“We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.”

– Thich Nhat Hanh

Kinga Patryce Bak, PMHNP-BC

As a holistic-minded psychiatric nurse practitioner with training in Reiki and holistic health coaching, I hold deep respect for the complexity and mystery of each individual. My practice is based on the philosophy that the body’s inherent ability to repair itself can be tapped into with an intention focused approach to healing and in creating space for the needs of the mind-body-spirit. My philosophy draws on principles of integrative and naturopathic medicine, while my personal experiences with plant medicine and Vajrayana Buddhism have also shaped my broader theoretical perspective. As a psychiatric provider, my clinical toolkit includes pharmacologic and herbal therapies, and I specialize in ketamine-assisted therapy supported by a transpersonal approach to psychotherapy.

Healing begins within

My pronouns are She/They and I am attuned to spiritual and somatic aspects of emotional dysregulation. I owe many of my strengths to a diversity of life experience, including having been a child-refugee, an artist, embodying the fluidity of gender, and most recently, a three-time cancer survivor. As a result of my own experience of trauma and multiple near-death experiences, I feel a strong calling to being of service to others, and a deep curiosity about consciousness, resilience, meaning-making and ultimate transcendence. In working together, it is my goal to support you in connecting with your essence and to assist you in accessing your inner-healing intelligence. Together, utilizing the MIND-BODY-SPIRIT medicine model, we will potentiate self-healing and lasting transformation.

Training

  • Vanderbilt University School of Nursing: Master of Science in Nursing, Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner

  • Usui Reiki Ryoho Master Practitioner, International House of Reiki

  • Animist Minister ordained by Web of Life Church, Tucson, Arizona

  • Integrative Psychiatry Institute: Certified Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Provider

  • Polaris Insight Center: Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy

  • Certified Clinical Trauma Professional Level II: Complex Trauma

  • Gabor Maté, Compassionate Inquiry

  • Internal Family Systems Informed Practitioner

  • Brainspotting Level I Practitioner

  • Institute for Integrative Nutrition: Certified Holistic Health Coach

Specialties

  • Anxiety/Panic

  • Depression

  • Bipolar

  • Trauma

  • Transgenerational (ancestral) trauma

  • ADHD

  • OCD

  • Grief

  • Spiritual Crisis + Transpersonal Concerns

  • Cancer Patients + Survivors

  • LGBTQIA2S+ Ally

Begin your journey, today.