Our Team
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. Dr. Lerman is board certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Disease. She has worked as an infectious disease consultant all over the United States for over ten years. Dr. Lerman was the 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 from the Integrative Psychiatry Institute (IPI) in Boulder, Colorado. Dr. Lerman is in MAPS training via IPI. She has received further training in trauma via PESI, Internal Family Systems via the IFS Institute, and Ecotherapy with the Earth Body Institute. She volunteers with Zendo Project trip sitting at Burning Man. Her prior personal history of psychedelic use, including work with ketamine, psilocybin, LSD, 5-MeO-DMT, Ayahuasca and DMT and other purgatives such as Kambo, affords her the unique ability to know first hand what clients may be experiencing. Dr. Lerman treats patients at the Skylight Journey Center in Evergreen, CO.
Elizabeth Wolfson, Ph.D., L.C.S.W
Client integration and therapist support specialist.
Dr. Elizabeth Wolfson’s professional background includes leadership positions within corporations, organizations and in academia while also teaching, facilitating groups and retreats as well as private practice psychotherapy. Most recently, she served as Vice President of Clinical Services for Field Trip Health, an international Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy company. Prior to that, she was faculty and Chair of Antioch University Santa Barbara’s Clinical Psychology Graduate Program where she developed and directed programs in Healthy Aging, Somatic Psychotherapy, and Leadership. She previously taught at Columbia University School of Social Work. In her role as Clinical Director within mental health settings, she designed award-winning diversity initiatives and was project associate on two documentary films screened in international film festivals. In 2020 she completed Certifications in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy and Research at California Institute of Integral Studies, MDMA Therapy Training through the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) and Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy through the Ketamine Training Center. Additionally, she is trained and certified in Embodied Leadership and in Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy.
Dr. Wolfson has published and presented on Psychedelic-Supportive Psychotherapy, Ketamine-Assisted Therapy, creativity, intimate relationship, psychotherapeutic processes, trauma, gender, creativity, empowerment, and healthy aging. Dr. Wolfson has also been Organizational Consultant to Pacifica Graduate Institute, is co-founder of two non-profit organizations, and served as Vice President of Professional Development on the Board of the NASW, Santa Barbara Chapter and as VP of Special Projects for the Board of Directors of Santa Barbara California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists.
As a psychotherapist in Santa Barbara, California, Dr. Wolfson draws from a holistic, person-centered, integrative psychotherapeutic approach which might include Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy and/or Psychedelic-Supportive Psychotherapy to facilitate personal, interpersonal, and professional well-being, life transitions, empowerment, and creativity. Additionally, she provides executive coaching and organizational consultation, and facilitates workshops and retreats supporting personal and professional growth, creativity, and self-actualization.
Judy Becker
Community and Relationship Liaison
Judy is a Registered Yoga Teacher and Reiki III Practitioner with an emphasis on Energy Medicine Yoga and the Chakras. She has been committed to a path of awareness since the early 1980’s when she first learned about the benefits of meditation. The desire for meditation with movement led Judy to her first yoga class and to the realization of the power of this practice for transformation. As many of her clients suffered with anxiety and depression, Judy’s interest in supporting people suffering with mental health challenges evolved into liaison roles at various treatment centers. She is passionate about sharing information and creating connections with the intention of assisting others on their healing journey. Judy is honored to be a part of the skylight psychedelics team.
Kevin Franciotti, MA, LAC
Certified in ketamine-assisted therapy by Skylight Psychedelics
Kevin Franciotti, MA, LAC is a Denver-based addiction counselor and clinical psychotherapist with over 15 years’ experience in community mental health, harm reduction, and direct service work. Throughout Kevin’s academic education and training, first at Northeastern University, where he completed a BS in Behavioral Neuroscience, and later an MA in Psychology, with a Concentration in Mental Health and Substance Abuse Counseling from The New School, he was involved in research, advocacy, education, and policy reform efforts around cannabis, psychedelics, and mental health, and hosted and co-sponsored an international ibogaine conference in 2009. He has published his lived experience in a variety of popular media outlets such as VICE and New Scientist magazine, co-authored a peer-reviewed paper in the Journal of Psychopharmacology, and presented his work at conferences including Psychedelic Science, International Drug Policy Reform, Students for Sensible Drug Policy, Harm Reduction International, and the Association for Psychological Science. In 2021, Kevin received a scholarship through the Usona Institute to complete training with the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies in MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy for PTSD, and is currently a Cohort Integration Leader for the Naropa University Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies Graduate Certificate Program. Kevin’s passion for working with non-ordinary states of consciousness for transformational and psycho-spiritual healing brings him to the Skylight Psychedelics team to facilitate ketamine-assisted therapy with individuals and groups, as well as experiential training opportunities for professionals.
Lastly, here’s the link to my Psychology Today profile: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/kevin-franciotti-accepting-new-clients-in-person-avail-greenwood-village-co/855730
Stacey Cohen-Meissner, Ph.D.
Certified in ketamine-assisted therapy by Skylight Psychedelics
Dr. Stacey Cohen-Meissner received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, with honors, from Hofstra University. She is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Honors Society, the American Psychological Association, and the New Jersey Psychological Association. She is trained in advanced Cognitive-Behavioral techniques to assist her clients in realizing their best selves and lives. She has also received training in Internal Family Systems Therapy and Integration therapy via PESI, which she incorporates into her practice. Dr. Cohen-Meissner has received her Certification in Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy, via Skylight Psychedelics, which is an exciting addition to her practice and one she is passionate about. She has been an expert commentator on the Dr. Oz show and has provided workshops for the Yankees Baseball team during the Pandemic. Dr. Cohen-Meissner views herself as a Clinician, Life Coach, and Supporter in moving her clients toward a life with more productivity, more joy, and less emotional distress. Offices in Tenafly, N.J. and NYC.
Eric Leventhal, L.C.S.W
Suhadee (Su) Henriquez, L.C.S.W.
Joe Schrank
Kevin Matthews
Psychedelic Medicine Policy Reform/De-criminalization Advocate
Kevin is one of the leading psychedelic policy reform professionals in the United States. He successfully managed the Denver Psilocybin Initiative (I-301) which made Denver the first city in the United States to decriminalize psilocybin in 2019, and in 2022 he was the co-Chief Proponent and Coalition Director for Colorado’s historic Proposition 122 that legalized the personal use of psychedelic plants and fungi and created a state-regulated program for therapeutic access to psilocybin. He is currently the Chief Visionary Officer of Helix Consulting Group, a public affairs organization focused on building awareness around psychedelics and supporting local policy reform efforts. He lives in Arvada, CO with his family
Jackie Smith