EUGEN SECARĂ 

Eugen Secară, MSc MA, is a PhD student and associate assistant professor at the Babeș-Bolyai University. After obtaining a bachelor degree at the University of Bucharest, he has completed the Middle European Interdisciplinary Master programme at the University of Vienna, having an Erasmus semester at the Comenius University of Bratislava which was focused on the topic of computational modelling, and the Clinical Psychology, Psychological Counselling and Psychotherapy Master programme at the Babeș-Bolyai University. His research interests include measuring information disorders, investigating the cognitive processes involved in the development and decrease of fake news vulnerability, quantifying the influence of echo chambers on explicit and implicit attitudes, determining the relationship between apophenic constructs and behaviors that endanger health, analysing how conflict detection is performed, the study of response bias and identifying the characteristics of randomly generated structures that convey the erroneous impression of the intentionality. His interest in psychedelic assisted therapy is focused on treatment efficacy and the targeted mechanisms of change.

Eugen is licensed as a cognitive-behavioural psychotherapist by the Romanian Board of Professional Psychology and is a member of the European Foundation for Psychedelic Science (MIND) and the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science (ACBS), being active in the Romanian Chapter. Having co-founded the „Terra-Pi” Psychological Clinic, he offers individual and group psychotherapy sessions, also offering professional intervision sessions using the process based therapy approach and the psychological flexibility model.

Currently, Eugen is enrolled in the psychedelic integration programme offered by the MIND foundation, where he is being trained to facilitate Beyond Experience Workshops.