Our Community
Life Is Hard. We Support Each Other.
One Tree is a community before it is anything else. We believe integration — the slow work of letting a profound experience change how you live — does not happen alone. It happens among people who have agreed to tell the truth about the hard situations life hands us, and about the stories and fears we carry inside. Life is hard. We support each other. That is the whole commitment, and everything we build, the clinic, the training, the house on Anacapa, is in service of it.
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Three Legs of the Stool
Lasting healing requires all three dimensions. Remove any one and the stool collapses.
Body
Western Medicine
No one receives a medicine here without physician screening first and physiological monitoring during the session. Our protocols follow public health standards and federal law, because safety is non-negotiable.
Mind
Psychotherapy
Our OTI-accredited medical psychotherapistsprovide robust psychological holding before, during, and after each session. They are exceptional clinicians first, then trained, including through supervised experiential work with the medicines themselves, to prepare, hold, and integrate clients through non-ordinary states of consciousness. OTI accreditation is our own training credential. It is not a license, a board certification, or an expansion of any clinician’s legal scope of practice.
Spirit
Ancient Wisdom
We honor the sacred, ancient traditions of these medicines. When the clinical container is sound and the psyche is held, some people describe experiences of deep meaning that change how they relate to themselves and the world. We do not promise that, and we prepare every person for the possibility that it will not happen. These experiences can also be frightening or destabilizing, and some people do not benefit. That is why preparation, medical oversight, and integration are never optional.
The Federal Trajectory
Building for the Moment That Is Coming
On April 18, 2026, the Executive Order Accelerating Medical Treatments for Serious Mental Illness directed federal agencies to speed the review of these treatments and open pathways for eligible patients. MDMA, psilocybin, and ibogaine are not yet approved. If and when they are, demand for clinicians trained to use them safely will far outstrip supply.
One Tree Institute is building the clinical infrastructure now, so that when these medicines receive federal approval, we are not scrambling. We will be ready.
Our priority populations are those who have borne the heaviest burdens:
- Military Veterans — carrying moral injury, combat trauma, and treatment-resistant PTSD that has not responded to standard care. We work alongside a person’s existing care, never in place of it.
- First Responders — exposed to chronic, cumulative trauma with few effective clinical options.
- Underserved Populations — communities for whom deep healing has historically been inaccessible due to cost, geography, or systemic barriers.
Clinical Leadership
Medicine as a Practice of Presence
Tony Rogers, MD
Founder & Medical Director
Our clinical environment is designed with the precision of a medical facility and the warmth of a sanctuary, because the nervous system heals best when it feels both safe and held.
Led by Doc Tony (Tony Rogers, MD), drawing on 20+ years of county medical practice and public health, our protocols are rooted in the highest standards of humanistic patient care. Clinical rigor and compassionate presence are never in opposition.
When these medicines open a window of neuroplasticity, it is the container (the safety, the relational holding, the integration afterward) that determines whether the opening becomes lasting transformation. For some it is a difficult experience that must be held with care. Not everyone benefits, and we say so.
Our Model
An Escalating Continuum of Care
Today, One Tree offers Levels 1–2. Levels 3–4 describe what we are preparing for, not what we provide. Each person is matched to the least invasive, most appropriate level of care.
Integration & Support
Community-based integration circles, therapeutic preparation, structured psychological support, and medicine-free breathwork with a senior-certified facilitator, held with the same screening and integration as every level that follows.
Ketamine-Assisted Therapy
Legally available now. A clinically monitored psychedelic intervention, prescribed off-label, with screening, monitoring, and integration around every session.
MDMA & Psilocybin Therapy
Upon federal approval. Deep trauma processing and consciousness-expanding interventions within a medically anchored container.
Ibogaine-Assisted Therapy
Upon federal approval only. Not offered today. The most intensive intervention, carrying serious cardiac risk; if approved, offered only under full cardiac screening, continuous monitoring, and physician supervision for severe addiction.
What we do not offer, and why
One Tree is intentionally narrow. Yoga, acupuncture, sound work, and retreat programs can be valuable in skilled hands, and some of our patients use them. We do not present them as part of our clinical continuum. Our model is preparation, medical psychotherapy, the medicines as they become legal, careful screening, and integration. When a practice falls outside that, we say so plainly and point you to people who do it well.
Safety & Integration
A Comprehensive Container
Deep healing requires a container that begins long before the medicine session and extends far beyond it.
Secure Baseline
Thorough medical and psychological assessment to understand each patient’s unique history. A foundation of safety and trust before any intervention begins.
