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I’m a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Educator, and Researcher, born and raised (mostly) in Portland, Oregon. I am from an ethnically, culturally, spiritually, and racially mixed background, a first-generation graduate student, cisgender, and able-bodied.

My work in healthcare began in 2006 as a licensed massage therapist which has kept me dedicated to incorporating somatic awareness into my work in family therapy, I maintain an inactive massage license in the State of Oregon and do not currently practice massage therapy.

My interest in psychology and ethics stems from my personal experience navigating complex relationships and systems, healing from past abuse, and continually learning what it means to be human. Regardless of whether I am working in my private online clinic, writing, consulting, or conducting research, I aim to bring about beneficial systemic change.

When I’m out of the office and the research lab, you can find me cooking, connecting with family and friends, playing outside, planning travel, reading sci-fi, and working on being a less insufferable music nerd.

SERVICES

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LICENSURE

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, #T2807. Oregon Board of Licensed Professional Counselors and Therapists

Licensed Massage Therapist (inactive), #13861. Oregon Board of Massage Therapy

ACADEMIA

I hold a Master’s in Marriage, Couple, and Family Therapy from Lewis and Clark College and recently completed an additional Master’s Degree in Bioethics and Science Policy at Duke University. I’m currently continuing my research as a Ph.D. candidate in Experimental Psychology and Psychedelic Therapies under Dr. Monnica Williams in her laboratory Culture and Mental Health Disparities at the University of Ottawa. My therapy practice will remain virtual for the foreseeable future to accommodate my research.

CERTIFICATIONS

2022 | Certificate in Traumatic Stress Studies. Trauma Research Foundation | Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., Richard Schwartz, Ph.D., Stephen Porges, Ph.D., Elizabeth Warner, Psy.D., Margaret Blaustein, Ph.D

Comprehensive 7-month online Certificate Program in Traumatic Stress Studies offered. Modules: Neurobiology of PTSD and Developmental Trauma; Attachment Theory and Relationships; Treatment Foundations and Assessments; Attachment, Regulation, and Competency (ARC) and Supporting Regulation in Childhood; Adult Treatment and Component-Based Psychotherapy (CBP); Dissociation and Internal Family Systems (IFS); Trauma Processing and EMDR; Sensorimotor Treatment and Sensory Motor Arousal Regulation Treatment (SMART); Sand Tray Therapy, Play and Activity, Theater and Trauma-Drama, and Trauma Sensitive Yoga; Trauma-Focused Neurofeedback; Vicarious Trauma and Self-Care; Special Issues including Sexual Exploitation, Community Trauma, and Sexual Behavior Problems.

2022 | Entheogen Assisted Psychotherapy and Integration Series.
Lewis and Clark Center for Community Engagement | Led by Pilar Hernadez-Wolfe, PhD; Elizabeth Hoke, LMFT; Claudia Cuentas LMFT, MA.

30-hour entheogen integration therapy series for licensed clinicians, professionals, and registered interns who are developing a relationship with psilocybin in therapeutic, spiritual, or peer-led contexts. Training centers a relational framework attending to preparation, experiencing the fungi, and integrating the experience into work with clients, and is grounded in an intentional connection between humans and plants. This training series acknowledges the physical, geographical, and social context of the work with mindfulness of the reciprocity and responsibility between the plants, the traditional keepers of the plants, the healers, and those seeking healing; and the wisdom traditions and care modalities that may lie outside traditional psychotherapy/counseling training and that might be nested in Indigenous ways of knowing. Offered in alignment with the social justice mission of the Graduate School of Education and Counseling at Lewis & Clark College, and provides professional ethics in a spirit of inclusion, non-violence, affordability, and affirmation of marginalized communities. Provides a general orientation to practicing with ecological mindfulness, the integration of indigenous and western psychology tools (appropriate to context), understanding harm-reduction, and principles of somatic interventions.

CONTINUING EDUCATION

2022 | Working with Psychedelics to Treat Substance Use Issues. 8-week virtual training series, curated by Juliana Mulligan. Featured Speakers: Gabor Mate, Dr. Carl Hart, Laura Northrup, Irina Alexander, Andrew Tatarsky.

2019 | Introduction to MDMA Therapy for Clinicians. Shannon Carlin, MA, AMFT Director of Training & Supervision; Marcela Ot’alora G, LPC, Principal Investigator, Trainer, Supervisor. Horizons Perspectives on Psychedelics Conference. The Horizons Center Public Benefit Corporation. [New York City, NY]

2019 | Introduction to Psilocybin Therapy. Brian D. Richards, PsyD, Clinical and Research Psychologist, Sheppard Pratt Hospital, Aquilino Cancer Center; William A. Richards, Ph.D., Author and Psychologist Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine; Dr. Rosalind Watts, D.Clin.Psy, Clinical Psychologist, Imperial Center for Psychedelic Research. Horizons Perspectives on Psychedelics Conference. The Horizons Center Public Benefit Corporation. [New York City, NY]

2019 | Working with Immigrant and Mixed-Status people in the US: Practicing Sociocultural Attunement in Challenging Contexts. Maria Bermudez, Ph.D. Lewis and Clark Graduate Center for Community Engagement. [Portland, OR]

2019 | Family Therapy in the Treatment of Eating Disorders. Jennifer Vanduker, MS LPC.Lewis and Clark Graduate Center for Community Engagement. [Portland, OR]

