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We’re a team of clinicians and staff who have dedicated our lives to research, education, and treating those with mental health conditions. We’re especially passionate about helping those with Treatment-Resistant Depression and providing the most advanced therapies available, including Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) and esketamine nasal spray, both FDA-approved for advanced depression.
Mental health conditions can be profoundly painful and isolating, making it difficult to seek help. Our team provides a unique, patient-centered experience to help you find the appropriate treatment and relief from your symptoms. We’re grateful to be practicing psychiatry during this era in which there are so many new treatment possibilities and new hope for those with mental health conditions.
Palei Alfaro is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who is working at Mindful Health Solutions’ Sacramento clinic as a Psychotherapist. She has a passion for anxiety and depressive disorders. She feels that these areas are what the typical person encounter more often in life, and she has developed an expansive “coping skills toolbox” to address many of the symptoms associated with the diagnosis. She is also interested in behavioral areas like ADHD and mood disorders as well.
As a therapist, she describes her personality as positive, outgoing, and overall bubbly. She is genuinely hopeful and happy in working towards each of her patient’s personal successes. With that, she aims to establish safety, security and stability. Meaning she wants each patient to feel safe, and to understand that she provides a non-judgmental and unbiased space for them to build trust and establish a meaningful therapeutic relationship, and to know that they can depend on consistent and thorough treatment.
Palei Alfaro comes to Mindful Health Solutions because of the cutting edge technology in mental/behavioral health field here. Seeing that, she immediately knew this was the place for her. For years, she had been following and studying advances in treatment for mental health disorders and have always felt that there should be more access to these treatments. Treatments such as Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) therapy and esketamine treatments allow people to have alternatives to traditional medications, and find something that works for them.
Dr. Bezwada comes from a long line of doctors in his family, and while always knowing he would likely pursue medicine, he veered toward Psychiatry after finishing medical school. He had been intrigued by brain disorders and knew that the brain was the most powerful organ in the body. He strongly believes that our thoughts influence our lives, and that this is an important and interesting component of our lives. An externship in Psychiatry strengthened his interest and soon after he began his Psychiatry Residency.
Dr. Bezwada has a flexible, amenable style with patients. Forming an excellent therapeutic relationship with the patient is of utmost importance to him. He spends time listening to his patients and educating them patients on potential treatment plans. He provides guidance to patients to achieve their goals.
Having treated patients with Electro Convulsive Therapy (ECT) for years and recognizing the promising recovery and remission rates with neuro stimulation, Dr. Bezwada is pleased to integrate Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) into his patient care. TMS may help patients who have not found relief from medications alone and has minimal to no side effects.
He joined Mindful Health Solutions in the late Summer of 2020.
Dr. Joe Hibbeln is a board-certified Psychiatrist with a focused interest in people struggling with major depression disorder, bipolar disorders, aggressive disorders, ADHD and addictions. He also has a special interest in the field of nutritional psychiatry. Different diets have different affects on the mind and body, and taking that into account is something he finds crucial to a wholistic form of treatment along with medications and other alternatives. He feels it is critical to ensure that everyone’s brain receives adequate and fundamental nutrition when looking at their overall mental health.
As a Psychiatrist, he prefers a working collaborative relationship with his patients. In his words, each person has a unique life, unique circumstances and a biologically unique nervous system. Thus, everyone reacts to psychiatric medications and other treatments differently. He feels that patients can best report on their own experience and he strives to create a collaborative relationship where my patients know that what they experience and what they say is one of the most important things.
Dr. Joe Hibbeln is also fond of alternative treatments, having experience with Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) and esketamine as options for treatment-resistant conditions. Providing alternative options allows for each patient to figure out what they need and what works best for them overall. Dr. Hibbeln believes being on the forefront of clinical research and evolution of treatments is one of the most important parts of his overall practice.
Dr. Ksenia Voronina first learned about Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) during her residency at the Menninger Department of Psychiatry. She was intrigued by the promising data for the treatment of patients who hadn’t found relief with medication alone. Having an interest in novel treatments, improvement of brain connectivity, and procedural medicine, Dr. Voronina values the ability to perform brain stimulation that is very targeted.
As a dynamic provider, Dr. Voronina enjoys forming a more holistic impression of her patients informed by their culture and developmental journey. She is passionate about helping her patients get back on track. Dr. Voronina is a compassionate physician with a gentle yet direct style. She understands and validates each person’s experience, enjoying hearing the stories and thinking through their treatment needs.
She joined Mindful Health Solutions in the Fall of 2018.
