Meet the Team
Founder and Medical Director
Maysa Alavi, MD
Dr. Alavi is a board-certified physician and researcher in the field of psychedelic medicine and psychedelic drug development.
She has trained in best-in-class institutions including USC, UCLA UT-Houston, and The University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine.
Dr. Alavi has done extensive psychedelic research as Site Physician and Therapist investigating MDMA for MAPS/Lykos Therapeutics, and Psilocybin for COMPASS Pathways.
As Medical Director of Psychedelic Research at Usona Institute, a non-profit medical research organization, she directed clinical trials in Psilocybin and 5-MeO-DMT, advancing the field of psychedelic drug development and therapeutics.
Dr. Alavi is trained in MDMA, Psilocybin, and Ketamine Assisted Therapies. She has been working with ketamine clinically since 2019 and prescribing cannabis since 2016. She is an educator and mentor in Ketamine therapy for Fluence International. She retired from Emergency and Hospitalist Medicine in 2020.
Dr. Alavi is a yoga instructor, and practices Reiki and Access Consciousness Bars energy work modalities.
Kambo Practitioner
Tara Alavi
Tara is an IAKP (International Association of Kambo Practitioners) certified Kambo practitioner working with the waxy tree frog medicine since 2020. She travels between Los Angeles, where she lives and New Orleans to provide treatments with this healing peptide secretion. Tara is also a musician, artist and interior designer.
Certified Hypnotherapist, Reiki Master, Yoga Teacher
Tara Loftus
Tara Loftis is a graduate from Yale University, a Certified Hypnotist, Reiki Master, Yoga Teacher, & Plant Medicine Apprentice. She became a Reiki practitioner in 2011, which catapulted her into her life's calling as an intuitive facilitator of several different healing modalities - yoga, plant medicine, and hypnotherapy, working with the subconscious mind to create the changes we want to see in our lives. She believes that change in our world starts with each of us and that through our own healing, we can heal the world. When she is not teaching yoga or seeing clients, Tara is managing her family's real estate business, traveling, attending music or film festivals, working puzzles, and enjoying time with her rescue dog George.