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Welcome to Brain Spa, where we specialize in providing unique and effective mental health treatment through Ketamine Assisted Hypnotherapy.
Our founder, Alia Shirzad, is a licensed and board-certified CRNA, PMHNP, and clinical hypnotherapist. She has dedicated her career to helping patients achieve optimal mental health, wellness, and reach their goals through altered states of consciousness.
Alia’s journey began in 2011 when she started working as an anesthesia provider and noticed the sustained, fast-acting effects of ketamine on the mental health of her patients. She dove deeper into researching the clinical benefits of ketamine and discovered compelling evidence about its efficacy as a treatment option for various mental health conditions. Her interest in altered states of consciousness led her to receive formal training as a hypnotherapist from the Hypnosis Motivational Institute in Los Angeles, CA, in 2017.
To hone her skills, Alia traveled to receive individualized training with world-renowned hypnotherapy experts, Dr. Marco Paret in France and Dr. James Tripp in the UK in 2019. With her extensive knowledge in anesthesia, mental health, and hypnotherapy, Alia designed an effective novel approach to mental health treatment through Ketamine Assisted Hypnotherapy, and thus Brain Spa was born in 2023.
At Brain Spa, we believe in a holistic approach to mental health treatment. Our therapy concept consists of intensive individual psychotherapy, hypnotherapy, relaxation, individualized art therapy, integration procedures, supplemented by advanced pharmacotherapy, if necessary. We combine ketamine with psychotherapeutic techniques to help patients permanently break negative behavioral and thought patterns and replace them with new coping techniques, thinking, and behavior, making significant breakthroughs in their mental health.
Our vision is to utilize this unique, interdisciplinary treatment combination to help as many patients as possible across different backgrounds and cultures and in cases of varying complexity. Our treatment is safe, fairly quick, simple, and effective, and we believe that everyone deserves to feel mentally refreshed and rejuvenated, just like going to the Spa for skin/body health. At Brain Spa, we offer the Spa for mental health.