We were lucky to catch up with Hannah Banks & Angeleah Roberts recently and have shared our conversation below.

Hannah & Angeleah, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. Was there a defining moment in your professional career? A moment that changed the trajectory of your career?

Hannah and Angeleah noticed early on in their careers, the benefits of using ketamine combined with therapy, yielded much greater results with clients than traditional medications for common psychiatric disorders. We learned this in school, and decided we needed to provide different opportunities for our clients and create more of a holistic approach to mental health, getting to more the root cause of psychiatric illness as well as maintaining overall mental health wellness.

Hannah & Angeleah, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?

Hannah started her career as an RN and worked in a variety of settings. Working in an Emergency room, Hannah saw mental illness as a major component in physical health and decided she wanted to help heal those suffering from mental ailments, before they turned into physical illness. She started working as a psychiatric nurse, and never turned back, also pursuing a masters in nursing with a psychiatric specialty. She worked in a variety of psychiatric settings while in school, including inpatient treatment centers for women with eating disorders, and youth with psychiatric illnesses. Hannah noticed she made a huge impact in other’s lives infusing ketamine as a nurse, and then learning therapy skills in her master’s program, helped her perfect her art and passion for ketamine assisted therapy. Hannah has years of experience administering ketamine in a variety of settings, and feels ketamine combined with therapy yields the best results and aids individuals to make lasting changes. Hannah’s goal is to provide a haven for her patients to feel safe for who they are, while making space for who they will become as they move towards their belief system and values. Hannah shares the desire to incorporate the patient as a whole and understands each individual requires a unique treatment plan specifically tailored to the patient. Hannah has enjoyed using ketamine as an effective modality to augment and accelerate the healing journey of her patients.
Hannah loves her job working with patient’s to identify where they might be stuck and along with the medication benefits of ketamine, assists the client identifying what needs to heal, and what needs to take place therapeutically to advance her patient’s forward. Empowering patients, is Hannah’s most successful tool she uses for patient’s to h choose their own way.

Hannah and Angeleah worked together as nurses, and decided to go back to school together, to make a bigger dent in the mental health realm and possibilities for treatment.

As a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, Angeleah Roberts, believes in taking more of a holistic approach and incorporating mind, body, and spirit during the healing process. Angeleah has a great amount of experience in ketamine assisted psychotherapy and recently became certified in psychedelic assisted therapy. Her passion for ketamine assisted therapy can be seen in her personalized approach as she sees each client as the unique individual they are. Angeleah’s goal is to be able to help those who are struggling in life. She has found ketamine to be an amazing tool in helping those find the relief they deserve. Angeleah has worked in the Nuero unit, and has also worked as a psychiatric nurse. She found the love for ketamine witnessing the fast and profound results of ketamine during some of her psych rotations in school.

Training and knowledge matter of course, but beyond that what do you think matters most in terms of succeeding in your field?

We know that mental health wellness is a major indicator of overall health. We know each individual requires a different treatment plan whether it be ketamine and therapy, medication management, or mindfulness practices. We offer an array of mindfulness classes to maintain mental health wellness and also provide vitamin IV’s that aid in optimal brain health. We love individualized care for clients that include more holistic approaches, as well as traditional mental health care. We choose from a variety of modalities to help out clients most. We also help empower individuals to be their own healers and help them move towards their own goals and values knowing they are the driving force and most important addition to their treatment team!

Can you tell us the story behind how you met your business partner?

Angeleah and Hannah were working as nurses at an inpatient psychiatric hospital. They knew they wanted to further careers, and when a group of 3 nurses decided to go back to school, Angeleah was approached and somewhat coerced to joining the group by Hannah who felt she should be included in the venture! We often laugh about it, because we have come so far and been through so much, since working together in the psych hospital! We’ve been a team from the get go, helping each other through school and starting this business venture together!

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