Psychedelics & Gender Identity: Research, Acceptance, and the Space to Become - Talk and Q&A with Rafaelle Lancelotta

Despite the surge of interest in psychedelic-assisted therapy over the past decade, transgender, nonbinary, and gender-expansive people have remained largely absent from psychedelic research and the questions most relevant to their lives have gone largely unasked.

In this talk, Rafaelle Lancelotta, a clinician-researcher and PhD candidate at Ohio State University's Center for Psychedelic Drug Research and Education, presents emerging research on how psychedelics may support gender identity exploration, self-acceptance, and mental health in LGBTQIA+ communities. Drawing on both quantitative survey data and qualitative interviews with transgender and gender-expansive psychedelic users, this work points toward something the clinical literature has been slow to take seriously: that psychedelics may offer people a profound and sometimes irreplaceable space to encounter who they truly are.

The talk will explore what the research does and doesn't tell us, what it means to hold that space ethically and with cultural humility, and why the freedom to explore one's own truth without a predetermined destination may be as important as any therapeutic outcome.

Followed by open discussion with the audience.

About Rafaella Lancelotta

Rafaelle Lancelotta, MS, LPCC, is a clinician-researcher and PhD Candidate in Social Work Research at Ohio State University's Center for Psychedelic Drug Research and Education. With over 25 peer-reviewed publications, her work focuses on psychedelic experiences in marginalized communities, extrapharmacological factors in psychedelic-assisted therapy, and the intersection of identity, mental health, and healing. She has clinical trial experience on psilocybin studies and maintains a private therapy practice. As a transfemme researcher, she brings both scholarly and personal investment to questions about how psychedelic science can better serve gender-expansive people.
 

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