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.

 

Some notable features of Dr. Hannah and SoundMind’s work

  • SoundMind was the first psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy clinic on the entire Eastern Seaboard, opening in 2020 with Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy with a plan to bridge to MDMA and psilocybin when legal

  • SoundMind was the first program in the nation to offer a year-long psychedelic facilitator training program which was open to licensed clinicians as well as other talented students. The program began in 2019 and has grown in length and size since then

  • SoundMind’s curriculum was used to submit to Oregon Health Authority to get measure 109 approved, the first program in the nation (and world!) to approve legalized use of psilocybin. This was because no other program existed yet!

  • SoundMind and Dr. Hannah have been very involved in other state and federal measures, including initiatives in Colorado and New Jersey. She advises legislators and lobbyists around proposed regulation

  • SoundMind has trained over 300 students, many of which are now leaders in the field

  • SoundMind is the only large national training program that is fully independent – with no investors (by choice) and not backed by a major university. SoundMind has not partnered with Pharmaceuticals (again, by choice). It is women-run and over 300k has been given to educating and treating those from marginal identities. Being independent gives full freedom and no ulterior motives.

  • SoundMind conducted the first in-house psilocybin training practicum for a legal facilitation license, making international history!

  • SoundMind has pioneered using training videos of patients and practicum experiences to help new factilitators understand all the permutations of difficult experiences and kinds of psychedelic healing