Facilitators
Most people come to us for depression, anxiety, PTSD, or grief, and most have never done this before. One client, one facilitator, the whole way through — you won’t be choosing from this page; we match you to the person who fits where you’re starting from.
Every facilitator here is licensed by the Oregon Health Authority.
Libby Volgyes
Co-owner · Facilitator
“Every detail here — the colors, the sheets, the lighting — is designed around your safety and how ethically we treat you, so that when you come in for a session, you can actually turn inward and do the work you've been preparing for.”
The people who come to Libby aren't always in obvious crisis. Often they're the ones who've held everything together — for others, for years — and finally need someone to hold it for them. She's been there herself: ten years as a caregiver taught her that caring for others comes naturally. She has a particular focus on people in transition, especially women moving through perimenopause and menopause.
She co-owns Vital Reset and came to facilitation through her own grief: psilocybin is how she came to understand her father, a Hungarian Holocaust survivor she lost in a plane crash. In the room she's gentle and patient, and she never rushes you toward what you haven't reached yet. Clients come back. They send their people.
Off the clock, she's with her husband Adam, whose own traumatic brain injury and decade-long healing journey have been part of their lives — and part of how she understands recovery. She knits, cooks, hikes, and loves science fiction.
The people who come to Libby aren't always in obvious crisis. Often they're the ones who've held everything together — for others, for years — and finally need someone to hold it for them. She's been there herself: ten years as a caregiver taught her that caring for others comes naturally. She has a particular focus on people in transition, especially women moving through perimenopause and menopause.
She co-owns Vital Reset and came to facilitation through her own grief: psilocybin is how she came to understand her father, a Hungarian Holocaust survivor she lost in a plane crash. In the room she's gentle and patient, and she never rushes you toward what you haven't reached yet. Clients come back. They send their people.
Off the clock, she's with her husband Adam, whose own traumatic brain injury and decade-long healing journey have been part of their lives — and part of how she understands recovery. She knits, cooks, hikes, and loves science fiction.
Matt Wissler
“I've never once felt rushed to finish a dose or move someone out of a session. The only question here is: what will best serve this person, right now?”
Matt works with people who need calm more than comfort — those in acute crisis, at the end of life, or navigating the particular gray zone between. He came to facilitation from endangered species recovery and youth crisis intervention, including end-of-life doula work, and now teaches at the Changa Institute Facilitator Training Program. In session he doesn't perform steadiness. He's just steady.
More than 150 sessions and over 1,000 hours with clients have only settled him further. Outside of session, Matt plays bass, is a ceramicist, and is most at home outdoors. He's lived all over the world — Canada, New Zealand, Hawaii, Maine, California — and once worked on New Zealand's Operation Nest Egg, helping double the wild population of the rare Okarito kiwi.
Matt works with people who need calm more than comfort — those in acute crisis, at the end of life, or navigating the particular gray zone between. He came to facilitation from endangered species recovery and youth crisis intervention, including end-of-life doula work, and now teaches at the Changa Institute Facilitator Training Program. In session he doesn't perform steadiness. He's just steady.
More than 150 sessions and over 1,000 hours with clients have only settled him further. Outside of session, Matt plays bass, is a ceramicist, and is most at home outdoors. He's lived all over the world — Canada, New Zealand, Hawaii, Maine, California — and once worked on New Zealand's Operation Nest Egg, helping double the wild population of the rare Okarito kiwi.
Spring Andersen
“In Portland, clients leave a session and step onto a concrete sidewalk. Here, they see the river, have a good meal, and feel the landscape itself supporting their healing.”
Spring is the right match for people who need to move slowly — or who've been rushed through hard things before and know the cost of it. She's been sitting with people in difficult territory for 22 years, as a shamanic healing practitioner, herbalist, and plant medicine guide, long before Oregon licensed any of it.
In session she's nurturing and unhurried. She doesn't fill the silence before it's ready to be filled, and she won't rush you toward an insight you haven't found yet. She has a particular gift for working with older clients and those living with traumatic brain injury, and brings two decades of dedicated grief work.
Outside of session, Spring spends as much time as she can with her grown kids and is a devoted lover of animals and the natural world. She also practices archery and makes her own candles and soap.
