and Orientation<br /> (16 Hours)
- Informed consent
- Client information form and intake interviews, including discussion of client’s reasoning for seeking psilocybin services
- Using the client information form to assist clients in identifying benefits of referral to specialized treatment services
- Facilitator role and the limits of facilitator’s scope of practice
- Trauma informed communication skills
- Identification of client safety concerns including: medical history, contra-indicated medications, and psychological instability
- Appropriate strategies to discuss client safety concerns including but not limited to identification of client’s support system
- Determination of whether a client should participate in an administration session
- Client-directed safety planning to address identified safety concerns
- Boundaries between the facilitator and the client including use of touch
- Understanding of how racial and cultural dynamics affect interactions between client and facilitator
- Historical and indigenous modalities of preparation
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Administration<br /> (20 Hours)
- Dosing strategies and considerations including:
- Experiential differences relating to different dosages
- Physiological considerations in relation to dosage
- Delivery mechanisms of psilocybin
- Uses of secondary doses
- Effectively working with challenging behaviors during an administration session including:
- Unexpected client disclosures
- Substance-induced psychosis
- Suicidality
- Traumatic stress and its manifestation during a psilocybin experience and appropriate facilitator response including:
- Trauma’s relationship to the body
- Repressed trauma emerging during a psilocybin experience
- Trauma and traumatic stress resulting from systemic oppression
- Safety for trauma resolution and risks associated with re-traumatization
- Protocols for ensuring facilitator safety and responding to emergencies
- “Set and Setting” including environmental considerations for administration session such as lighting, sound, and temperature
- Completion of administration session
Integration Mastery<br /> (12 Hours)
- Identification of appropriate resources that may assist clients with integration including resources for:
- Interpreting feelings and emotions experienced during administration sessions
- Facilitation of positive internal and external changes
- Enhancement of existing supportive relationships
- Identification of client safety concerns
- Discussion of appropriate intervals between administration sessions and related safety concerns
Group Facilitation<br /> (16 Hours)
- Skills required to facilitate psilocybin group sessions including but not limited to:
- Assessing client’s compatibility with a group format
- Set and Setting for group facilitation
- Facilitating group communications and dynamics including strategies for working with multiple facilitators
- Group agreements including confidentiality and safety
- Identifying when a client within a group requires individual support, removal from a group, or additional intervention
- Group preparation sessions
- Group integration sessions
- Regulatory requirements for group facilitation
In-Person Practicum<br /> (40 Hours) *Optional Add on, must register for Practicum and pay additional practicum fee
During the in-person Practicum, students will come in person at Emerald Valley Holistic an OHA Licensed Service Center in Eugene Oregon to engage in hands-on training for individual and group facilitation including:
Preparation, client screening, client intake, conducting an administration session, core facilitation skills, integration methodologies
What it’s like to be a Psilocybin Facilitator Student at Emerald Valley
Emerald Valley is a wonderful environment to learn about the exciting and burgeoning field of Psilocybin and Psychedelic facilitation! The live zoom classes 3x a week make creating community and collaboration accessible regardless of your location. The staff is amazing and they truly care about their students while creating an open and inclusive environment for learning. The course is structured beautifully with an abundance of information that is presented in a digestible format. I love the equitable costs and the way that the director walks the talk regarding her passion to make this education available to everyone through affordable training-if you are feeling drawn toward this movement, reach out! You will be so glad that you did! Cheers to Emerald Valley for walking the talk of diversity, inclusion and equity!
"I couldn’t believe a program like this existed. It completely changed my life and showed me what it feels like to be truly accepted, supported, and seen. The Emerald Valley community is something special I’ve never experienced anything like it."
2025 Alumn
Work Life Balance
“The flexible schedule allowed me to balance a full-time job, family life, and my training. I loved being able to complete coursework at my own pace while still feeling supported and connected.”
Saving Time and Money
“This program saved me thousands compared to other schools and allowed me to finish in just a few months. The quality of the training was incredible, and I couldn’t believe how affordable and efficient it was.”
Meet Some of Our Dedicated Emerald Valley Team
Our team at Emerald Valley is committed to providing exceptional psilocybin facilitation services, guided by a deep understanding of ethics, safety, and client care. Each member brings unique expertise and a passion for fostering transformative experiences.
Join the fastest growing legal psychedelic community at Emerald Valley Institute- Check out some of our student Alumni’s experience of going through our Program:
Kirsten '25 Cohort
At Emerald Valley Institute, our students’ journeys speak louder than words. Each testimonial shares a unique story of transformation — from the first steps into psilocybin facilitator training to the deep personal, professional, and spiritual growth that unfolds along the way.
Hear directly from graduates about what it’s like to study in a supportive, inclusive community dedicated to accessibility, integrity, and heart-centered psychedelic education. Their experiences reflect the spirit of Emerald Valley: once a student, always part of the community. 🌿
