Heather A. Lee
Heather A. Lee, LCSW is one of the first certified psychedelic-assisted psychotherapists in the U.S., a women's mental health specialist, retreat leader (Medicine Woman Retreats), and author of The Psilocybin Sessions.
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Oct 19, 2026
Scott ShoemakerHOST
And maybe you can better describe how that affected her and changed her relationship both with death and the death of her son.
Heather A. LeeGUEST
So this was a woman who, she and her son were very, very close and their relationship was really very tied into talking about the metaphysical realm and quantum physics.
Heather A. LeeGUEST
That was kind of their little touch point was to both be very curious about that.
Heather A. LeeGUEST
Now, he had struggled with some different drug and addiction problems, and he ended up dying from fentanyl.
Heather A. LeeGUEST
And I would like to just say, because this has been in the news lately, that let's not say, you know, fentanyl is not a drug overdose.
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Keri MurrayHOST
I mean, I am sure a lot of people hearing this are like, are we going to Woodstock? Like, what are we doing, you know? Tell us how you got involved.
Heather A. LeeGUEST
And, you know, I think I've always focused on the landscape of women's lives.
Heather A. LeeGUEST
You know, those landscapes are filled with grief and loss and playing different roles and being caretakers, many of the things you touched on.
Heather A. LeeGUEST
So I'm one of the very first certified and licensed psychedelic-assisted psychotherapists here in the U.S.
Heather A. LeeGUEST
So I did a year-long training in psychedelic medicine on top of already having a master's degree and 30 years of clinical experience.
Heather A. LeeGUEST
So a year of training with the lead researchers at Johns Hopkins, NYU, London Imperial, And then also went through what we needed to go through for licensure here in the state of Colorado.
Heather A. LeeGUEST
So currently in the U.S., Oregon and Colorado have two legal pathways for people to use this medicine.
Heather A. LeeGUEST
And people can fly from other states where it's not legal and you can do it legally in Colorado.
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Laura BermanHOST
Are there certain conditions or many conditions where psilocybin is really meaningful for that? And I feel like I've read some studies recently where they've specifically looked at that.