Meet the Advisory Council: Charles B. Shaw

Charles B. Shaw is a Chicago-based mental health professional and plant medicine therapist. He currently works as a CRSS certified Recovery Counselor/Social Worker in the public mental health system, and is currently working towards becoming a Crisis Counselor. Charles has over a decade of applied training and experience in psychedelic tryptamine-based therapy (Ibogaine, Dimethytryptamines) for a broad spectrum of mental health conditions including addiction interruption and PTSD. He is an author, journalist and documentary filmmaker who has specialized in the intersection between human rights and mental health, and he is an expert on extreme states of consciousness. He holds a BA from Boston University where he studied English and Psychology.