Gloria Monasmith, LCSW
About
Gloria Monasmith is a licensed clinical social worker in Lakeland, Florida, whose practice, Lee of the Stone Counseling, offers ketamine-assisted psychotherapy alongside talk therapy for trauma, PTSD, anxiety and depression. She sees teenagers, adults, couples and groups, in person or online.
Approach
She is a certified ketamine-assisted psychotherapy therapist and clinical hypnotherapist, is certified in the RTM protocol, and is working towards a doctorate in sex therapy. Her methods include CBT, Internal Family Systems, hypnotherapy, motivational interviewing, and somatic and solution-focused work. She treats clients as the experts on their own lives, asks a lot of questions, explains their options in detail, and usually sets practical homework. She describes herself as direct and realistic, with a creative streak in problem solving, and pitches her practice at people who are sceptical of therapy.
Who it is for
Beyond trauma, anxiety and depression, she works with ADHD, grief, life transitions, couples and infidelity, sex therapy, and LGBTQ+ and polyamorous clients.
Practical details
Individual sessions cost $175 and couples sessions $250. She accepts many insurers, among them Aetna, Cigna, Humana, Medicare and UnitedHealthcare, and works with out-of-network benefits. Evening and weekend slots are available, and a free 15-minute consultation comes first. An individual ketamine series runs to ten sessions: one-hour sessions for intentions and preparation, then six three-hour medicine sessions in which she sits with the client and leads grounding and integration. Group work takes place on a single six-hour day that ends with a light meal, and payment plans are offered.
Care and safety
Before ketamine work, clients must have had at least three talk therapy sessions with a licensed therapist in the previous six months, and a psychiatrist certified in ketamine treatment carries out a medical screening. Consent and medication screening forms are completed in advance. Her Florida licence number is SW16411.
Practices
Guide: Ketamine therapy, explained
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