Talks, panels, and teaching
Talks, panels, guest lectures, and trainings for conferences, universities, clinical teams, and community audiences.
Topics I speak on
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Recorded talks
- Passing the Torch: The Importance of Student Education and Involvement for the Future of Psychedelic Studies
- What's Old Is New Again: The Possibility of Psychedelics in Mental Health Treatment
- Therapeutic Potential of Fast-Acting Synthetic Tryptamines
- Somatic-Focused Ketamine and Cannabis-Assisted Therapy for PTSD
- 5-MeO-DMT Use in the Global Population: Insights and Perspectives for Further Clinical Development
- Characterization of Mystical Experiences Occasioned by 5-MeO-DMT and Comparison with Prior Psilocybin Studies
Recent talks
2026 Psychedelics and gender identity: Research, acceptance, and the space to become. The Psychedelic Society.
2026 Gender and sexual diversity, precarity, and power. Panel with E. Cassidy, B. Stott, J. Sevelius, and R. Mukerjee. Interdisciplinary Conference on Psychedelic Research (ICPR), Haarlem, Netherlands.
2026 How the world's most powerful psychedelic became a popular catalyst for healing, pharmaceutical investments, and an ecological disaster. The Ohio State University.
2025 Social support and mental health outcomes after psychedelic use in trans and gender-expansive individuals. Presentation and panel. USPATH 2025, Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico.
2025 Effects of naturalistic psychedelic use among LGBTQ people: A self-report quantitative survey. Presentation and panel. Psychedelic Science 2025, Denver, Colorado.
Teaching
External Lecturer, MIND Foundation (2026 to present). Augmented Psychotherapy Training (APT) program.
Co-facilitator, Psilocybin-Assisted Psychotherapy: Background, Current Research, and Basic Skills (2020, 2024, 2025). Center for Psychedelic Drug Research and Education trainings in Columbus, Ohio, and Austin, Texas, and an earlier training in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Innate Path therapist training (2018 to 2020). Helped train new therapists in the Innate Path model, a somatic-focused approach to processing trauma.
All earlier talks and lectures, 2017 to 2024 (19)
Conference presentations and panels
2024 Passing the torch of research power: Info session for LGBTQ+ community psychedelic research participation. Transforming Care: Conference on LGBTQ+ and HIV Health Equity, The Ohio State University.
2023 Bridging the gap: Psychedelic research and mental health equity in gender and sexual minorities. Transforming Care: Conference on LGBTQ+ and HIV Health Equity, The Ohio State University.
2023 Increasing safety and participation in psychedelic science and communities among people of the global majority and gender/sexually expansive people. Panel. Psychedelic Science 2023, Denver, Colorado.
2023 Support systems in fringe spaces: Resources in the psychedelic field. Intercollegiate Psychedelics Network.
2022 Considerations for ethical integration of psychedelics in healthcare. Psychedemia, The Ohio State University.
2022 Addressing access and abuse in psychedelic therapy. Cannadelic FIU Conference, Miami, Florida. Also panelist on psychedelic integration and on the direction forward in cannabis and psychedelics.
2022 Understanding patterns of psilocybin use among native Spanish speakers: A hidden population. Society for Social Work and Research, Washington, DC.
2021 Returning from all: Integrating 5-MeO-DMT experiences in psychotherapy. Therapy and Research in Psychedelic Science Seminar Series.
2019 Somatic-based psychotherapy at Innate Path. Psychedelic Club of Denver.
2018 Psychedelic psychotherapy as career: A discussion for students. Naropa Alliance for Psychedelic Studies, Boulder, Colorado.
2018 Integration of psychedelic experiences in psychotherapy: A primer for clinicians, and a presentation of epidemiological 5-MeO-DMT studies (with A. K. Davis). Midwest Psychedelic Therapy Symposium, Madison, Wisconsin.
Invited talks and guest lectures
2024 Psychedelic research and mental health equity in gender and sexual minorities. Gravity, Columbus, Ohio, and the Equitas Institute Insights Lecture Series.
2023 Indigenous communities and psychedelic medicine. Panel. Center for Psychedelic Drug Research and Education, The Ohio State University.
2022 Ethical considerations and power dynamics in psychedelic therapy. Psychedelic Studies Forum, University of Alabama.
2022 Working with gender and sexual minority clients in psychedelic therapy. Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies Certificate Program, Naropa University.
2021 to 2023 5-MeO-DMT: The known, the unknown, and the hype of this potent fast-acting psychedelic, and related lectures. PltPath 3920, The Ohio State University (four semesters).
2021 5-MeO-DMT: A primer for clinicians. Psychedelic Coalition for Health practitioner training.
2021 Utilization of cannabis in therapy: Considerations, mechanisms, theory in practice. Adler University.
2021, 2022 Entering careers in psychedelic science. The Psychedelic Renaissance (IDH3035), Florida International University.
Full details, including co-presenters, are in my CV (PDF).
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