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About your Clinic:At Soul Surgeon by Moos MD, our vision is to create the conditions for love and light to shine. We aim to accomplish this using multiple platforms to simplify healing trauma so people can experience the joy of life and love. We believe healed people will light up the world with love, and we strongly believe that psychedelics play an integral part pushing this evolution. Medicine wants you to live longer. Soul Surgeon wants you to live fully.
Medication and talk-therapy models cannot keep up with the meteoric rise in mental illness, isolation, and suffering. We need new tools, new skills, and new perspectives. Our healing framework focuses on a connection-based, emotionally-attuned, trauma-informed, value-driven approach to care, infusing my values of wholeheartedness, belonging, play, and love into both my practice and principles.
We believe healing happens when the right conditions are provided. Human systems are dynamic and trend toward thriving in optimal environments. Before healing can happen, we ensure safety, transparency and trust is established. The conditions: integrity, nurturance, play, stillness, and connection are the bedrock from which the seeds of change grow outward. Love grows concentrically outward from self to other to ultimately all of creation. Your Light is the manifestation of your true purpose and meaning.
We are a healing sanctuary in Los Angeles, founded by Dr. John Moos. Our unique healing framework lies at the intersection of mysticism and medicine, art and science, and is informed by both clinical and spiritual practices. After becoming increasingly discouraged with most psychedelic medical models, Dr. Moos wanted to create a better container for healing to occur. He chose to make personal transformation simple, safe and accessible.
As a Western-trained, allopathic medical doctor, he was dispirited by the traditional practice of medicine. Faced with burnout, loss of autonomy, defensive medical practices, and increasing bureaucracy, he needed a change, and turned his focus from trauma surgery to trauma healing. After spending years in trauma bays, overburdened emergency rooms, and operating suites, it was time to heal it before it happens. Relying on his deep experience in all contexts of trauma, he is able to apply the wisdom learned and earned from both professional development and personal experiences to support every client’s healing journey.
We are here to create the container, the framework, and the conditions to heal while offering comprehensive and tailored treatment programs for individuals, couples, and groups. Your trust is our inspiration.
Description of Services:Psychedelic-Assisted Journeys
Transformative healing experiences supported by psychedelic medicine, a healing framework, and a skilled healer. We prioritize creating a healing container to hold this sacred work. All sessions include medical consultation, risk and safety assessment, preparation and post-journey integration.
Trauma Informed Care
Shift from what is wrong with you to what happened to you. Trauma is a spectrum and we will all experience it; it’s the Human Condition. From acute, intense events to subtle misattunements during developmental years - all of it can have lasting, seemingly invisible effects. Psychedelics are a tool that can bring the unconscious conscious and make the unintentional deliberate. You are not your suffering.
Microdosing
At Soul Surgeon, we meticulously build a microdosing regiment using scientifically backed data and regular consultations [in-person or virtual] to fully and compassionately support our clients through their individualized needs ranging from personal mental health journey work, tapering, and medication interactions.
Psychedelic Integration
Whether working with another provider, experimenting recreationally, or lacking support as is the case with ketamine “chains,” we offer full support to contextualize and integrate your psychedelic experiences to allow for meaning-making.
SSRI Taper Support
Using cutting edge techniques and evidence-based literature, we provide extensive SSRI (antidepressant) taper support. Moving away from the inhumane APA guidelines, we utilize the Horowitz-Taylor Method (hyperbolic taper) coupled with ketamine support to guide clients through a successful taper from their medications.
Addiction, Sobriety & Recovery
Recidivism rates are astronomical for traditional approaches to substance use disorder and treating the spectrum of addictions. We specialize in creating protocols to get at root cause (the relationship) as opposed to treating just the symptoms of addictive tendencies and behaviors.
Adolescents, Young Adult & Family Systems
Our young people are struggling with alarming rates of mental illness, unsupported mental health, digital disconnection, doom scrolling, ongoing peer pressure, reputation management, existential anxiety due to climate crisis, and misattuned family systems. Integrating both practical wisdom from parenting 6 kids, multidisciplinary educational development, and spiritual exploration - we are birthing a new paradigm of adolescent care that includes both the child and the family system.
