About Us

Diane Hendel

Diane Hendel, NP-C, MSN, MBA, a board certified nurse practitioner, has over two decades of experience in geriatrics. Her geriatric primary care medical practice, Arlington Eldercare, specializes in chronic illness, pain management, palliative care and hospice, mental health, and advanced dementia.

She provides personalized ketamine therapy for seniors with advanced illness, unmanaged depression and anxiety, as well as for palliative care and end of life distress.

A meditator since age 14, she has taught meditation in Europe and the US. She participated in a clinical trial at Johns Hopkins University in 2015, which focused on the brain function of long-term meditators who were administered psilocybin.

Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy, Ketamine Training Center, 2022.

Ketamine Psychotherapy Associates, Ketamine Research Foundation, 2022-present.

Acer Integration, 2023-24.

Integration in Ketamine-and NOSC-Assisted Therapies, Polaris Insight Center, 2023.

Dharma-K: Ketamine and Contemplative Practice conference, Ketamine Research Foundation, 2023.

Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) international conference, 2023.

Ketamine: Therapeutic Effects, Clinical Research & Neural Mechanisms, Psychedelic Support, 2023.

Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies and Research, Post Graduate Certificate, California Institute of Integral Studies, 2024-25.

Martha Serpas

Martha Serpas, MDIV, PHD, is an interfaith hospital chaplain, poet, and professor, who was educated in divinity at Yale Divinity School, in Clinical Pastoral Education at Tampa General Hospital, in psychedelic chaplaincy at Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics, and is currently on the creative writing faculty at the University of Houston—in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and in the Department of Behavior and Social Sciences, Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine.

She provides spiritual support during all phases of treatment using the medium that best conveys a patient’s experience: prayer, poetry, mindfulness, and visual art, among others.

In addition to four poetry collections, including Double Effect and The Dirty Side of the Storm, she co-produced Veins in the Gulf, a documentary about the Barataria-Terrebonne Estuary and the coastal erosion that imperils people and other native and migratory species.

The language of the journey—whether spoken, silent, or written—is poetry.

Dr. Serpas lives in Oregon and Houston.

marthaserpas.com