Maria Beckman

Maria Beckman is a licensed clinical psychologist with a PhD in medical science. She works at the Centre for Psychiatry Research at the Department of Clinical Neuroscience at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. Her research is mainly about the relationship between therapist and patient in-session behaviors and outcomes and quality assurance/implementation of evidence-based psychotherapy, including supervision & training of therapists. She is involved in several clinical trials utilizing psilocybin within a psychotherapeutic framework, including two Swedish studies on its use for depression (PSIPET and CAPSI, PI Johan Lundberg), one European trial investigating its effects on psychological distress in palliative care (PsyPal, PI Robert Schoevers), an upcoming Danish trial focused on the psychotherapeutic framework in treatment of depression (PSISET, PI Dea Siggaard Stenbæk), and an upcoming study at Linköping University exploring its potential for alleviating grief (PI Rebecca Böhme).