Trauma, body and transformation
Dan Fleitman is a physician and somatic psychotherapist. He speaks at congresses, universities and forums on integrative mental health, trauma and psychedelic science, in Spanish, English and Hebrew.
Fellowship in Integrative Psychiatry (Integrative Psychiatry Institute) · Training in psychedelic-assisted therapy (CIIS, MAPS) · Body-oriented psychotherapy (Reidman International College for Complementary and Integrative Medicine) · Focusing (The International Focusing Institute)
On video
Topics
The danger is over. Does the body know?
Trauma, hypervigilance and the way back to regulation.
Integrative mental health
Mental health in pieces? Why we treat the mind without the body, sleep or biochemistry, and why we should stop.
Who comes back?
Identity deconstruction and reconstruction in the psychedelic process.
The body in psychedelic therapy
Somatic and Focusing-oriented approaches.
Preparation and integration
The clinical work that surrounds the session.
The non-ordinary in the clinic
Visions, ego dissolution and mystical experiences in practice.
300+ clinicians later
Training psychedelic therapists where regulation hasn’t arrived yet.
Formats
Keynote, panel, workshop for professionals or university lecture, in Spanish, English or Hebrew. In person or online. Mostly at congresses, educational forums and universities; at organizations too, when the subject calls for it.
Upcoming
- 19–20 February 2027Transform Trauma Mexico (Masters Events)Tulum, Riviera Maya
- October 20272nd International Medical Symposium on Psychedelic-Assisted TherapyMexico
Where he has spoken (a selection)
- 2026‘Psychedelics: the revolution in today’s mental health’, organized by Adama Wellness, PwC Panama, Panama CityTalk
- 20251st International Medical Symposium on Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy, Médica Sur, Mexico City, endorsed by the Mexican Psychiatric AssociationOrganizer, master of ceremonies and speaker
- 2025International Congress of Lifestyle Medicine (AMMEV), Mexico CityWorkshop “Beyond the white coat”
- 20221st Congress of Psychology and Innovation in Mental Health (MotusDAO)Talk
- 2018Wanderlust Festival, Valle de BravoTalk and mindfulness practice
He also organized MAPS’s first official training in Mexico, in October 2026.
Teaching
He has taught at Reidman International College for Complementary and Integrative Medicine (Israel), Instituto Integra de Psicoterapia Corporal and Universidad del Medio Ambiente. He co-founded Ciencia Psicodélica, where he trains therapists across Latin America and organizes congresses and symposia on psychedelic-assisted therapy.
For organizers
Bio, press photo and technical rider: ask for them at dan@drfleitman.com.
Bio to introduce him:
Dan Fleitman is a physician and somatic psychotherapist with more than 20 years of clinical practice focused on trauma. He works from integrative mental health, which attends to each person's body, history, habits and treatment together. He co-founded Ciencia Psicodélica.
Short bio:
Dan Fleitman is a physician and somatic psychotherapist with more than 20 years of clinical practice focused on trauma. He holds that mental health can’t be treated in pieces: his work brings together each person’s body, history, sleep, habits and treatment. He writes about how what we call the “self” is formed. He is a Fellow in Integrative Psychiatry (Integrative Psychiatry Institute) and trained in psychedelic-assisted therapy at CIIS and with MAPS. He co-founded Ciencia Psicodélica, which trains therapists across Latin America, and organized the 1st International Medical Symposium on Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy, endorsed by the Mexican Psychiatric Association. He speaks Spanish, English and Hebrew.
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Physician and somatic psychotherapist with more than 20 years of clinical practice focused on trauma and integrative mental health; co-founder of Ciencia Psicodélica.
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