Animations for Access Project
Uniting Psychedelic Practitioners and Animators for Broader Mental Health and Wellness Education
We are working to make information about psychedelic medicines more accessible via animation.
Our mission is to make these transformative resources universally accessible, especially to communities that have historically faced barriers in accessing mental health care.
SoundMind Animations for Access Voiced by Rick Doblin
Initiative Goals
Open Dialog
We aim to open a dialogue between groups that are more likely to be represented in psychedelic communities - which are often overwhelmingly white - and those who are less represented - primarily BIPOC - about what is needed to create a more diverse community now and into the future.
Lower Accessibility Threshold
Our mission is to create visually engaging, easily accessible information that not only addresses and reduces the stigma surrounding mental health in underserved communities but also caters to the needs of cognitively diverse populations, broadening the reach and understanding of wellness and psychedelic treatments.
Provide Information
We strive to provide engaging and accessible psychedelic medicine information to encourage enrollment of patients who identify as BIPOC or other marginalized groups and spark interest among BIPOC mental health practitioners, fostering diversity both in treatment and professional practice.
Animations for Health & Wellness
Psychiatrist and SoundMind Advisor, Dr. Nicole Christian-Brathwaite discusses the role of meditation and mindfulness in Black communities and the compounding affects that racial microaggressions have on the wellness of Black people and People of Color.
Creative Directors
Dr Hannah McLane
Dr. Hannah McLane is a physician, psychoanalyst, and entrepreneur. She attended McGill University and holds graduate degrees from Temple University (MA, Communication Sciences, Spanish Language), Brown University (MD, Doctor of Medicine, Contemplative Studies Concentration), and Harvard School of Public Health (MPH, Global health and Bioethics).
She attended residencies in neurology and Occupational and Environmental medicine (University of Pennsylvania) and completed a fellowship in Patient Safety at the VA Hospital in Philadelphia. She also completed a 5-year psychoanalytic training program and considers herself a relational psychoanalyst.
Joseph McCowan, PYSD
Joseph McCowan, PsyD is a licensed clinical psychologist and psychotherapist, currently working in Los Angeles as a co-therapist in the MAPS sponsored phase 3 clinical trials of MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD. He is an alumni of MAPS August 2019 MDMA Therapy Training for Communities of Color.
Joseph is deeply passionate about furthering education and awareness of the healing benefits of psychedelics for communities of color and in working to improve mental health outcomes for historically underserved communities.
