Mauro Cavarra is a psychotherapist, hypnotherapist, clinical trainer and PhD Student. He received his M.Sc. at the San Raffaele University in Milan, IT and is currently pursuing a joint Ph.D. with the University of Messina, IT (Prof. Mento and Parisi) and the University of Maastricht, NL (Prof. Ramaekers and Kuypers). His main interests concern the optimization of psychotherapeutic interventions in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy and the potential of such compounds in the treatment of chronic pain.