Mycelia: Women's Psilocybin Group

About this experience

A small group psilocybin experience for women in Bend, Oregon. Every Mycelia group is co-facilitated by Melinda Halpern and Lynne Herbert, both licensed psilocybin facilitators and licensed therapists with over 20 years of clinical experience each. Groups are capped at 4 to 6 participants. The format spans several weeks. You'll start with two 90-minute preparation sessions (virtual or in-person depending on the group), then come together for a full-day guided psilocybin journey at Drop Thesis, a licensed service center in Bend. Afterward, two 90-minute integration sessions are spaced a week apart to help you process what came up and carry it forward. Mycelia is built on the idea that group work offers something individual sessions can't: the experience of being witnessed, the perspective of other women navigating their own journeys, and the kind of relational insight that only surfaces when you're held in community. The name comes from mycelium, the hidden network beneath the forest floor that connects and nourishes everything it touches. That's the model here: individual growth held within a supportive, interwoven community.

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The people and place behind your experience.

Host

Mycelia

Our women’s group, Mycelia, is rooted in the wisdom of the forest’s hidden network—mycelium—the feminine, life-giving web beneath the surface that connects and nourishes all it touches.

The space

Drop Thesis

505 NW Franklin Ave, Bend, OR 97703

As one of the first legal psilocybin centers in the nation, we’re excited to invite you into an environment of infinite personal growth. At Drop Thesis, we’ve witnessed how legal psilocybin journeys can nurture profound transformation. Beyond symptom relief, these experiences invite deeper connection—to self, to others, and to the natural world. Supported by research and guided with care, our approach honors psilocybin as a catalyst for healing, growth, and renewed perspective across every layer of life.

Your guide

Melinda Halpern

I believe that everyone wants relief from suffering but doesn’t always know the path to get there. Our work is a partnership, not one-directional. I tend to have a direct style that often uses humor and realness to normalize the pain of being human. In addition to individual psilocybin facilitation, I am also offering group sessions of 4-6 people with a fellow facilitator and therapist in Bend, OR.

Your guide

Lynne Herbert

I’ve been a licensed counselor since 2000 and have run a private practice in Bend since 2006. My foundation is in Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy, developed by Daniel Hughes, PhD—a model built to support families with children facing severe attachment challenges. For three years, I worked intensively in residential settings under Dr. Hughes’s direct supervision, applying this experiential, attachment-centered approach to help children build new relational templates. That experience continues to shape everything I do. Over time, my practice has grown to incorporate mindfulness, somatic awareness, and EMDR. I believe connection is a core human need, and much of my work focuses on helping people identify the protective patterns they developed to survive relationship and guide them toward safety, vulnerability, and thriving in connection. After the sudden death of my partner in early 2024, my work took a new direction. Grief opened the door more widely to movement and group-based healing, and I began training in psychedelic-assisted therapy, specifically with ketamine and psilocybin. These modalities have been deeply healing for me, and I now integrate them into my work with the intention of helping others navigate profound transformation. Today, I continue to offer individual and couples therapy—online and in-person—alongside group work rooted in movement and emerging psychedelic practices. I completed a 10 month training with Integrative Psychiatric Institute in

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