A running list of specialists around the world who could help with your HPPD.
Screened psychiatrists, psychotherapists and counselors with previous experience and expertise in helping those struggling with HPPD.
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Dr. Tomislav Majić - Berlin-based psychedelic specialist
Berlin-based Senior Physician and Psychiatrist: Head of Psychotropic Substances Research Group, St. Hedwig-Krankenhaus, The Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin. Available for virtual consultations.
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Dr. Gerard Alderliefste - Amsterdam-based HPPD specialist
Gerard is the Netherlands’ leading authority on the clinical treatment of HPPD, VSS, and drug-induced depersonalization. A physician specialist in drug- and addiction-related disorders, Gerard runs an outpatient HPPD clinic in Amsterdam. He is also a professional musician.
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Dr. Stephen Locke - Boston, MA-based HPPD Specialist
Steven Locke, MD, is a Cornell- and Harvard-trained psychiatrist. One of the US’ leading authorities in HPPD and related conditions like Visual Snow Syndrome (VSS), Steven offers a mixture of traditional psychiatry, telecoaching, behavioural therapy, and wellness coaching to help those in distress. He also offers virtual consultations.
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Professor Harry McConnell - Brisbane, Australia-based neuropsychiatrist
Harry is a Professor of Neuropsychiatry and Neurodisability at Griffith University in South East Queensland. As well as working on the Foundation’s neuroimaging study via Macquarie University, he heads up I-CAN!, or the Institute for the Clinical Advancement of Neuroplasticity, and has worked for decades in helping patients recover from neurological problems like epilepsy and brain injuries. Harry also runs a private psychiatric practice and has treated patients with HPPD.
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Professor Dominic Ffytche - London-based visual psychiatrist
Dominic is the UK’s leading clinical and academic authority on HPPD. He’s a Professor of Visual Psychiatry at King’s College, London and Lead Consultant Psychiatrist to the Visual Perceptual Disorder clinic at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, a national specialist service for patients with visual hallucinations.
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Dr. Ximena Sanchez-Samper, MD - MA-based psychiatrist and addiction specialist
Ximena is a Harvard-trained psychiatrist who specializes in the treatment of addiction and substance-related mental health complications, including HPPD. Ximena is the Medical Director of Spring Hill Recovery Center, and features in the PRF’s documentary as an HPPD expert.
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Sara Ouimette - CA-based psychotherapist
Sara is a licensed psychotherapist whose approach is rooted in transpersonal and depth psychology. She is experienced in helping those with HPPD and other complexities arising from psychedelic experience, and places emphasis on the necessity of integration for continued growth and recovery. She is available for remote therapy.
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Annie Dolle - Portland, OR-based psychotherapist
Annie is a licensed psychotherapist with experience in helping those troubled by HPPD and depersonalization/derealization (DP/DR). Her trauma- and body-centred approach makes use of mindfulness, EMDR, psychedelic integration, and the Hakomi Method, which uses felt experience as a route to changing the core beliefs underlying our behaviors.
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Dr. Laurie Maddox, PhD - FL-based clinical psychologist and psychotherapist
Laurie is a licensed psychotherapist and clinical psychologist. She has a therapeutic specialism in psychedelic experience and pre- and post-session integration, and has worked with HPPD patients to resolve their distress. Laurie’s approach is informed by transpersonal, Buddhist and Jungian psychologies.
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Dr. Wesley Ryan, MD - LA-based psychiatrist and psychotherapist
Wesley is a board-certified psychiatrist and addiction specialist. He completed his psychiatry residency at the UCLA-San Fernando Valley Program and an addiction psychiatry fellowship at the University of Washington. With rich clinical experience working with HPPD patients, Wesley is also an informed psychedelic integration practitioner and a published authority on the therapeutic effects of ketamine.
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Carol Gilson - Austin, TX-based psychotherapist
Carol is a trained, HPPD-informed psychotherapist with roots in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) and Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT). She is an experienced psychedelic practitioner through her work in ketamine-assisted therapy.
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Richard Jones - UK-based psychedelic-informed therapist
Richard is a registered member of the British Association of Counselling Practitioners (MBACP) and an accredited member of UKCP (United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy). He has over ten years in mental health settings and maintains particular specialism in psychedelic integration.
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Dr. Gail Serruya - Philadelphia-based psychiatrist
Dr. Serruya has extensive training in both traditional psychodynamic therapy as well as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). With a particular specialism in CBT for psychosis, Dr. Serruya is a psychedelically-informed practitioner providing ketamine infusion therapy.
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Dr. Bjørn Holmøy
Bjørn is a Norwegian psychologist working in public health care and Psykolyse, a clinic specializing on psychedelic integration therapy. He has experience working with most forms of mental distress, and is involved in research on psychedelic psychotherapy as well as adverse reactions. He is informed on HPPD, depersonalization and derealization after psychedelic use in particular. Bjørn works through integrative psychotherapy principles, with expertise in EMDR, clinical hypnosis and Acceptance and Commitment therapy (ACT).
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Dr. Thomas Knuijver
Thomas has been working as an addiction physician since 2013 in a clinical setting as well as teaching. In 2015 he started clinical treatment of patients with opioid addiction with ibogaine. He works at IrisZorg and RadboudUMC, a teaching hospital in the Netherlands. Thomas has treated a number of people with HPPD, including one who developed the condition through ibogaine treatment for opioid addiction. Thomas is available for virtual consultations.