Our Team
Kathryn Wynn, MD
Psychiatrist
Dr Wynn is a psychiatrist with 10 years of work experience in community mental health. She has a passion for group and individual psychotherapy and sees great potential for psychedelic medicines to catalyze healing, recovery and resilience. She has trained with the Roots to Thrive Ketamine Assisted Therapy Team, completed TheraPsil's Psilocybin Assisted Therapy Training and MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies) MDMA Therapy training. She is grateful to work with this skilled and cohesive team to offer ketamine and psilocybin assisted therapy in the sea to sky corridor.
Christine Dennstedt, PhD, RCC
As a clinical therapist, instructor and supervisor, Christine is informed by narrative and collaborative therapy practices. She has over 20 years experience working in the field of substance use, disordered eating and trauma. Christine has practiced in multiple counselling settings including outreach, inpatient, and outpatient programs, doing both group therapy and individual work with clients. She currently works in Whistler, BC in private practice and is involved in new developments occurring in the field of psychedelics and mental health, serving those who seek alternatives to mainstream treatment.
Heidi Voelker, RN
Heidi is a registered nursing who lives and plays in the sea to sky corridor. She brings a wealth of experience from her work in emergency, oncology and a hospital-based ketamine infusion program for patients with treatment refractory depression. She has completed training in Psilocybin Assisted Therapy through Therapsil and in Ketamine Assisted Therapy with Roots to Thrive.
Ryan Payne, RCC
Ryan Payne is a Private Practice Clinical Counsellor (R.C.C) in Squamish, British Columbia where he lives with his wife and two sons. His interest in the clinical application of psychedelic medicines was piqued during his graduate studies as he encountered research paper after research paper in which these medicines were being harnessed to positively impact the lives of clients/patients who had not found help elsewhere (via more traditional interventions). Most recently, Ryan has worked as a program facilitator with Roots to Thrive, a Vancouver Island based organization and leader in the delivery of group-based Ketamine Assisted Therapy. This has provided him with a wealth of experience in directly supporting clients through non-ordinary states of consciousness.
Ryan holds an undergraduate degree in Psychology from McGill University and a Master's Degree in Counselling Psychology from the City University of Seattle. Additionally, he has completed the MDMA Therapy Training Program with the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) and Psilocybin Assisted Therapy with TheraPsil.
Clark Lewis, MD
Dr Lewis is an experienced emergency physician in Whistler, where he has administered ketamine to about 1000 patients over the past 17 years. He is witness to the worsening mental health crisis every day in the ER. He has a special interest in the therapeutic potential of psychedelic medicines and is a champion for the safe use of ketamine in psychotherapy.