Your Space for Healing

Helios is a private psychiatry practice, located in beautiful Woodside, California in the heart of the Silicon Valley. Helios's founder, Dr. Jennifer Dore, MD is a Stanford trained psychiatrist with over a decade of diverse medical experience, ranging from academic research, to surgical and psychiatric training. Under the care of the Helios team, you can expect private, consultative care with an emphasis on a modern approach to wellness that is patient-centered, adaptive and integrative. 

what to expect

Helios offers a variety of services, from medication management and talk therapy, to family and couples counseling, to progressive therapies for treatment resistant illnesses. To learn more, scroll down.   

Our Approach

Helios’s clinicians are experienced in a range of psychiatric conditions, from treatment resistant depression and anxiety, to adult attention-deficit disorder, bipolar, trauma and PTSD. With backgrounds in private practice, county hospitals, community clinics and large academic research institutions, Helios’s team brings a diverse set of experience and perspectives to patient care.

The Space

Helios is designed to be a refuge, with personal touches through the space that make the environment feel like an escape. Our patients enjoy purified water or tea from our FloWater station, and love to explore the hundreds of books, totems and artwork we have on hand. Our experienced CMT-in-residence, Karina Hoog, is available throughout the week to offer therapeutic massage before or after treatment sessions.

The Helios Team

At Helios, we understand what an important step it is to seek a therapist for the first time or to make a switch to a new therapist. We’re very grateful that you are here. What makes Helios special is the relationships that form between our patients and clinicians. Ready to meet our team? Click the images below:

A treatment pLan that puts You first

People are complex. A person is not a disorder, a disease, or a diagnosis. Therapy can be valuable for everyone, particularly at times of intense change, loss, or personal trauma.   With expertise in psychopharmacology and individual psychotherapy, Helios’s clinicians maintain a patient centered, integrative approach to treating the whole person.  Helios’s therapeutic approach combines principles from psychoanalysis, attachment theory and developmental psychology.  

BEYOND THERAPY

Your journey to mental and physical well-being is not one-dimensional. Helios strives to align mind and body wellness by offering a range of diverse therapies to our patients.

Helios’s patients enjoy onsite massage, bodywork and somatic therapy. In addition, Helios provides red-light (photobiomodulation) therapy, weight-management consulting, Genesight and Spectracell testing and a range of vitamin infusions to support total health.

Our philosophy is grounded in guiding our clients toward a goal of total and sustainable well-being. Our wellness concierge can help guide you through our offerings and help you find the treatment plan that is right for you.

Where Medicine Is a Doorway, But Together, We Walk Through.

One of the most promising new treatments available today is Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy. At Helios, you will be treated by a team of experienced professionals with a diverse range of clinical backgrounds. With regard to Ketamine, and truly any medicine, our emphasis is supporting you through your individual response and helping to facilitate insights into your own experience. Dr. Dore co-authored one of the largest studies to date on Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy, published in the Journal of Psychoactive Drugs. At Helios, a special emphasis is placed on set and setting, integration of experience and on a constant, deep respect for the power of this intervention.

Research, including the paper published by Dr. Dore and her co-authors, has shown that Ketamine alleviates depression and anxiety in both the severely mentally ill, and interestingly, older patients. At Helios, we focus on finding the right dose and delivery method for each individual, rather than taking a one-size fits all approach. We’re excited about this treatment option and the potential it holds. Like all medications, Ketamine is not without its risks and side-effects. Each patient of Helios is required to undergo a full psychiatric and medical evaluation before a determination is made by your physician if Ketamine is the right treatment for you. If you have questions, please contact us via our New Patients form.

Current Protocols and Applications

Suicidality, Severe Depression, Anxiety and PTSD: The body of research shows that Ketamine is a powerful intervention for severe depression, anxiety and PTSD. Patients of Helios work with their provider to establish a treatment course and modality for the use of Ketamine.

End of Life: Helios offers protocols and treatment plans to help ease transition for patients reaching the end of their life. You provider will discuss the risks and benefits of our existing protocols for end of life Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy.