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SABI Mind Victoria
Our West Coast Healing Centre is located in the heart of Victoria, BC. Within our walls, you’ll be immersed in an environment conducive to healing. Our curated design elements encourage well-being, harmony and inner reflection.
847 Fisgard Street Victoria, BC V8W 1R9
Phone: 1 (250) 940-7344
Fax: 1 (778) 698-4563
hello@sabimind.com
— Intro to Ketamine
Ketamine may be the psychedelic catalyst to help you reach the breakthrough you’ve been needing. But a catalyst alone is not enough to bring about lasting change which is why we combine ketamine with psychotherapy.
Ketamine is administered in low doses by qualified anesthesiologists as a breakthrough catalyst. The non-ordinary state brought on by psychedelic medicine often enables access to feelings, emotions, and memories that might otherwise be blocked.
After the effects of your low dose wear off, you and your practitioner will discuss and break down your experience. Our goal is to assist you in gaining tangible insights from your experience.
Through individualized forms of therapy, your practitioner will help you integrate these insights into everyday life practices. You are not alone; during your entire experience you will be supported by a trained medical professional.
The Benefits of Ketamine
The healing promise of psychedelic medicines is not new, it has deep roots in indigenous communities around the world and a history of proven therapeutic application in modern science. Western medicine’s rediscovery of the potential of psychedelics is supported by a growing body of clinical research and evidence supporting their efficacy in treating pain and several mental health challenges including chronic depression, PTSD, and anxiety.
Our Approach
The SABI Mind method centers on three distinct phases of personalized patient care designed to address the emotional, physical and mental blockages caused by treatment-resistant mental health disorders and chronic pain conditions.
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Your healing begins here as you establish relationships with the team that will guide you along your treatment journey. You and your therapist will discuss your health history and set new healing goals and intentions for your psychedelic experience.
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Your discovery will begin with your therapy team guiding you through what to expect from your ketamine treatment. This will be a chance to reflect on and re-establish the intentions you have set for yourself. Our team will start by administering low doses to establish your comfort levels with the medicine and determine subsequent doses based on your response and goals, after which you will have a chance to decompress and relax before exploring and reflecting on your experience.
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Integration is where you and your therapist give meaning to the insights you’ve gained and put into action the breakthroughs you’ve uncovered during your discovery and exploration sessions. Through tangible actions that can be integrated into your everyday life, we derive lasting change from your psychedelic experience.
The principle of set and setting is integral to a balanced treatment system that blends intention and integration into a continuous care model that extends beyond our walls. Our compassionate practitioners provide care that defines the difference between quick-fix and lasting change.
Meet SABI Mind Victoria.
Our team came together out of a need for change, the promise of hope, and the acknowledgment that we can make it happen together. At its core, the SABI Mind experience relies on human connection and a return to the natural mind.
Medical Team
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Medical Director & Anesthesiologist
Dr. Harleena Gulati embarked on her journey in Medicine with the completion of medical school in 2005 from the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, laying the foundation for her medical career. After completing Anesthesiology residency at the University of Manitoba in 2010, she pursued further specialization with a prestigious one-year fellowship at MSKCC in New York City. She began working as a specialized Anesthesiologist in Winnipeg, prior to relocating to Victoria in 2019. Her current work at both local hospitals, Royal Jubilee and Victoria General is challenging and fulfilling. The expansion of her practice in providing care for patients at SabiMind is exciting and satisfying.Now settled and practicing Anesthesiology in Victoria with her two cherished children, she finds joy in the serenity of nature, enjoying the outdoors, and the beauty of British Columbia. Beyond her professional endeavors, Dr. Gulati embraces personal and spiritual growth as paramount, weaving these values into both her medical practice and daily life, embodying a holistic approach to healing and wellbeing.
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Mental Health lead & Psychiatrist
Ian is a psychiatrist in Victoria where he entered practice in 1976, and has worked in Emergency Department, psychiatric ward, office, and Canadian Forces MH Clinic settings. He has four children and nine grandchildren. Two of his sons have worked as First Responders. Quite a bit of his focus has been on working with survivors of various forms of trauma as part of Adult General Psychiatry.Lots of committee, Board, and Executive Committee experience with BCMA/Doctors of BC, including President 2010-2011. Silver Medal of Service 2023. Currently working part-time as Consultant Psychiatrist at Aroga Lifestyle Medicine, after earning certification from the American Board of Lifestyle Medicine in 2017. Mental Health Lead at SABI Mind Victoria – providing psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy. Research on psychedelics shows outcomes of significant and lasting improvement in symptoms. When it works, which is often in the two Phase 3 trials completed to date, it obtains results much more quickly than long-term psychotherapy. Clearly, careful screening is necessary to only offer it to suitable candidates and in a professional, legal, and ethical manner. It is important to find ways to provide it to those who have had trouble accessing care in the past, including Indigenous peoples.
TheraPsil psilocybin training in May of 2022, and completed MDMA training in February of 2024. Participated in a Gathering Groups 12-session series in April to July 2023, and a strong believer in the benefits of this treatment model. Interests include open water swimming, SCUBA diving, photography, woodworking, amateur radio (Saanich Emergency Program volunteering), and travel.
Mental Health Team
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Registered Psychologist & Psychotherapist
Dr. Stéphanie Marchal is a registered psychologist working in Victoria. Her practice focuses on relationships, attachment, trans-generational trauma and transitions/transformations.
She is a wilderness personal guide, and studied with Animas Valley Institute and Francis Weller among others. She works with people toward recovering their wholeness, uncovering their gifts, and applying these in their lives and for the good of their community. She has experienced wilderness as a powerful ally in these tasks. She is personally interested in supporting deep and courageous transformations driven by the participants. One of Stephanie's focus is to support the weaving of authentic experiences and visions with the person's embodied life. She's a firm supporter of people's authentic voices and helps them be heard. She uses dream images, guided journeys and somatic practices to help clarify the thread to deep experience, and support integration and manifestation.
Some of Stéphanie's integration work is brought into psychedelic-assisted therapy as she is legally trained to support the use of psilocybin, MDMA and Ketamine.
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Registered Social Worker
Over the past 15 years Trina has worked with youth, adults and families in a variety of roles; as facilitator, community support worker, anti-oppression education coordinator and counselling therapist.While completing her MSW at Wilfrid Laurier, she began to focus on plant medicines and psychedelic assisted psychotherapy with an interest specifically in the transformative power of accessing deepening states of awareness and presence. She has completed advanced trainings in Emotionally-Focused Therapy for couples and individuals, and Internal Family Systems therapy, among other modalities and Psychedelic-specific training.
Our Mission
We are committed to providing solutions that address the needs of people struggling to find healing within the current pain and mental health treatment system by developing evidence-based, safe, and accessible psychedelic-assisted therapies.
