The event will begin promptly at 1:00PM. Please arrive early. Light refreshments will be provided.
You must attend the entire training to receive RSS CEUs. No partial credit will be awarded.
Join us for a powerful conversation led by three Connecticut-based experts who use their lived experience, clinical training, and deep commitment to healing to transform how we understand mental health, recovery, and plant medicine.
Uzma Zakir, RPh, founder of bloomHigher, is a pharmacist and cannabis-care specialist with nearly a decade of experience in Connecticut’s medical cannabis program. She blends research, clinical insight, and traditional pharmacy training to offer an evidence-informed approach to plant medicine. Through national presentations, a popular webinar series, and private practice with internal medicine physicians, she supports individuals with chronic illness, anxiety, autism, cannabis use disorder, and more. Her work is grounded in bloomHigher’s vision: expanding understanding and acceptance of plant medicine through education, compassionate care, and innovative wellness tools.
Lisa Capitani, MBA, BSN, RN, CGRN is a Connecticut nurse dedicated to conscious healing with cannabis and entheogenic medicines. With a certificate in Medical Cannabis Care and firsthand insight as a medical cannabis patient, Lisa merges clinical expertise with intentional practice. She manages operations for Doctors for Drug Policy Reform, authored Weed Week and Mindful Metrics, and founded Nine Ledges LLC, where she offers integrative nurse coaching and personalized cannabis-based wellness planning.
Erin Doolittle, LMFT is a Marriage and Family Therapist specializing in medical cannabis, PTSD, and psychedelic-assisted therapies. A passionate advocate for plant-medicine freedom and restorative justice, Erin serves as a writer, educator, and speaker offering training on cannabis and psilocybin therapies. Through Wholeness House in Hartford, they create healing-centered community programming that blends therapeutic insight with activism.
Together, these practitioners will explore the power of lived experience within professional practice—highlighting how recovery, identity, and expertise intersect to create more authentic, human-centered care.
Participants will learn to:
• Understand how mental health professionals with lived experience navigate and thrive in the clinical world
• Explore how internalized stigma and diagnosis myths can be dismantled through storytelling and community care
• Evaluate recovery as an empowered, evolving process rooted in choice, accountability, and mutual growth