Daniel McQueen, MA

Daniel McQueen (MA) is a professional psychedelic therapist and guide with a Masters in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology from Naropa University. With his wife Alison McQueen (MA, LPC), Daniel is the co-director and manager of Medicinal Mindfulness, a local consciousness community and psychedelic education program in Boulder, Colorado.

Daniel facilitates individual and group psychedelic experiences using psychedelic cannabis blends and transformational breathwork techniques. He is the Principal Organizer of the Medicinal Mindfulness Extended-State DMT Program.

Carla J. Clements, PhD, LPC

Dr. Carla Clements (PhD, LPC, BCPB) has been a professor at Naropa University in Boulder, CO in the Mindfulness-Based Transpersonal Psychology Department for the last 15 years. She was the chair of the department for a decade, and continues to teach Assessment in Counseling, Group Dynamics, Helping Relationships, and Transpersonal Psychology. In May 2018, she retired to become the Principal Investigator of the DMTx program.

Carla has also maintained a private practice in psychotherapy, specializing in the treatment of PTSD in women, for the past 30 years. During the past three years, Carla was the Independent Rater for the MAPS-sponsored phase 2 study of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for treatment resistant, chronic PTSD. This experience renewed a lifelong interest in consciousness-expanding compounds which she continues to research today.

Rev. Jay Waxenberg, MA

Rev. Jay Waxenberg (MA) is a professional psychedelic guide holding a Masters in Philosophy with a focus on mysticism and the psychedelic experience from the University of Miami. He’s an ordained Interfaith Minister and works as a professional psychedelic guide at the Center for Medicinal Mindfulness in Boulder, Colorado.

Jay facilitates individual psychedelic experiences using psychedelic cannabis blends, Ketamine and transformational breathwork techniques. Jay is the Psychedelic Training Program Director for the Center for Medicinal Mindfulness Psychedelic Sitters School and the Center for Medicinal Mindfulness Extended-State DMT Program.

The Rest of Us

Daniel, Carla and Jay represent a team of about 24 professional volunteers, ranging from medical doctors, assessment experts, computer programmers, an EEG analyst, technologists, philosophers, community organizers, therapists, artists, musicians, and other healers, who are organizing around this project. Due to the nature of the DMTx program, we are choosing to keep who they are private for now. More information about our team is coming soon.