Facilitator Spotlight
Brad Piper
A father of three school-age children and retired fire captain from Santa Cruz, CA, Brad moved to Bend in 2022 just as psilocybin facilitation was becoming legal in Oregon and found his calling. He obtained his state facilitators license through Clinical Cognitive and lends his experience to helping others find change, growth and peace in their lives through this beautiful medicine.
I grew up in a dysfunctional household and was never taught the skills to cope with stress, anxiety, grief, or depression. As a teenager, I became the primary caretaker for my father who was dying of cancer. Upon losing him, self destruction, depression and anxiety took root, ultimately affecting every angle of my life.
Brad Piper is a licensed psilocybin facilitator who is immersed in the supportive and informed psychedelic community in Central Oregon and committed to assisting others in their journeys. I feel psilocybin can help provide people with a fresh look at so many aspects of their life or assist in supporting a change they may be seeking.
Change can be difficult as we grow and become ingrained in our behaviors and habits. Psilocybin can give people the additional support needed to break old thought patterns, allowing us to grow and have a new perspective on any issue we set our inventions too.
Eventually, I graduated college from CSU Chico with a degree in biology, found my way to Santa Cruz and became a firefighter. Because I lacked the skills to handle the stress and demands of the job in a healthy manner, I found myself constantly struggling. After 20+ years of a challenging job, raising three children and a failed marriage, I knew I needed change. Like so many others, I was stuck in a Western medicine regimen of antidepressants and talk therapy, yet I felt empty, lonely, and hopeless. My life changed when psilocybin found me and showed me the path I needed. I immediately switched my daily Western medication routine to an occasional psilocybin microdose – with astounding effects.
Over the next few years, I began a self-taught psychedelic journey, including several deep dive experiences with various medicines and psilocybin microdosing. I began to see my real issues, start healing and living my truth. I now live a healthy, meaningful, calmer life and have become a more present and loving father, and more accepting and aware person. Psilocybin has played a truly crucial role in this transformation.
Most of my free time is spent camping, backpacking, paddle boarding, and snowboarding in the outdoors with my children, as well as teaching them about the joys of life and the hurdles they will experience. I openly talk with them about the role Psilocybin has played in my life..