For Therapists and Doctors:

My name is Ashley Brockus, and I have been a therapist since 2006, and I am an owner and founder of Guide MindBody Therapy. I am passionate about helping providers heal themselves from the inside out. We give SO much to our clients and patients. Over the course of my healing journey, I have noticed that many of us ended up as therapists because we learned how to expertly help others through surviving trauma in childhood: Tend and Befriend, or Fawn (people pleaseing) response. These response patterns are deep ruts for many of us and cause us to put others before ourselves. This patterning in our nervous system can also cause us to be even more drained and stressed doing what we love… and to burn out if we do not focus on ourselves.

I started out seeing clients in 2006, and by 2013 I was done “forever,” I thought. Once I started healing myself and figuring out what contributed to my burnout: a lot of unrealized, invisible wounds. I started therapy with a skilled trauma therapist. After a few years of healing myself, I came back to the work of being a therapist. Even with the help of an expert, I still wasn’t experiencing active changes in my body and in my life, until I had some guided psychedelic journeys outside of therapy. This was what changed my life, my body, my relationships.

I have gone to many wonderful trainings over the last 10 years to help myself understand my own wounds and bring healing to myself first, and then to the people who have come into my care. And though all of these trainings have helped me and my clients immensely, I discovered that nothing got me to feel like my Self as much as medicine work. I have had so many layers of dissociation in my body that blocked my access to certain parts of myself, certain memories. The only thing that could bridge the abyss of dissociation between me and these parts was medicine.

That is why we started Guide: to offer you a treatment that helps us heal so quickly is inaccessible. After years of therapy with a highly trained and experienced trauma therapist, I still could not access my biggest trauma without medicine. And now, Guide exists to provide each of you with legal medicine work to bridge the abyss in your own system, to heal yourself so that the wounds you have not been able to reach are now reachable.

At Guide MindBody Therapy, it is our mission to create truly safe space for clinicians and doctors in our community to receive the healing they have been searching for. Not just talk about it with someone, but be changed for the better. As health providers, we have become leaders in our community. We are the ones that others come to for guidance, support, and healing. If we are not doing this healing actively for ourselves, whatever trauma distortions are in us will be affecting how and what we give to our clients/patients. This cycle can actually keep us in emotional/relational isolation from others when we need help the most. And authentic community —as a provider—is the greatest protection of all.

The best thing we can do is be in an active process of healing while we are providing care. Our PROCESS of transmuting trauma is the IMPRINT clients and patients truly need. They will sense our process of changing ourselves, our healing: that is the imprint we pass along through our relationships with those we treat.

This opportunity can accelerate your healing journey.

This opportunity can build bridges to lost parts of yourself.

You do not have to live with the cards you were dealt.

Normally, experiencing ketamine work at Guide involves a structured process that includes a minimum of two preparation sessions, three ketamine sessions, and three integration sessions. This offering is different. It is designed as an a la carte experience for those who want to begin gently and see what unfolds. Let’s talk —Ashley