Cassandra Vieten

Cassandra Vieten, PhD is a university professor, licensed clinical psychologist, mind-body medicine researcher, and internationally recognized workshop leader and public speaker. She is Director of Research at the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination at UCSD, and works at the Centers for Integrative Health at the University of California, San Diego, where she serves as the Director of the Center for Mindfulness, while also being a Clinical Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of California, San Diego. Cassi is co-founder and Psychology Director at the Psychedelics and Health Research Initiative at UCSD.

In addition, Cassi is a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), and she is Senior Advisor at the John W. Brick Mental Health Foundation. Cassi is a blogger at Psychology Today, and is an internationally recognized workshop leader and keynote speaker, most recently at the American Psychological Association, and the Esalen Institute.