About Us

Establishing lived experience as essential expertise

Integrating clinical, scientific, and firsthand perspectives enriches our understanding and enhances the effectiveness of psychedelic treatments.

Yet in a landscape where nuance is often missing, the depth, complexity, and wisdom of lived experience are too easily overlooked.

We’re here to change that. By centering lived experience and embracing diverse perspectives, we aim to shape patient-centered care that moves beyond hype and fear, toward a fuller, more honest understanding of psychedelic healing.

Our broader vision

While amplifying patient and participant voices is at the heart of this initiative, our wider goal is to reshape psychedelic care.

By centering it around those with firsthand experience, we ensure treatments are more effective and compassionate. 

We aim to make the process of clinical trials and treatments more human-centered, accountable, and informed by the real-world experiences of those they are meant to serve. 

Too often, patients, trial participants, and caregivers are excluded from defining what success, safety, and healing should look like in this field. 

Our lived experience summit and the initiative behind it, is a response to that exclusion. 

By bringing lived experience into direct conversation with clinical and research perspectives, we can build new forms of understanding that neither could reach alone. These insights can lead to safer, more effective, and more meaningful psychedelic treatments.

What we’re working toward

Sparking more thoughtful, patient-informed dialogue: Recognizing lived experience as essential expertise in research, treatment design, training, and policy through our advocacy. 

Building momentum for our future initiatives: Including peer-led aftercare programs, patient–provider communities, resource hubs, ongoing events, and educational offerings.

This is a grassroots effort with a long-term vision: a future where people with lived experience aren’t just included, they’re leading.

Our values 

Meet our team

We're a team of former patients and clinical trials participants uniting for a common mission to advance lived experience expertise in psychedelic research, treatment, and policy.