Biography

Mary Cosimano, LMSW, is the founder of Psychedelic Support and Integration LLC, with services including Psychedelic Integration Coaching; teaching, training, and mentoring for Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy; and a Death Awareness/Death with Psychedelics Workshop. Mary was employed at Johns Hopkins University in the Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research from 2000-2024. She served as Director of Clinical Services, Psychedelic Session Facilitator, and as a Research Program Coordinator. She was involved with multiple psilocybin clinical trials and conducted over 500 study sessions, including Club Drug studies with Salvia Divinorum and Dextromethorphan. Mary has trained postdoctoral fellows, faculty, clinicians, and research assistants as guides and taught individual and group meditation to breast cancer patients in a Johns Hopkins research study. She completed the MAPS MDMA therapy training program. She is a teacher and mentor at CIIS for their Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies and Research (CPTR) certificate program and conducts training for therapists in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy. She presents a Death Awareness/Death and Psychedelics workshop, and she initiated and facilitated a meditation group for Johns Hopkins employees from 2003-2020. She also has 15 years of experience with direct patient care as a hospice volunteer.