Robert Grant, MD, MPH
Physician and Co-FounderRobert M Grant, MD is a father, teacher, physician, and cofounder of Healing Realms Psychotherapy, Inc. He is a physician specialized in internal medicine and pulmonary medicine and has 39 years of experience leading HIV research and clinical care. He pioneered the concept of an HIV prevention pill, called PrEP. In 2014, he suffered a professional and personal crisis that led him to pivot and face the challenges of human connection directly. He completed the certificate in psychedelic treatment and research (CPTR) at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in 2016. He started the Healing Realms Psychotherapy practice in 2017 and became certified as a therapist in Internal Family Systems in 2019. He has completed sections A-E of MAPS MDMA psychotherapy training. His practice aims to develop the clinical craft of ketamine assisted psychotherapy through collaborative work with diverse clients and colleagues.
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Jessica Katzman, PsyD
Psychologist and Co-FounderJessica Katzman, PsyD is a psychologist with 5 years of experience with ketamine assisted psychotherapy. She has published articles "the therapeutic bends" and challenges in integration of psychedelic experiences. She co-founded the healing realms psychotherapy practice in 2018.
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Psychotherapists
Jeanna Eichenbaum, LCSW
PsychotherapistJeanna Eichenbaum is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW #14762) and a psychotherapist with a private practice offering both individual and couples therapy in San Francisco, specializing in sexuality, relationship concerns, and trauma informed treatment. She emphasizes serving the queer communities.
She graduated with a Master's of social welfare at UC Berkeley with honors, and was the director of the transgender recovery project at Walden House, the first residential drug treatment program in the USA that served the transgender community. She completed the certificate in psychedelic assisted therapies and research from the California Institute of Integral Studies in 2018, and has served as mentor there. Your can read her articles "Dissolving the binary: the queerness of psychedelics" and "Queer voices speak to the new psychedelia" on the Chacruna Website. |
Liz Pettit, LMFT
PsychotherapistLiz Pettit, LMFT (they/them) is a licensed marriage and family therapist and studied counseling psychology at the California Institute of Integral studies with a specialization in somatic psychotherapy. Liz has worked in a variety of community mental health settings including Project Open hand, serving the HIV and breast cancer communities, as well as Conard House, which provides permanent supportive housing to adults.
Liz specializes in providing trauma-informed psychodynamic psychotherapy to the LLGBTQQIAAP, queer, poly, gender non-conforming and kinky communities. Liz also has a passion for social justice and exploring how systems of oppression impact marginalized communities. Liz uses a harm reduction approach for those who use substances, and is also enthusiastic about creating a safe space to explore and integrate themes that may arise during the course of a psychedelic journey. Liz employs holistic approaches as well as evidence based practices such as internal family systems, cognitive behavioral therapy, and motivational interviewing. She focuses on people who face symptoms of depression, anxiety, and low self-esteem. Liz is also proud to be a member of the health at every size (HAES) community, and to provide competent care for all bodies. |
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Victoria Leftridge, LPCC
Psychotherapist
Victoria Leftridge is a Licensed Professional Counselor in the States of Georgia and California as well as a National Certified Counselor through the National Board of Certified Counselors. She has lived abroad in Costa Rica and is an avid international traveler.
She has her Master of Arts degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Argosy University. Victoria also holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia with a double minor in Spanish and Child Development. Victoria was an elementary and middle school teacher prior to getting her Master’s Degree in counseling. Upon graduating with her Masters, Victoria worked with children and adolescents for a year before transitioning to her current position working with adults. Victoria specializes in trauma informed care and is certified as a Cognitive Processing Therapist. Victoria has years of related experience trained in using Reality and Cognitive-Behavioral based therapies to empower clients to take responsibility and make decisions that are beneficial to their lives. Her passion lies in working with underserved populations including Black women of the diaspora, those of the LGBTQIA+ spectrum, those who participate in kink, polyamory, and/or ethical non-monogamy and particularly those with intersectionality in their identities. Her clinical focus is on growth and wellness and she strives to identify barriers to wellness and facilitate clients learning on how to fix their own issues as well as identify supports and resources in the community and themselves to continue the work past therapy. |
Jay Louie, LMFT
Psychotherapist
Jay Louie 雷貽丰 LMFT (they/them) provides transformative therapies for folks wanting breakthroughs. They address complex trauma with compassion and curiosity and advocate for clients’ needs, truths, deep desires, and purpose. They are committed to cultivating a safe, adventurous, and inspiring space for clients to witness all parts and expressions of themselves show up, grow, and heal.
