Sapience Therapy

Karen Scott, MD is passionate about the promise of psychedelic medicines to help people find psychological healing and facilitate personal and spiritual growth. She is board certified in internal medicine with 20 years of clinical practice experience, including working in hospital medicine as well as addiction treatment. She has post-graduate training in ketamine assisted psychotherapy, psychedelic integration therapy, and psychoanalytic psychotherapy, and holds a certificate in psychedelic therapies and research from the California Institute of Integral Studies. Dr. Scott believes that all people have within them the capacity for wholeness, and that access to this innate healing capacity can be facilitated by the use of consciousness technologies including (but not limited to) psychedelic medicines. Dr. Scott is a long time practitioner of meditation, and holds with reverence the knowledge that all life is an interconnected whole. She aspires to embody integrity and compassion in all her actions. She believes that our natural state prior to trauma and adversity is inner peace, and that it is the birthright of all people to experience this peace in daily life.

Practicing Internal Medicine Physician. Trained in Ketamine assisted psychotherapy. Graduate of Center of psychedelic therapy and research program at California Institute of Integral Studies. Passionate about education and research in the field of psychedelic medicine. Focused in studying the neurophysiology and neuropharmacology of psychedelics. She is certified in guided imagery meditation and SKY yoga from Art of living institute. She is well traveled, and is passionate about travel with purpose. Interested in photography, food and learning about different cultures. She has captured all the landscape photographs in this website, depicting sunrise from different vantage points, a mark of ascension, of light, knowledge and wisdom.

Steve Rhodes is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Massachusetts who facilitates Ketamine-assisted therapy sessions at Sapience. He received his B.S. degree from the University of Maryland in 1983 and then his Masters in Social Work from Boston College in 1996. In addition to his work at Sapience he has a small private practice in Greenfield, MA. In 2012 he completed the level one training in Internal Family Systems and has been using this method with great success. He is also trained in EMDR, Narrative Therapy, and Mindfulness based psychotherapy. In the past he has been the Director of school based therapy programs, Child and Family programs, and a Clinic Director of a community mental health center. He recently completed the Polaris module 1 Psychedelic assisted therapy program along with the Sapience clinician training. He is a long time meditator and has used the practice of mindfulness in his work throughout his career. He has always been interested in the intersection of spirituality and psychotherapy and has integrated it in his work. Mr. Rhodes has seen the positive effects of psychedelic assisted therapy and its healing benefit and is excited to be a part of this new stage in its use. He has always had an inner drive to explore life and to assist others in deep healing. He lives in Western Massachusetts with his wife, 3 children and therapy dog in training Cooper. He enjoys reading, sports and being out in nature.

Dr. Bob Davis is a licensed psychologist who facilitates ketamine-assisted therapy sessions at Sapience. He received his doctorate from Rutgers University and completed postdoctoral fellowships in both Behavioral Medicine and Trauma at Harvard University Medical School. Dr. Davis has completed multiple trainings in the psychotherapeutic use of ketamine, including Ketamine-enhanced Internal Family Systems (K-IFS) psychotherapy at Sapience. He is passionate about the psychedelic renaissance and its steady stream of research demonstrating the profound benefits psychedelics can have on growth and connectedness. Knowing that Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP), in particular, can free up the imagination to allow for new insights and creative problem-solving beyond psychotherapy alone, Dr. Davis is honored to be an agent of positive change for those ready to engage in deep, transformational healing. Away from the Sapience office, Dr. Davis continues his passion for exploring the neuroplastic capabilities of the human brain as the director of a neurotherapy assessment and treatment clinic in Hadley, MA. Away from all offices, Dr. Davis enjoys spending time with his daughters, listening to and playing music, and being outdoors camping, whitewater kayaking and hang gliding.