Your Trip to Healing
Retro Therapeutics is a private practice located in Capitola, CA, owned and operated by Julie Vilardi, PMHNP.
Services
Ketamine-Assisted Care
In-person and virtual ketamine sessions, full medical evaluations, and support for healthcare professionals & groups.
Depth Hypnosis
A rapid psycho-spiritual healing modality, developed by Dr. Isa Gucciardi at The Foundation of the Sacred Stream.
Psychiatric Services
Retro Therapeutics can provide general psychiatry services by request and after consultation with clients.
Are you working with ketamine in your own professional practice, or running a group?
The Promise of Psychedelic Medicines
Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy is now a regularly utilized treatment modality in psychiatric care. Retro Therapeutics is poised and ready to use other psychedelic medications as they become licensed and legally available in the United States.
Psychedelic medicines are being researched for their potential to heal anxiety, depression, distress, & addictions.
Julie Vilardi, MS, PMHNP
Julie is an experienced Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner who has been working with ketamine since 2022 in clinic and group settings. She completed her Master's Degree and two post-Master's Degrees (Psychiatry and Perinatal/Neonatal) at UCSF, and is a graduate of the California Institute for Integral Studies Psychedelic Assisted Therapy and Research program. Julie is a full mesa carrier trained in Andean Cosmology and is also trained in the application of Depth Hypnosis.
Julie has a passion for combining Earth-based energy practices with psychedelic medicines and strongly believes in the ability to promote healing from within.
What Clients Are Saying
“I cannot thank you for your kindness and compassion last night. I felt seen, heard and understood. It’s amazing how infrequently I feel that way. You gave me a beautiful gift above and beyond ketamine.”
— Deb Gernandt“Julie creates an atmosphere of safety and ease with her warm affect and competent professionalism. As the ketamine medical provider for Clinicians’ integration training and numerous other groups, Julie brings her competent professionalism, creating an atmosphere of safety and warmth.”
— Jennifer Allen, LMFT, ATR-BC, group facilitator, KAP practitioner.“There is an art to hearing someone’s story. As a receiving mirror, Julie caringly receives, embraces, and honors people’s stories of journeys into their inner and outer worlds. She neither projects nor interprets, but rather helps one glean and reap the jewels, both the radiant and dark ones. Along with being a technically skilled medical practitioner, Julie witnesses and endures beautiful and difficult stories without flinching or avoiding, through love and compassion.”
— Phyllis Wuetcher