Psychedelic Medicine
Association
Psychedelic Medicine
Association
President, Psychedelic Medicine Association
Director of Women’s Programs, VETS Inc.
Breanna Crenshaw is a military spouse and Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a background in crisis stabilization, trauma-informed care, grief and loss counseling, and treating root vulnerabilities. Breanna has been in the mental health field since 2014 and began focusing her career on Veteran suicide prevention and innovative programming in 2021. Breanna has a passion for holistic healing and creating lasting change. Breanna is a 200hr Registered Yoga Teacher and enjoys involving somatic interventions in her clinical work. She lives at 8,000 feet in a small mountain neighborhood in Utah where she and her family enjoy solitude, nature, and outdoor activities.
President, Ketamine Taskforce Inc.
Capt. Kimberly Juroviesky is a disabled United States Air Force veteran, Certifed Nurse Midwife and Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner. She was injured on active duty and developed Complex Regional Pain Syndrome from her injury. She began getting treated with Ketamine infusions in January 2015 and it saved her life. She started a 501c3 organization called the Ketamine Taskforce when she realized there was a huge issue with patients especially those at increased risk of suicide such as veterans and first responders being unable to afford Ketamine treatment. Unfortunately the VA, Medicare, and insurance companies refuse to cover this life saving treatment. The insurance companies claim that it is an experimental or off label use of the medication. Kimberly is working through the Taskforce on getting insurances to cover Ketamine fully for both mental health and pain. She is also working to advocate for patients and make sure that everyone has access to this important medicine. She hopes that this will break the ground for insurance companies in the future to pay for treatments with all psychedelic medicines as they become legal and mainstream. Kimberly and the Taskforce also realized that some like veterans and first responders can’t wait for insurances to start paying so the Kimberly together with her husband is working to put together Ketamine retreats for veterans and first responders at little or no cost to those that need them through the new, Healing Our Heroes Foundation. Kimberly also realized that some people are scared to try Ketamine due to things they hear or read in the media. She is the author of Ketamine Infusions: A Patients Guide to educate patients on what to expect prior to treatment and reduce the fear. She also recently published her new book, Ketamine Journey’s: A Journal for Integration of Ketamine Experiences, both available on Amazon.
President, Heroic Hearts Project
Jesse Gould is a former Army Ranger and a pioneer in psychedelic therapies for veterans. As Founder and President of the Heroic Hearts Project, he has spearheaded the research and acceptance of ayahuasca, ibogaine, ketamine, and psilocybin therapy programs for military veterans. Jesse has connected hundreds of veterans to psychedelic treatments, partnered with the world’s leading psychedelic centers, and is researching psychiatric applications with the University of Georgia, the University of Texas, Austin Dell Medical School, and Imperial College of London. His mission is to help military veterans struggling with mental trauma and spread awareness of the benefits that psychedelic therapies offer as an alternative treatment to pharmaceuticals. Jesse has spoken globally about the benefits of psychedelics on mental health and has been featured in the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Economist, and Forbes and is recognized as one of the most influential voices in psychedelics today. To date Heroic Hearts Project has raised over $10 million dollars and has served over 1,500 veterans and military spouses through psychedelic therapies.
Chief Medical Officer at Novamind/Co-founder at Cedar Psychiatry
Dr. Reid Robison is a board-certified psychiatrist and Chief Medical Officer at Novamind. Reid is co-founder at Cedar Psychiatry and serves as Medical Director of Center for Change, a top Eating Disorder program. He is currently the coordinating investigator for the MAPS MDMA-assisted Psychotherapy study of Eating Disorders. Reid is adjunct faculty at the University of Utah, founder of the Polizzi Free Clinic, and provides medical support and psychedelic therapy at plant medicine retreats abroad.
Service members who have experienced combat, deployments, and intense training exercises often have a unique set of both mental and physical conditions stemming from their time in the military, and for which modern medicine has struggled to find solutions.
However, psychedelics such as ayahuasca, ibogaine, and 5-MeO-DMT, among others, are showing great promise for some of the conditions often faced by veterans, including PTSD and TBI.
As November is National Veteran and Military Families Month, we wanted to take a look at how these psychedelic medicines have been making an impact for many of our former servicemen and women and hear from those whose lives were so impacted that they made it their mission to help other veterans receive the same healing.
To answer those questions, we were honored to have panelists on this month’s webinar to cover:
…and much more!
As always, there will be ample time for audience Q&A, so you’ll get to interact with the panelists directly!
So please join us for this live panel discussion on Thursday, November 21st at 5 pm Pacific, 8 pm Eastern. This is exclusively for members of the Psychedelic Medicine Association, so if you have not yet registered, please do so here. And for members, please register for the panel here. A link to the recording will be available afterward if you cannot make it to the live event.
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