Raymond Turpin, PhD attended the University of Georgia where he earned a BA in psychology and first discovered psychedelics and the extensive scientific literature about these medicinal compounds from previous decades. He attended the University of West Georgia and earned an MA in psychology before moving to the Bay Area and earning his doctorate in clinical psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. He moved to western North Carolina in 2001 and in 2004 co-founded Jackson County Psychological Services which provided free and reduced-cost mental health services to the students and families of the Jackson County Public School system. In his clinical experience he has worked in psychiatric hospitals, psychiatric emergency units, a juvenile detention facility, schools and community mental health clinics. He is currently a Lead Clinical Investigator of an Expanded Access program sponsored by MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies) providing MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for treatment-resistant PTSD and a Mentor for the 2022 cohort of the Certificate in Psychedelic Therapy and Research program at the California Institute of Integral Studies (a certificate he earned in 2017). He is the Executive Director and Clinical Director of the Pearl Psychedelic Institute (www.pearlpsychedelicinstitute.org) which is a non-profit he helped found whose mission is to shepherd psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy into mainstream acceptance through research, community education and training and the establishment of a reduced-fee clinic in western North Carolina. Dr. Turpin has been working with ketamine-assisted therapy for several years.