Heather Berlin

Saundra Jain, MA, PsyD, LPC, is an Adjunct Clinical Affiliate in the School of Nursing at The University of Texas at Austin and a psychotherapist in private practice. Dr. Jain is a co-creator of WILD 5 – A Proven Path to Wellness and co-author of The Science and Practice of Wellness: Interventions for Happiness, Enthusiasm, Resilience, and Optimism (HERO). She is the co-creator of the Psychedelics and Wellness Survey (PAWS), exploring the intersection between psychedelics and wellness. She is the co-host of the newly launched podcast Happy Human 3.0, which explores how modern humans can move beyond merely surviving 21st-century stressors and begin to flourish by integrating neuroscience, positive psychiatry, and compassionate, human-centered care.

In addition, Dr. Jain serves on the Psych Congress Steering Committee, helping guide educational priorities and identify emerging needs in mental health practice. She also teaches with Fluence Training, a leading provider of psychedelic education for mental health professionals, where she serves as faculty in their certification programs in Psychedelic Harm Reduction and Integration (PHRI) and Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP).

Dr. Heather Berlin is a neuroscientist, clinical psychologist, and associate clinical professor of psychiatry and neuroscience at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in NY. She explores the neural basis of impulsive and compulsive psychiatric and neurological disorders with the aim of developing novel treatments. She is also interested in the brain basis of consciousness, dynamic unconscious processes, and creativity.

Dr. Berlin received her doctorate from the University of Oxford, Master of Public Health from Harvard University, and Master’s in Psychology from the New School for Social Research. She completed her NIMH post-doctoral fellowship at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and trained in clinical neuropsychology at Weill Cornell Medicine in the Department of Neurological Surgery. She is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, is a visiting scholar at the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, and was a Visiting Professor at Vassar College, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology/University of Zurich, and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Passionate about science communication, Berlin is a committee member of the National Academy of Sciences’ Science and Entertainment Exchange, the National Academies’ Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communication, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Committee on Science and Technology Engagement with the Public. She co-hosts StarTalk with Neil DeGrasse Tyson, has hosted series on PBS and the Discovery Channel, and has made numerous media appearances including on the BBC, History Channel, Netflix, National Geographic, and TEDx.

Robin Carhart-Harris, PhD, is an esteemed neuropharmacologist, psychologist, and became the Ralph Metzner Distinguished Professor in Neurology and Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco in 2021.With a PhD in psychopharmacology from the University of Bristol, Dr. Carhart-Harris and his colleagues have completed multimodal human functional neuroimaging studies with LSD, psilocybin, MDMA and DMT, and clinical trials of psilocybin therapy for various disorders. His current research program at UCSF is focused on the mechanisms of action of psychedelics and psychedelic-therapy. Dr. Carhart-Harris has published in The New England Journal of Medicine, Nature, Nature Medicine, Cell, Lancet Psychiatry, and more. He spoke was named among the top 31 medical scientists by The Times newspaper in 2020, listed in TIME magazine’s “100 Next” in 2021, voted psychedelic researcher of the year in 2021, and listed in Vox Magazine’s “Future 50” in 2023. His website is carhartharrislab.com.

Mary-Frances O’Connor, PhD is an Associate Professor of psychology at the University of Arizona, where she directs the Grief, Loss and Social Stress (GLASS) Lab, which investigates the effects of grief on the brain and the body. Her work primarily focuses on trying to tease out the mechanisms that cause ongoing or severe reactions to loss. In particular, she is curious about the neurobiological, immune, and cardiovascular factors that vary between individual grief responses. Dr. O’Connor earned a doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Arizona in 2004. Following a faculty appointment at UCLA Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology, she returned to the University of Arizona in 2012. She is the author of The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss. Her work has been published in the American Journal of Psychiatry, Biological Psychiatry, and Psychological Science, and featured in Newsweek, the New York Times, and The Washington Post.

Dr. Sheryl Gonzalez Ziegler is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist who is the founder of a private group practice in Denver, CO. Dr. Ziegler is an author, digital health advisor, frequent media contributor and NBC 9News Parenting Expert, and board member at Tennyson Center for Children. She is the author of Mommy Burnout, one of the top Parenting books of 2018 and winner of the Best Parenting/Family Book as awarded by International Latino Book Awards. Dr. Ziegler wrote a chapter in Advice for Working Moms published by Harvard Business Review Press in May 2021 and was also a contributor to the book, Self-Care for New Moms and the NYT best selling book, Find Your Unicorn Space.

Dr. Ziegler has appeared as a mental health expert in hundreds of news related shows including The Today Show, The Katie Couric Show, The Doctors, The Jenny McCarthy Show, CNN, The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, and many more. She also hosts a popular podcast called "Dr. Sheryl's PodCouch."

Dr. Ziegler has been an adjunct professor in play therapy for doctor level students and currently manages a clinical internship program in her practice. She specializes in treating anxiety, bipolar disorder, trauma, puberty and adolescence related transitions as well as family systems.