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Dr. Sidney Edsall is an Integrative Psychiatrist, with a particular focus in treating complex trauma and depression utilizing western medical modalities and eastern medical practices and philosophy.  She has a particular interest in mindfulness and meditation as a healing modality for psychiatric conditions and facilitates an online Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) Group online.  Dr. Edsall is the founder and medical director for Quantum Integral Healing Arts, a multidisciplinary and integrative mental health clinic in San Francisco and a founding board member of Open Mind Collective, a nonprofit dedicated to clinical research of psychedelic medicines and providing care to underserved populations with psychedelic medicines.  She participated as a physician researcher in the MAPS MAPP2 Phase 3 and USX clinical trials for MDMA Assisted Psychotherapy for PTSD.  Dr. Edsall completed her psychiatric residency at Stanford in 2006. She has since worked in many medical settings to include private practice, San Mateo county outpatient and emergency services, UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, Director of Behavioral Health Services at St Mary’s Hospital & Clinics, and Stanford’s Center for Integrative Medicine.  She also spent 5 years in Italy and Germany working on US military bases with active duty US Army soldiers and family members suffering with mental health disorders.