Ukrainian Voices in Global Conversation: HUT’s Representation in 2025
The full-scale war in Ukraine has highlighted mental health as a critical issue, both nationally and globally. As the scale of trauma grows, so does the need for spaces where experiences can be shared, lessons exchanged, and solutions developed collectively.
For this reason, participation in professional events—conferences, panels, and roundtables—is a strategic priority for Heal Ukraine Trauma (HUT). We engage both internationally and within Ukraine, where a dynamic ecosystem of dialogue and collaboration is rapidly taking shape. Across these spaces, clinicians, researchers, civil society organizations, and public institutions are coming together to address shared challenges and build practical, ethical solutions.
Throughout 2025, HUT’s Ukraine Director, Oksana Gryshchenko and other team members participated in numerous national and international events, representing Ukraine’s lived experience and helping to build bridges of cooperation across borders.
Our team representatives at Psychedelic Science 2025 in Denver, USA: Amy Goodrich, Oksana Gryshchenko, Elaine Klein, and Elise Wilson
Ukraine as a Space for Innovation
Oksana Gryshchenko has presented lessons from the implementation of HUT’s Group Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (G-KAP) program, including outcomes, clinician training models, ethical safeguards, and supervision structures. These contributions ground theoretical discussions in real-world practice and demonstrate how innovative approaches can be responsibly applied in high-risk environments.
HUT’s experience is increasingly informing broader professional dialogue beyond Ukraine. By sharing evidence-based models developed under extreme conditions, HUT contributes to the evolution of psychedelic-assisted therapy and trauma care internationally, offering insights that are relevant to other contexts facing large-scale trauma and limited mental health infrastructure.
Why This Matters Now
These platforms provide space to address the role of civil society, innovative therapeutic approaches, veteran care, and the urgent need for sustainable mental health strategies. Through this engagement, HUT connects practitioners, researchers, and international partners, helping transform individual initiatives into systemic change.
The scale of trauma in Ukraine calls for more than financial or material resources alone. It requires new, scalable models of care that integrate clinical practice, research, training, and community support.
Ukraine is increasingly recognized as a place where these solutions are being developed in real time. The international community has responded by inviting Ukrainian experts into global dialogue, supporting partnerships, and helping build long-term programs grounded in evidence and lived experience.
For HUT, international engagement is not about visibility alone. It is about responsibility: sharing knowledge, learning from others, building alliances, and contributing to a future where veterans, their families, and civilians in Ukraine have access to safe, modern, and evidence-based mental health care.
Here’s where HUT showed up in 2025:
Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine — Drug Policy Forum
March 26–27, 2025
Focus: Medical and legal approaches to drug policy in Ukraine; pain treatment and access to controlled medicines; rehabilitation and harm reduction during wartime; research on substance use among military personnel; psychedelic-assisted therapies in Ukrainian and international practice.
Kyiv, Ukraine — “Circle of Recovery” Conference
May 31, 2025
Focus: Collaboration among NGOs supporting veterans and families; innovative trauma treatment approaches; KAP and PAT; solutions at the intersection of medicine, technology, and social impact.
Prague, Czech Republic — NOVEL MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENTS
June 9, 2025
Focus: Psychological resilience during war and social instability; mental health as a policy priority; innovations in neuroscience and PTSD treatment; philanthropy’s role in trauma recovery.
Denver, USA — Psychedelic Science 2025
June 16–20, 2025
Focus: Evidence-based therapies, safety, and adapting treatment models to wartime conditions.
Salzburg, Austria — Ukraine’s National Drug Policy Seminar
September 15–18, 2025
Focus: Drug policy reform, European alignment, harm reduction, medical cannabis, and Ukraine’s role in international policy processes.
Malmö / Stockholm, Sweden — Norrsken Mind events
September 16–17, 2025
Focus: Ukraine’s mental health crisis, emerging therapeutic approaches, and the role of innovation and partnerships.
Kyiv, Ukraine — Roundtable “Ketamine in the Treatment of Mental Disorders in Ukraine”
October 15, 2025
Focus: Clinical practice of KAP, legal frameworks, clinician training, and ethical standards.
Kyiv, Ukraine — Roundtable “The Future of Drug Policy in Ukraine”
October 28, 2025
Focus: National strategy for 2025–2030, safety, harm reduction, psychedelics, and policy recommendations..
Online (international) — Global Psychedelic Week: Panel on Veterans’ Healing
November 6, 2025
Focus: Evidence-based treatment for veterans with PTSD; Ukraine’s experience with group KAP; scaling care responsibly.
Warsaw, Poland — Holo Mind Conference: Integration in Therapy
November 15–16, 2025
Focus: Integration of psychedelic experiences in psychotherapy; ethics, safety, expectations, and clinical application.