Welcome to the Trauma Therapist podcast.

My name is Guy McPherson.

I interview incredible people who've dedicated their lives to helping those who've been impacted by trauma.

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Super excited today to have us my guest, Sharon Neve.

Sharon, welcome. Thank you, guys. So good to be with you. Awesome. Sharon is the co-founder of Joyous PBC, an AI-powered platform focused on making mental health treatment affordable and accessible.

A cognitive psychologist,

she has led the development of patient programs and created joyous for therapists, a collaboration tool designed to support clinicians. Her work centers on the psychedelic ketamine approach

for trauma treatment, a low-risk method with negligible psychiatric or medical emergency rates.

Because low-dose ketamine produces partial dissociation, clients stay oriented while gaining

enough psychological distance to work directly with trauma targets.

Arsaron, obviously just a little bit about you, but share with our listeners for we

get going here, where you're from originally and where you are currently. Yeah, absolutely. I actually grew up in Israel,

a place with a lot of trauma and surrounding neighbors, a lot of trauma as well. So it's certainly,

and you know, a lot of Holocaust trauma within the country, the echoes of what it means

to live in this world have always been really deeply felt.

I moved to California as a young child, seven and a half years old, and spent most of my

life in California, a little bit of New York, a little bit in Tel Aviv. But I studied, in graduate school I studied both clinical and cognitive psychology.

I didn't go on to do a clinical licensure, so I am a cognitive psychologist, not a licensed clinician at this time.

But the question of how to scale well-being, healing technologies has been on my mind for a long time.

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