Brian D. Richards, Psy.D., completed a Master’s degree in Existential-Phenomenological Psychology at Duquesne University, a Psy.D. at the University of Denver School for Professional Psychology, and a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Johns Hopkins Behavioral Pharmacology Research Unit (now the Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research), where he contributed to some of the original research administering psilocybin with cancer patients and healthy normal adults. Dr. Richards was formerly a Clinical Director with MedOptions, once the largest behavioral health provider in the United States. He now cares for patients with a cancer diagnosis at Maryland Oncology Hematology, The Aquilino Cancer Center, has worked on clinical trials with LSD, psilocybin, and MDMA. Dr. Richards also teaches and mentors students at the California Institute for Integral Studies, the leading Psychedelic Medicine Certificate Program worldwide. He is a Subject Matter Expert on Psilocybin with the Board of Psychedelic Medicine and Therapies, and has worked with BrainFutures on Coding and Reimbursement for Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy. He currently serves on the Advisory Board of field innovators AURA-CE and Sabba.

Dr. Richards was a Lead Psychologist on an innovative, simultaneous group administration high- dose psilocybin trial with cancer patients at the Bill Richards Center for Healing in Rockville, Maryland; a cutting-edge, purpose-built psychedelic medicine clinic—located in a busy outpatient oncology center. It is the first of its kind in the world, and may serve as a prototype for future clinics nationwide.

Dr. Richards’ clinical and research interests include meaning-centered psychotherapy, mystical experience, brain science-based approaches to vibrant health and wellness, and working with treatment refractory patients. He finds joy and meaning practicing yoga, gourmet cooking, working in nature, growing medicinal mushrooms, and caring for the natural world.

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Introduction to the art & science of psilocybin therapy