Exploring Emerging Therapies: The Role of Psychedelic-Assisted Treatments in Mental Healthcare
Psychedelic-assisted therapy is emerging as a promising treatment for mental illness in Australia, following TGA’s 2023 rescheduling of MDMA and psilocybin. Backed by research and training programs like CPAT™, this approach supports those with treatment-resistant conditions.
Music During Psychedelic Experiences
Music provides nonverbal support during psychedelic sessions, guiding the journey and deepening therapeutic impact. Structured, wordless music helps access inner experiences, while lyrics and silence can disrupt immersion. A well-curated playlist supports safety, surrender, and integration.
Exploring Emerging Therapies: Understanding the Role of Psychedelic-Assisted Treatments in Mental Healthcare
Psychedelic-assisted therapies are transforming mental health care in Australia. Backed by research and now available through approved clinics, treatments with psilocybin and MDMA offer new hope for those with depression, PTSD, and more. Learn how Mind Medicine Australia is leading the way.
Mind Medicine Australia’s Achievements in the First Six Years
A look at our key achievements from the past six years—reshaping mental health care, training clinicians, changing policy, and expanding access to psychedelic-assisted therapies in Australia.
Your Mind Matters: The Power of Good Mental Health in Living Your Best Life
Mental health isn’t a fleeting feeling or mood, it's the foundation of how we think, feel, connect with others and move through each day. When our mental health is strong, we cope better, we build healthier relationships, and we show up more fully in everyday life.
Healthier Mind, A Happier You: How to Improve Your Mental Wellness
Mental health challenges affect many Australians. According to the National Study of Mental Health and Wellbeing (2020-2022), approximately 43% of Australians aged 16 to 85 have experienced a mental disorder at some point in their lives, and about 22% have experienced one in the past year.
Integration Experience Filled with Love, Compassion and Harmony with Dr Bessel van der Kolk and Licia Sky, hosted by Mind Medicine Australia
One of our CPAT graduates reflects on a recent workshop with Dr Bessel van der Kolk and Licia Sky, hosted by Mind Medicine Australia.
Mind Medicine Australia’s First Six Years: Progress and Achievements
In our first six years, we have made remarkable progress in growing public awareness of and creating access pathways for Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies in Australia.
FDA Decides Not to Register MDMA as a Medicine in the United States Pending Receipt of Further Data
As many will have seen, the FDA in the United States announced on Friday that it has rejected the MAPS registration application for MDMA when used as part of therapy.
MDMA as a Medicine. Responding to the Views of the FDA’s Advisory Panel.
The recent rejection of MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD by the FDA Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee (AdCom) was surprising to many working in the field of mental illness.
Ben Sessa to Step Aside
We have been informed today that Dr. Ben Sessa has been summoned to appear before the General Medical Council’s (GMC) Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) in the UK regarding alleged misconduct. The hearing is scheduled to commence on February 29, 2024. Dr. Sessa has stepped aside from his
New Horizons in Healing: Psychedelic-Assisted therapies’s Bold Leap Forward
On January 19, 2024, the landscape of mental health care was changed forever. In an unprecedented move, MDMA was given to a patient not as part of a trial but as a prescribed treatment.
Top Takeaways from Mind Medicine Australia’s Psychedelic Public Lecture with Dr. Ben Sessa
A full hall gathered at St Kilda Town Hall to hear Dr. Ben Sessa present a lecture on Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies: The New Frontier in Mental Health Treatments.
Grateful for the Dead
The life and legacy of the late, great Augustus Owsley Stanley III. Why he was a key figure in the 1960’s counterculture movement, and responsible for ultimately altering the collective consciousness of a generation.
A Pioneering Step for Mental Health: Australia Leads the World in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies
On February 3rd this year, Australia made history by becoming a world leader in psychedelic-assisted therapies, thanks to the unwavering support from people like you. July 1st marks the date these substances will be rescheduled for strictly controlled use in clinical settings, a decision that will l
Reaction to the Health Report
David Heilpern - Dean of Law at Southern Cross University and a magistrate for over 20 years - writes his response to Norman Swan's interview with Susan Rossell on the ABC's Health Report.
Returning to Our Roots
Australia, we did it. The first country to formally recognise psychedelics as medicines. Which of course, is what they were and always have been. The decision to criminalise the use of psychedelics is only a recent memory.
Protected: How Psilocybin Saved My Life
I am a Mental Health and Addictions counselor currently finishing my Master’s Degree. I also have a degree in Microbiology from Paris France. In 2017, I suffered a severe depression after the deaths of my mother, my grandmother, a relationship breakdown and the euthanasia of my beloved dog...
WOW! WHAT A DAY – FRANCO’S LEGACY
Wow, today I received the news that, from July 1st 2023, the TGA have authorised the therapeutic access to Psilocybin and MDMA for those living with treatment-resistant Depression and PTSD. A huge amount of emotion is running through me.
Psychedelic Healing Stories from Australia: Juleane’s Experiences with 5-MEO-DMT
In this blog series, we are sharing some of the healing stories from our recent book: Psychedelic Healing Stories from Australia. In this blog, we share the story of Juleane and her experiences with 5-MEO-DMT.