Doctoral Candidate, Practice Owner
University of Ottawa
Portland, OR, United States
Tahlia R. Harrison, MA, LMFT is a licensed marriage and family therapist, bioethicist, and researcher affiliated with the University of Ottawa and Harvard Law School’s Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics. They are currently pursuing a PhD in Experimental Psychology at the University of Ottawa.
Tahlia holds an MA in Bioethics and Science Policy from Duke University and an MA in Marriage, Couple, and Family Therapy from Lewis & Clark Graduate School, where the program centers culturally responsive, systemically oriented principles in clinical training. She is committed to carrying these principles into all aspects of her work and believes it is an ethical responsibility to challenge and change systems that cause harm to the people entrusted to her care as a clinician and researcher.
Her doctoral research, conducted under Dr. Monnica Williams in the Laboratory for Culture and Mental Health Disparities, focuses on psychology, clinical and research ethics, culturally responsive trauma-informed care, and health disparities. Tahlia has published in the American Journal of Bioethics and has several papers in press with The Behavior Therapist, Frontiers in Psychiatry, and the Handbook of Depression. She has presented internationally on topics related to clinical practice and the use of psychedelics.
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