Core Tutors
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Danielle Tanner
Danielle is a Relational Body Psychotherapist, Clinical Supervisor and Academic Writer. She has experience of facilitating psychedelic retreats in the Netherlands, and as a Psychedelic Integration Therapist.
She has a special interest in Trauma-Informed Psychotherapy, nature connection and ecopsychology. She has worked as a trainer in body work, Body Psychotherapy, Buddhist meditation and Relational Hypnotherapy.
Outside of the clinical setting she is a wife, mother and dog-lover- passionate about community, dance, psychedelics, and transpersonal inquiry and its shadow.
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Dr Jake Hawthorn
Jake is an addictions psychiatrist working in a harm reduction team in the NHS. He has long been interested in the therapeutic potential of psychedelics. He completed a Masters in Contemporary Drug and Alcohol Studies in 2023, researching the use of psychedelics by people in addiction recovery.
Jake has experience of facilitating psychedelic group retreats in the Netherlands with the Psychedelic Health Professionals’ Network. He helped to organise and deliver their in-house facilitator training from 2021-23, before developing this programme into the PsyEdu Professional Certificate.
Outside of work, Jake enjoys keeping active by running, stretching, and lifting.
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Dr Catherine Zollman
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
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Dr Duncan Still
Duncan is an Integrative Doctor, practising as an NHS GP as well as at the National Centre for Integrative Medicine (NCIM) and at Penny Brohn UK. He teaches at Bristol and Sheffield Medical Schools and helps run a Diploma in Integrative Healthcare for NCIM.
Long interested in the potential for psychedelics as a therapeutic modality, Duncan has a great interest in 'integrative' approaches to health. Before medicine he was a teacher and he also brings several years' experience as a group facilitator as a member of the Psychedelic Health Professionals’ Network, on psychedelic retreats in the Netherlands
He is a lover of nature and food and tries to bring both together as often as possible through foraging and picnicking.
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Dr Lauren Macdonald
Lauren is a Psychedelic Researcher, Doctor and Therapist at the Centre for Psychedelic Research, Imperial College London. She currently works on clinical trials investigating Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy for Anorexia Nervosa and Fibromyalgia.
Outside of her clinical work she is a Psychedelic Retreat Facilitator and co-founder at Essence Medicine, a non-profit offering psycho-spiritual care to people facing life threatening illness. She is passionate about holistic modalities that address all aspects of a person – body, mind, and spirit.
She has trained in Medicine and Psychology, and has undertaken further certificates in Nutrition and Environmental Medicine, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction, Compassionate Inquiry, Yoga and MDMA-Assisted Therapy.
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Sam Bloomfield
Sam is a Creative Arts Psychotherapist, Clinical Supervisor and founding director of Natural Genius, providing Psychotherapists to schools and care homes.
He is also a holistic body worker, healer, core member of Bristol Contact Improvisation dance collective and author. An experienced teacher and facilitator, qualified in adult education, he promotes mind-body health through relationship, creativity and nature connection.
Sam loves to explore depth of therapeutic connection, self awareness and creativity with learners and has been doing so for over 30 years. In his spare time he loves being with his five children and wild swimming whatever the weather.
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Dr Christoph Zwolan
Christoph is a Psychedelic Integration Therapist and Consultant Counselling Psychologist who is deeply committed to supporting individuals as they navigate the complexities of the human mind and consciousness.
Currently, Christoph holds the position of Clinical Director at Numinous Ways, an organisation that offers placement opportunities for trainees with PsyEdu, alongside facilitating psychedelic retreats.
He is interested in transpersonal aspects of psychedelic experiences, recognising their significant role in the effectiveness of Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy.
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Jessica Sweet
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Guest Tutors
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Dr David Luke
Dr David Luke is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Greenwich. His research focuses on transpersonal experiences, anomalous phenomena and altered states of consciousness, especially via psychedelics, having published more than 100 academic papers in this area, including thirteen books, such as Otherworlds: Psychedelics and Exceptional Human Experience. When he is not running clinical drug trials with LSD, conducting DMT field experiments or observing apparent weather control with Mexican shamans he directs the Ecology, Cosmos and Consciousness salon and is a cofounder and trustee of Breaking Convention: International Conference on Psychedelic Consciousness.
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Professor David Nutt
David Nutt is a psychiatrist and the Edmond J. Safra Professor of Neuropsychopharmacology in Imperial College London. He has been president of the European Brain Council, the BAP, BNA, and ECNP. He is currently Founding Chair of the charity DrugScience.org.uk. David has published over 35 books and over 1000 papers, including in Nature, Cell Lancet and New England Journal of Medicine. These define his many landmark contributions to psychopharmacology including GABA and noradrenaline receptor function in anxiety disorders, serotonin function in depression, endorphin and dopamine function in addiction and the neuroscience and clinical utility of psychedelics.
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Rosanna Ellis
Rosanna Ellis is a Hospice Nurse and Yoga Nidra teacher. She has an MSc in Palliative Care and has undertaken practitioner training in Systemic Family Constellations. She is the co-founder of Essence Medicine, a non-profit providing psycho-spiritual care to people experiencing life-threatening illness. Rosanna is passionate about the power of conscious rest and the potential of the systemic constellation approach for personal and collective evolution.
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Daan Keiman
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Dr James Hawkins
James read philosophy at Cambridge before changing to medicine and qualifying as a doctor in 1975. In the 80's he studied acupuncture in China, helped start the British Holistic Medical Association and founded a small Edinburgh-based charity – Good Medicine – which he worked through for many years. After initially specialising in both pain problems and psychological difficulties, more recently James works as an independent integrative psychotherapist with an interest in both helping to decrease distress and also increase wellbeing. He is intrigued & hopeful about the increasing evidence that psychedelics can be helpful in a range of difficult-to-treat problems including trauma & addictions. He is very up to date with emerging research, has considerable practical experience and founded the Psychedelic Health Professionals Network to support other health workers who are interested in this field.
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Sara Reed
Sara Reed is the lead Psychedelic Research Therapist at Imperial College London. She has spent her early career reimagining effective mental health care in the medical system. Sara's clinical interests focus on ethical care in psychedelic sessions, examining the ways culture informs how we diagnose and treat mental illnesses. Before joining the Centre for Psychedelic Research, Sara participated as a study therapist with the MDMA therapy for PTSD clinical trials sponsored by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). While working with MAPS, she advocated for health equity in psychedelic therapy and co-led the first ever MAPS MDMA-assisted psychotherapy training for clinicians of color. After this study ended, she received training in psilocybin therapy at Yale University for the "Psilocybin-Induced Neuroplasticity in the Treatment of Major Depressive Disorder" trial and co-wrote a paper using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy as a therapeutic modality in this treatment. As a mental health futurist, Sara is keen on finding creative ways to support folks in receiving accessible and effective mental health care.