Who Am I?

I am a practicing psychotherapist in Marin County, CA. I worked in acute care medicine before becoming a marriage/family therapist. I am an investigator in the MAPS Phase 3 study using MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for severe PTSD. I was the principal co-therapist for the MAPS-sponsored, Phase 2 MDMA-assisted psychotherapy study for individuals suffering from anxiety with life-threatening illness. I am a consultant for MAPS, helping to support new therapists who will work with MDMA when it becomes approved by the FDA. I have been a pioneer in the development of Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP), as well as MDMA-assisted therapy. My work is unique and creative to the psychotherapy process using this medicine. 



I, along with others on my team, treat clients with treatment-resistant depression,  first-line depression, anxiety, and PTSD, as well as those seeking couples therapy and transformation. I also co-founded the Ketamine Research Foundation and Ketamine Training Center, leading trainings nationwide and teaching practitioners the skills used in KAP. 

I am at the forefront of using KAP for treating adolescents with depression, anxiety, and PTSD. Along with Dr. Phil Wolfson, I founded a non-profit, the Ketamine Research Foundation, whose mission is to provide training for practitioners, collect data to track outcomes with Ketamine therapy, start a new protocol for using KAP for those diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, and those in palliative and hospice care, research in lactating women and ketamine for post-partum depression, ketamine for PMS and other projects.