2019 | Shredded, Chiseled, & Swole: Understanding and Addressing Men’s Body Image. Justin Henderson, Ph.D. Lewis and Clark Graduate Center for Community Engagement. [Portland, OR]

2019 | The Couples Erotic Flow: Demystifying Sex Therapy with a Simple Fun, and Effective Model. Kyle Zrenchik, PhD. Lewis and Clark Graduate Center for Community Engagement. [Portland, OR]

2018 | Problem Gambling Pre-Certification I. Rick Berman, MA, LPC, Mark Douglass, LPC, CADC III, CGAC II. Lewis and Clark Graduate Center for Community Engagement. [Portland, OR]

PUBLICATIONS

Harrison, T.R., Faber, S., Fontaine, M., Zare, M., Williams, M.T. (in press). Wolves Among Sheep: Sexual Violations in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy. American Journal of Bioethics.

Williams, M.T., Harrison, T.R. (in press). When clients say they have tried psychedelics: What mental health care providers need to know. The Behavior Therapist.

Williams, M. T., Harrison, T.R., La Torre, J.T. (in press). Cultural Formulation and Culturally Adapted Treatments for Depression. American Psychological Association (APA) Handbook of Depression.

Harrison, T. R. (2024). When the Promises of a Policy Do Not Meet the Reality of Its Practice: Ethical Issues Within Oregon’s Measure 109. Bill of Health - The blog of the Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School. https://blog.petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2024/02/12/when-the-promises-of-a-policy-do-not-meet-the-reality-of-its-practice-ethical-issues-within-oregons-measure-109/

Harrison, T. R. (2023). Commentary: Arc: A framework for access, reciprocity and conduct in psychedelic therapies. Frontiers in Psychology, 14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1248967

Harrison, T. R. (2023). Altered stakes: Identifying gaps in the informed consent process for psychedelic-assisted therapy trials. Journal of Psychedelic Studies, 7(S1), 48–60. https://doi.org/10.1556/2054.2023.00267

Harrison, T.R. (2022). Altered Stakes: identifying gaps in the psychedelic-assisted therapy research informed consent process. Master's thesis, Duke University. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/25858.

Morrison, T., Ferris Wayne, M., Harrison, T.R. Learning to Embody a Social Justice Perspective in Couple and Family Therapy: A Grounded Theory Analysis of MFTs in Training. Contemporary Family Therapy (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10591-022-09635-8

Harrison, T. R., Ferris-Wayne, M., & Maragos, M. (2021). Ethics Issues Today: 2021 Student Ethics Competition Winning Essay. Family Therapy Magazine, 20(6), 7–10.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Harrison, T.R. (2024, January). Ethical issues and harm reduction practices: what clinicians should know about psychedelic-assisted therapy. The Champlain Centre for Health Care Ethics Virtual Ethics Rounds Series. The Ottawa Hospital, Civic Campus.

Harrison, T.R. (2023, June). Intergenerational Trauma and Psychedelics. Judaism and the Psychedelic Renaissance 2023: A Portland Gathering. Co/Lab.

Harrison, T.R. (2022, November). Informed Consent in Psychedelic Therapy and Research: Why is it Complicated? Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Bioetechnology, and Bioethics Lecture Series. Harvard University, Harvard Law School.

Harrison, T. R. (2022, August). Altered Stakes: Identifying Gaps in the Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Research Informed Consent Process. Psychedemia 2022. Ohio State University.

Morrison, T., Harrison, T., Palmgren, E., & Ferris-Wayne, M., Knudson-Martin, C. (2021, June). Learning to Embody a Social Justice Perspective in Couple and Family Therapy: A Grounded Theory Analysis of MFTs in Training. American Family Therapy Association's Annual Conference 2020, Virtual.

GUEST LECTURES

2023 | PUBPOL 196FS: Patient and Research Participant Activism and Advocacy; Duke University

2023 | PLNTPTH 830: Psychedelic Bioethics; Ohio State University

2022 | PSY 6137: Psychedelic Psychotherapies for Mental Health; University of Ottawa

2021 | SJ 210: Social Justice through Song; Portland Community College

TEACHING

2022 | Faculty, Measure 109 Facilitation Ethics and Policy. Synaptic Etheogenic Medicine Training. Synaptic.care

2019 – 2020 | Teaching Assistant, MCFT 526: Practical Skills in Marriage, Couple, and Family Therapy; Lewis & Clark Graduate School of Counseling Psychology

LEADERSHIP

2022 | Certificate of Leadership. American Association of Family Therapy (AAMFT). In Progress.

2021 - 2023 | Co-Chair: Student & Early-Career Member Committee. American Family Therapy Academy (AFTA)

2018 - 2021 | Student Advisory Board, Lead Cohort Representative. Lewis and Clark Graduate School of Education and Counseling.

AWARDS

2022 | Doctoral International Scholarship. University of Ottawa.

2022 | International Admission Scholarship. University of Ottawa.

2022 | Certificate of Leadership Scholarship. American Association of Family Therapy (AAMFT).

2021 |1st Place Winner, Team Leader | American Association of Family Therapy (AAMFT) Student Ethics Competition.

2021 | Merit Scholarship | Duke University Center for Science and Society.

American Psychological Association (APA). Professional Member.

Canadian Psychological Association (CPA). Professional Member.

American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT). Professional Member.