Does this count for OPS renewal? (yes, and yes.)

A facilitator emailed me a few weeks ago asking whether any of my courses counted toward OPS renewal. A few weeks after that, someone else, an LPC and psilocybin facilitator, bought a course specifically for OPS credit, then wrote back to ask if it would also count toward her therapy board renewal.

Both times: yes.

What struck me wasn't the answer. It was that they had to ask at all.

Two changes to Oregon Psilocybin Services took effect January 1, 2026. Both are significant. Neither has been talked about enough yet.

The first change is mandatory: all facilitators must complete 4 hours of continuing education within the year prior to renewal. The CE can come from any organization approved to provide CE for professional licenses—including NBCC providers like me. Most facilitators I've talked to don't know that.

There's a catch: content must be directly relevant to the OPS core curriculum—topics like psilocybin pharmacology, preparation and integration, client safety, scope of practice, ethics, and facilitation skills. Generic ethics courses don't qualify. Those covering medication interactions with psilocybin do.

The second change is dual licensure under HB 2387. Clinicians with both facilitator and healthcare board licenses can now legally provide preparation and integration sessions under both. The gray zone for combining roles is gone. Three updated operational forms must be used by January 1: the Client Information Form, the 303 Client Data Form (which I helped create), and the Psilocybin Product and End of Session form. Dual-licensed clinicians must also notify OHA if they haven't done so.

I'll name something directly: mandatory CE hours create a market. The training programs that charged a mean of $9,359 for initial facilitator certification — where the majority of completers reported that cost as a moderate-to-severe financial strain — are now positioned to sell ongoing education to the same people. That's a choice the field is making, whether consciously or not.

Practically: know your renewal date, count back one year, and make sure you have four documented hours of topically relevant CE within that window.

What would be most useful to go deeper on? The clinical questions dual licensure opens up, what actually qualifies under the OPS curriculum categories, or something else? I'm genuinely asking.

- Peter

P.S. Psychedelic Affirming Education is an NBCC-approved CE provider, and most courses cover the OPS core curriculum topics. So, they count toward both the OPS facilitator renewal and, if you hold a therapy license, your board's renewal, too. https://www.psychedelicaffirmingeducation.com/collections/continuing-education