Conversation with The Center for Psychedelic Therapies and Research

Join us for this exclusive conversation with Center for Psychedelic Therapies and Research staff. This event is an opportunity to pose questions about the Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies and Research Certificate training program to leadership staff. This event is free and open to everyone.

Meet our Center Staff

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Laura Pustarfi, Ph.D., is Director of the Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies and Research Certificate Program and adjunct faculty in Philosophy and Religion at CIIS. As Director of the Certificate, she manages the communications, educational and technological administration, and program operations for the certificate. Her scholarly interests include plant studies, integral ecology, psychedelic philosophy, and environmental humanities, especially environmental philosophy, eco-phenomenology, and religion and ecology. She is currently working on a volume co-edited with Dr. David Macauley, The Wisdom of Trees: Thinking Through Arboreality, forthcoming from SUNY Press. Laura has presented at the several conferences on both plant studies and psychedelic-assisted therapy nationally and internationally.

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Maria Mangini, Ph.D., FNP, completed her doctorate in Community Health Nursing at University of California, San Francisco, where her research on drugs and drug policy explored the impact of historic LSD use in the lives of middle-aged adults. She was the director of the MSN/FNP program at Holy Names University in Oakland for 20 years. For 25 years, she was in family practice with Frank Lucido MD, and theirs was one of the first to add medical cannabis to the family practice armamentarium. She is co-founder of the Women's Visionary Council, which supports the work of women scholars, artists, healers, and visionaries through a series of conferences, workshops, and grants. Her interests currently center on the study of death and dying.

Meet our Moderator

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Vilmarie Fraguada Narloch, Psy.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist focusing on integrated treatment of co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders and psychedelic-assisted therapy. She is an activist working to end the War on Drugs and advocates for science and reality-based drug education and harm reduction approaches for all. She approaches her work from a harm reductionist and humanistic lens, focusing on the individual needs of the person, group, or community. She received a certificate in psychedelic therapies and research from the California Institute of Integral Studies in 2018. She is the director of Drug Education at Students for Sensible Drug Policy and co-founder and director at Sana Healing Collective.

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