Steven D Pratscher,

I’m currently a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Florida funded by a K01 grant from the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health. I completed a 3-year postdoctoral fellowship in an NIH-funded Integrative and Multidisciplinary Pain and Aging Research Training program with the Pain Research and Intervention Center of Excellence. I received a B.S. in Psychology from the University of Illinois in 2015 and a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Missouri in 2020 with emphases in social-personality and mindfulness research. My research focuses on developing and testing complementary and integrative interventions as possible treatments for chronic pain that also have the potential to improve whole person health and well-being. Specifically, I’m interested in investigating the efficacy and biopsychosocial mechanisms of action of breathing self-management practices, integrative breathwork interventions, and psychedelic-assisted therapy.