Dulcie Thomson

Dulcie Thomson is a Registered Nurse and a Nurse Educator in the Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) programme at Camosun College in Victoria, British Columbia, and a student in the Master of Arts in Psychedelics and Consciousness Studies programme at the University of Ottawa. She is driven by the belief that psychedelic-assisted therapy can help transform care for people who are underserved by current medical practices.

Her research brings a nursing perspective to questions of care and meaning. One line of inquiry examines how rigidity within Western epistemologies — in particular, the refusal to expand the biopsychosocial model to include spiritual ways of knowing — may contribute to prolonged suffering and dehumanising care for people diagnosed with psychosis.

She is training in psychedelic-assisted therapy and group facilitation through the Clinician Preceptorship Program at Roots to Thrive in Nanaimo, British Columbia, a community-based clinic that uses IM ketamine dosing, where she is also involved in psychedelic-related research projects. She contributes to research on IM ketamine dosing practices, and her original research asks whether baseline thermoregulatory tendencies — self-reported and physiologically measured “hot” versus “cold” profiles — predict subjective and physiological responses to psilocybin.

At the KAP Summit she presents, together with Ryan Chapelle and colleagues from the University of Ottawa, “The Complexities and Limitations of a Dose-by-Weight Approach to Ketamine Therapy: An Exploration of Ketamine Practitioners’ Intramuscular Dosing Practices”.