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PT259 – Dr. Devon Christie and Will Siu, MD, DPhil – The Mind-Body Connection, MDMA, and Chronic Pain

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Life Sciences, Science, Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.6598 Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2021

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Kyle interviews Dr. Devon Christie and Will Siu, MD, DPhil, co-investigators on a study investigating MDMA-assisted therapy for fibromyalgia. They talk the mind-body connection, fascia, somatics, and PTSD. 

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0:00.0

Hello, everybody. Welcome back to Psychedelics today. This is your host, Kyle Buller. And today on the show, I got the chat with Dr. Devin Christie and Dr. Will See You.

0:22.7

And today's topic, we're going to explore psychedelic assisted psychotherapy and specifically MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for fibrogyalgia.

0:31.6

And we also explore chronic pain.

0:33.9

So I'll read some of the bios here.

0:35.8

So Dr. Devin Christy MD is a clinical instructor with the UBC Department of Medicine and has a focus practice in chronic pain.

0:45.5

She is a registered counselor emphasizing in relational somatic therapy for trauma and a certified mindfulness-based stress reduction teacher and interpersonal mindfulness teacher.

0:56.3

She is trained to deliver both MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD, trained by MAPS, and then also ketamine-assisted psychotherapy.

1:05.1

She's passionate about educating future psychedelic therapists on trauma-informed relational somatic skills and is also the co-founder

1:13.1

of the psychedelic somatic psychotherapy training program. She also teaches for the California

1:19.3

Institute of Integral Studies, CIS, their certificate program in psychedelic therapy and research,

1:25.1

and the Integrative Psychiatry Institute certificate program

1:29.5

in psychedelic assisted therapy and the ONC foundational psychedelic therapy program.

1:37.4

Wow.

1:37.8

Really teaching a lot.

1:39.1

Very, very impressive here.

1:41.6

And she is also currently the principal investigator and study therapist for

1:45.9

a Canadian MAP-sponsored open label, Compassion, and Access Study investigating MDMA-assisted

1:51.9

psychotherapy for PTSD, and is also the co-investigator on a study investigating MDMA-assisted

1:58.1

psychotherapy for fibromyalgia.

2:06.0

Devin is a recognized speaker, an expert on the potential for incorporating psychedelic assisted therapies in an improved healthcare model for the future and is the medical and

2:11.3

therapeutic service director with Numinous Wellness.

2:15.1

Awesome.

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