Cristie Strongman

Cristie Strongman, MA, Ed.M., LMHC Cristie is a licensed psychotherapist in private practice in New York City, working with individuals, couples, groups, and families, utilizing a psychodynamic and humanistic approach to focus on the whole individual and emphasizing concepts such as free will, self-efficacy, and self-actualization. She advocates for improving the understanding of psychedelic science, neurodiversity, and compassion in mental health care. Cristie strives to help people see their life’s ongoing journey as an endless source of wisdom and draws on internal strengths with innovative methods. Her specialty lies in helping clients with ADHD, learning disabilities, anxiety, depression, PTSD, substance addiction, relational issues, low self-esteem, loss of purpose, and the integration of experiences of non-ordinary states of consciousness (NOSC). Cristie completed a dual Masters degree in Counseling Psychology at Columbia University, as well as a Masters in Latin American and Caribbean Studies, where her studies focused primarily on Indigenous rituals and urban shamanism. She is a psychedelic-assisted therapist certified by Naropa University, as well as by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), now Lykos Therapeutics, in MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy. At MAPS/Lykos she was a coinvestigator and co-therapist on FDA-approved, Phase 3, clinical trials with MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD. She is an active consultant with biotech drug research companies for client fidelity of care, and an educator and trainer to other professionals in psychedelic science, integration, and psychedelic-assisted therapy with MAPS/Lykos. She is trained and culturally competent to work with historically marginalized and racially diverse populations. Cristie is a bicultural, bilingual, multiracial Latina, born in Colón, Panamá, and raised between Panamá, Germany and the USA.