Dr Ingrid Pacey MBBS, FRCP(C) is a retired psychiatrist whose work in private practice for nearly 50 years became focussed on working with women trauma survivors, PTSD and complex PTSD, most often from early sexual abuse. She has worked with many modalities of psychotherapy including long-term psychotherapy, EMDR, bioenergetics, art therapy, group therapy.
She began working with expanded states of consciousness after training with Dr Stan Grof and Christina Grof 1987-1990 in Holotropic Breathwork. She ran Holotropic Breathwork groups for the next 15 years and saw the benefits of adding this dimension to trauma therapy.
Starting in 2009 she was instrumental in bringing the MAPS research trial into MDMA assisted psychotherapy for PTSD to Vancouver . This phase 2 study ran from 2013-2016, showing positive outcomes.
She joined TheraPsil in 2021 as a trainer, first training therapists in psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy and in 2024 started MDMA-assisted psychotherapy training . She mentors and supervises therapists in this work.
She is a member of Grof Legacy Training and teaches about Holotropic Breathwork in her trainings with TheraPsil.
Check out Ingrid's upcoming training offerings here.
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