Dr. Marty Lajoie, PsyD is the founder and director of Holistic Psychology Inc., an integrative mental health therapist group practice in Santa Rosa, CA. He has also worked for the past decade in psychological leadership at Duffy’s Napa Valley Treatment, an integrative treatment center for substance addictions in Calistoga. For several years, he helped develop and direct Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy programs at Be The Change in Mental Health and Window’s Health Clinic in Sonoma County. He earned his Masters and Doctorate in clinical psychology from California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, where he conducted dissertation research on integrative and psychedelic-assisted approaches to treating substance use disorders. He underwent post-doctoral training in Internal Family Systems (IFS), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Motivational Interviewing (MI), Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR), Brainspotting, and Nonviolent Communication (NVC), as well as certification in Integrative Mental Health and Neurodynamic Breathwork facilitation, and post-graduate certification training in psychedelic assisted therapies with the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) and Polaris Insight Center.
Dr. Lajoie is also an instructor in the addiction counseling department at Santa Rosa Junior College, where he teaches several classes in the substance use disorder counseling department including neurophysiology and pharmacology of addiction, and mentors students entering the field. In the decade prior to psychology, Marty worked as a residential care counselor at the County of Sonoma’s child protective services shelter, and in the decade before that, he produced and performed at large-scale events in the San Francisco Bay Area electronic dance music scene. In his personal life, Marty has been a consistently active and contributing member of addiction recovery support communities since 2004 — an experience that, in particular, inspired him to further his education and become the psychologist he is today.
