Our Team
Our practice is made up of a dedicated team of health and healing professionals. We work together to give you the best experience possible.
Sally Smith, FNP
Sally Anne Smith, FNP is a board certified Family Nurse Practitioner, with experience in emergency, hospital, and family medicine.
Sally is the owner and operator of Illumination Medicine. She specializes in healing in altered states. She has found ketamine to be helpful in supporting people reach inner peace and clarity where other modalities had failed.
Dr. Joe Neidhardt
Dr. Joe Neidhardt is a board certified psychiatrist. He received a three year research and development grant from the Canadian Government in Stress Management. He published and taught behavioral medicine at the University of British Columbia. He then trained at the University of New Mexico and did research in dreams, treatment of nightmares and published in sleep medicine. He worked with Navajo Medicine Men and together with his wife, a Navajo Psychiatrist developed ways to integrate Western medicine with Navajo Healing. He wrote and co-edited a book: Groundswell: Indigenous Knowledge and a Call to Action for Climate Change with his daughter. Nicole Neiddhardt, MFA.
He is certified in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing). He is an expert in Ketamine therapy for mental health and has provided training and articles on Ketamine for Psychiatrists.
He is offering Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy for Treatment Resistant Depression and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. He is providing Ketamine treatments together with Sally Smith.
He also offers individual psychiatry sessions and dream work analysis.
Amanda McCarthy Oda
Amanda works in collaboration with Sally as a healer and co-facilitator. Amanda comes to the practice with over 12 years of professional experience in entheogenic guidance. Her background is in insight practices and integration. Amanda specializes in therapeutic healing through sacred song.
Amanda is interested in how Ketamine can facilitate an opportunity for heightened spiritual perspective. She is interested in the rewiring of cognitive frameworks and the profound inner healing that can occur through heightened spiritual states.
Amanda is an artist and emerging homesteader who resides with her husband and two children in Santa Fe, NM.