Elowyn Samadhi, PhD

Dr. Elowyn Samadhi (she/they) is a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice in San Diego and at Sage Integrative Health, a holistic psychedelic clinic in the Bay. She specializes in the assessment and treatment of trauma, PTSD, and anxiety and depression-related disorders. Dr. Samadhi earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Suffolk University in Boston, Massachusetts, completed her clinical residency at the San Francisco VA Hospital, an advanced postdoctoral research fellowship in PTSD at the San Francisco VA Hospital and UCSF Department of Psychiatry, and an additional research fellowship in PTSD in the UCSD Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Samadhi served as Chair for the Moral Injury special interest group for the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS) for 4 years. She worked as an independent contractor doing diagnostic assessments for the Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD phase 2 and 3 clinical trials for 4 years. Dr. Samadhi completed Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy training with Polaris Insight and the MAPS MDMA-Assisted Therapy training program. She is trained and serves as a psilocybin therapist on the UCSD randomized controlled trial for phantom limb pain. Dr. Samadhi completed the yearlong UC-Berkeley Advanced Psychedelic Facilitation Training Program and is a certified psilocybin facilitator. She is also in her second (Intermediate) of three years of training to become a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner.