2.4 - Marjane Beaugeois

<p>TW: Suicide</p><br><p>Marjane is a trauma-informed addictions and mental health counsellor with over 7 year’s experience in spiritual healing practices and ancestral plant medicines.</p><br><p>Marjane grew up in France, completing a degree in Biology there, and then her Masters in Australia. Marjane undertook training as a trauma informed counsellor and has a strong understanding of the power of plants and medicinal fungi. She strongly believes in the power of psychedelic-assisted therapy for to help save lives.</p><br><p>Marjane has her own unique lived experiences of trauma, PTSD and anxiety and is now an active member of Mind Medicine Australia’s Melbourne Chapter, strongly advocating for urgent reform in Australia to enable these important plant medicines to be used in a clinical setting to help those who are suffering with a range of mental illnesses.</p><br><p>Dr Deb Roberts, PhD is the Mind Medicine Australia Podcast host for Season 2 and has been a MMA volunteer, guides the weekly staff meditation, on the MMA&nbsp;<a href="https://mindmedicineaustralia.org.au/lived-experience-panel/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Lived Experience Panel</a>&nbsp;and has a life-long relationship with mental (ill) health yet been able to navigate a fulfilling existence through various means.</p><br><p>She is deeply passionate about conversations related to wellbeing. She uses her own lived experience as well as the reality of having two family members who ended their life seeing no treatment pathway forward. One was her older sister who tried countless medicine combinations, therapies and facilities over 30 years.</p><br><p>--</p><br><p>Mind Medicine Australia&nbsp;exists to help alleviate the suffering&nbsp;and suicides&nbsp;caused by mental illness in Australia through expanding the treatment options available to medical practitioners and their patients.&nbsp;We will establish safe and effective psychedelic-assisted treatments to treat a range of mental illnesses.</p><br><p><em>In furtherance of this mission