Meet our Medical and Mental Health Practitioners
Our team are experts in their specialties and in the field of psychedelic and ketamine therapy and integrative therapy. We work together to create the most comprehensive and effective treatments available.
FOUNDER, CLINICAL DIRECTOR
Michael Yang, DOM, PhD
Michael Yang DOM, PhD, has been practicing Integrative and Chinese Medicine since 2000. After completing his doctoral work at ECTOM, he went on to PhD work at Panamerican University studying the intersection of pain, metabolism and depression. Michael specializes in complex pain conditions like pelvic floor dysfunction, migraine and pain combined with weight management issues and mental health. He is credentialed in psychedelic therapy, and has received advanced training in EMDR and DBT.
During his training, his academic knowledge and the “family secrets” of being raised in a household of physicians and folk healing grandmas, were added upon through extensive travel and study throughout Europe and Central and South America witnessing what traditional medicine looked like around the globe, and how they can be applied in a modern medical context.
MEDICAL DIRECTOR
Remi Drozd, MD
Dr. Remi Drozd is a board certified physician with 15 years experience improving the wellbeing of his patients. He has observed the benefits of psychedelics their impact on improved wellbeing in the clinical setting and is also trained as a Ketamine practitioner.
In his experience in a hospital setting, he wasn’t satisfied with they way western medicine approaches treating symptoms and sickness. He believes that understanding who the patient is, what they’re going through, and then treating them to improve health the best, most sustainable approach to improving your wellbeing.
DIRECTOR PHYSICAL MEDICINE
Erica Reid, OTR/L, RES-CPT
Erica earned her Occupational Therapy degree from University of Florida in 1997. She is an Advanced (JFB) Myofascial Release Therapist® and a Restorative Exercise Specialist™ who has also trained in CranioSacral Therapy, Visceral Therapy, Pilates and internal pelvic floor work through accredited courses (Herman & Wallace).
Using these techniques, she is able to evaluate and treat using a whole body approach. Her one on one therapy sessions involve hands-on treatments during which a multitude of Myofascial Release techniques as well as other cutting edge approaches are used to address the whole body. Education in proper body mechanics, movement, and postural awareness are also provided. Treatment session are for all ages, babies too!
DIRECTOR MENTAL HEALTH
Sam Pow, LCSW
Sam Pow is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who has been specializing in the treatment of trauma, anxiety and depression for the last nine years. His six years of experience running mental health Residential Treatment Programs (RTC), Partial Hospitalization Programs (PHP) and Intensive Outpatient Programs (IOP) has afforded Sam the opportunity to support adult and adolescent clients through the process of recovering from suicidal crises, psychotic episodes and acute struggles related to personality disorder diagnoses such as Borderline and Dissociative Identity. Sam’s clinical practice incorporates the practical coping skills of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) with the strategies for deeper transformation and empowerment offered by Healing the Child Within, Narrative Therapy, Existential Therapy, Somatic Experiencing and Psychodrama. Sam’s clinical practice is LGBTQ+ and neurodiversity affirming, embraces body positivity, is anti-racist and rooted in social justice.
As a Ketamine Assisted Therapist, Sam’s approach is based on protocols developed by MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies) that invite clients to allow Ketamine to connect them to their mind, body and spirit’s innate capacity for healing. In Sam’s experience, Psychedelic Therapy is the next best thing to a time machine. By becoming empowered to radically reconstruct their perspectives on their traumas and losses, clients who felt stuck in their pasts or even tormented by them, come to a place of feeling free to create new meanings for their most painful and frightening experiences. Time traveling to undo past events no longer feels necessary because the story clients tell themselves about those events has been so profoundly transformed. Sam is currently in the process of becoming trained by MAPS in MDMA Assisted Therapy in preparation for its imminent approval by the FDA.