Dara Gail Friedman-Wheeler Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA

Dara G. Friedman-Wheeler, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist, Research Psychologist at the Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, adjunct faculty at the Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy, and former Professor at Goucher College. She has experience working with mood and anxiety disorders, suicidality, chronic pain, and substance use disorders. She has published numerous peer-reviewed articles, co-authored the book Being the Change: A Guide for Advocates and Activists on Staying Healthy, Inspired, and Driven with Dr. Jamie S. Bodenlos, and served as Associate Editor for the SAGE Encyclopedia of Abnormal and Clinical Psychology. She co-authored the entry “CBT and Anti-Racism: Healing Racism through CBT” with Dr. Norman Cotterell on the Beck Institute blog. Her interests are in coping, expectancies, culturally-informed empirically supported treatments, and in centering equity and justice.