Cassandra Vieten PhD

She is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Family Medicine's Centers for Integrative Health at the University of California, San Diego - UCSD (USA), where she also serves as the Director of the Center for Mindfulness. Additionally, she is the Director of Research at the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination and the Co-founder and Clinical Psychology Director of the Psychedelics and Health Research Initiative, both at UCSD. She also holds the position of Senior Advisor at the John W. Brick Mental Health Foundation, where she was Executive Director from 2019 to 2023. She is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, California (USA), where she served as President from 2013 to 2019. She is the author of “Mindful motherhood” (2009), and a co-author of “Living deeply” (2008), and “Spiritual and religious competencies in clinical practice” (2015). Her research focuses on how spiritual and mind-body practices can enhance mental, emotional, and physical health and well-being.

She earned her PhD in Clinical Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies (USA) and completed her research training in Behavioral Genetics at UC San Francisco (USA)