Can Psylocibin Help with Grief and Help Us Connect to the Other Side? Heather A. Lee

Crying Out Loud with Dr. Laura Berman · Sep 17, 2026 · 55m

When someone you love dies, you start looking for them everywhere. In dreams. In songs. In signs that show up at exactly the right moment. Anything that might tell you they’re still here somehow.

But what happens when psilocybin opens a door you didn’t even know was there?

My guest, Heather A. Lee, is one of the first certified and licensed psychedelic-assisted psychotherapists in the U.S. Before moving into psychedelic medicine, she spent years as a hospice social worker, sitting with people at the end of life. She later trained with researchers at Johns Hopkins, NYU and Imperial College…