Trina DuVall, MSW, is a faculty member and PhD student at the University of Oklahoma’s Anne & Henry Zarrow School of Social Work, where her work sits at the intersection of psychedelic science, social work, trauma, hope, policy, and Indigenous-informed approaches to healing.
Her research explores psychedelic-assisted therapies through a social work and community-based lens, with particular interests in post-traumatic growth, Hope, and Indigenous knowledge systems. She is actively involved in developing opportunities for social work students to gain field education experience within the evolving psychedelic landscape, including clinical research, policy, community, and Indigenous spaces.
Trina has also been engaged in Oklahoma’s rapidly developing psychedelic policy and research ecosystem, helping build connections among universities, researchers, community organizations, policymakers, and advocates. She is working to advance responsible psychedelic education and workforce development while ensuring that social work, and its commitments to ethics, equity, cultural humility, and person-in-environment practice, has a meaningful voice and active presence in the field.
Before entering academia, Trina invested nearly two decades in child welfare, working across the continuum from prevention and frontline practice to administration. That experience continues to shape her commitment to trauma-responsive systems and to expanding pathways toward healing for individuals, families, and communities.
As a board member of the Oklahoma Psychedelic Collective, Trina hopes to help strengthen the bridge between research, education, policy, practice, and community partnerships while supporting the development of a rigorous, ethical, inclusive, and uniquely Oklahoma-rooted approach to the future of psychedelic practice.