OAKLAND, Calif., Nov. 15, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Sage Institute for Psychedelic Therapy, a 501(c) 3 non-profit which gives high-quality coaching and accessible psychedelic remedy to underserved communities, immediately introduced it has modified its identify. Effective instantly, the group would be the Alchemy Community Therapy Center.
“Often associated with the magical process of converting base metals to gold, alchemy happens when elements are combined and transformed into new elements,” stated Dr. Deidra Somerville, Ph.D., MSW, the group’s govt director. Somerville was named govt director in April 2022 and has been targeted on constructing and strengthening the group since her arrival. “The name ‘Alchemy’ was a perfect fit because we are creating something unique and precious.”
Somerville continued, “The renaming process was itself a living embodiment of our community-oriented mission with everyone participating and contributing.”
The newly renamed group gives accessible psychedelic remedy to underserved populations. Most shoppers establish as Black, Indigenous, or folks of shade, queer, transgender or gender nonconforming, and are low revenue and underinsured. The mission is to offer high-quality coaching and applications, accessible psychedelic remedy, and modern analysis, fostering efficient and culturally responsive psychological well being remedy. Alchemy additionally trains the subsequent technology of numerous clinicians and leaders within the discipline of psychedelic drugs.
“We recognize that our work to remove barriers to access and improve equity within the field of psychedelic assisted therapy and training is occurring before many of the systems to support our work, such as adequate insurance reimbursement for care, or financial support for practitioners from diverse backgrounds seeking training, are in place,” stated Somerville. “Our donors, funders and volunteers are on this journey with us. We are grateful for their partnership and support as we embark on this journey together as Alchemy.”
Later this yr, the group’s new identify and branding shall be added to its constructing. Other launch plans embrace a group mixer to mark this new chapter, excursions of the workplace area, scientific alternatives for licensed suppliers, and group remedy choices to proceed rising accessibility of companies.
As this new chapter begins, Alchemy want to acknowledge the numerous people and organizations which have supported their imaginative and prescient since opening in 2019. In explicit, we wish to give particular due to Sage Integrative Health (sageintegrativehealth.org), a Bay Area clinic specializing in integrative well being and psychedelic remedy. Sage Integrative Health was a key contributor within the improvement of Sage Institute’s authentic imaginative and prescient, mission, and model, and performed an integral position in growing the programs, protocols, curriculum, and coaching that Sage Institute has constructed on since its founding. The workforce at Alchemy appears ahead to persevering with to develop from that legacy because it strikes ahead below its new identify.
About Alchemy
The Alchemy Community Therapy Center is a sliding scale clinic that provides psychotherapy and psychedelic-assisted remedy (because it turns into authorized) to underserved communities within the Bay Area. The precedence is to supply prime quality, accessible and culturally delicate companies to people from a range of backgrounds, cultures and lived experiences. Alchemy is a coaching clinic, offering rigorous instructional programming in depth-oriented psychedelic-assisted remedy via a community-focused, social justice and trauma-informed lens. The group locations an emphasis on coaching clinicians who mirror the various identities of the communities it serves. For extra info, go to alchemytherapy.org
