Melissa Whippo

Melissa is a psychedelic psychotherapist, lead trainer, writer, researcher and founder of Deva Collective, a nonprofit with fiscal sponsorship from MAPS that is focused on the intersection between women’s health and psychedelics. She has taught at the UCSF School of Medicine and at various psychedelic psychotherapy trainings. Her writing has been featured in the Washington Post, Glamour Magazine and scholarly journals such as Frontiers in Psychiatry and the Journal of Psychoactive Drugs. She is also a certified yoga instructor with a combined clinical experience that spans over two decades.