About

Working with psychedelic medicines is the great privilege of my life. I certainly didn’t grow up thinking I would end up here, but it happened. I began my journey working with Ketamine, an FDA approved psychedelic, in 2019. I worked for a progressive substance use treatment center that also happened to own Athens first Ketamine clinic. As my clients began to receive these services, I simply couldn’t ignore their transformations. This is where my journey to becoming a certified psychedelic therapist began.

Prior to this, my specialty focus was trauma and substance misuse (addiction). Now, I have combined these areas of knowledge into a specific protocol that includes assessment, preparation, medicine, and integration therapy.

My clients have typically experienced trauma that is now manifesting as a rigid thought or behavior pattern that feels difficult to change. An example of this would be a child who grew up in a home where love was based on performance. The child needs to be safe and secure in the feeling that they are loved just as they are, but that didn’t happen. This client may identify as an empath or perfectionist and can’t seem to exit the pattern. They may also struggle with behaviors designed to soothe the underlying trauma. That might be alcohol abuse, controlling, distracting, avoidance, and more.

This presentation of childhood trauma + a coping persona + maladaptive behaviors is what I do. I use several therapeutic modalities in combination with psychedelic or Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) including EMDR, ACT, MI, and parts work. My job is to get clients prepared by setting the context and expectations for their medicine session, to help them reveal and target specific patterns, and to assist in understanding and integrating their medicine experience into everyday life.

What clients often misunderstand is that psychedelic therapy is not a magic pill. The healing is not in the medicine alone, though it’s an excellent helper. You can think of the medicine as simply a telephone to your higher self. To be clear, for many, that’s a game changer! Through trauma and adversity, they may never have connected with that part of themselves. This part is safe, loved, wise and inherently knows how to heal you. It wants you to feel loved just as you are. My job is to make the introduction, and then to deepen the connection through integration, which takes time and practice.

I’ll be with you throughout your healing journey, and I have guided over 100 individual clients through this process. There isn’t anyone in Athens with more experience.