For Jay this work is not theory. Growing up in multilingual immigrant communities in Hong Kong, Canada, and Central America, Jay experienced multiple cultures, but also traumas resulting in c-PTSD that resisted conventional treatments. Through psychedelic therapy, Jay was able to access holistic healing that inspired them to complete a psychology degree with a thesis on psychedelics and trait empathy. The passion to share this medicine compelled Jay to move to the Bay in 2014, where they helped build the first Zendo and served as a sitter for those undergoing challenging trips. They earned a Masters in Holistic Counseling focusing on Intersectionality and Sex Work, trained at an LGBTQ+ center, and completed programs in Sex Therapy, MDMA Therapy (MAPS), and Liberation Academy. They co-founded the Anti-Racist Solidarity Working Group and were Project Director for a city-funded telehealth program serving queer trans elders and HIV+ survivors. Jay believes that embodiment and intimate contact with the outdoors are essential to thriving. Chinese medicine, Eastern spirituality, kinesthetic art, yoga, dance, surfing and rock climbing are powerful healing forces in their life and inspire them to bring plants, light, and natural elements into the healing space. With ketamine therapy, Jay provides experienced and accepting guidance to help many break through decade-old barriers to reclaim their worth, joy, beauty, and power. It is Jay’s life’s work to support clients in transforming dysphoria to euphoria, dissociation to embodiment, disconnection and shame to integration and liberation. |
Associate Psychotherapist
Hannah Tamezoujt, AMFT
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Associate Psychotherapist
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Hannah is an Associate Marriage & Family Therapist and has supported clients in private practice and nature-based programs for neurodivergent children, throughout the San Francisco and Monterey Bay areas. She offers trauma informed, somatic depth psychotherapy to adults, teens, groups and couples. She holds space as a psychedelic assisted psychotherapist with curiosity, creative spirit, deep reverence and trust.
Her experience comes from over a decade in the healing arts, working as a mindful movement instructor and bodyworker before receiving a MA in counseling psychology with a specialization in Somatic Psychotherapy from the California Institute of Integral Studies. Her practice is informed by modalities such as internal family systems, dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy, Hakomi, Body Mind Centering, and Authentic Movement. She is a dedicated student of Stanley Keleman’s Formative Psychology, and is currently in the Somatic Experiencing Professional Certification program. Hannah celebrates clients of all racial and ethnic backgrounds, as well as gender identities and sexual orientations, and is kink and nonmonogamy positive. She works within a liberatory, decolonial frame which takes into account how our socioeconomic environment and ancestral lineage shape us. She supports clients in growing an awareness of these influences, so they feel empowered in their lives. In addition to offering psychotherapy, Hannah is a Work that Reconnects facilitator, leading group processes of facing our grief and anger around climate crisis. Honoring the interdependence of all life is a value that guides her practice. |
Advanced Practitioners
Jonathan Van Nuys, NP
Family Nurse PractitionerJonathan Van Nuys, NP, is a nurse practitioner with a deep knowledge of sexual health. He completed the Certificate in Psychedelic Treatment and Research at the California Institute of Integral Studies in 2019. He has worked at Healing Realms since then, learning and developing the clinical craft of ketamine assisted psychotherapy.
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Inna Zelikman, RN, ANP, PMH-NP
Psychiatric and Mental Health Nurse PractitionerInna Zelikman RN, ANP, PMH-NP, is a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner with 20 years of experience working in the field of Mental Health. She completed her Master of Science in Nursing and Nurse Practitioner training degree at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) in 2002 with specialty in Primary care, Integrative and Complementary Healing. In 2015 she completed a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner certification program at Johns Hopkins University.
Inna Zelikman specializes in treatment of patients with substance use disorder and quite knowledgeable about supporting them in recovery. She understands the importance of of helping patients recover on physical, mental and spiritual level through cutting edge pharmacology, nutritional supplements and psychedelics assisted psychotherapy. She supports clients’ process of uncovering underlying trauma and working on restoring higher self. She encourages engagement with recovery community through AA, Dharma Recovery and Psychedelics and Recovery meetings. At Healing Realms Inna Zelikman has a dual role such as assisting with medical intakes and guiding patients through Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy. She has a unique position of working with patients in non-ordinary states of consciousness while offering or advising on pharmaceutical adjustments that maybe necessary to provide adequate support for healing with long-term focus on self-regulation. She has special training in nutritional medicine through the American College of Advanced Medicine and the American Academy of Anti-aging Medicine. She completed sections A-D of MAPS MDMA psychotherapy training through California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). Her psychotherapeutic work is enhanced and informed by hypnotherapy, energy medicine, somatic therapy, yoga and meditation practice. |
Administration
Meredith WhitleyAdministratorReach out to Meredith for help if you are already registered with the clinic. She can help with scheduling, superbills, and questions about billing.
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Tiena MorganAdministratorReach out to Tiena for help with setting up screening calls, clinic registration for new patients, and medication refills.
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Alumni of Healing Realms
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Jenni Lee, MDPsychiatristDr. Lee joined Healing Realms in July 2020 as a UCSF psychiatry resident (PGY4), completed her residency while developing her craft as a ketamine prescriber and therapist, and moved to Bay Psychiatric Associates.
Madison Buchanan, MDPsychiatrist |
Will Barone, PsyDPsychologistDr. Barone joined Healing Realms in November 2019 as an associate psychologist, completed his supervision hours while developing his craft as a ketamine therapist, and moved to The Clinic.
Gregory Tilden, LMFTPsychotherapist
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