Andrew PennFeb 17, 20234 min readWhat a pandemic and a little bird taught me about paying attentionThe calls of the white crowned sparrow, a bird endemic to North America and once so local to San Francisco that they once had...
Andrew PennMay 13, 20221 min readReunited and it Feels So Good - what can psychedelic therapies teach us about psychotherapy?Remember the catchy yacht-rock slow jam "Reunited and it Feels So Good?" That was the title of a talk I gave last year in San Antonio,...
Andrew PennAug 24, 20216 min readOur Losses Take Many Forms(This article is excerpted from three blog posts: The Six Phases of Grief During Covid-19 (March 24, 2020), and now published in the...
Andrew PennAug 24, 20214 min readWe Can’t Let A Perfectly Good Crisis Go To Waste(This article is excerpted from three blog posts: The Six Phases of Grief During Covid-19 (March 24, 2020), and now published in the...
Andrew PennAug 8, 20214 min readA Turning Point for Psychedelics?(originally published on Psych Congress Network Blog, Fall 2018) Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma and The Botany of...
Andrew PennJul 19, 20219 min readWhere have all the therapists gone? Gone to psychedelics, every one.by Andrew Penn, MS, PMHNP (originally appearing on Psychology Today) Maria used to dread going into the clinic, knowing that each day...
Andrew PennSep 17, 20204 min readSo you'd like to be a psychedelic assisted therapist? Great! Read on!I’m interested in becoming a psychedelic assisted therapist. How do I do that? Great question, that I get asked a lot. With so much being...