Olivia Marcus completed her PhD in Medical Anthropology and an MPH in sociomedical sciences. She is a postdoctoral fellow at New York University, funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (5T32 DA007233), where she conducts research on interventions to address substance use and mental health issues using traditional medicine and psychotherapy. She is also co-developing a survey on integration practices among people who drink ayahuasca in the US and Canada. For the past few years, Olivia has led the qualitative component of the mixed-methods Ayahuasca Treatment Outcome Project to assess outcomes for addiction recovery in an all-male therapeutic community in Peru. Olivia conducted her doctoral fieldwork in the upper Peruvian Amazon, where she investigated perceptions of mental wellness and healing among mestizo curanderos (i.e., vegetalistas) and their clientele.