Evidence-based care
Integrated Psychiatric Care
Our in-house psychiatric team provides timely, personalized support as part of your treatment plan.
Benefits of integrated psychiatric care
All under one roof
Your psychiatric provider, therapist, and ketamine treatment team work together — no need to coordinate between separate offices.
Psychiatric evaluations
Receive timely diagnosis, treatment planning, and guidance, including support with insurance eligibility for treatments like Spravato.
Integrated clinical collaboration
Our psychiatrists and therapists work closely with your care team to ensure your treatment is aligned and fully supported.
Prescription management
Medications are carefully prescribed, monitored, and adjusted to support your progress.
What our patients are saying
Meet the Team
Dr. Ariel Heller
Dr. Ariel Heller is a board-certified adult psychiatrist with over seven years of experience providing compassionate, comprehensive, and effective mental health care. She has worked in a variety of hospital settings, giving her broad clinical insight across holistic psychiatric care. Dr. Heller brings a collaborative, patient-centered approach to her work. She specializes in treating adults from young adulthood through the geriatric years, emphasizing therapeutic relationships and working with patients to help them achieve their mental health goals.
Dr. Faith Consiglio
Dr. Faith Consiglio is a board-certified psychiatrist with extensive experience in outpatient mental health care and a strong foundation in psychotherapy and mindfulness-based approaches. She completed her residency at Westchester Medical Center and previously practiced at NYC Psychiatric Associates. Her clinical work integrates evidence-based treatments with holistic modalities, including mindfulness-based stress reduction and psychodynamic therapy. Dr. Consiglio is also a published author, an active member of the International Society for Sports Psychiatry, and has conducted research on the long-term mental health impacts of COVID-19.
Luis A. Febus, PMHNP-BC
Luis A. Febus, PMHNP-BC is a board-certified psychiatric nurse practitioner specializing in the evaluation and treatment of treatment-resistant depression in adults. He provides comprehensive psychiatric assessments and medication management, with an emphasis on evidence-based strategies for individuals who have not responded to standard antidepressant treatments. Care is collaborative, clinically rigorous, and focused on improving function and quality of life.
How integrated psychiatric care works
Treatment begins with a thorough review of your history, current symptoms, and mental health goals. From there, your psychiatrist develops a personalized plan that may include medication management, therapeutic support, and coordination with other treatments offered at Keta Medical Center.
Our board-certified psychiatrists bring extensive clinical experience, providing comprehensive and patient-centered psychiatric care.
Because your care team communicates regularly, adjustments to medications or treatment strategies can be made efficiently and thoughtfully. This integrated model ensures that each component of your treatment program supports the others, creating a cohesive, responsive treatment experience.
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What to expect from integrated psychiatric care?
- Meet with your psychiatrist for a comprehensive assessment and diagnosis.
- Review your medical and mental health history in detail.
- Develop a personalized treatment plan, which may include medication management, ketamine treatment, or a combination of therapies.
- Begin medication management, if indicated, with careful prescribing and monitoring.
- If ketamine treatment is part of your plan, your psychiatrist coordinates closely with the treatment team to ensure alignment and safety.
- Adjust medications thoughtfully based on your response and evolving needs.
- Monitor progress, side effects, and overall symptom improvement.
- Attend follow-up appointments to actively monitor symptoms and support continued healing.
- Work with your psychiatrist to fine-tune medications and adjust your treatment plan as needed.
- Ensure medications and ketamine therapy, if used, remain safe, effective, and aligned with your overall goals.
- Maintain long-term stability and resilience through consistent psychiatric oversight.
Care you can trust
Your psychiatrist carefully evaluates, prescribes, and monitors any medications as part of your treatment plan. Potential benefits and side effects are discussed openly so you can make informed decisions.
Follow-up appointments allow for thoughtful adjustments to ensure medications remain safe, effective, and aligned with your overall care.
Spravato is an FDA-approved, evidence-based treatment.
Designed specifically for you, based on your mental health history, your needs, and how you respond in each session.
Experienced ER doctors and nurses oversee every treatment session.
Integrated psychiatric care works powerfully on its own, but it works even better as part of comprehensive care.
Integrated psychiatric care works powerfully on its own, but it works even better as part of comprehensive care.
Complete care options
integrated psychiatric care can unlock new insights and perspectives. Research shows that ketamine-assisted psychotherapy helps you integrate them into your life.
Work with a therapist trained to help integrate and deepen the benefits of ketamine treatment.
We offer PRISM, a groundbreaking, noninvasive, FDA-approved therapy designed specifically for patients with PTSD.
Is integrated psychiatric care right for you?
Here are the basic guidelines, but the real answer comes from a conversation with our doctors.
- Do not currently have a psychiatrist and are looking for dedicated, ongoing care
- Want timely access to a qualified mental health professional without long wait times
- Need medication management or diagnostic clarification
- Are undergoing ketamine treatment and would benefit from coordinated psychiatric oversight
- Prefer a holistic treatment plan managed under one roof
Curious if integrated psychiatric care can help you?
FAQs
Yes, we routinely collaborate with patients’ existing therapists and psychiatrists to create a coordinated, personalized plan that integrates ketamine treatment with ongoing psychotherapy or medication management.
Our medical team reviews your medical and psychiatric history during the initial consultation to determine the best treatment plan tailored to your needs. Partnering with therapists and other clinicians is a great way to ensure that ketamine treatment is paired with your ongoing mental health support — helping you integrate ketamine’s effects with therapy and other management strategies.
Yes. Our psychiatric services are available to patients receiving ketamine or Spravato treatment through Keta Medical Center. Our psychiatrists can provide comprehensive psychiatric evaluations, medication management, and ongoing psychiatric care as part of your treatment plan, but we do not currently offer standalone psychiatry services.
Your first visit will be a warm, thorough consultation in which one of our psychiatrists reviews your symptoms, medical and treatment history, and current medications to create a personalized plan. The visit may include diagnosis, discussion of treatment options, and coordination with your existing providers as needed.
Integrated psychiatric care with ketamine therapy is appropriate for people with a variety of mood disorder conditions, including treatment-resistant depression, PTSD, OCD, certain anxiety disorders, bipolar depression, and some addictions when standard treatments have failed.
Yes, we routinely collaborate with outside therapists and primary care providers to ensure your care is coordinated and integrated. With your consent, we share relevant treatment plans and updates to support continuity of care.
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