FREE Webinar: From Research to Practice: A Journey into Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies and Emerging Career Paths

Stephen Proud is a psychiatrist in private practice in regional WA with 45 years’ experience in medicine and 25 years as a psychiatrist. He has 3 sons. He has worked as a GP in rural WA, Perth and rural Zululand South Africa. He has taught GPs and psychiatric registrars for many years in Perth. He has built and run two psychiatric hospitals, one in Perth and the other an innovative rural retreat where patients lived for a month to undergo extensive psychotherapy, meditation and community living.

He has a long interest in spirituality and psychotherapy, starting with psychedelics in the 1970s, going onto humanistic psychology in California, Vipassana, The Rajneesh Ashram in India and then experience with traditional healers and Sangomas in rural Zululand. He runs meditation and psychotherapy retreats and is Monash MAPS trained in MDMA assisted therapies. He is currently involved in an MDMA trial for PTSD in Perth.

Stephen extols cooperation and is open to all groups promoting safe and sensible Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies.

Clinical Director in Centre for Psychedelic Research & Clinical Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry at Imperial College London. Dr. David Erritzoe is a psychiatrist and neuroscientist. He holds a Clinical Senior Lectureship (i.e. Assistant Professorship) in General Psychiatry in the Centres for Neuropsychopharmacology and Psychedelic Research at Imperial College London and CNWL Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. Following training in neuroreceptor PET imaging at Columbia University in New York in 2002/03, he undertook a PhD at University Hospital Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen. Since moving to Imperial College in 2009 he has been conductingand overseeing clinical and neuroimaging trials (using PET, MRI, and EEG) into affective disorders and addiction. David is the Clinical Director of Imperial’s Centre for Psychedelic Research. Since early 2021 he has also headed up a new NHS-based research clinic at St Charles Hospital, the CIPPRes Clinic. He is topic lead in Psychiatry at Imperial College London’s Medical School, whilst also lecturing in MSc and BSc neuroscience programs. He has authored more than 110 peer-reviewed scientific papers and 4 book chapters.

Reece Flowers is a psychologist with a passion for guiding people through meaningful change. His career began in environmental advocacy and renewable energy, where he worked to address climate change before a shift into psychological science deepened his focus on human growth and transformation. Reece has worked across diverse settings, Including facilitating Dialectical Behaviour Therapy groups and delivering individual therapy. He now performs clinical research in psychedelic-assisted therapy.

With a predisposition for warmth and empathy, Reece helps clients navigate challenges such as depression, anxiety, trauma, and life transitions. He integrates evidence-based approaches with a strong interest in the emerging potential of psychedelic-assisted therapies, combining scientific knowledge with a deep respect for the nuances of everyone’s unique human experience.

Reece is committed to making psychological support more accessible through both individual therapy and broader community initiatives, empowering people to reconnect with themselves, their community, their values, and their capacity to thrive. Reece is a Graduate of Mind Medicine Australia’s Certificate in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies.

Trudi Hayes lives on Gumbaynggirr Country at Missabotti. She is a mother of two children and is an accredited Mental Health Social Worker by trade. Trudi has worked in community development for the past 25 years and currently works in private practice, as a facilitator in workshops, trainings and retreat using Somatic processing, Breath Medicine and Kinesiology. Trudi believes that through working with the body, we can move patterns of behaviour that no longer serve us, achieving a sense of freedom and supporting connection with self, others and the natural world.

Scott Edwards is the Joint General Manager of the Mind Medicine Australia Clinic. Previously he was Executive Officer of Mind Medicine Australia delivering the organisation’s Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Training & Education program, including its world-leading Certificate in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies program. He also worked on the strategy and implementation of MMA’s successful advocacy initiative to reschedule MDMA and psilocybin.

He has been working in adult education for over 15 years, designing and implementing programs in the music and healthcare fields. In addition, he is a somatic facilitator and breathwork practitioner, working with a variety of techniques to support and integrate expanded states of awareness for therapeutic outcomes. He is the co-founder of Breath Medicine.