About Us
Transforming psychedelic care by integrating firsthand wisdom with clinical and scientific expertise to improve patient outcomes.
Elevating lived experience as essential expertise
The Psychedelic Lived Experiences is a pioneering patient-led initiative promoting and advancing lived experience expertise in psychedelic research, treatment, and policy.
True progress in psychedelic care requires bridging the gap between clinical, scientific, and firsthand perspectives. Yet, in a landscape where extreme cases tend to dominate the conversation, the depth, complexity, and wisdom of lived experience are often overlooked.
We're here to change that. By amplifying nuanced voices, we’re shaping patient-centered care beyond hype and fear, embracing the full complexity of psychedelic healing.
November 21-23, 2025
Psychedelic Lived Experiences Summit
Join a groundbreaking 3-day virtual event on lived experience in psychedelic care. Patients, therapists, and researchers share insights, challenges, and key lessons to improve patient experiences, clinical outcomes, and quality of life.
Our vision
A future where lived experience is valued as essential expertise in psychedelic care, alongside clinical and scientific knowledge, ensuring safer, more ethical, and more effective treatments that improve patient outcomes.
Our mission
To advance patient-centered psychedelic care by fostering collaboration, shaping research and policy, improving treatments, and providing resources that educate and connect patients, researchers, clinicians, and policymakers.
Our values
Lived experience as expertise: Firsthand experience holds wisdom that must inform research, treatment, and policy.
Ethics and integrity: Psychedelic care must prioritize safety, consent, transparency, and accountability.
Balancing hype and hope: We advocate for nuance, responsibility, and real-world impact over sensationalized narratives.
Collaboration over division: Scientific, clinical, and lived experience perspectives all help advance psychedelic care.
What we do
We’re promoting and advancing lived experience expertise in psychedelic care, starting with the inaugural Psychedelic Lived Experiences Summit, a first-of-its-kind event centering patient voices. Beyond the summit, we’re building a movement to bridge firsthand experience, clinical practice, and research.
Summit
Join a groundbreaking event that puts lived experience at the forefront of psychedelic research and treatment.
Newsletter
Stay ahead with the latest research, patient stories, and expert insights on elevating lived experience expertise.
Resources
Research publications, articles, videos, and other educational content related to the role of lived experience.
Meet our team
We're a team of former patients and clinical trials participants uniting for a common mission to elevate lived experiences expertise in psychedelic research, treatment, and policy.
Pedram Dara
Project director and lived experience expert for MDMA therapy
Florence Moureaux
Project coordinator for psilocybin therapy in special access program
Becca Kacanda
Project coordinator for MDMA therapy for PTSD clinical trials
Ian Cook
Project coordinator for ketamine therapy clinical treatments
Brad Gagnon
Project coordinator for MDMA therapy in special access program
Cedric Codron
Project coordinator for Esketamine (Spravato) clinical treatments
Get involved
The future of psychedelic care must be built with those who experience it firsthand. Be part of the change by attending our summit, subscribing to our newsletter, or collaborating with us.
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✓ Share your story
✓ Collaborate with us
✓ Stay connected
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