Dr Katie Treble is a Devonshire-born-and-bred doctor, now based in Melbourne, Australia. She is a psychiatry registrar and member of the research team at Monash University’s Clinical Psychedelic Lab, where she works as a therapist on the MMP-1 trial using MDMA-assisted therapy for first responders with PTSD. Her background in Emergency, Critical Care and Humanitarian Medicine has led to a special interest in trauma, burnout, and the uses of psychedelic therapy in recovery.

A Hope in Hell: MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD in frontline workers

PTSD is notoriously debilitating and difficult to treat, and yet for our frontline workers – nurses, doctors, police, paramedics, firefighters, military - being traumatised is a routine part of the job. What makes this population different, and what role is there for psychedelic therapy on the bumpy road back to recovery? Drawing on her experiences as an emergency registrar in the remote Australian outback, as a humanitarian doctor in a warzone with MSF, and now as a psychedelic therapist in PTSD research in Melbourne, Dr Katie Treble shares thoughts and insights on how to protect our protectors.