Margaux Amara is an artist, a writer, and a third year medical student at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine where she is pursuing psychiatry. Both artistically and therapeutically, she is drawn to capturing and holding still moments when the endlessly shifting pieces of our lives converge and new truths emerge, creating space to give meaning to the complex and beautiful experience of being human.
Through art and medicine, Margaux hopes to bring a new perspective to various areas of human suffering and how we may cope, heal, and thrive. These areas of interest include the power of artistic expression in processing and healing, emerging psychedelic therapies to treat PTSD, depression, and anxiety, and harm reduction frameworks for substance use disorders and beyond.
Through her practice and research as an emerging physician, she is investigating this question broadly through exploring various healing modalities rooted in artistic expression, thoughtful therapeutic relationships, alternative and integrative adjunctive therapies, and community justice with the goal to subvert existing, often limited methods of treatment.
Her personal artwork serves as an extension of these ideas and includes a growing narrative collection as well as a series of figurative paintings.