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Mary Cosimano
Mary Cosimano
Mary Cosimano, LMSW, is currently with the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She is the Director of Guide Services for the Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research and has served as study guide and research coordinator for the psilocybin studies for over 20 years. During that time, Mary has been a session guide, involved with the psilocybin and club drug studies and has conducted over 475 study sessions. She has trained post-doctorate fellows, research assistants and faculty as guides and taught individual and group meditation to breast cancer patients in a Johns Hopkins research study. She teaches at California Institute to Integral Studies for their Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies and Research program and conducts trainings for therapists in psychedelic psychotherapy. In 2003 she started a meditation group for employees in her department. She also has 15 years of experience with direct patient care as a hospice volunteer. In addition to her interest in altered states of consciousness, Mary enjoys time with family, friends, nature, reading, walking, meditation and playing games.
