Addressing Racial Trauma with Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy
Addressing Racial Trauma with Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy
Wednesday, February 15th, 2023 4:00-5:30pm Pacific Time
We will explore the research and realities of healing racial trauma with psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, including a discussion of Black medicine circles and ongoing integration and community.
Joseph Zamaria, PsyD, ABPP is a licensed and board-certified clinical psychologist and an associate clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the UCSF School of Medicine. At the UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics, he directs the psychotherapy curriculum as well as the clinical science and research curriculum. He has been a researcher of psychedelics for over fifteen years, and at UCSF, has served as a therapist and researcher in clinical trials examining the potential of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy to treat a range of conditions. Dr. Zamaria is a founding member of the American Arab, Middle Eastern, and North African Psychological Association (AMENA-PSY) and serves on the advisory board of the Fireside Project.
Mary Sanders, LCSW is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with extensive history addressing trauma in communities of color and marginalized populations. She currently provides community mental health services for formerly unhoused Veterans at Veteran Affairs in San Francisco, CA and recently opened a private practice called EMPATH Center in Oakland, CA serving Black Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC). Mary has future plans to integrate psychedelic-assisted therapy and community integration in her private practice. She graduated from the 2019 Center for Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies and Research at California Institute of Integral Studies, certified in Trauma-focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and is currently enrolled in the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute. Mary is involved in development of the national organization, People of Color Psychedelic Collective which involves increasing content, awareness, and access to psychedelic medicine practices that represent BIPOC voices.