VIDEO: Doing Therapy with MDMA

A Chat with Pioneer Marcela Ot'alora G.

EDITOR’S NOTE: This interview streamed live on September 13, 2018. Some offers and links may no longer be available.

Marcela Ot’alora G. is accustomed to treating trauma in her private practice. She’s also an investigator of an MDMA-assisted psychotherapy research project. From this dual vantage point, she offers her take on the difference the drug makes in her experience as a healer.

Lauren Dockett

Lauren Dockett, MS, is the senior writer at Psychotherapy Networker. A longtime journalist, journalism lecturer, and book and magazine editor, she’s also a former caseworker taken with the complexity of mental health, who finds the ongoing evolution of the therapy field and its broadening reach an engrossing story. Prior to the Networker, she contributed to many outlets, including The Washington Post, NPR, and Salon. Her books include Facing 30, Sex Talk, and The Deepest Blue. Visit her website at laurendockett.com.