Healers helping healers · for licensed mental health professionals
You felt relieved when your three o’clock cancelled.
You hold space for everyone who walks through that door. Nobody is holding it for you, and you have gotten very good at pretending that is fine.
AlphaOmega Wellness is a physician-led brain health office in Greenwood, Indiana. We offer a discount to licensed mental health providers, because you are the ones absorbing this all day and almost nobody builds anything for you.
What it looks like in this job specifically
Not a crisis. Just quieter than you used to be.
You would never chart a client the way you talk about yourself. You would call it depression in anyone else and you have a dozen reasons why it is different for you.
None of the usual advice touches it, because the problem is not that you forgot self-care. It is that the thing you do for a living costs something, and you have been paying it for years without a break.
- The cancellation feels like a gift. You catch it, you feel bad about it, and it happens again next week.
- You can still say the right thing. You just cannot feel it while you say it anymore.
- Notes are three days behind. Not because you are lazy. Because your bandwidth is already tapped.
- Heavy sessions land like an anchor. It is harder to hold that space for someone when your own mind is not in the room.
- You are recommending things you are not doing. And you hear yourself doing it.
You already know the mechanism
So we will skip the part where we explain neuroplasticity to you
You know what sustained stress does to prefrontal and hippocampal architecture. You have taught it. What is harder to hold onto is that it applies to the person teaching it.
Ketamine works on glutamate rather than serotonin, which is why the timeline looks different from an SSRI trial. The evidence base is strongest in depression, including the treatment-resistant kind, and the mechanism it acts on is the same one chronic stress wears down.
Across more than 5,000 infusions since 2022, the average drop in our patients’ PHQ-9 and GAD-7 scores is 70 percent. That is the average change in symptom scores, not a response rate, and individual results vary.
We dose to the ASKP3 consensus guidelines. A full evaluation comes first and we screen for anything that makes ketamine the wrong call.
Why this is not just infusions
You would not send a client to six sessions and call it treatment
Neither would we. The infusion opens a window where the brain is unusually able to change. What happens inside that window is what decides whether anything holds.
That part is called integration, and it is the piece most ketamine clinics skip entirely. You will recognize the work. It is the work you do with your own clients, which is exactly why it tends to land faster with people in this field.
- A full evaluation first. History, what you have already tried, standardized measures, and an honest answer about fit before anything is scheduled.
- The series, monitored start to finish. Private room, vitals throughout, and every member of our staff trained in psychedelic trip sitting.
- The education program alongside it. What to do before, during and after each session, running the whole time rather than handed to you at the end.
- Integration groups with people doing the same work. Yes, you can be the one in the room who is not running it.
What you are actually buying back
Bandwidth, and the part of you that used to feel it
Not a better mood score. The specific thing that left.
- Room for the seventh client of the day. Showing up for the last one the way you did for the first.
- Feeling it again, not just naming it. Empathy you have access to rather than empathy you perform.
- Your evenings back. Being at dinner instead of mentally still in the four o’clock appointment.
- Doing the things you tell people to do. Which, it turns out, works better when your nervous system is not flat.
Healers helping healers is a real discount, not a gesture. You carry a particular kind of mental load, all day, for people who need you steady. We would rather account for that than pretend it is not there.
It applies to the program, HSA and FSA dollars work toward it, and Affirm financing is available on top of it.
The part you are actually worried about
Indiana mental health is a small world. We know.
You have referred clients to us, or you have sat on a panel with someone who has. The thought of being a patient somewhere your colleagues send people is not nothing, and it is the reason a lot of providers in this state never make the call.
So here is what that looks like from our side.
- We do not talk about who our patients are. Not to referring providers, not at conferences, not to the person who sent us a client last week.
- Self-pay means no claim goes anywhere. Nothing is submitted to a payer, so nothing lands in a record your employer or your credentialing body can pull.
- Scheduling around your day is normal here. Early, late, or on a day you do not see clients. Just say so.
- Being a provider does not change the screening. If ketamine is the wrong call for you, we will tell you that too.
Start wherever you want
You do not have to decide anything today
Some people reading this are ready to book. Some want to know more first and are not interested in being called about it. Both are fine, and the form lets you say which.
Either way, we will send you the Clinician Bandwidth Audit
A short structured self-check, built for people who assess other humans for a living and are terrible at assessing themselves. What is draining your capacity, which parts of it come back on their own, and which parts have not come back in a while.
Send me the audit
For licensed mental health professionals.
We send the audit to your email. If you picked the second option, that is all that happens. You can reply and ask us anything, and you can unsubscribe from the first message.
You have told a hundred people it is worth asking for help.
You were right when you said it. It was true every single time. It is still true on the days it is about you, which is the part nobody in this field seems able to apply to themselves.