Gita Vaid | “Healing and Transformation: Psychedelic Psychotherapy – A New Frontier”

Dr. Vaid will describe how psychedelic medicines can be used within a psychotherapeutic context to catalyze transformation, self-actualization and growth.
Ketamine’s unique signature and subjective experience will be described along with its implications and impact on the therapeutic encounter. The expanded role and function of the psychotherapist will be examined and discussed. Clinical vignettes will be presented to illustrate the concepts presented.

____

Dr. Gita Vaid is a Board Certified Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst practicing in New York City. Dr Vaid completed her residency training at NYU Medical Center and her psychoanalytic training at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Education affiliated with NYU. Her early biological and research background includes a completed fellowship in clinical psychopharmacology and neurophysiology at New York Medical College and a research fellowship at NYU Medical Center.
Gita serves as the International Course Director for Mind Medicine Australia’s Certificate in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies Training Program.
She is a leader in ketamine assisted psychotherapy which she practices in New York City.  She serves as a lead instructor at The Ketamine Training Center with psychedelic psychotherapy pioneer, Dr. Phil Wolfson.
Gita serves as the Director of Psychedelic Awareness and Consciousness research at The Chopra Foundation.
She is a co-founder of the Center for Natural Intelligence — a multidisciplinary laboratory dedicated to psychedelic psychotherapy innovation and research.

Please note: Tickets are non-refundable. You will receive an automated email with the event zoom link immediately after booking, please keep the email accessible for the day. We will make the recording available for ticket holders the Monday week after the event and it will remain available to watch for two weeks after.