Our Founder

Dana T. Lerman, MD

Dr. Dana Lerman received her M.D. at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, in New York. She completed Internal Medicine residency at The Mount Sinai Hospital and fellowship in Infectious Disease at The Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She has worked as an infectious disease consultant all over the United States for over ten years.

Dr. Lerman was the Co-Founder of The COVID Consultants, a national COVID-19 consulting and testing firm. During the pandemic she identified herself as a wounded healer and began her own mental wellness journey which led her to an ayahuasca retreat in Costa Rica.

Since this time Dr. Lerman’s passions have shifted focus and she has since received training and certification in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy. Dr. Lerman has received further training in trauma via PESI, Internal Family Systems via the IFS Institute, and Ecotherapy with the Earth Body Institute.  She is co-founder of Starlight Clinical Research and she also volunteers with Zendo Project as a sitter, medical triage, shift lead and supervisor at Burning Man.

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