Meet Your Facilitators

This course is a team-taught course. Each facilitator has a different area of expertise and brings with them a unique set of skills and experiences in the psychedelic-assisted therapy space. Each session will be taught by a different combination of facilitators.

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Patricia Rockman
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Dr. Patricia Rockman, MD, CCFP

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Instructor and Subject Matter Expert

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Dr. Patricia Rockman is a family physician with a focused practice in mental health. She is the co-founder of and senior director of education and clinical services for the Centre for Mindfulness Studies in Toronto. She is responsible for curriculum development, service delivery and professional training. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine, cross-appointed to Psychiatry. Patricia Rockman has extensive experience teaching healthcare providers in the areas of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Change Management and Stress Reduction, Mindfulness Based Programs and most recently in psychedelic assisted psychotherapy. She has a strong interest in continuing education in mental health and addictions, yoga and meditative practice. She is a co-author of a number of books and articles, including Managing Uncertainty in Mental Healthcare, published by Oxford University Press.

Deanna Rogers
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Deanna Rogers, H BA, MA C

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Instructor and Subject Matter Expert

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Deanna has been working with plant medicines for over the last decade for personal healing and discovery. She has worked with the Temple of the Way of Light, The Integration Circle, and has run her own private practice for the last five years. She has also collaborated with psychedelic leaders such as Double-Blind Magazine and Psychedelics Today. She has worked in this field for the last ten years and has supported hundreds of people with many aspects of plant medicine and psychedelic experiences including applicant assessment, program design, preparation, retreat facilitation, group processing, and integration support, and has run several psychedelic harm reduction focused consultation groups for healthcare professionals. Her goal is to empower people to cultivate a deep connection to self, to help integrate trauma and align to their path going forward. She has trained with and is inspired by Indigenous Healers, Dr. Gabor Maté, Compassionate Inquiry, Somatic Experiencing, and is currently doing her master’s in counseling psychology. Curiosity and compassion are two of the main tools that she brings to this work.

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