FIND YOUR DIRECTION HOME

At True North Psychiatry in New Mexico, we offer integrative psychiatric care and ketamine-assisted therapy designed to help you return to a place of balance, clarity, and emotional well-being. Unlike many ketamine clinics run by providers without mental health training, our care is led by Dr. Catherine Mahan Boyd MD, board-certified psychiatrist with deep expertise in both traditional and psychedelic-assisted therapies.

Dr. Catherine Mahan Boyd, MD brings years of psychiatric experience, offering thorough medical and psychiatric evaluations to ensure personalized, evidence-based treatment. Her approach may include additional therapies or nutritional recommendations to enhance your response to ketamine and support lasting healing. Whether you are navigating depression, trauma or transformation, at True North you’ll receive consistent, premium care in a compassionate setting based on your needs.

What We Offer

We provide a full-spectrum healing: Integrative Psychiatric Evaluations, Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP), Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Lifestyle & Mind-Body Coaching, Nutritional Psychiatry & Gut-Brain Support and Medication Management.

All services are provided by Dr. Boyd and designed to integrate medical science with emotional insight and deep therapeutic care. We treat adults and adolescents with a focus on the following:

• Stress

• Anxiety

• Depression

• Attachment Issues

• Bipolar

• OCD

• PTSD

• ADHD

• Insomnia

Personalized Treatment

Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP)

At True North Psychiatry, Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) is offered in a doctor-led, highly personalized setting. Every ketamine journey is thoughtfully prepared, clinically safe, and fully integrated into your therapeutic plan—never one-size-fits-all.

Ketamine works in two key ways: it can provide rapid relief from depression, anxiety, and suicidality by altering brain chemistry, and it opens a unique window of neuroplasticity—lasting 1 to 3 days—during which the brain is more receptive to change. When paired with psychotherapy, this period becomes a powerful opportunity to explore and heal the root causes of suffering, shift entrenched thought patterns, and process past trauma with greater ease and self-compassion.

• Jama Psychiatry

• New England Journal of Medicine

• The American Journal of Psychiatry
  
  

Dr. Catherine Mahan Boyd, MD

Dr. Catherine Mahan Boyd, MD is a board-certified psychiatrist with advanced certifications in integrative and psychedelic-assisted therapy. She earned her MD from the University of New Mexico and completed psychiatry residency at UNM Hospital.

Before medicine, she studied Visual Arts and Semiotics at Brown University and worked as a raft guide, filmmaker, and yoga teacher, shaping a holistic, human-centered view of healing.

Today, she bridges rigorous medical science with psychodynamic depth, nature-informed wisdom, and authentic therapeutic connection.