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Dr. Jonathan Leake is a Board Certified Emergency Department Physician and the Co-owner and CEO of Dérive Health, a clinic specializing in ketamine-assisted therapy for PTSD, depression, and other treatment-resistant mental health conditions. With over a decade of experience treating dehydration and illness with IV fluids and medications, Dr. Leake...

Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn: [4:34] How a traumatic medical experience led the guest to seek ketamine-assisted psychotherapy treatment [6:18] The physical and emotional sensations of ketamine-assisted therapy sessions [12:00] Parts work: reconciling past selves during ketamine-assisted therapy [22:22] The guest recounts a difficult session triggered by medical...

Veronika Gold, LMFT, is the Co-founder of Polaris Insight Center, a clinic offering ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, integrative psychiatry, and integration services. She is a lead trainer at Polaris Training Program. She served as a sub-investigator and co-therapist, educator, and consultant at the Lykos clinical trials for the treatment of PTSD with...

Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn: [6:39] How ketamine therapy unlocks suppressed trauma and emotional healing [10:16] The emotional intensity of revisiting trauma during ketamine therapy [16:07] Today’s guest talks about working through trauma after ketamine therapy sessions [21:33] How trauma is stored in the body and the role...

Dr. Signi Goldman, MD, is a board-certified psychiatrist and the Co-founder and Medical Director of Living Medicine Institute, which offers psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy training programs. As a certified provider for psychedelic-assisted therapy and research, she has practiced in various clinical settings, including hospital systems and alternative treatment settings. Dr. Goldman also...

Michael Mithoefer, MD, is a clinical psychologist and the Senior Medical Director for Medical Affairs, Training, and Supervision at the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). He specializes in treating PTSD with experimental psychotherapy through clinical research and outpatient clinical practice. Between 2004 and 2018, Michael and his wife Annie...