Ben spent 15 years working in medicine across multiple different specialties including the emergency room, labor and delivery, operating room, lab, medical/surgical, and clinical informatics. His passion comes from his personal experience with mental health and a desire to see others find healing. He started DENOVO Therapy to innovate mental health for his West Texas community. While neither a therapist or licensed medical professional, he is proud that he built the clinic’s business, medical, and therapy infrastructure from scratch. For the clinic, Ben developed and wrote the medical protocols from a psychedelic lens. In the absence of accessible therapist psychedelic training Ben developed a therapist training program. Through the pandemic, Ben grew the clinic adding and therapists and medical professionals in a psychedelic model. The clinic also supports training local medical and mental health students and interns in psychedelic care.

Ben has a Bachelor’s from Texas Tech University. He trained with Dr’s Wolfson and Schwartz in Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy(KAP) + Internal Family Systems(IFS) with the Ketamine Training Center and is a member of Ketamine Psychotherapy Associates. He has completed IFS Level 1 training and is working toward certification through the IFS Institute. In addition to visioning and managing daily clinic operations, Ben enjoys assisting patients and therapists with ketamine sessions, training practitioners in psychedelic therapy, and offering integration and IFS sessions. Ben provides psychedelic clinic consulting services to entrepreneurs, psychotherapy and medical professionals with clients across North America. He enjoys reading, yoga, martial arts and down time with family. He is a Lubbock native where he lives with his wife and 3 sons.