Ketamine & Mental Health: Dr. Karen DeCocker On Cutting-Edge Treatments
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
In today’s episode, Dr. Karen DeCocker, PMHNP, DNP, CNM, joins the podcast to discuss the use of ketamine to treat depression and various other mental health issues. Dr. DeCocker is the Director of Advanced Practice Providers and Vice President of Clinical Services at Stella Mental Health. Here, she’s on a mission to reframe the mental health care paradigm – emphasizing the need to treat brain health with the same level of importance as physical health…
Dr. DeCocker provides individualized treatment recommendations across a wide range of advanced protocols, including dual sympathetic reset, ketamine infusions, integration therapy, and more. With more than 13 years of experience as a clinical professional and 30 years of experience in the non-profit and healthcare administration sectors, she has a proven track record of delivering results and fostering a culture of excellence and humanity.
Tune in to learn about:
- The importance of understanding what’s at the core of our physical body symptoms.
- A history of ketamine in the mental health sector.
- The types of patients that ketamine treatment can work well for.
- How ketamine is typically administered.
You can follow along with Dr. DeCocker and her work by visiting the Stella Mental Health website!
Episode also available on Apple Podcasts: http://apple.co/30PvU9
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| 0:37.8 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius podcast. |
| 0:41.6 | I guest today is Karen DeKocker. |
| 0:43.2 | She's a VP of Clinical Services at Stella Mental Health. |
| 0:46.7 | So we have to talk about the use of ketamine, you know, either maybe by perhaps by injection |
| 0:50.7 | or by infusion to help people that have depression and other, you know, |
| 0:54.5 | mental issues and, you know, all the other things that Karen does. So welcome, Karen. |
| 0:58.6 | Thanks for coming. Thank you so much for having me today. |
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