Deliberate Practice in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy

About Alexandre VazAndrew PennJoseph ZamariaMonnica WilliamsShannon DamesTony Rousmaniere

Shannon Dames RN MPH EdD is chair of psychedelic-assisted therapy programming and a nursing professor at Vancouver Island University in Nanaimo British Columbia. She has expertise in resilience development and psychedelic-assisted therapy research and education. Dr. Damess work focuses on the collaborative interdisciplinary development of equity and culturally informed service delivery research and education infrastructure development in the re-emerging field of psychedelic-assisted therapy. Her work acknowledges multiple ways of knowing with a specific interest in collaborating to understand how Western and Indigenous ways of knowing might be shared for the healing benefit of all.  Andrew Penn MS PMHNP is a clinical professor of nursing and a researcher at the Translational Psychedelic Research Program at University of California San Francisco where he teaches psychopharmacology and clinical psychiatry and an attending nurse practitioner at the San Francisco Veterans Administration Hospital. He has taught around the world including SXSW Aspen Health Ideas Festival TEDx and the Singapore Ministry of Health. He is cofounder of the Organization of Psychedelic and Entheogenic Nurses (https://www.openurses.org/) and has advocated for and written about nursing in psychedelic therapy in the American Journal of Nursing and the Journal of Humanistic Psychology. Visit https://www.andrewpennnp.com/.  Monnica Williams PhD is clinical psychologist specializing in cognitive behavior therapies. She is a professor in the School of Psychology at the University of Ottawa Canada research chair in mental health disparities and director of the Laboratory for Culture and Mental Health Disparities. She is the clinical director of the Behavioral Wellness Clinic in Connecticut and Behavioural Wellness Clinic in Ottawa. She was also director of the Center for Mental Health Disparities at the University of Louisville in Psychological and Brain Sciences (20112016). At the University of Connecticut (20162019) she had appointments in psychological science and psychiatry.  Joseph A. Zamaria PsyD ABPP is an associate clinical professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine where he is associate program director for psychotherapy for UCSFs psychiatry residency and an attending psychologist in UCSFs outpatient psychiatry clinics. Dr. Zamaria has worked for years as a therapist and researcher in clinical trials of psychedelic-assisted therapy to treat a range of conditions. Additionally he is on the faculty at UC Berkeley within the Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics where he directs the psychotherapy and clinical science curricula.  Tony Rousmaniere PsyD is program director of the Sentio Marriage and Family Therapy graduate program and executive director of the Sentio Counseling Center. He has authored many books on deliberate practice and psychotherapy training and is coeditor of the book series The Essentials of Deliberate Practice(APA Books). In 2017 Dr. Rousmaniere published the widely cited article in The Atlantic Monthly What Your Therapist Doesnt Know. Dr. Rousmaniere supports the open-data movement and publishes clinical outcome data at drtonyr.com. He is president of Division 29 of APA.  Alexandre Vaz PhD is director of training at the Sentio Marriage and Family Therapy graduate program and Sentio Counseling Center. He has authored many books on deliberate practice and psychotherapy training and is coeditor of the book series The Essentials of Deliberate Practice (APA Books). Dr. Vaz has held multiple committee roles for the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration (SEPI) and the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR). He is founder and host of Psychotherapy Expert Talks an acclaimed interview series with distinguished psychotherapists and researchers.