Jason Luoma
Clinical Psychologist and Researcher
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Key Impact
Noted for integrating Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and psychological flexibility concepts into frameworks and empirical studies of psychedelic-assisted therapy and for empirical work on clinician attitudes toward psychedelics.
Background & Research
Jason B. Luoma is a clinical psychologist and researcher whose work sits at the intersection of contextual behavioural science and contemporary psychedelic research. His scholarship emphasises Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and the psychological flexibility model as both theoretical foundations and practical supports for psychedelic-assisted interventions. Luoma has investigated how process-based psychotherapies can be adapted to the unique therapeutic context of psychedelic use and has published conceptual and empirical studies that translate ACT principles into preparatory, dosing, and integration phases of care.
Luoma's contributions include empirical research on attitudes and predictors of attitudes toward therapeutic psychedelic use among psychologists in the United States, prospective examinations of psychological flexibility and cognitive reappraisal in ceremonial ayahuasca contexts, and methodological and theoretical papers proposing a contextual psychedelic-assisted therapy approach. His work has helped clarify clinician readiness and training needs, highlighted the role of psychological processes (especially flexibility) in therapeutic outcomes, and advanced dialogue on how evidence-based behavioural therapies can be integrated with psychedelic-assisted treatment models.