About Us
Meet The Team
May Ragna Fianna (she/her)
May (she/her) is a homoflexible, queer, neurodivergent witch. May started her career as a sexual consent educator. After graduating with her masters in Marriage and Family at the top of her class, she founded Fianna Family Therapy: a private practice and consulting firm dedicated to bringing the best care to undeserved individuals and families, with particular focus on PTSD and LGBTQ folk. May completed her Psychedelic Assisted Therapy training through Integrative Psychiatric Institute in 2023. May has been practicing for 10 years.
May's role at The Village Witch is to provide bed-side therapy or trip sitting to clients who are self-administering prescribed ketamine, or acting as a guide or trip sitter to those who self-administer psychedelics that the client obtained for themselves.
Reese Ramponi (They/she)
Reese Ramponi (they/she) is a psychiatric Nurse Practitioner providing consulting, training, and and psychiatric services. After moving to the East Coast from Alaska in 2009, Reese studied Religion and Psychology at Dartmouth College. After undergrad, Reese was a wilderness adventure guide and worked in research on depression in breast cancer survivors. They completed Yale’s Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner program in 2018. Reese is dedicated to creating accessible, collaborative spaces where clients are given agency to make informed decisions about their health. They have been involved in queer advocacy for the past 10 years as a photographer, healthcare educator, and consultant. Reese facilitates presentations at conferences and healthcare facilities focusing on neurodiversity affirming care and gender identity development in youth and young adults. Some of their other clinical passions include ketamine therapy and existential therapy. They completed a ketamine assisted psychotherapy program through Resilience Behavioral Health in Tuscon, AZ in 2022
Certification from the Best
Over 100 hours of classroom learning
Hands on training giving and receiving ketamine therapy
Treatment Philosophy
"What rewards me as a therapist and sitter is the deep satisfaction of knowing that I have made someone better. I tell all my clients on day one: “my best day of therapy with you is when you tell me you don’t need me anymore”. I care deeply about “the cure”. Therapy should never be forever. If I am doing my job, you come in, you get better, you leave, and you never come back. Just like in the medical field: you come in with a broken bone, we set it, and then you heal. It’s not painless, but you don’t have a gimpy leg for the rest of your life. You move with your life after a few months and barely think about it.
As someone whose passion is closing treatment resistant cases, I am always searching for the most effective treatments that work quickly and with as little pain to the patient. In my searching, I started to come across research with otherworldly results – real cure for treatment resistant depression, trauma, and other disorders that I had so struggled to treat with conventional means. I had no background with psychedelics, but as a scientist I couldn’t refute the data. Now, trained by the foremost experts in the field, I am bringing the hope of fast, durable relief to those I could not “cure” in the past." May
"Ketamine therapy offers a unique opportunity to process trauma, experience relief from depressive symptoms, and explore authentic aspects of self. Through expanding consciousness and creating space from visceral experiences, ketamine allows for new perspectives and promotes habit change and self growth through neuroplasticity. Reese prescribes ketamine for self-administration via sublingual lozenge, allowing clients to experience healing benefits in their home environments in a cost-effective manner. They believe that novel pharmacological interventions should not be limited to those with financial resources and strive to expand access for marginalized populations. In addition, they specialize in working with autistic folks, utilizing ketamine to explore sensory differences and practice un-masking to identify authentic self." Reese