Christopher Nicholas

Christopher Nicholas is a Clinical Health Psychologist and Neuroscientist specialized in developing innovative treatments for addiction, pain, and mental health using psilocybin and MDMA.

His clinical expertise lies in Psychedelic and MDMA Assisted-Psychotherapy, Crisis and Outpatient Trauma Intervention, Addiction/Opioid and Pain Recovery Evaluation and Treatment, Psychodynamic and Somatic based interventions, and Hypnosis.

Christopher possesses research skills in Neuroimaging (MRI, PET), SPSS, HLM, and Machine Learning.

He has received specialized training in health-, gero-, and trauma psychology and has a proven track record of working in research and clinical federal and academic environments.

His educational background includes a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology with a Health & Medical Rehab Specialization from the University of Tennessee - Knoxville and a B.S. in Psychology from Trinity College in Hartford, CT.

Currently, Christopher serves as an Assistant Professor and Clinical Psychologist at the UW Department of Family Medicine and Community Health.

He has previously held positions as a Research Associate with a Fellowship in Advanced Geriatrics and Aging at UW-Madison Department of Medicine, Alzheimer's Disease Research Center; William S. Middleton VA, Research Psychologist at Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center & Minneapolis VA Health Care System, and Clinical Psychology Intern at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.