The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination - Carl Rogers
Our mission
To provide high quality, non-discriminatory, affordable and ethical Ketamine assisted psychotherapy, harnessing the power of expanded states of consciousness and the well known biological antidepressant effects of ketamine.
To build an intentional community of clinicians, therapists and individuals interested in working in the field of psychedelic medicine.
To provide psychedelic assisted psychotherapy training to qualified clinicians, and education to all interested individuals in the Western MA region and beyond.
Our team
Karen Scott MD
Karen Scott, MD is passionate about the promise of psychedelic medicines to help people find psychological healing and facilitate personal and spiritual growth. She is board certified in internal medicine with 20 years of clinical practice experience, including working in hospital medicine as well as addiction treatment. She has post-graduate training in ketamine assisted psychotherapy, psychedelic integration therapy, and psychoanalytic psychotherapy, and holds a certificate in psychedelic therapies and research from the California Institute of Integral Studies. Dr. Scott believes that all people have within them the capacity for wholeness, and that access to this innate healing capacity can be facilitated by the use of consciousness technologies including (but not limited to) psychedelic medicines.
Dr. Scott is a long time practitioner of meditation, and holds with reverence the knowledge that all life is an interconnected whole. She aspires to embody integrity and compassion in all her actions. She believes that our natural state prior to trauma and adversity is inner peace, and that it is the birthright of all people to experience this peace in daily life.
Bhavya Rajanna MD
Practicing Internal Medicine Physician. Trained in Ketamine assisted psychotherapy. Graduate of Center of psychedelic therapy and research program at California Institute of Integral Studies. Passionate about education and research in the field of psychedelic medicine. Focused in studying the neurophysiology and neuropharmacology of psychedelics. She is certified in guided imagery meditation and SKY yoga from Art of living institute.
She is well traveled, and is passionate about travel with purpose. Interested in photography, food and learning about different cultures. She has captured all the landscape photographs in this website, depicting sunrise from different vantage points, a mark of ascension, of light, knowledge and wisdom.
Steve Rhodes, MSW, LICSW
Steve Rhodes is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Massachusetts who facilitates Ketamine-assisted therapy sessions at Sapience. He received his B.S. degree from the University of Maryland in 1983 and then his Masters in Social Work from Boston College in 1996. In addition to his work at Sapience he has a small private practice in Greenfield, MA. In 2012 he completed the level one training in Internal Family Systems and has been using this method with great success. He is also trained in EMDR, Narrative Therapy, and Mindfulness based psychotherapy. In the past he has been the Director of school based therapy programs, Child and Family programs, and a Clinic Director of a community mental health center. He recently completed the Polaris module 1 Psychedelic assisted therapy program along with the Sapience clinician training. He is a long time meditator and has used the practice of mindfulness in his work throughout his career. He has always been interested in the intersection of spirituality and psychotherapy and has integrated it in his work. Mr. Rhodes has seen the positive effects of psychedelic assisted therapy and its healing benefit and is excited to be a part of this new stage in its use. He has always had an inner drive to explore life and to assist others in deep healing. He lives in Western Massachusetts with his wife, 3 children and therapy dog in training Cooper. He enjoys reading, sports and being out in nature.
Robert Davis, PsyD
Dr. Bob Davis is a licensed psychologist who facilitates ketamine-assisted therapy sessions at Sapience. He received his doctorate from Rutgers University and completed postdoctoral fellowships in both Behavioral Medicine and Trauma at Harvard University Medical School. Dr. Davis has completed multiple trainings in the psychotherapeutic use of ketamine, including Ketamine-enhanced Internal Family Systems (K-IFS) psychotherapy at Sapience. He is passionate about the psychedelic renaissance and its steady stream of research demonstrating the profound benefits psychedelics can have on growth and connectedness. Knowing that Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP), in particular, can free up the imagination to allow for new insights and creative problem-solving beyond psychotherapy alone, Dr. Davis is honored to be an agent of positive change for those ready to engage in deep, transformational healing. Away from the Sapience office, Dr. Davis continues his passion for exploring the neuroplastic capabilities of the human brain as the director of a neurotherapy assessment and treatment clinic in Hadley, MA. Away from all offices, Dr. Davis enjoys spending time with his daughters, listening to and playing music, and being outdoors camping, whitewater kayaking and hang gliding.
