Marcela Ot'alora G
Psychotherapist, artist, researcher, and MDMA-assisted therapy trainer
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Research Footprint
Marcela Ot'alora G appears in 5 tracked papers (2018–2024), most studied alongside MDMA and Placebo, across PTSD, Safety & Risk Management and Suicidality.
Most-cited paper: MDMA-assisted therapy for severe PTSD: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase 3 study (942 citations).
Frequent co-authors: Michael Mithoefer, Rick Doblin and Berra Yazar-Klosinski.
Background & Research
Marcela Ot’alora G. is a psychotherapist, artist, and researcher born and raised in Colombia. She has worked for more than two decades on the safety and efficacy of MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD, serving as a principal investigator, therapist, mentor consultant, and lead trainer in MAPS/Lykos clinical trials. She holds an MA in Transpersonal Psychology from Naropa University and an MFA in Fine Arts from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Key Impact
She is a lead clinician and principal investigator on multiple landmark MAPS/Lykos MDMA-assisted therapy trials for PTSD.
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