Wanting to support others, questioning what she thought she knew, and tending to her own Inner Child

Dr. Monnica T. Williams is a board-certified licensed clinical psychologist and Professor at the University of Ottawa in the School of Psychology, where she is the Canada Research Chair in Mental Health Disparities. She is also the Clinical Director of the Behavioral Wellness Clinics in Connecticut and Ottawa, where she provides supervision and training to clinicians for empirically-supported treatments. In our conversation together, we sit down outside of the professional context and talk a bit about her personal journey towards psychedelics for healing, and how her relationship with these substances evolved into what has become an important part of her career unfolding. We talk about what she learned in that first journey in a well-supported clinical environment, and learn more about how her evolving dance with psychedelics has impacted not just her career path, but just as importantly, her relationship to herself. 

 

Shownotes

• Monnica's professional website: https://www.monnicawilliams.com/
• Monnica's upcoming retreat on Psychedelics and Racial Trauma in Mexico in November: https://www.mentalhealthdisparities.org/retreats.php
• Links to a few of the studies back in 2015 that opened her mind to the potential of psychedelics:
  • The safety and efficacy of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamineassisted psychotherapy in subjects with chronic, treatment-resistant posttraumatic stress disorder: the first randomized controlled pilot study
  • Durability of improvement in post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms and absence of harmful effects or drug dependency after 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine-assisted psychotherapy: a prospective long-term follow-up study

Monnica’s Social Media links: 

• X: @DrMonnica
• Instagram: @drmonnica
• LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/monnicawilliams

Trainings she offers: 

• http://www.racialtraumahealing.com/certification.php
• https://ebtrainingsolutions.com/event/2026-03-19/treating-racial-trauma-anti-racism
• https://bewellct.com/ketamine-retreat.php

Music credit: Music by Mass X Audio from Pixabay

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