Eve Bogdanove, MSW, LICSW
Eve is a Massachusetts Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker and an intersectional feminist therapist. Her academic education launched in 1997 when she graduated from Hunter College School of Social Work in New York City. Eve then received training in psychodynamic psychotherapy, sex & gender therapy, polyvagal theory and practice, Somatic Experiencing, IFS, EMDR and Motivational Interviewing.
Her first licensed social work position was with a progressive mental health & substance abuse agency in New York City. There she spearheaded trauma informed services through recruitment, training and supervision of consumer/survivor/ex-patients employees in the program. Eve has extensive experience with domestic violence agencies and was a pioneer in LGBTQ domestic violence.
Locally, Eve served as Clinic Director at CHD (formerly Child & Family Services, Inc.), Network Director for Berkshire Family Networks Greenfield DCF Area Office, Executive Director at The Men’s Resource Center in Amherst, and Director for The Moving Forward Program at Service Net, Inc.
Eve’s private practice allowed her to provide trauma therapy for 19 years. She was delighted with her diverse clientele and welcomed a wide range of mental health needs such as serious psychiatric disability, substance abuse and children and families. Eve has expertise in working with agents and targets of coercive control and domestic violence (and specifically with Queers Who Harm), erotically marginalized folx (poly, kinky and queer) and adult child trauma survivors healing through parenting.
Eve became disabled in 2023, after being diagnosed with a serious canSer for which she receives on-going treatment. Eve is a lifelong activist and teacher with a special interest in transforming harm and abolitionist practices. She is excited to bring together all of her skills and lifelong learning into her new passion of psychedelic assisted psychotherapy and is thrilled to be a part of the team at Sapience.
Audrey Hall, PMHNP-BC
Audrey Hall is a licensed and board-certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. Audrey provides psychiatric consultation and ketamine-assisted therapy at Sapience and offers clinical services at her private practice in Northampton, MA. Having worked in mental health care for more than twenty years and as a prescribing clinician for the past decade, NP Audrey is an advocate for collaborative, holistic care. Audrey received her MSN from Northeastern University and is certified as both an End-of-Life and Psychedelic Doula. She’s currently embarking on a year-long continuing education program with the Integrative Psychiatry Institute in Colorado.
Beyond lessons from the traditional western medical healthcare and educational systems, Audrey’s approach to healing arises from a life immersed in Buddhist teachings, a deep appreciation of nature, and a belief in the magic of ordinary experience. She enjoys eating and creating culinary delights, travel near and far, and time spent relaxing with friends, family or a good book.
Jamie Samowitz, MSW grad student
Jamie Samowitz is a psychotherapist in training and is thrilled to be completing her clinical practicum at Sapience Therapy. Jamie is a second year MSW graduate student at Smith College School for Social Work, where she co-founded the school’s first psychedelic society. She also has a Masters of Science in Environmental Studies from Antioch University New England. Jamie is currently in an intensive year-long training at the Integrative Psychiatry Institute to be certified as a Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Provider and is also trained in therapeutic memory reconsolidation. Her approach is experiential, depth-oriented, and grounded in the neuroscience of transformational change. As a lifelong meditator and seeker, she also attends to the existential and spiritual dimensions of healing. Prior to becoming a therapist, Jamie’s work focused on nonprofit leadership and crafting experiences for transformational change, with settings ranging from retreats to wilderness immersions. She is passionate about the exploration of consciousness and the facilitation of innovative programs at the intersection of psychedelic therapy and contemplative practice.
Marielle Abell, PA-C
Marielle Abell has been a licensed and board certified physician associate (PA) for 22 years. She received her Masters in Medical Science from the Yale School of Medicine in 2002. The bulk of Marielle's medical career was focused on providing inpatient palliative care in Indiana. This work shaped ideas of what it means "to heal" when the body is failing. She continues to have a passion for supporting those at end-of-life who are experiencing existential distress.
Happily back in New England since 2022, Marielle has shifted her focus to providing mental health services. She completed Ketamine-assisted therapy training with Sapience in 2023 and the following year completed a 10-month Certification in Psychedelic Therapy and Research through the California Institute of Integral Studies.
Marielle has an abiding interest in somatic practices including yoga, dance, contact improvisation, and certain circus arts that don't involve heights.