Using Psychedelic Therapy to Heal Intergenerational Racial Trauma with Dr. Joseph McCowan

Sean Lawlor

Joseph McCowan, Psy.D., licensed clinical psychologist and psychotherapist, wears many hats. He has spent the majority of the last decade working in nonprofit community mental health settings providing therapy to low-income folks living in subsidized housing, homeless shelters, or living on the street. He provides supervision to therapists aspiring to become licensed, and he recently spent a year volunteering with a charter school in South Los Angeles developing curriculum for high school students, mostly students of color, in a majority-minority neighborhood. Now, Joseph is working in Los Angeles as a co-therapist in the MAPS-sponsored Phase 3 clinical trials of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD... continue reading.