THE TEAM AT KETAMINE INFUSIONS OF IDAHO
We have brought together a team of anesthesia, mental health, nursing, and other professionals to tend to your medical needs.
Ketamine Infusions of Idaho — restoring hope, as well as mental, and physical well-being. Ketamine treatments effectively and rapidly relieve chronic and acute mental health conditions. Ketamine Infusions of Idaho will support you through dark and difficult times.
WHO WE ARE
More About The Team
Together, this team of professionals work to provide the individualized care each patient deserves. We work with both family and the patient’s care community to facilitate moving the patient towards their prescribed goals of greater freedom, function, and balance.
Christina Stubbs
CRNAChristina Stubbs, CRNA
Christina was born and raised in Southeast Idaho. She obtained her Bachelor of Science in nursing from the University of Utah. Working with acute patients at the University Neuropsychiatric Institute in Salt Lake City, she became increasingly passionate about mental health.
She continued her career at the VA Hospital in SLC where she was able to use both her nursing and psychiatric knowledge to assist veterans both physically and mentally. In 2011, she graduated from the University of New England with a master’s degree in Nurse Anesthesia.
Christina takes great pride in providing safe and exceptional anesthesia to her patients. Her experience has ranged from a small community hospital and surgeries centers to office-based anesthesia and trauma centers in Maine, New Hampshire and Idaho. This type of experience has allowed her to see a full range of patients and experience in providing the highest quality of anesthesia.
Jamyn
Jamyn
Jamyn was born and raised in Idaho Falls, ID. She graduated from Idaho Falls High School in 2020, earning Summa Cum Laude. Jamyn continued her studies in Southern Utah where she earned her Associate of Science in General Studies with high honors. After achieving her Associates, Jamyn moved back home to be with her family and obtained her CNA. Jamyn attends Idaho State University, working towards a degree in Social Work with plans to practice therapy. Jamyn enjoys most physical activity, especially lifting weights. She also enjoys time spent outdoors, whether on a boat, by a campfire, or in a RZR. If there is sunshine, Jamyn is a happy girl. She loves spending time with her family and friends. Jamyn’s calling in life is to help people and put a smile on their face.
Rylee
Rylee
Rylee was born and raised in Southeast Idaho, and graduated from BYU-Idaho’s nursing program in 2018. Her love for trauma and critical care pushed her to work as a registered nurse in the operating room for 4+ years where she learned to critically think, assess patients, and prioritize tasks. During this time, Rylee also started working with Ketamine Infusions of Idaho, which is her new passion. She has been with the team for 2 years now, and loves taking care of people. She enjoys learning anything that will better herself and others, and strives to make a difference.
Julie Thompson
Julie Thompson, LPC
Julie Thompson is a Licensed Professional Counselor and a Licensed Occupational Therapist. In addition, she is certified as a yoga teacher and meditation guide — trained by renowned mindfulness researchers Jon Kabat Zinn, Kristin Neff and Chris Germer.
Julie has spent over a decade working on university and college campuses as a mental health provider, strongly drawing from a Rogerian Person-Centered approach to help individuals realize their fullest potential. She believes that the most significant element she brings to her clients through counseling is the ability to be a witness to their experience while normalizing what it means to be a human being. Life invites suffering (this is a part of the human condition); however, there is an opportunity to not only suffer less, but to engage life in a way that allows a stronger sense of abundance, wellbeing and overall peace of mind.
Julie’s initial career as an Occupational Therapist introduced her to a variety of interventions that she used to support individuals in their journeys through healing to recovery. This included working in a VA hospital in Minnesota, supporting veterans in their efforts to navigate the recovery of their physical and mental wellbeing. Julie was trained in Neuro Developmental Treatment (NDT) which expanded her understanding of working with individuals who had experienced brain trauma. Her interest in neuropsychology evolved as she continued her education, completing a MS in Mental Health Counseling in 2007.
While she continued to cultivate a deeper understanding of neuropsychology and factors contributing to overall wellbeing, she came across contemplative practices and began her own personal journey with meditation, yoga and other mindful practices.
