EHNW Lunch-n-Learn: Psilocybin Sessions for Existential and Death Anxiety

Facilitated by Lindsey Lerner, PhD

Psilocybin Sessions for Existential and Death Anxiety

Date: Friday, September 12, 2025
Time: 1pm–2:30pm Pacific Time
Fee: $20 for non-affiliates. $15 for students. $0 for EHNW affiliates

Online: via Zoom
Host: Existential-Humanistic Northwest (EHNW)

Participants will gain a better understanding of Oregon’s psilocybin service model, including the roles of preparation, administration sessions, and integration, while also appreciating the sacred indigenous roots of psilocybin usage- gaining a better understanding of how meaning, presence, and authenticity can guide this work. Through case examples, participants will examine how a single psilocybin session can help a client move toward greater acceptance and aliveness, and how, as therapists, we can ethically and skillfully provide support throughout this process. Participants will also reflect on our own views of life, death, and meaning-making.

If you are curious about the clinical use of psychedelics or interested in opening your mind to the use of new avenues of care to help with existential despair, then Lindsey and EHNW invite you to join them for this workshop. 

From Lindsey, “I come to you humbly as a teacher, but also as a lifelong student and hope that we can all learn from one another during this lunch and learn presentation.””

About the presenter:

Dr. Lindsey Lerner is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Licensed Psilocybin Facilitator, death doula, and psychonaut working and residing in Portland, Oregon. She has been working in mental health for the past 18 years and has been part of the psychedelic world for half her life. She has been curious about consciousness, death and dying (and near death experiences), non-ordinary states, existential thought and meanin-making since she was a young child, and utilizes the intersection of her personal and professional experiences to guide her work and advocacy, with a deep reverence for the originators of medicine, for the medicine, and the seekers of medicine.

Registration Deadline: Registration for EHNW’s event will close 24hrs before the event starts. Please make sure to register beforehand so they can email Zoom links and event info.

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Please contact EHNW about this event  here via their contact form.