About Nate
A facilitator who has been where you are.
Nate Forest is a licensed psilocybin facilitator under Oregon Measure 109 and a TBI survivor. His path to this work wasn't theoretical — it came from fifteen years of trying to find his way back.
His Story
Fifteen years of managing. Then something changed.
In July 2008, Nate was in a car accident that should have killed him. He and his brother were both in the vehicle. He spent the next week in the ICU in a medically induced coma, and when he came out, he had a traumatic brain injury and a long, uncertain road ahead.
The TBI didn't announce itself in obvious ways. It expressed itself in the small, grinding dailiness of a life that felt just slightly off. Brain fog so thick some mornings he couldn't finish a sentence. Memory that dropped things without warning. Emotional responses that didn't match — anger that came too fast, sadness too slow, numbness that settled in and stayed. At his lowest point, he lost the ability to read. For someone who loved books, that loss was specific and heavy.
He wasn't incapacitated. He kept going — raised his two sons, stayed in his marriage, held things together. That's part of what made it so exhausting. From the outside, nothing looked especially broken. But he knew the distance between who he'd been and who he was moving through those years, and the gap didn't close. He tried counseling. Neurofeedback. Supplements. Meditation. Exercise. Some things helped at the margins. None of them reached whatever had shifted at the center.
Fifteen years is a long time to manage. It's long enough to start believing that management is the best available option — that this is just what life is now, and you build around it.
Eventually, he tried psilocybin.
He doesn't have a dramatic story about it. What he has is this: something that had been locked, opened. Not all at once, not in a single session, not in a way that felt like a cure. But there was a reconnection — with himself, with a kind of clarity he'd stopped expecting to feel again, with the simple fact that he was still there and still capable of feeling fully. It gave him something real to build on.
The decision to become a licensed facilitator came from a straightforward place: he had found something that helped him after a very long time of things that didn't, and he wanted other people to have access to it. Particularly people like him — people who'd tried everything else, who had been functional enough that no one quite understood how stuck they actually were.
Why This Work
The people I'm most drawn to work with are the ones who don't fit neatly into existing systems — veterans who don't connect with the language of most therapy, TBI survivors who've been told their symptoms are just "part of it now," people who've been managing for so long they've forgotten what not-managing felt like.
That's not a marketing niche. It's a community I recognize. These are people who aren't dramatic about their pain, who usually understate how hard things have been, and who've already put in serious effort toward getting better. They deserve access to something that might reach what other approaches couldn't.
I do this work because I've been on the other side of it. Not as a metaphor — literally. I know what it feels like to sit across from a facilitator with a lot of history and a lot of skepticism. I know what it means to have someone hold that space with care. That's what I'm trying to offer.
One honest thing: I can't promise outcomes. I can tell you that many people find psilocybin facilitation genuinely useful, and that I take this work seriously. But the experience is yours — I'm present for it, not in charge of it. If you're looking for a guarantee, this probably isn't the right fit. I'd rather tell you that now.
How I Work
Presence over prescription.
Preparation is taken seriously
Before any session, we talk in depth — your history, your intentions, your concerns, and whether this is the right time. The quality of the preparation shapes what happens in the room. I don't rush this part, and I won't move forward if something in the intake gives me pause.
Non-directive facilitation
My job during your session is to hold steady presence and make sure you're safe — not to steer where you go or interpret what surfaces. The experience belongs to you. I'm not there to guide you toward a particular outcome.
You're not alone in the room
I stay with you for the entire session. If something difficult comes up — and sometimes it does — I'm there. That's not a small thing, and it's not optional. Consistent presence is part of what makes this work safe.
Integration is part of the work
What happens after a session matters as much as what happens during it. A follow-up integration conversation is included, and I'm available if things come up in the days that follow. The session opens something — integration is how you work with what opened.
Licensing & Oversight
What it means to work within the regulated system.
Nate is a licensed psilocybin facilitator under Oregon Measure 109 — the first legal, regulated psilocybin services program in the United States.
Becoming licensed required completing an accredited training program, passing a background check, and meeting the state's licensing requirements. Facilitators are regulated by the Oregon Health Authority, and that license must be maintained.
Every session takes place at a licensed service center in Oregon. The psilocybin is sourced from a licensed manufacturer, lab-tested for purity and potency, and handled entirely within the regulated supply chain — Nate does not source or handle it directly.
What this means for you
- Oregon Measure 109 Licensed Facilitator
- Regulated by the Oregon Health Authority
- Sessions held at a licensed service center
- Lab-tested psilocybin from a licensed manufacturer
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