Spring is the right match for people who need to move slowly — or who've been rushed through hard things before and know the cost of it. She's been sitting with people in difficult territory for 22 years, as a shamanic healing practitioner, herbalist, and plant medicine guide, long before Oregon licensed any of it.
In session she's nurturing and unhurried. She doesn't fill the silence before it's ready to be filled, and she won't rush you toward an insight you haven't found yet. She has a particular gift for working with older clients and those living with traumatic brain injury, and brings two decades of dedicated grief work.
Outside of session, Spring spends as much time as she can with her grown kids and is a devoted lover of animals and the natural world. She also practices archery and makes her own candles and soap.
Heidi Chase
“When you walk in, you immediately feel cared for, you feel safe, you can relax.”
Heidi works with people who've spent a long time being told — by culture, by coaches, by the mirror — what to think about their bodies. She's a nutritional therapy practitioner, ICF-credentialed coach, and licensed facilitator who specializes in mind-body connection, body image, and self-worth. In session she's non-directive and relational. She follows where you're going, not the other way around.
Daughter of a firefighter, Heidi grew up in a rowdy Italian family where everything happened in the kitchen, and cooking stuck. She's amassed roughly 400 cookbooks and runs a side spice-blending company. She unwinds in water — a creek, the ocean, wherever she can find it — and music of every kind.
Heidi works with people who've spent a long time being told — by culture, by coaches, by the mirror — what to think about their bodies. She's a nutritional therapy practitioner, ICF-credentialed coach, and licensed facilitator who specializes in mind-body connection, body image, and self-worth. In session she's non-directive and relational. She follows where you're going, not the other way around.
Daughter of a firefighter, Heidi grew up in a rowdy Italian family where everything happened in the kitchen, and cooking stuck. She's amassed roughly 400 cookbooks and runs a side spice-blending company. She unwinds in water — a creek, the ocean, wherever she can find it — and music of every kind.
Jadryn Ownbey
“Hood River is so much calmer than Portland — there's a real serenity here. In a big city, the day after is decision fatigue; here it's the river, a walk in the woods, a good café.”
Jadryn is a specialist in PTSD, OCD, and ADD, and he's especially good with the stuck — problem-solvers who can't quite name their own problem. Much of his work is with people leaving a high-control religion and the particular groundlessness that follows.
In session he's music-led — he shapes the music as the session unfolds, moment to moment, following what's happening in the room. Where the experience is unpredictable, music gives it a track to follow, and he uses it to find the big emotional well and meet you there. Ten years in, he knows what it's like to find your footing again.
Outside of psychedelics, he collects music — his house is overflowing with vinyl records — and he takes extremely long, meditative walks.
Jadryn is a specialist in PTSD, OCD, and ADD, and he's especially good with the stuck — problem-solvers who can't quite name their own problem. Much of his work is with people leaving a high-control religion and the particular groundlessness that follows.
In session he's music-led — he shapes the music as the session unfolds, moment to moment, following what's happening in the room. Where the experience is unpredictable, music gives it a track to follow, and he uses it to find the big emotional well and meet you there. Ten years in, he knows what it's like to find your footing again.
Outside of psychedelics, he collects music — his house is overflowing with vinyl records — and he takes extremely long, meditative walks.
Evelyn Cushing
“Most of my clients stay in a cabin in the woods, walk Hood River's world-class trails, or sit by the waterfront watching the windsurfers. That exposure reminds the body and mind that we're part of nature — and how we're meant to be living.”
The people who come to Evelyn often arrive with something they've already seen but can't quite make sense of — an experience that shifted the ground under them and left them searching for language. She's been working with psychedelics for 25 years, holds a degree in social sciences from Portland State, and came to this through her own recovery from addiction, depression, and PTSD.
In session she's curious and steady. Her frame is radical acceptance, which means nothing you bring in will catch her off guard. Evelyn grew up in Alaska and loves snowboarding, ecstatic dance, and yoga.
The people who come to Evelyn often arrive with something they've already seen but can't quite make sense of — an experience that shifted the ground under them and left them searching for language. She's been working with psychedelics for 25 years, holds a degree in social sciences from Portland State, and came to this through her own recovery from addiction, depression, and PTSD.
