Donna DryerOrenda Institute

Donna Dryer, MD is a transpersonal psychiatrist in private practice on the coast islands of British Columbia and a faculty member in psychiatry at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. With her husband, Dr. Richard Yensen, she had received permission for LSD psychotherapy research protocols with addicts and people dying from cancer from the US Food and Drug Administration in 1991. They have been giving an “entheogenically–informed” workshop, The Heart of the Shaman, since 1986 at Hollyhock Retreat Centre, Cortes Island. Currently, they are focusing on creating a psychedelic psychotherapy training program.