The Pearl Psychedelic Institute Goal

The Pearl Psychedelic Institute is a 501c3 nonprofit that aims to bring psychedelic assisted therapy into mainstream practice through research, treatment, and training while reducing the barriers to patient cost.

Our mission is to bring psychedelic-assisted therapy into mainstream acceptance for the treatment
of mental health and substance use issues and it is more important than ever that you please
consider supporting our organization in 2024.

For those who have donated in the past, your donations have helped make it possible for us to treat four patients with moderate to severe PTSD with MDMA-assisted therapy as well as bring ketamine-assisted psychotherapy to people in our region suffering from treatment-resistant depression, anxiety, PTSD, and grief.

Psychedelics have a long history of being demonized with a concerted effort to misinform and instill fear in those who may be curious about them as potential catalysts for healing and growth. Your donations helped the Pearl fund community education events and trainings for health professionals and lay people alike in western North Carolina as we help our friends and neighbors understand the healing potential of these compounds. I can promise you that every dollar donated was used as it was intended: to help bring knowledge and understanding about these treatments to those that could benefit from them.

Your donations also helped fund numerous community education events. We hosted free Information Nights at the Pearl discussing ketamine-assisted psychotherapy and MDMA-assisted therapy, as well as Psychedelic Movie Nights with audience Q&As, joint presentations with the Asheville Psychedelic Society, professional presentations on psychedelic-assisted therapy, and podcast and conference appearances. With your help, we have been able to educate people in this region and beyond about the promise of psychedelic-assisted therapy as well as important harm-reduction strategies.

The Pearl is asking our community to please consider donating what you can this year so that we can continue this mission of bringing these medicines to western North Carolina. The Pearl is on the cutting edge of this revolution in mental health and this is a critical time as we work to continue to do our part in helping to bring this paradigm shift in behavioral health medicine forward. This has been decades in the making and many have given a great deal of time and effort to try and get this over the finish line and we need your continued faith and support . There are other psychedelics working their way through the FDA research process such as psilocybin and it is imperative that we not falter in our support of these medicines and the people that desperately need them.

Plant Pigments Package: A Botanical Ink Making Workshop taught by Annie Kyla at Art Garden