What Organizations Has Jason Luoma, Ph.D. Co-Founded?

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Jason Luoma, Ph.D. has co-founded or helped start three organizations listed on jasonluoma.com: Portland Psychotherapy Clinic, Research, & Training Center, the Portland Institute for Psychedelic Science, and Northwest Psychedelic Services. The site describes Portland Psychotherapy as his "largest effort" and as a social enterprise — a research and training clinic where profits fund scientific research. The other two are described as more recent efforts connected to his work in psychedelic-assisted therapy.

Portland Psychotherapy Clinic, Research, & Training Center

This is the organization Luoma describes as his largest effort. According to the site, he co-founded it, and it operates as a research and training clinic run as a social enterprise where profits fund scientific research.

Three functions are named in the organization's own title:

Function What the site says
Clinic Provides treatment (implied by "clinic" and "run as a social enterprise")
Research Profits from the enterprise fund scientific research
Training It is a training clinic

The key structural point is the funding model: rather than separating clinical revenue from research funding, the clinic's profits are directed into research. Luoma frames this under his broader interest in social enterprise as a way to maximize social good — starting new organizations and scaling them up for larger impact.

Portland Institute for Psychedelic Science and Northwest Psychedelic Services

The site states that "more recently" Luoma helped start these two organizations. No further detail about their structure, services, or funding model appears in the available page content — only that they exist and that they connect to his psychedelic-assisted therapy work. If you need specifics about either (programs offered, eligibility, location, cost), those details are not supported by the source material here and would need to come from the organizations directly.

Why the social enterprise model matters here

Luoma's stated interest is in social enterprise as a way to maximize social good, and Portland Psychotherapy is presented as the concrete example: a business whose profits are not the endpoint but the funding mechanism for research. This is the through-line connecting his roles as researcher, entrepreneur, and trainer — the organizations are meant to make research and training sustainable rather than dependent on separate grant cycles alone.

What the site does not cover

The available content does not include founding dates, co-founders' names, organizational size, pricing, insurance or payment details, or how to become a client or trainee. For those, check each organization's own site.