Dr. Rosalind Watts on mechanisms of psychedelic therapy: acceptance, connection, and embodiment | Living Mirrors #102

Rosalind Watts is a clinical psychologist working on psychedelic therapy.  She has worked as the Clinical Lead for Imperial College London’s pioneering trial of psilocybin for depression and now works as the Clinical Director at Synthesis Institute, a psilocybin retreat in the Netherlands.  Dr Watts’s research focuses primarily on the mechanisms of psychedelic therapy, where she has explored the importance of acceptance, connection, and embodiment, which make up her ACE model of psychedelic integration.  She has recently launched the ACER Integration community, an approach to psychedelic integration with a strong focus on nature connectedness.