Jason B. Luoma is an Associate Scientist at ORI who spends most of his time as CEO and co-founder of Portland Psychotherapy, Clinic, Research, & Training Center, a unique social enterprise where profits fund scientific research and low fee services for the community. His collaboration with ORI is through ORI Community and Evaluation Services (ORI CES) which is supporting a clinical trial of MDMA-assisted therapy for social anxiety disorder. Luoma has conducted research on shame, self-criticism, stigma, compassion, and the interpersonal functions of emotion, and interventions related to these topics. More recently he has begun conducting research on MDMA-assisted psychotherapy and is planning what will be one of the first randomized-controlled trials of psychedelics in the Pacific Northwest.

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