Cognitive Psychologist: How Lose Dose Ketamine Can Improve Your Life | The Mental Healness Podcast
The Mental Healness Podcast
Lee Hammock
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Mental Healness Podcast, Lee Hammock interviews Dr. Sharon Niv, a cognitive psychologist and co-founder of Joyous PBC, about the transformative potential of low-dose ketamine therapy. They discuss the differences between psycholytic and psychedelic states, the therapeutic benefits of ketamine for anxiety and depression, and the importance of creating a safe space for emotional exploration. Dr. Niv emphasizes the need for accessibility in mental health care and the potential for ketamine to help individuals break through emotional barriers and achieve greater self-awareness and resilience.
Sharon Niv, Ph.D. is a cognitive psychologist exploring how contemplative and therapeutic methods can reshape mental wellness. Her work spans mindfulness, cognitive science, and the psychology of consciousness, with a special focus on how altered or expanded states of mind can promote emotional growth and resilience.
In 2022, Sharon co-founded Joyous PBC, a public benefit company dedicated to making mental health care more affordable and accessible through low-dose, or psycholytic, approaches to ketamine treatment. At Joyous, she leads clinical research, designs digital therapeutics optimized for the psycholytic state, and developed Joyous for Therapists—a free training and collaboration program helping clinicians integrate these methods safely into their practice.
Sharon is passionate about bringing new insight to the conversation on mental health: how lighter-touch, more personalized approaches to psychoactive medicine can unlock self-understanding, compassion, and long-term healing. She hopes to share with your audience how cognitive mechanisms of psycholytic and psychedelic medicine can inform a new era of personalized, evidence-based mental wellness.
You Can Find Dr. Niv here:
https://joyous.team/therapy
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharon-niv/
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I'm Lee & I've been diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder ( NPD ). I've been in therapy since 2017 & It has definitely changed my life because without it, I would have lost everything. My platform is dedicated to giving you the WHYs behind the things that Narcissists do. I'm not here to diagnose ANYONE or to tell you to leave your relationship. I'm just trying to give you the information to make your own informed decisions
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| 1:00.1 | In this episode of the Mental Healness podcast, Lee Hammock sits down with cognitive psychologist Dr. Sharon Neve to explore the quiet revolution happening in mental health. We talk about breaking |
| 1:12.3 | through emotional walls, rethinking anxiety and depression, and why ketamine isn't about tripping. |
| 1:19.1 | It's about showing up more fully to yourself. You'll hear how this therapy is helping people |
| 1:24.6 | process trauma, build emotional skills, and create a new relationship with their mind. |
| 1:31.0 | What is going on, beautiful people? Welcome to another episode of the Mental Healingness Podcast, hosted by your favorite diagnosis. |
| 1:38.0 | Me, Mr. Lee Hammock, better known as Mental Healthness Everywhere. Today, we have a very special guest for y'all. We have Dr. Sharon |
| 1:46.2 | Nive. I almost did it. Dr. Sharon Nive, who is a cognitive psychologist that explores how contemplative |
| 1:53.8 | and therapeutic methods can reshape mental wellness. Her work expands mindfulness, cognitive |
| 1:58.6 | science, and the psychology of consciousness with special focus on how altered or expanded states of mind can promote emotional growth and resilience. |
| 2:06.2 | In 2022, she co-founded Joyce PBC, which is a public benefit company dedicated to making mental health care more affordable, which we definitely need, accessible through low dose orose or psychedelic approaches to cadamine treatment. |
| 2:19.6 | Welcome, Dr. Niv. How are you doing today? |
| 2:22.0 | Hi, Lee. It's good to be with you. How are you doing? |
| 2:24.3 | I'm doing very, very good. Like I said, I just gave you a little introduction. |
| 2:28.9 | How about you introduce yourself to the audience and do you more justice than I ever could? |
| 2:32.7 | Yeah, that's right. So I am a cognitive psychologist, and that means I think about the processes of the mind, |
| 2:39.7 | processes of emotions, processes of the body, too. |
| 2:42.2 | I mean, we are a one collective system, of course. |
| 2:45.1 | Cannot really separate thoughts, feelings, and sensations. |
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