Dr. Monnica T. Williams: Decolonizing Psychedelic Research and Mental Health
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Dr Monnica Williams is a clinical psychologist and professor at the University of Ottawa, leading pioneering research on race-based trauma, cultural competence, and inclusivity in psychedelic-assisted therapy.
For decades, mainstream psychology, and now the psychedelic renaissance, has excluded people of colour from research, design, and leadership. This perpetuates racial trauma and replicates systemic inequity in spaces meant to heal.
Through her Mental Health Disparities Lab, Dr Williams develops trauma-informed, culturally grounded frameworks that ensure psychedelic therapy supports everyone, not just the privileged few. She is shaping how inclusion, ethics, and community accountability become foundational to the next era of healing.
Her work embodies emergence through relational intelligence and systemic repair—healing trauma at both individual and collective levels.
As psychedelic medicine moves toward legalisation, her leadership ensures that access and safety evolve alongside science. Her work grounds the psychedelic field in justice, belonging, and truth.
The New Earth Vision
Williams envisions mental-health systems rooted in cultural humility and collective care—where ancestral wisdom, science, and social repair coexist.
Dr. Monnica Williams is the kind of leader we want to be in Circle with—visionaries ensuring that the medicine of the future heals the wounds of the past.
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