Dave Rojas
Trainer
Dave Rojas (he/him), Ph.D., is a postdoctoral fellow in forensic psychology at Washington State’s Office of Forensic Mental Health Services. Dr. Roja’s passion for psychology is rooted in equity, diversity, and inclusion through a social justice lens. Throughout his clinical training, he provided therapeutic services to low-income adults and children struggling with severe mental illness who were in custody or the community. Dr. Rojas’s research interest in ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP) emerged out of volunteering opportunities at Kriya conferences (2017-2019). The need for cultural inclusivity in psychedelic research grew increasingly louder year after year. This led Dr. Rojas to explore the experience of KAP among a more culturally diverse sample for his doctoral dissertation.
Dr. Rojas earned his Ph.D. in clinical psychology at the California School of Professional Psychology in San Francisco, CA. He completed his pre-doctoral internship with the Federal Bureau of Prisons at the Federal Medical Center in Rochester, MN.
