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Krys Sciberras

Researcher for the three prong psychedelic learning system, Seed Group Contributor and Partner

Krys Sciberras is a Registered Clinical Counsellor. She has worked in the mental health and substance use field, managing teams in various leadership roles. Krys brings significant knowledge and experience with team-based care in a clinical setting and supporting change initiatives.  Her work has involved a strong focus on enhancing access to mental health services across the region. Through these experiences she’s developed a thorough understanding of the challenges in health care and a powerful desire to create change through innovative methods to support a new model of care.

Krys has a Master's in Counselling Psychology from Yorkville University. Krys is working towards her doctorate in Counselling and Psychotherapy. Her goal is to influence policy and practice changes that will help people living with mental illness to live well and thrive. She is part of the Research and Development team at Vancouver Island University.

Krys works with the non-profit society Roots to Thrive, Canada's first and only non-profit healthcare practice to legally offer evidence-informed, group therapy programs that address trauma, promote resilience, and include psilocybin-assisted and ketamine-assisted group therapy.

Krys's ancestry is Maltese and Quebecois, and she lives on the traditional unceded territory of the Tla-o-qui-aht first nation.