Couples & Intimacy
Leveraging the principles of the Gottman Method and wisdom learned from co-creating a life of love, we offer support to couples in need of rekindling their friendship, enhancing communication and intimacy, overcoming conflict, and creating shared meaning. Ask us about a “love bomb,” a 4-hour facilitator supported container of deep intimacy, love and connection.
Groups
Group work blends the benefits of an individual journey with the connection of a shared experience. The magic of a group setting is to be unconditionally supported, accepted, and witnessed. The type of work bolsters both self-love and love for others, while concurrently creating an integration group that you can rely on for life. We host both open and private group offerings.
Prescriber Support
We provide prescriber support for therapists and coaches wanting to grow their ketamine practice, offering screening, medical intake, prescribing and on-site facilities. We also support and accept referrals for any psychedelic medicine work for clients interested.
Pre- & Post-Ritual Counseling
Thinking about psychedelic tourism or participating in ceremony? We offer pre- and post-journey support to ensure you have the resources, education, and tools necessary to integrate and embody the experience fully. Post-journey, if you are interested in creating or joining an integration circle/cohort, please let us know.
Curriculum Development
Dr. Moos has been developing and refining a pragmatic - away from the extremes of the clinical or mystical - healing framework and training curriculum for both clients and providers centered around our vision statement, “creating the conditions for your love and light to shine.” More to come…
Harm Reduction
It is a scary world out there with underground providers, lethally-contaminated substances, and no regulations. As the legal landscape changes, there is more help on the way. We provide harm reduction support to ensure your safety.
Psychoeducation
There is a lot of conjecture and opinion circulating around psychedelics, macro- and microdosing strategies, safety and benefits. We offer an informed, evidence-based perspective to guiding people through their psychedelic experiences.
Retreats
Soul Surgeon MD offers wellness retreat support and consultation to provide an experience that is pragmatic and holistic.
Practitioners:John Moos MD
Calina ArtimescuSupporting Team:Calina Artimescu, Director of Operations + Facilitator
Alex Aller, Director of MarketingDetails
Founder(s) / CEO: John Moos MDPrice Range: 500-4000Our Process
Overview of Experience:Over my career in medicine, I’ve had the distinct privilege of helping and healing those in need for over two decades. I’ve been a conduit in the saving of human life, and witness to the compassionate ending of it as well. Felt the spilling of blood of people touched by the hands of hate and trauma.
Throughout this time, I’ve confronted and endured the greatest challenges of my life, and was gifted the opportunity to face and heal my own trauma. During this initiation, after dedicating my life to the art of medicine, I have been called to put the scalpel down and find a new way to heal. Accepting and surrendering to my suffering, I vowed to carry this wisdom - learned and earned - to better humankind.
Throughout my journey, I was able to reclaim my life, find belonging, and live wholeheartedly by optimizing the conditions to thrive. Those conditions are: restoring my integrity, optimizing nourishment, creating opportunities and environments for stillness, getting lost in play, and cultivating community and connection. In healing my soul, I reclaimed my inner abundance and recognized I am perfectly imperfect. This was, and still is, my wholehearted journey of self-healing and personal transformation.
Intake Process:We have every onboarding client complete a phone call consultation.
Psychedelic Substance Offered:- Ketamine
- Psilocybin
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John took my husband and I through an incredibly nurturing healing journey. This was an experience for us unlike any other and out of our comfort zone leading up to our experience but we felt safe at all times and came away more open and connected than before. It felt like a weight had been lifted off our shoulders. We felt lighter. And 3 months later we are still feeling the positive effects. John is warm, authentic and professional. Thank you John 🙏🏻
John is caring, professional, and goes above and beyond to ensure that everyone feels safe and comfortable. Can’t recommend him enough!
I am so grateful to have found Soul Surgeon MD during a significant period of struggle in my life. John and Calina are EXCEPTIONAL humans and even more brilliant facilitators. It was with their gentle guidance that I learned the best medicine and route for my healing journey to begin. I have learned equally as much in the post-journey integration. They provide a valuable and most importantly SAFE resource for the Los Angeles community.