About Floresta
Floresta focuses on the transformation of mental health and psychiatry through consciousness.
We believe healing is not only the reduction of symptoms. It is the restoration of connection. Connection to the body, to the inner world, to meaning, to choice, and to the deeper intelligence that lives within each person.
Our work begins with the understanding that human beings are more than diagnoses, behaviors, or stories from the past. We are multidimensional beings shaped by biology, relationships, culture, consciousness, and the mysteries of lived experience.
Floresta brings together clinicians, physicians, coaches, pioneers, and those willing to imagine a different future for mental health. Together, we offer a transpersonal approach to healing through an IFS informed lens, integrating Western medicine and psychotherapy with wisdom drawn from Eastern and Indigenous traditions.
We honor both science and mystery.
We value clinical responsibility, discernment, and safety while remaining open to the profound experiences that can arise when consciousness expands beyond its familiar patterns.
Ketamine assisted therapy can create access to new perspectives, deeper awareness, emotional healing, and a more spacious relationship with the self. It may allow what has been hidden, protected, fragmented, or forgotten to be witnessed with greater compassion and clarity.
Through individual work, groups, retreats, and practitioner education, we create intentional spaces for exploration, transformation, and integration. Our aim is not to tell people who they should become, but to help them reconnect with the wisdom, wholeness, and possibility already within them.
We believe that many of the experiences we call symptoms may also be invitations. Invitations to listen more deeply, to question inherited ways of living, and to enter into a more conscious relationship with ourselves and the world around us.
My Story
For the past 20 years, I have explored a wide range of healing and consciousness based practices, including meditation, functional medicine, herbalism, yoga, energetic facilitation, retreats, intentional community, and journeys into the jungle.
I have always been drawn to question what we have been taught and to explore what else may become possible when we honor the whole person.
My path has been one of weaving together science, consciousness, spirituality, and embodied healing in a way that feels both grounded and expansive.
Floresta grew from this exploration and from my desire to bring these approaches to the forefront of mental health and psychiatry.
With commitment to change and transformation,
Shannon
MEET THE TEAM
Shannon Starr Mostafiz - PMHNP-BC, MSN
Founder
Shannon is a board certified psychiatric nurse practitioner, ketamine assisted psychotherapy practitioner, doctoral researcher in transpersonal psychology, and founder of Floresta, an organization offering ketamine therapy, consciousness based retreats, and practitioner education.
She draws upon more than 20 years of experience with meditation, IFS, integrative psychiatry, yoga, Indigenous and contemplative practices, functional medicine, energetic facilitation, and expanded states of consciousness. Shannon has supported thousands of clients through ketamine therapy and integration and has shared her work through professional conferences, trainings, and educational events. Her work invites others to recognize their unique capacities and to access greater awareness, choice, possibility, and transformation.
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Asha Urban - MS
Integration Facilitator
Asha draws upon her background with meditation, yoga, East-West psychology, somatic awareness, and a BS in Neuroscience and MS in Toxicology. She is a certified Addiction Recovery & Psychedelic Integration Coach and specializes in women's work. She is passionate about helping others heal through the intersect between holistic health, scientific research, and entheogenic medicines. She views the healing journey as a process of remembering, embracing, and unconditionally loving all that we are versus seeing ourselves as broken pieces that need fixing.
Dr. Pavel Filimonov - MD
Holistic Psychiatrist
Dr. Pavel Filimonov is a holistic psychiatrist in New York. He received his medical degree from Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry and has been in practice for more than 20 years. He integrates Eastern healing techniques with the best researched principles of Western medicine. His holistic approach is focused on balancing the subtle underlying conditions and combines these elements to evoke change in the system as a whole--physically, mentally, spiritually and emotionally.
Frankie Vattel - RN
Integration Facilitator
Frankie is Certified Registered Nurse on a surgical division and in training to become a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner. She has spent many years involved in exploring and exercising different modalities that allow for wholehearted healing and transformational growth. She has devoted her life and practice towards learning and healing the mind, body and soul. She is passionate about helping others overcome their limitations and achieve their greater form.