Medically Anchored Session
Administration within a monitored clinical environment where medical precision and compassionate presence work together. Consent, including consent about touch, is agreed beforehand and can be withdrawn at any time.
Community Integration
Long-term follow-up woven into community. Breakthroughs are stabilized, meaning is made, and each person is supported as they carry their insights into daily life.
No One Holds This Work Alone
Holding another person through a non-ordinary state of consciousness asks a great deal of the one who holds. We do not ask our medical psychotherapists to carry that alone. Every accredited practitioner belongs to a standing peer-consultation group where cases are shared, mentorship is ongoing, and the weight of the work is distributed. For us this is not continuing education. It is how we keep our people — and therefore your care — safe.
Anacapa House
1500 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara
In September 2026, One Tree Institute purchased a 1930s Spanish Colonial house at 1500 Anacapa Street in downtown Santa Barbara. It is owned by the nonprofit, for the community: a place where serious clinical work in frontier mental-health medicine can be trained, practiced, and studied without ever losing its lease again.
The building is now being renovated into treatment rooms, a great room for group and community work, and the training home of One Tree’s medical psychotherapists. Its first clinical tenant is the Family Therapy Institute, serving Santa Barbara families since 1979.
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Governance & Leadership
Rigor, Oversight & Holding
Sound governance is itself a form of care. It creates the stable structure within which healing work can unfold safely.
Tony Rogers, MD
Founder & Medical Director
Doc Tony (Tony Rogers, MD) is a physician and community builder with over two decades of clinical practice in Santa Barbara. He currently practices with the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department, providing direct patient care to underserved populations while teaching and mentoring resident physicians. Recognizing the profound intersection of mental health, community, and somatic healing, Dr. Rogers founded the Hollister Ranch Men’s Retreat to pioneer experiential male community building. A dedicated advocate for local youth, he served on the Board of Directors for the Wilderness Youth Project for nine years and currently serves as Vice Chair of the Board for AHA! (Attitude. Harmony. Achievement.). At One Tree, he merges rigorous public health experience with frontier psychiatric treatments to create an uncompromising, medically safe container for profound healing.
Kyra Rogers, MSW
Vice President
Kyra anchors the operational and philanthropic strategy for the One Tree Institute. Holding a Master of Social Work from USC and building on her early career in change management at Andersen Consulting, Kyra brings over two decades of expertise in community care and organizational leadership. As Board Chair of the highly respected Storyteller Children’s Center and former Board Chair of Wilderness Youth Project in Santa Barbara, she possesses a profound understanding of how to architect institutional capital to serve vulnerable populations. At One Tree, Kyra bridges the gap between frontier psychiatric research and public health implementation, overseeing the Institute’s donor relations and community outreach.
Paul Wasserman
Treasurer
Partner at Makarora, formerly Managing Director at KKR. Oversees financial strategy, capital campaigns, and facility acquisition with uncompromising financial rigor.
Alicia Goetz
Board Member
Alicia Goetz builds sanctuaries. Founder of Freedom Reigns Equine Sanctuary, Alicia has dedicated more than fifteen years to creating spaces for healing and connection. Her 4,000-acre sanctuary in San Benito County provides a permanent home for over 550 rescued horses and hosts equine-assisted healing retreats. In Santa Barbara, she founded Casa Sangha, a retreat and gathering space dedicated to personal growth, authentic connection, and community. As a board member of One Tree Institute, Alicia brings her passion for creating environments where meaningful healing can unfold. She is particularly inspired by One Tree’s commitment to advancing psychedelic-assisted therapy, training exceptional therapists, and expanding access to underserved communities. Her work reflects a deeply held belief: everyone deserves a place where healing is possible.
Erik Cetrulo
Board Member
Erik Cetrulo spent two decades managing global macro portfolios at SAC Capital, Graham Capital, and Point72 before founding Entheos Capital Advisors. A Stanford, Tufts, and Dartmouth graduate, he now serves as founder and CEO of the Montecito Ideas Forum, a nonprofit convening Santa Barbara’s civic and intellectual community around frontier ideas. Erik has been a Big Brother for thirty-five years, sits on the Board of Trustees of Crane Country Day School, and is a longtime council member and advisor to Nine Gates Programs, whose contemplative training he credits as the foundation of his adult life. At One Tree, Erik pairs institutional financial discipline with a lived understanding of transformative inner work — exactly the combination a frontier-medicine nonprofit needs at the board table.