About Us
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DMVKTC was founded by Scarlet Fannin, who has a background as a Board Certified Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, and received ketamine training from the Ketamine Training Center in California. She is well-versed in the use of ketamine for treating conditions such as Treatment-Resistant Depression (TRD), Anxiety, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Additional team members of DMVKTC are Dr. Dennis Glick, Psychiatry, and Dr. Geoffrey Coleman, MD.
Starting in 2022, Scarlet has been approached to train others in ketamine use for private practices around the area. Knowing this as an endeavor that would take not only education and knowledge, but time and logistical resources to design trainings to fit each practice, Scarlet decided to open a local training center. Alongside her colleagues, she plans to offer three to five day experiential training for any licensed therapist, nurse, nurse practitioner (NP), and doctor (MD) who needs ketamine training to allow them to hit the ground running.
Geoff Coleman
Dr. Coleman attended the Georgia Institute of Technology (Mechanical Engineering) and Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia. His first residency training was in emergency medicine - an experience which persuaded him to pursue a career that allowed more hands-on patient contact, switching to family medicine and earning his board certification. Dr. Coleman provided primary medical care for 9 years on the Menominee Indian Reservation in Wisconsin. Moving east to be near family, he established a community health center in Montross, Virginia, providing primary and preventive healthcare with regular house calls to patients. He continued his passion for direct patient care when he moved into hospice work, starting a practice focused on home visits and palliative care in 2004. He helped start two hospices in Virginia and served as their medical director. Since 2007, Dr. Coleman has practiced hospice and palliative medicine exclusively. He has helped develop a pediatric hospice team and restarted a palliative care practice. Dr. Coleman has been a member of the Diversity Advisory Council for NHPCO since 2014 and one of its chairpersons since 2016. He speaks frequently in the community about issues related to end-of-life care. Dr. Coleman is certified in both Family Medicine, and Hospice and Palliative Medicine.
Scarlet Fannin
Scarlet Fannin is a Virginia-raised board certified psychiatric mental health practitioner. Scarlet completed her Associate's Degree in nursing in 1996. With an eclectic nursing history from home health to hospice, cardiac rehab to chemotherapy, Scarlet has a varied and well rounded background which set her up for success. When she decided to obtain her Master's Degree in Psychiatry, Scarlet found her calling in psychedelics, specifically ketamine therapy. She courageously opened her private practice in Frederick, MD, and obtained her licensure as a psychiatric nurse practitioner in Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia.
Scarlet's Pathway to Mental Health Website
Dennis Glick
Dennis Glick is a psychiatrist in private practice in Greenbelt, Maryland. Since 1984, he has provided medication management and psychotherapy services to people with mood, anxiety, attention, and substance use disorders. His interest in psychedelics (and particularly ketamine) originated in a year-long meditation training program, followed by 5 years of study and practice in breathwork. He regularly attends educational programs in ketamine-assisted psychotherapy. Dennis currently works in close collaboration with a number of local therapist colleagues and their ongoing clients to prescribe and monitor ketamine.
Catherine Nugent
Catherine D. Nugent, Executive Director & Principal Trainer with Laurel Psychodrama Training Institute, is a licensed clinical professional counselor and Board-certified psychodrama trainer. From 2013-2019, Cathy taught in the Clinical Mental Health Counseling Program at Johns Hopkins University. In her private practice, she specializes in using integrative/experiential psychotherapy to help individuals, couples and groups heal from trauma and attachment injuries. Beyond her 30+ years of experience as a psychodramatist, Cathy’s clinical practice and teaching are informed by her training in sensorimotor psychotherapy, Imago Relationship Therapy, mindfulness, and hatha yoga. Cathy is the recipient of the 2019 J.L. Moreno Award for Lifetime Achievement in Psychodrama. She is currently exploring the intersection of Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy and psychodrama.
Lauren Rubenstein
Lauren Rubenstein is a licensed psychologist with three decades in private practice. Trainings in yoga, mindfulness, breath work, iRest yoga nidra, and SoulCollage® enrich Lauren’s foundation in insight-oriented psychology. She is particularly excited about bringing these practices into Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy, having studied with Dick Schwartz, PhD and Gita Vaid, MD at the Ketamine Training Institute. Lauren finds the practice of SoulCollage® to be an invaluable tool for intention setting, integration, and dialoguing with parts of the Self.
Facilitators
Carl Gregg
The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg (he/him) has been the minister at Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Frederick, Maryland since 2012. He holds a Doctor of Ministry and a Diploma in the Art of Spiritual Direction from San Francisco Theological Seminary, a Master of Divinity from Brite Divinity School, and a Bachelor of Arts in Religion and Philosophy (cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) from Furman University. He has been a full-time minister since his ordination in 2003, and served two congregations prior to UUCF. He is an authorized Meditation Teacher through Buddhist Geeks, and is a Featured Blogger on Patheos (patheos.com/blogs/carlgregg). Carl was married in 2007 to Magin LaSov Gregg. They have two cats (Kol Nidre and Shamash) and two dogs (Dobby and Scout).
