Anja Loizaga-Velder, Ph.D

Anja Loizaga-Velder is a German-Mexican clinical psychologist and psychotherapist who has been investigating the therapeutic potential of psychedelics in both indigenous and modern mental health contexts for over twenty years. She is founding member and director of research and psychotherapy of the Institute for intercultural Medicine Nierika, Ac.C. in Mexico. She holds an MA degree in psychology from the University of Koblenz/Landau and a PhD in medical psychology from the Heidelberg University in Germany and currently is a postdoctoral fellow in Health Sciences at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.