In session she's curious and steady. Her frame is radical acceptance, which means nothing you bring in will catch her off guard. Evelyn grew up in Alaska and loves snowboarding, ecstatic dance, and yoga.
Vital Reset is owner-run, with clinical oversight built in. You’ll likely talk with one of us before anything is scheduled, and we’re here throughout.
Jim Yue
Co-owner · Client Care & Operations
“Clients feel so at ease with Jim that they regularly ask if he can be their facilitator.”
Jim Yue has spent the last three years running the office at Vital Reset. When it risked closing, he bought it — because he wasn't willing to watch something this important disappear. That's Jim in a sentence. He is the first voice you hear when you call and the first face you see when you walk through the door.
A Chinese-American actor, singer, and lifelong bridge-builder, Jim came to this work through his own experience with psilocybin: years of dependence on alcohol and substances, emotionally checked out, keeping hard things neatly compartmentalized — until a guided journey shifted all of it. He shares this not to inspire, but because honesty is the only thing that actually helps someone decide if this is right for them.
With a background spanning healthcare administration, theater, and a deep curiosity about what Western medicine hasn't yet explained, Jim is exactly the kind of person you want beside you when you're considering something this unfamiliar.
Jim Yue has spent the last three years running the office at Vital Reset. When it risked closing, he bought it — because he wasn't willing to watch something this important disappear. That's Jim in a sentence. He is the first voice you hear when you call and the first face you see when you walk through the door.
A Chinese-American actor, singer, and lifelong bridge-builder, Jim came to this work through his own experience with psilocybin: years of dependence on alcohol and substances, emotionally checked out, keeping hard things neatly compartmentalized — until a guided journey shifted all of it. He shares this not to inspire, but because honesty is the only thing that actually helps someone decide if this is right for them.
With a background spanning healthcare administration, theater, and a deep curiosity about what Western medicine hasn't yet explained, Jim is exactly the kind of person you want beside you when you're considering something this unfamiliar.
Ann Chatterton
Clinical Director · R.N.
“When you have a professional healthcare worker leading your team, the emphasis is always on safety and client-centered care.”
Ann has been a Registered Nurse for 32 years — 20 of those in Level 1 trauma centers. She holds a master's in medical cannabis science from the University of Maryland and has deep expertise in psilocybin pharmacology, including writing the curriculum used to train Oregon's first licensed facilitators. She came to facilitation having already built the map. In session she's straight and warm. She'll give you the real picture without alarming you or glossing over what matters.
Ann currently works as a Nurse Manager in HIV care. Outside of work, she recently took up the Dobro, goes to an astonishing number of live music shows, volunteers at Edgefield, and just picked up tennis again after a 20-year break.
Ann has been a Registered Nurse for 32 years — 20 of those in Level 1 trauma centers. She holds a master's in medical cannabis science from the University of Maryland and has deep expertise in psilocybin pharmacology, including writing the curriculum used to train Oregon's first licensed facilitators. She came to facilitation having already built the map. In session she's straight and warm. She'll give you the real picture without alarming you or glossing over what matters.
Ann currently works as a Nurse Manager in HIV care. Outside of work, she recently took up the Dobro, goes to an astonishing number of live music shows, volunteers at Edgefield, and just picked up tennis again after a 20-year break.
Hatchi and Talulah belong to the center as much as anyone does. You’ll find them in the lounge, never the session rooms — good company before and after, and gone the moment you’d rather be alone.
Talulah
Rhodesian Ridgeback · age six
She began as a service dog for Libby's husband, Adam, through his recovery from a severe traumatic brain injury — where she learned the fine art of presence and reading a room before anyone speaks. Semi-retired now, she's of service on an as-needed basis, and otherwise devotes herself to snacks, second breakfasts, fourth lunches, an extravagant sweater collection, and a vocabulary that shows the rest of us up.
Hatchi
Australian Shepherd/Pit Mix
Hatchiko came to the Yues from Gorge Adopt-a-Dog and has been the best addition to the family they could have hoped for. He is sweet and gentle with the curiosity of a young explorer. He has developed into a loving and loyal companion with the desire to make friends and lasting connections, along with enjoying the cornucopia of treats and foods his family creates.