Mark Farrington, NP, MSN
Mark is a psychiatric clinical nurse specialist; licensed nurse practitioner with a master’s in psychiatric nursing from the University of Virginia and a B.S. in nursing from Eastern Mennonite University.
For over twenty years he worked for Region Ten Community Services Board in a variety of roles. The last of which was the development and direction of the Wellness Recovery Center, a short-term, residential mental health crisis center. Subsequently he worked ten years for the Veterans Administration in out patient care. More recently, he has had a private psychotherapy practice. In these settings, he has worked with individuals experiencing severe and persistent mental illness, addiction, mood disorders, acute crisis, chronic pain, and trauma.
During his 30-plus years of clinical practice, he has been aware of the over-reliance on psychotropic medication with serious side effects, inconsistent results, and a general absence of adequate mental health treatment. About 15 years ago, he discovered the new research using psychedelics to treat end-of-life anxiety, PTSD, addiction, and depression. He sought out training in these treatments and, in 2021, completed the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) certificate program in Psychedelic Therapy and Research, the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) MDMA therapy training program. In 2021, he completed the Polaris Insight Center’s Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy Training program.
His psychotherapeutic approach is based upon compassion, curiosity, and respect. Mark believes that we possess an internal source of wisdom that can be accessed and cultivated through psychotherapy, psychedelic medicine, and other practices linking mind, body, and spirit.
Mark is married to Claudia Sencer, who works with the Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy program. Together they have three children and three grandchildren and enjoy a shared love of exploring the boundaries of interpersonal growth, intimacy, vulnerability, and healing. Mark enjoys music, reading, hiking, skiing, and making stained glass windows when not working.