Dr. Katelyn Kalstein
ND, LAC, LMSW
Licensed naturopathic doctor, acupuncturist, and psychotherapist specializing in integrative mental health, psychedelic medicine, and a common-sense approach to health and disease.
Therapy is more than a modality
Good psychotherapy is more than technique. Skill is necessary, but it is not sufficient. A skilled therapist is only half the equation.
Feeling like your therapist gets it, or is earnestly trying to, is transformative. If you want coping skills alone, we may not be a good fit.
My approach to psychotherapy is integrative, holistic, grounded, and humble. In naturopathic medicine, we have an unrelenting reverence for the wisdom of nature manifest in the body. I take the same approach with the mind.
In psychotherapy, we go after the root cause and stop chasing symptoms. Every symptom, pattern, and mood has a reason. Good therapy helps create order where it is needed and accept chaos where it is true.
Clinical, Contemplative, Integrative
THE PATH HERE
Growing up in Nashville, I was taught by my grandfather to use natural medicine and avoid doctors at an early age. I wanted to be a physician and was pre-med at Pepperdine University, where I majored in Sports Medicine.
After working in a busy private practice, I became disheartened by medicine that seemed focused on profit, pills, and suppressing symptoms. I left for what was meant to be a 2-month trip to India. It lasted a year.
In India I studied yoga, Ayurveda, and meditation. Over the next decade I traveled regularly to India, Brazil, and Peru to study indigenous healing practices, and eventually discovered Naturopathic Medicine.
I moved to Seattle in 2010 and received my doctorate in Naturopathic Medicine and master's degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine from Bastyr University in 2016.
FROM NEUROFEEDBACK TO NASHVILLE
After graduation, I became lead facilitator at 40 Years of Zen, Dave Asprey's intensive neurofeedback center in Seattle. After helping develop the program, I moved back to Los Angeles and opened my private practice.
My interest in mind-body medicine and mental health led me to ketamine therapy. I trained with the Ketamine Training Institute and was later recruited by Field Trip to be Clinical Director of their ketamine assisted psychotherapy clinic.
In 2021, after the birth of my daughter and the pandemic in Los Angeles, we moved back to Nashville to be closer to family. The move also clarified how I wanted to practice: focused full-time on psychotherapy and integration.
Understand yourself in ways you never have.
Take responsibility from ownership rather than shame.
Feel like you have a choice.
EDUCATION & LICENSURE
Training you can verify
BS
Bachelor of Science, Sports Medicine
PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY
MA
Master of Acupuncture
BASTYR UNIVERSITY
MSW
Master of Social Work
UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE
ND
Doctorate of Naturopathic Medicine
BASTYR UNIVERSITY*
ADDITIONAL TRAININGS + CERTIFICATIONS
Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy
Somatic EMDR
Somatic Experiencing
MAPS MDMA and psilocybin training
CIIS Psychedelic Therapy & Research
Advanced IV Therapy
Clinical Biofeedback
Craniosacral Therapy
*Bastyr is not an online naturopathy certificate. It results in a valid license.