Karina Sergi
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
14 yrs experience
Updated August 19, 2026 How we verify
About
Karina Sergi, MS, LMFT is a California-licensed marriage and family therapist offering online therapy through Octave, specializing in ADHD, family conflict, and religious trauma. She integrates research-based and traditional approaches (CPT, IFS, mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, motivational interviewing, psychodynamic and solution-focused therapy) with adults and older adults. Alongside direct practice, she has an extensive background in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy: she provides Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy and serves as a clinical trial therapist at Kadima Neuropsychiatry Institute, previously served as Director of Psychedelic Therapy Training and DEI at Pacific Neuroscience Institute's Treatment & Research In Psychedelics (T.R.I.P.) Center, co-founded ReWild Medicine, and trains/instructs through the California Institute of Integral Studies and Beckley Academy.
Services
- ADHD
- Family conflict
- Religious trauma
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Anger management
- Burnout
- Caregiver support
- Divorce
- Grief
- Life transitions
- Relationship issues
- Stress management
- Panic
- Cultural/racial stress
- Codependency
- Intergenerational trauma
- Psychedelic-assisted therapy (ketamine, MDMA, psilocybin)
- Workplace stress
- Cognitive processing therapy
- Harm reduction
- Internal family systems
- Interpersonal therapy
- Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy
- Motivational interviewing
- Psychodynamic
- Relational
- Solution-focused brief therapy
- Strength-based
- Trauma-focused therapy
- Attachment-based therapy
State licenses
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California · License #52290 · LMFT Active
expires 2026-08
Reputation
What clients praise
- Clients describe her as warm, direct, and understanding
- Makes couples feel comfortable and safe expressing difficult emotions
- Non-judgmental, accepting stance even with strong emotion
In the field
Interviews
Publications
- Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy and Psychedelic Science: A Review and Perspective on Opportunities in Neurosurgery and Neuro-Oncology (Neurosurgery, 2023)
- Nature-themed video intervention may improve cardiovascular safety of psilocybin-assisted therapy for alcohol use disorder (Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2023)
Sources
The facts on this page are drawn from 14 public sources and independently fact-checked before publication.
Psychology Today directory
- Identity anchor: name, credential (LMFT), practice (Octave), location (La Jolla, CA), phone, specialties, issues, modalities, populations, insurance, license #52290, 14 years in practice (psychologytoday.com)
NPPES NPI registry
- NPI 1952623514, taxonomy Marriage & Family Therapist, license #52290 CA, practice addresses in Lancaster/Northridge/Santa Monica CA (npiregistry.cms.hhs.gov)
mind-diagnostics directory
- License #52290 CA (renews August 2026), NPI 1952623514, 14 years experience, bio, specialties, English-only, telehealth (mind-diagnostics.org)
Octave provider directory
- Listed as Octave LMFT provider, NPI-linked profile page (findoctave.com)
Beckley Academy team page
- Bio, 18 years experience, psychedelic training credentials (CIIS, MAPS, Ketamine Training Center, Polaris, Usona, MindMed, Fluence), current headshot photo (beckleyacademy.com)
Kadima Neuropsychiatry Institute team page
- Affiliation as Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy provider and clinical trial therapist at Kadima (kadimanp.com)
LinkedIn profile
- Professional history, 18+ years experience, Director of Psychedelic Therapy Training/DEI role, education (linkedin.com)
web search aggregation
- Co-founder of ReWild Medicine with Dr. Keith Heinzerling; launched T.R.I.P. Center in 2019 with Kelly and Heinzerling (pacificneuroscienceinstitute.org)
PubMed
- Peer-reviewed publication co-authorship confirmed: Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy and Psychedelic Science review, Neurosurgery 2023 (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
Frontiers in Psychiatry
- Led/co-authored Visual Healing nature-video psilocybin/alcohol-use-disorder pilot RCT (frontiersin.org)
Santa Monica Daily Press
- Press coverage of the Visual Healing psilocybin research (smdp.com)
Yelp
- 2 reviews on now-closed Northridge, CA MFT practice listing; positive sentiment (warm, understanding, non-judgmental) (yelp.com)
Apple Podcasts
- Guest on Dirty White Coat podcast discussing psychedelic-assisted therapy (podcasts.apple.com)
YouTube (Think Neuro podcast)
- Guest interview on psilocybin clinical trial work (youtube.com)