Modern Mindwork Humans
Our Office
To be known, accepted, valued and honored by our people and ourselves is the goal of human existence. A human has to be safe outside and within themselves to be able to take this journey. ~ Joanna
Our Office... is a safe place for every human who seeks help with the struggle of living, being and feeling. Humans are infinitely varied and we endeavor to meet each person where they are, in that moment with compassion and grace.
Joanna M. Starratt
MSN, CRNA, ARNP
Professional Background:
Joanna Starratt founded Modern Mindwork as a Nurse Anesthesiologist-directed practice, marking the culmination of her successful 20-year career in nursing, anesthesiology, and mental health. Starting her career in an Intensive Care Unit, Joanna earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Oregon Health Sciences University in 2006.
After completing her Masters Degree in Nursing and Anesthesia in 2010, she returned home to the Pacific Northwest to start her anesthesia career and has worked throughout the Western US. She transitioned to minimal opioid use in her anesthesia practice in 2017, utilizing ketamine and other adjunctive medications on a daily basis in the Operating Room (OR). This practice evolution led her to recognize the profound impact of ketamine infusion therapy for managing chronic pain and depression, and would eventually lead to the founding of Modern Mindwork.
Joanna is further expanded her qualifications by earning a Master’s in Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, enhancing her capacity to provide comprehensive mental health care and working on Substance Use Disorder Provider education.
“Humans are able to heal themselves when they are able to find safe harbor within themselves. Psychedelics along with a few modes of therapy, can allow humans to heal trauma and recover."
Joanna
Personal Interests:
Outside of her professional life, Joanna is an avid year round open water swimmer, a backyard bird enthusiast, and a very “natural” gardener (natural = unkept and wild!). She is also a devoted dog mom and aunt to her nieces and nephews.
Anya
Patient Care Co-ordinator
Anya is currently completing her undergraduate Liberal Arts degree, with a major in psychology. They plan to continue their education with a goal of becoming a therapist. They have extensive experience working within the community outreach sector and intimately understand the struggle of at need families. Anya recognizes how critical self healing is to creating and rebuilding solid foundations, that allow generational trauma cycles to end.
Personal Interests:
Their free time is spent enjoying family and friends and live music whenever possible. Anya finds purpose and meaning analyzing music and curating playlists and making art.
“You have been told also that life is darkness, and in your weariness you echo what was said by the weary. And I say that life is indeed darkness save when there is urge, and all urge is blind save when there is knowledge, and all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love; and when you work with love you bind yourself to yourself, and to one another..."
Kahlil Gibran
Collaborating Therapy Providers
Bonnie Shanser
MA, LMHC, LPC-S, SEP.
As a Body Psychotherapist, Bonnie approaches her work with the Eastern-based philosophy that sees every human as inherently whole and brilliantly sane. Body psychotherapy seeks to support individuals in connecting more directly to their lived experience and their relationship to the needs and emotions that lie beneath. Learning how to focus and compassionately navigate one’s internal and external experiences can allow for movement toward reintegration of parts of one’s whole experience–there is often a naming and reclaiming of our past that needs to happen for greater alignment within ourselves in the present.
Bonnie has worked with teens, adults, and families for 13 years in wilderness and adventure-based programs and has several years of experience in applied mediation and Non-violent Communication with families.
As a Somatic Experiencing (SE) Practitioner she uses this body-based approach with art and equine therapies to support her clients on their journey. As a dynamic neuralistic approach to body-based trauma resolution and healing SE also gives people tools for working through and simplifying future trauma responses.
“Bonnie is an experienced Ketamine Assisted Therapist, who meets her clients where they are and supports their journey of healing with compassion, experience and safety."
Joanna Starratt CRNA ARNP
Amy Fritsch LMFT
MS LMFT
In the last ten-fifteen years, Neuroscience has been able to inform the psychology community in an unprecedented way and I love to share this knowledge and teach techniques for how to integrate knowledge in a somatic way; bringing our top knowledge down into our bodies, especially learning how to regulate our nervous systems. Our minds generate an enormous amount of thinking and are stimulated in a massive way in today's world. Developing a healthy relationship with our minds is critical, while also understanding childhood wounds and neural pathways that developed, and integrating a new way of being with all the parts of ourselves and others.
- Individual Therapy
- Couples Therapy
- Relational Family Therapy
- Ketamine Therapy
- Walk and Talks
“Amy is an experienced provider who understands Ketamine treatment and embraces holistic care. She leads healing with her clients from a place of collaboration which I believe is necessary to truly find healing with Ketamine therapy."
Joanna Starratt CRNA ARNP