Sidney Edsall, MD

Board Director

Director of clinical services

Dr Sidney Edsall is an Integrative Psychiatrist, with a particular focus in treating complex trauma and depression utilizing western medical modalities and eastern medical practices and philosophy.

She completed her psychiatric residency at Stanford in 2006 and has since worked in academic, community-based, and active duty military healthcare settings. Currently, she is the founder and medical director for Quantum Integral Healing Arts, a multidisciplinary and integrative mental health clinic in San Francisco and co-founder of Open Mind Collective.

She has been involved in research trials of MDMA assisted psychotherapy for PTSD, 5-MeO-DMT for Treatment-Resistant Depression, and she is currently a principal site investigator for a novel, psilocybin-like medicine for major depressive disorder.

In her clinical practice she utilizes ketamine assisted psychotherapy (KAP) among other psychotherapy modalities, and incorporates mindfulness, meditation, and acupuncture into her treatments to unblock stagnant energies and improve energetic flow. She has written a book chapter and journal articles on the subjects of childhood trauma, sexuality, and self-efficacy and was a pre-clinical researcher and published in the field of neuropharmacology prior to medical school.