Skylight Psychedelics

Dr. Dana Lerman received her M.D. at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, in New York. She completed Internal Medicine residency at The Mount Sinai Hospital and fellowship in Infectious Disease at The Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Lerman is board certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Disease. She has worked as an infectious disease consultant all over the United States for over ten years. Dr. Lerman was the founder of The COVID Consultants, a national COVID-19 consulting and testing firm. During the pandemic she identified herself as a wounded healer and began her own mental wellness journey which led her to an ayahuasca retreat in Costa Rica. Since this time Dr. Lerman’s passions have shifted focus and she has since received training and certification in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy from the Integrative Psychiatry Institute (IPI) in Boulder, Colorado. Dr. Lerman is in MAPS training via IPI. She has received further training in trauma via PESI, Internal Family Systems via the IFS Institute, and Ecotherapy with the Earth Body Institute. She volunteers with Zendo Project trip sitting at Burning Man. Her prior personal history of psychedelic use, including work with ketamine, psilocybin, LSD, 5-MeO-DMT, Ayahuasca and DMT and other purgatives such as Kambo, affords her the unique ability to know first hand what clients may be experiencing. Dr. Lerman treats patients at the Skylight Journey Center in Evergreen, CO

Dr. Elizabeth Wolfson’s professional background includes leadership positions within corporations, organizations and in academia while also teaching, facilitating groups and retreats as well as private practice psychotherapy. Most recently, she served as Vice President of Clinical Services for Field Trip Health, an international Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy company. Prior to that, she was faculty and Chair of Antioch University Santa Barbara’s Clinical Psychology Graduate Program where she developed and directed programs in Healthy Aging, Somatic Psychotherapy, and Leadership. She previously taught at Columbia University School of Social Work. In her role as Clinical Director within mental health settings, she designed award-winning diversity initiatives and was project associate on two documentary films screened in international film festivals. In 2020 she completed Certifications in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy and Research at California Institute of Integral Studies, MDMA Therapy Training through the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) and Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy through the Ketamine Training Center. Additionally, she is trained and certified in Embodied Leadership and in Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy. Dr. Wolfson has published and presented on Psychedelic-Supportive Psychotherapy, Ketamine-Assisted Therapy, creativity, intimate relationship, psychotherapeutic processes, trauma, gender, creativity, empowerment, and healthy aging. Dr. Wolfson has also been Organizational Consultant to Pacifica Graduate Institute, is co-founder of two non-profit organizations, and served as Vice President of Professional Development on the Board of the NASW, Santa Barbara Chapter and as VP of Special Projects for the Board of Directors of Santa Barbara California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists. As a psychotherapist in Santa Barbara, California, Dr. Wolfson draws from a holistic, person-centered, integrative psychotherapeutic approach which might include Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy and/or Psychedelic-Supportive Psychotherapy to facilitate personal, interpersonal, and professional well-being, life transitions, empowerment, and creativity. Additionally, she provides executive coaching and organizational consultation, and facilitates workshops and retreats supporting personal and professional growth, creativity, and self-actualization.

Kevin Franciotti, MA, LAC is a Denver-based addiction counselor and clinical psychotherapist with over 15 years’ experience in community mental health, harm reduction, and direct service work. Throughout Kevin’s academic education and training, first at Northeastern University, where he completed a BS in Behavioral Neuroscience, and later an MA in Psychology, with a Concentration in Mental Health and Substance Abuse Counseling from The New School, he was involved in research, advocacy, education, and policy reform efforts around cannabis, psychedelics, and mental health, and hosted and co-sponsored an international ibogaine conference in 2009. He has published his lived experience in a variety of popular media outlets such as VICE and New Scientist magazine, co-authored a peer-reviewed paper in the Journal of Psychopharmacology, and presented his work at conferences including Psychedelic Science, International Drug Policy Reform, Students for Sensible Drug Policy, Harm Reduction International, and the Association for Psychological Science. In 2021, Kevin received a scholarship through the Usona Institute to complete training with the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies in MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy for PTSD, and is currently a Cohort Integration Leader for the Naropa University Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies Graduate Certificate Program. Kevin’s passion for working with non-ordinary states of consciousness for transformational and psycho-spiritual healing brings him to the Skylight Psychedelics team to facilitate ketamine-assisted therapy with individuals and groups, as well as experiential training opportunities for professionals.

Dr. Stacey Cohen-Meissner received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, with honors, from Hofstra University. She is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Honors Society, the American Psychological Association, and the New Jersey Psychological Association. She is trained in advanced Cognitive-Behavioral techniques to assist her clients in realizing their best selves and lives. She has also received training in Internal Family Systems Therapy and Integration therapy via PESI, which she incorporates into her practice. Dr. Cohen-Meissner has received her Certification in Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy, via Skylight Psychedelics, which is an exciting addition to her practice and one she is passionate about. She has been an expert commentator on the Dr. Oz show and has provided workshops for the Yankees Baseball team during the Pandemic. Dr. Cohen-Meissner views herself as a Clinician, Life Coach, and Supporter in moving her clients toward a life with more productivity, more joy, and less emotional distress. Offices in Tenafly, N.J. and NYC

For the past 20 years, I have specialized in helping individuals deal with life issues ranging from relationship obstacles and career challenges, to life transitions, family matters, and self-esteem issues. As a psychotherapist and board-certified, licensed clinical social worker in full-time private practice, I received a Master’s Degree in Social Work at Columbia University, and have a Certificate in Adult Psychodynamic Psychotherapy from NYU’s Institute for Psychoanalytic Education. I received a BS in commerce from the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia. Prior to starting my own practice, I was a part of Park West Associates, a psychotherapy practice specializing in substance abuse, and worked for more than a decade at Bellevue Hospital in the outpatient psychiatry department. I was a long-time member of the board of directors of the New York City Chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, and I often work with families who have a mentally ill family member and help them to manage their family member’s illness.

Suhadee (Su) Henriquez, LCSW, is a LatinX bilingual multi-state Licensed Clinical Social Worker/ Psychotherapist and retired commercial Airline Flight Attendant with 14 years of psychotherapy experience and over 24 years of global flying experience, encountering and interacting with a large diversity of multicultural populations. Su is a Diplomat of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy (CBT) and has provided lecturers in numerous countries in her expertise and supervised clinician fields. She currently maintains a private psychotherapy practice (Multicultural CBT-DBT, LLC. / The Flying Psychotherapist) in New York City and consults worldwide about Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion. Su specializes in helping clients in many professional areas including c-suite, attorneys at law, hedge fund managers & financial executives, who are experiencing anxiety, depression disorders, mood disorders, and personality disorders, as well as the reintegration back to work after COVID-19. Su has extensive expertise in helping those struggling with racism, diversity, and how to learn about their own microaggression, in addition to helping those with relationship difficulties, substance abuse, addiction and recovery, perfectionism, procrastination, imposter syndrome, eating disorder, suicidal and non-suicidal self-injurious behaviors. She has vast experience working with individuals from multicultural backgrounds and the LGBT community. Su is intensively trained in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), a treatment that combines standard cognitive-behavioral techniques for emotion regulation and reality-testing with concepts of distress tolerance, acceptance, and mindful awareness. Su has been directly trained by Dr. Edna Foa, the architect and creator of Prolonged Exposure (PE), an evidence-based treatment model for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and Melanie Harned, Ph.D., creator of DBT for PTSD. In addition, she is experienced in providing Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy (CBASP) for chronic depression, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Family Connections and life skills (addressing problems associated with life stages, e.g. career, college, etc.)