Why Choose Prism Bend for a Psilocybin Journey
What makes Prism Bend’s licensed psilocybin experiences truly unique and transformative? From thoughtful preparation, personalized journeys, and meaningful integration, I create a safe and supportive environment just for you. With extensive experience, I design each journey as I would my own, ensuring you feel nurtured, secure, and prepared to explore inward for profound healing and growth.
1. Establish Trust
Trust is foundational to an epic magic mushroom experience. I bring a wealth of personal and professional psychedelic expertise, having facilitated hundreds of transformative psychedelic sessions—including group ayahuasca ceremonies in the Amazon jungle and legal psilocybin journeys in Oregon. Remarkably, my first legal psilocybin journey was more transformative than over 40 ayahuasca ceremonies!
As one of Oregon’s pioneering licensed psilocybin facilitators, my journey into psychedelic facilitation began in 2018, deeply inspired by life-changing ayahuasca ceremonies in Peru. My comprehensive training includes a two-month Shamanic Initiation in the remote Amazon jungle (2019), hands-on experience volunteering as an ayahuasca facilitator, and a 180-hour psilocybin facilitator program at InnerTrek in Oregon (2023). My integrative approach blends scientific research with indigenous wisdom.
With nearly 20 years of transformational coaching experience, I've guided thousands of clients from over 18 countries and 25 states. My highly empathic and intuitive nature allows me to tune into your energy, offering deeper mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual support.
A PSILOCYBIN GUIDE YOU CAN TRUST
“Cate Ritter is one of those rare individuals you meet and immediately sense that everything about her is genuine. Her intelligence, authenticity, compassion, and knowledge are truly exceptional. She has a gift for guiding, teaching, and coaching.”
— Erik from Utah
2. In-Depth Support
I provide comprehensive guidance throughout the process, including a consultation, preparation, a journey day, integration, email communication, and content resources. My goal is for you to feel confident, comfortable, and fully supported at each step.
If you’d like more time to explore what comes up, additional one-hour integration or transformational coaching sessions are available. Depending on your interests, our work may include subconscious reprogramming or sound therapy.
3. Customized Experience
Every aspect of your psilocybin journey at Prism Bend is customized.
Psilocybin Preparation & Journey Day
During preparation, I provide information to enhance your experience, such as:
Customized journey playlist—a soundtrack for your soul. Think of this as your hero's journey music designed to take you on a ride into your inner world. For more on how music supports your journey, see Psilocybin Journey Playlist: How Music Guides Your Experience.
Option to choose an Oracle card for intuitive guidance.
On your journey day, I create a relaxing, healing sanctuary that includes an altar with flowers, candles, crystals, and essential oils.
SMUDGING & AROMATHERAPY
From grounding and uplifting to calming and opening, specific scents can help you connect with the natural world, support emotional release, and encourage presence. Depending on the person and their preferences, I like to use sustainably sourced Palo Santo, white sage, rosewater, and essential oils.
Palo Santo is the badass protector of the smudging world. With its sweet, woodsy aroma, this “holy wood” has been long used in shamanic rituals to cleanse, purify, and ward off negative energy, like an energetic bodyguard.
Sage is known for its potent cleansing and purifying properties. Think of it as the ultimate smudging broom, sweeping away stagnant, heavy energy.
Rosewater is a gentle, loving best friend—your “liquid love” in a bottle, misting you with kindness, softness, and heart-opening vibes. Its delicate floral scent carries the essence of love and compassion. I also tune my rosewater with 528 Hz tuning forks, the frequency of love.
Douglas Fir is my favorite! With its uplifting, pine-like aroma, it brings the essence of the forest indoors, surrounding you with nature. Its fresh, woodsy scent helps open the heart and third eye chakras, supporting mental clarity, emotional release, and a deep connection to the earth.
Psilocybin journey alter with red roses
PLANTS & FLOWERS
Plants connect you to nature, enhancing calm, grounding, and openness.
Plants — The service center is filled with beautiful plants.
Flowers — Depending on the season, I may bring in flowers from my garden. I especially love bringing red roses, the traditional flower of psilocybin journeys, symbolizing the heart chakra, love and compassion.
CRYSTALS
I bring a variety of high-vibrational crystals for psilocybin journeys, but these are my top two favorites:
Apophyllite — A "stone of truth," apophyllite enhances intuition, awareness, and higher consciousness. Its calming energy reduces anxiety and promotes tranquility.
Labradorite — The “stone of magic,” labradorite enhances psychic abilities, intuition, and mystical insights. It also acts an energetic shield, protecting against unwanted energies.
OPENING & CLOSING BLESSINGS
Each journey begins and ends with a personally written blessing, cultivating gratitude, mindfulness, and sacred intention.
4. Empowered Transformation
My non-directive approach empowers you to shift perspective, uncover root issues, and create lasting transformation. For those who want ongoing support, I offer coaching, complementary modalities, and retreats:
Subconscious Reprogramming: Using energy psychology, we can explore beliefs that may be limiting you and work with new beliefs you want to bring into daily life. This can be especially meaningful when a belief becomes clear during your journey.
Sound Therapy: Using sound therapeutically offers time to rest, listen, and notice what you’re experiencing. Sessions can be part of your preparation or integration.
Psilocybin Retreats: Personalized retreats in Bend offer more time and space around your licensed psilocybin journey for preparation, reflection, and integration.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Cate Ritter is an experienced Licensed Psilocybin Facilitator and Transformational Coach in Bend, Oregon. She’s dedicated to empowering clients on their healing journeys by integrating psilocybin facilitation with transformational coaching.
Through subconscious reprogramming, sound therapy, and holistic guidance, Cate helps individuals create lasting change.
DISCLAIMER: This information is provided for educational purposes only and should not be considered medical, mental health, or legal advice.