Ketamine and Mental Health With Special Guest: Lauren Taus

💣 Knowledge Bomb: The role of Ketamine in the treatment of depression, suicidality and anxiety. What is ketamine? How does it work? What does the research say? The show is for anyone struggling with their mental health. 🎙 Lauren Taus @lauren.taus is a psychedelic therapist who joins the show to give us some amazing gems on how these treatments can change our mental health for the better. She speaks about the stigma and how it’s evolving. What these medicines are, how they help, and where the treatment of mental health is going. Lauren Taus: Founder of Inbodied Life Therapy and Co-Founder of The Psychedelic Coalition for Health, Lauren Taus is a psychotherapist with a specialty in psychedelic assisted therapies. Lauren integrates alternative modalities of treatment into her work, and focuses on embodied techniques to support integrative health in mind, body, heart, and spirit. Lauren has decades of experience as a yoga teacher and trainer that translate into therapies that support connection and kind relationship within the body. She studied with David Emerson under the supervision of Bessel van der Kolk at The Trauma Institute in Boston in trauma sensitive yoga, and she’s trained by the Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) for MDMA assisted psychotherapy for complex PTSD. Lauren trained with Dr. Phil Wolfson in Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy. Lauren supports psychedelic assisted therapy research with the intention to bring these types of interventions back into the Western mainstream model. Lauren believes that individual and collective healing are intimately intertwined. She is an activist and an advocate for a safer, more integrated world. Lauren is passionate about engaging with individuals and groups to create systemic healing and homecoming to the goodness that exists in all beings. Be sure to like and subscribe to #HealThySelf Hosted by Doctor Christian Gonzalez N.D. Follow Doctor G on Instagram @doctor.gonzalez https://www.instagram.com/doctor.gonzalez/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices