PT395 – Kevin Cannella, LPC – Thank You Life: Accessibility, Fair Compensation, and Trusting Intuition
Psychedelics Today
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4.6 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, David interviews Kevin Cannella, LPC: MAPS-trained psychedelic psychotherapist and Co-Founder and Executive Director of Thank You Life, a nonprofit organization working to provide access to psychedelic therapy by eliminating its financial barriers.
Co-Founded by Dr. Dan Engle, Thank You Life is very new and still in the process of officially launching, having just obtained 501(c)(3) status in December and recently gaining its first corporate sponsor in Dr. Bronner's. The nonprofit came from the realization of just how expensive psychedelic-assisted therapy can be, and Cannella wondering: what if there was a fund practitioners could plug into when a patient couldn't pay? While access for the patient is obvious, this model benefits the practitioner as well, which is something not often discussed in the psychedelic space – we focus a lot on how much these services will cost the patient, but rarely on the practitioner deserving to be paid fairly for their time and expertise.
Cannella tells his story of immersion into a world of ayahuasca, yoga, and vipassana meditation; volunteering at the Temple of the Way of Light, living in Hawaii, then Brazil, and finally, landing at Naropa University, where his passions were finally validated. He discusses looking for signs and learning to trust intuition, ways to increase accessibility outside of a 501(c)(3) model, how it feels to be paid well for your work, and why he only wants to work with practitioners who offer therapy alongside their chosen substance.
Head to their website to donate to the Thank You Life fund, and follow them on socials for details on upcoming launch/fundraising events in April and May.
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| 1:47.6 | Hello, hello. Welcome to psychedelics today. David Drapkin here, your host in conversation today with Kevin Canella, a therapist trained by Maps, who is the co-founder and executive director of Thank You Life. You may not have heard of |
| 1:55.8 | Thank You Life and they're literally kind of launching this week this month. Very cool organization. Here's how they |
| 2:02.7 | describe themselves, a psychedelic therapy nonprofit organization with a mission of providing |
| 2:08.3 | access to all by eliminating the financial barriers to psychedelic therapy. And in my mind, |
| 2:14.5 | and you'll hear it soon, what they're doing is teaming up with clinics that meet certain ethical criteria, clinical criteria around America that are offering ketamine therapy and soon MDMA and psilocybin therapy. |
| 2:28.6 | And then subsidizing them to treat folks that have applied for sponsorship, for support in accessing local |
| 2:39.0 | treatment in their community. So I really like how they're matching that need to the folks |
| 2:44.3 | in that community that can really supply it. It's a great model and I assume they're accepting |
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