Research demonstrating the powerful positive impact traditional mindful practices have on neuroplasticity and a person’s ability to rewire their own brain towards enhanced mental wellbeing drives Julies passion. She guides individuals to break out of fear driven patterns and overwhelming physiological reactions — which when not addressed often result in chronic depression, anxiety and a range of addictive behaviors. In fact, meditation (15 minutes a day) creates changes in the brain in as little as 8 weeks!
Julie has completed several intensive trainings including: Mindful Based Stress Reduction, Mindful Based Exposure Therapy and certification in Mindful Self-Compassion.
Raised with parents struggling with depression, anxiety and addiction, Julie recognized early on the wide-reaching, negative impacts on individuals, families, and communities.
Julie’s experience includes working in an inpatient residential recovery center in Alaska where individuals were suffering the impact of severe trauma complicated by chronic addictive behaviors. While unsure of how a mindful-based sobriety curriculum might be received, Julie quickly realized how many indigenous cultures are steeped in mindful traditions — practices that originated over 2000 years ago. Becoming more intimately connected to these communities while living in Alaska, Julie became interested in traditional plant-based medicine interventions, the resurgence of research related to plant-based substances, and other hallucinogenic and dissociative medicines. Experiences produced by such medications create potential for experiential shifts and insights — enhancing an individual’s ability to more effectively address mental health conditions such as chronic depression, anxiety, trauma and addiction.
Julie is continuously expanding her large foundational education. It is her priority to provide informed guidance and a safe space to explore effective ways to process ketamine experiences. Individuals are encouraged to engage the ketamine experience more fully by integrating powerful insights often described by many as “life changing” in the most positive and essential way.
Cory Steele
Cory Steele - Integration Specialist
Cory is a Integration Specialist, Psychedelic Guide, and Certified Nature Connected Life Coach (Earth Based Institute). For the past three years, he has been utilizing nature as a container to enhance transformational life changes and help people reconnect to themselves, each other, and their environment. Cory also helps people integrate transformational experiences, including psychedelic sessions, Near-Death Experiences (NDEs), as well as other crises requiring reintegration after an identity loss or existential crisis. He has studied psychology (Depth/Archetypal, Existential, and Transpersonal), consciousness, neuroscience, ancient/indigenous cultures, myth, and philosophy for over 15 years. He has a BS in Psychology and will finish his MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling this Fall (2023). He is a yoga instructor and has been teaching meditation for over five years and incorporates yoga as a tool for somatic trauma healing. He has spent eight years traveling and emerging himself in multiple cultures to learn different healing modalities. He has studied and participated in a traditional Lakota Wilderness Quest. Additionally, Cory has had the rare opportunity to travel with shamans and facilitated many ayahuasca and psilocybin sessions for ceremonial and therapeutic purposes. Education and experiences such as these have helped him aid clients to heal and work towards a state of well-being and wholeness.
Rebecca Jensen
L.C.P.C.Rebecca Jensen, L.C.P.C.
Rebecca Jensen is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (L.C.P.C.) who has provided counseling services in the states of Utah and Idaho since 2003. She earned a Masters of Science degree in counseling from Utah State University. She specializes in counseling individuals with depression and anxiety as well as relationship therapy for couples and families.
She has successfully worked with many individuals to restore balance and bring joy back into their lives. Rebecca is a highly empathetic and caring person who recognizes the challenges of life. She has worked diligently to obtain the skills and education necessary to support others through various challenges.
Rebecca has not been immune from life’s challenges and has experienced a number of difficult situations in her own life — many of which the individuals she is counseling are facing. She is able to draw on her own personal experiences and skills to help individuals and families in crisis.
She has worked in various sectors of the mental health field including psychological and vocational assessments, school counseling, teaching at public and private college level institutions, and runs a private mental health counseling business. Experience and learning in each of these areas has increased her skills to help those she works with.
In her spare time Rebecca likes to travel with her family, write and play music with various instruments, garden, hike, bike, attend plays and concerts, read, draw, sculpt, sew and quilt, work with wood, bake, and try out any new creative mediums.