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SoundMind Institute – Dr Hannah McLane

March 25, 2025

In this episode of Psychedelics Today, Kyle Buller is joined by Dr. Hannah McLane, founder of the SoundMind Center and SoundMind Institute. They dive deep into the evolving psychedelic landscape—touching on policy developments in New Jersey, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and beyond. Dr. McLane shares her experience testifying in support of psilocybin legislation and discusses the medical frameworks being explored, particularly in contrast to Oregon and Colorado’s models.

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In this episode of Psychedelics Today, Kyle Buller is joined by Dr. Hannah McLane, founder of the SoundMind Center and SoundMind Institute. They dive deep into the evolving psychedelic landscape—touching on policy developments in New Jersey, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and beyond. Dr. McLane shares her experience testifying in support of psilocybin legislation and discusses the medical frameworks being explored, particularly in contrast to Oregon and Colorado’s models.

The conversation also explores the essential qualities of effective psychedelic facilitators, emphasizing the importance of self-awareness, lifelong learning, and doing personal inner work. Dr. McLane offers insights into the challenges of entrepreneurship in the psychedelic space, balancing mission-driven work with sustainability, and how neurodiversity and trauma have shaped her approach.

Toward the end, the conversation takes a playful and heartfelt turn, reflecting on parenting, the power of curiosity, and the need for more community-centered, human-first spaces for integration and healing. This is a rich, honest, and inspiring dialogue that bridges the personal and political, the clinical and ceremonial, and the visionary future of psychedelics.

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Dr Hannah McLane

Hannah McLane, MD, MA, MPH

Dr. Hannah McLane MD, MA, MPH is a longtime pioneer in the psychedelic space, serial entrepreneur, and founder of SoundMind Institute. SoundMind is a rigorous facilitator training program and research initiative aimed at bringing ethics, equity, and innovation to the psychedelic ecosystem. Dr. Hannah and SoundMind’s work have been featured on National Geographic, Al Jazeera, PBS, NBC, Today Show, New York Times, and more.

Dr. Hannah 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.

Dr. Hannah’s expertise and research interest is in psychedelics and ADHD/neurodiversity, psychedelics and informed consent for touch, Buddhism meditation and psychedelics, and cults and narcissism in the psychedelic space. She has presented at national and international conferences on these topics and continues to innovate on these areas since 2019.

Dr. Hannah grew up in rural New Hampshire and spent several years in South America and East Asia. She is queer, white, able-bodied and neurodiverse (dyslexia and ADHD). She is a proud mother of a 6-year-old boy.

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