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Be the Change

Mental Wellness Clinic

Be the Change in Mental Health (BTC) is a new clinic in Santa Rosa that offers a revolutionary approach to mental wellness. Compelled to be part of a solution in our country's mental health crisis, Dr. Marisha Chilcott, MD, and her team founded (BTC) on the fundamental belief that one does not need to be sick to want to be more well. As a practicing hospitalist and family physician, Chilcott has stayed on the pulse of healthcare throughout her career, which includes two locations of Morpheus Medical Aesthetics in the Bay Area. However, after listening to an interview with Rick Doblin, Ph.D., who has dedicated his entire life to making MDMA a legal medication for the treatment of trauma, she knew she wanted to make this incredibly effective protocol available to anyone (regardless of ability to pay). BTC currently offers the breakthrough technology of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) to treat patients with depression who do not want to take medications at all, as well as Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP).

Why a mental health clinic?

I want to carry the baton from legalization to widespread treatment availability through the establishment of scalable clinics that treat both people who are seeking relief from the disease states of severe depression, anxiety and PTSD, and people who are reasonably mentally healthy, but who are interested in being even better. BTC in Santa Rosa is just the beginning!

What is TMS?

TMS with the NeuroStar device is FDA approved for treating depression and has a 90 percent response rate. More than 60 percent of patients go into long-term remission from their depression and it can be safely used even if someone is in recovery, pregnant or breast feeding.

What about psychotherapy?

.Although psychotherapy is always recommended to help patients find insights into the sources of the wounds and traumas that may have initiated their depression, it is not a requirement to achieve improvement.

Be the Change Mental Health • 707.800.7568 • info@btcmentalhealth.org • btcmentalhealth.org