June 24, 2022

Coming Home to Myself with Ketamine: Sara Reed, LMFT (Episode 4)

Sara is a PIONEER for CULTURAL SENSITIVITY particularly as it pertains to therapies assisted by traditional plant medicine and PSYCHEDELICS and she is generous with her intentions to facilitate safe spaces for future BIPOC members to be fully seen and understood.

Coming Home to Myself with Ketamine w Sara Reed, LMFT (Ep4)

by Dr. 1Dreah Pennington | The Conscious Evolution Podcast (Season 1)

In this episode of the Conscious Evolution podcast, Dr. 1Dreah Pennington interviews licensed marriage and family therapist and psychedelic assisted therapy provider, Sara Reed.

Sara poignantly shares her experience of being “called” to psychedelic therapy thanks to her mentor, Dr. Monnica Williams, and explains the harm she experienced while a study therapist during the MAPS training.

Sara calls for improved training and greater cultural humility for those therapists and facilitators looking to practice in psychedelic medicine therapy sessions. As an advocate for health equity in psychedelic medicine, Sara hopes to make treatments more safe, affordable, and effective to those in need.

Mentioned in this episode are two funding options for those looking to finance therapy sessions:

https://www.hellowalnut.com/

https://advancecarecard.com/

Read Sara’s full account of her experience as a study therapist and participant in the MAPS Ketamine Assisted Therapy training program here: https://www.self.com/story/therapist-psychedelic-mdma-experience-essay

About our guest

Sara Reed, MS, LMFT is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and the Creative Executive of Mind’s iHealth Solutions, a mental health technology and service company committed to changing how we talk about and treat mental illness. As a mental health futurist, Sara continues to reimagine what mental wellness can look like within this digital era. Sara has spent her early career examining the ways culture informs how we diagnose and treat mental illness.

Learn more about Sara and her work with iMind’s Health Solutions:

http://mindsihealth.com

Recap & Takeaways

In this episode, Sara candidly shares her MDMA journey and explains how she was forced to surrender once she realized that time was “speeding up” and she was no longer able to control what she was feeling or what was happening to her when the medicine began to alter her consciousness.

Sara’s description of her experience during and after MDMA gives us a unique and RAW PERSPECTIVE into the lives of the BIPOC community and how she believes psychedelic assisted therapies MUST be tailored to address the therapeutic goals for people of color.

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Coming Home to Myself with Ketamine with Sara Reed, LMFT (Episode 4)