Videos from Masha Steiner-Renoir, PMHNP-BC
All 28 of my short videos, grouped by theme: introductions, nervous system patterns, medication, ketamine therapy, psychedelic-informed care and integration, and what change looks like.
Meet Masha
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Length 3:18
Meet Masha
I came to psychiatry through my own struggles with mental health, and through wanting a better relationship with my daughter. This three-minute film is the story of why I practice the way I do. Years of working with people from every background, especially immigrants, taught me how….
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Length 0:13
Meet Masha Renoir
Hello from me, Maria (Masha) Steiner-Renoir, PMHNP-BC, FNP-C, the founder of MindMorph and the only clinician you will see here, in thirteen seconds. My channel description introduces the practice as trauma-focused, psychedelic-informed psychiatric care for adults in Colorado and Oregon, built on….
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Length 1:57
What led me into psychedelic-informed psychiatry
The path that brought me to psychedelic-informed psychiatry, in two minutes. The fuller story is in the longer film, where I tell it from the start: my own struggles with mental health, wanting a better relationship with my daughter, years of working with people from every background, and….
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Length 0:39
Who I work with
The people this practice tends to serve best, in my own framing, in 39 seconds. The written version of the same answer runs through the site: adults with depression that has outlasted several medications, anxiety that lives in the body as much as the mind, trauma and complex PTSD, OCD, and….
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Length 0:27
What working with me looks like
The shape of the work, from first conversation to integration, in 27 seconds. In writing, that shape is: a complimentary consultation to see whether the fit is right, a 90-minute psychiatric evaluation covering history, sleep, nutrition, stress, and biology, then a plan that may include therapy….
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Length 0:04
Perks of being a MAPS member
Perks of being a MAPS member, in four seconds, the shortest clip in the library and the only one uploaded with no description. The title says I am a member; nothing else on the record describes my involvement. MAPS is the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, the nonprofit that….
The MindMorph Method
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Length 28:25
Integrative psychiatry and psychedelic-informed care, explained
Masha's whole approach in one sitting: how integrative psychiatry works, what psychedelic-informed care means inside a prescribing practice, and how she supports people with depression, anxiety, trauma, and ketamine-assisted therapy. The conversation runs 28 minutes, the longest video in the….
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Length 1:09
What if depression and anxiety are signals, not just disorders
What if depression and anxiety are signals, not just disorders? Reading symptoms as nervous system communication is the idea underneath this whole practice. If a symptom is a signal, the clinical job is to ask what it is signaling, about sleep, nutrition, stress, trauma, biology, and the life….
Psychedelic Integration Therapy
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Length 0:43
Transformation
A real shift after psychedelic-assisted therapy, whether the work involved Spravato, ketamine, or another approach, is what I reflect on in this 43-second clip filmed for the site. What stays with me is how often people arrive feeling stuck and hopeless, sometimes at the very….
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Length 1:15
Freedom from Patterns
The change I see most often in the people I work with is a kind of freedom: the freedom to respond rather than react, and freedom from patterns they have carried for a very long time. In this 75-second clip filmed for the site I describe how it shows up: stepping out of the loops that….
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Length 1:13
Integration Is Key
The biggest misconception I hear about psilocybin work, and psychedelic work in general, is that the medicine itself is the key to healing. In this 73-second clip filmed for the site I say the experience plays a part, but the real work is the preparation beforehand and the integration that….
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Length 0:18
What people experience in deeper work
What actually surfaces when the noise quiets down. Deeper work, in this practice, means the sessions where the usual defenses step aside long enough for the material underneath to show itself: an image, a sentence, an old feeling that had been sitting on the chest. That happens in therapy, in….
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Length 0:08
Psychedelic therapy is not just about the medicine
The relationship, preparation, and integration around the experience do the heavy lifting. That is the practice's most repeated idea, and this eight-second clip is its shortest statement. The medicine gets the attention; the work that decides whether anything holds happens before and after it.
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Length 0:08
Psychedelic therapy is not the right fit for everyone
Screening, and why no is sometimes the caring answer. A practice that offers ketamine-assisted psychotherapy and Spravato has to be willing to say that a given treatment is not right for a given person, and to say it early, at the evaluation, rather than after a disappointing session. Eight….
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Length 0:08
Preparation and integration determine outcomes
The field is accelerating; the fundamentals have not changed. New compounds, new programs, new headlines every week, and underneath all of it the same two things shape what a person carries out of a session: how they were prepared for it and what they did with it afterward. Eight seconds.
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Length 0:11
You are not done just because the journey has ended
The days after a deep experience matter as much as the experience itself. The session ends; the work does not. For a day or two after ketamine, many people notice an unusual flexibility, an ease in stepping around old ruts. That window is real and short, and integration is the deliberate use of it.….
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Length 0:49
Healing is not always dramatic at first
Quiet, early signs of change are easy to miss. People expect a before-and-after. What tends to arrive first is smaller: a morning slightly less heavy, a reaction that pauses before it fires, a conversation that does not go the way it always went. Those are easy to discount, and discounting them is….
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Length 0:59
Healing, for me, feels like freedom
Healing, for me, feels like freedom: freedom from old patterns, old loops, and automatic reactions. Not a miracle, not a personality transplant; room between a trigger and a response that used to have none. It is the most personal of the shorts, the practice's definition of a good outcome stated….
Conditions I Treat
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Length 0:49
From Treatment-Resistant Depression For people who feel like they have tried everything
For the person who has been through the antidepressant list, the therapists, the supplements, and the advice, and is tired of being told to try the same things again. Masha speaks to anyone exhausted by the usual answers: people whose depression has not moved despite doing everything they were….
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Length 0:19
From Anxiety Disorders Overthinking is your nervous system trying to produce safety
Overthinking is the nervous system trying to produce safety: the loop in your head is a protective pattern, not a character flaw. That reframe is the clip's whole thesis, and it matters clinically, because a pattern that is protecting you can be worked with, while a flaw can only be fought.
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Length 0:17
From Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Emotional numbness is often misunderstood
Numbness is not the absence of feeling; it is protection that outlived its moment. People who feel nothing often assume something is broken. The clip's premise is the opposite: the shutdown was once a reasonable answer to something unbearable, and it never got the message that the danger passed.….
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Length 0:36
From Major Depressive Disorder High-functioning, but not okay?
Everything looks fine from the outside and feels heavy from the inside. The job is going well, the house is clean, nobody is worried, and none of it reaches the place where the heaviness lives. Depression that keeps functioning rarely announces itself, which is one reason it goes untreated for….
Therapy & Counseling
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Length 0:22
Hyper-independence is often praised
Never needing anyone is a trait that gets rewarded everywhere, and a story can hide inside it. Self-reliance that formed because relying on someone once went badly looks like strength from the outside and often feels like exhaustion from the inside. The clip, 22 seconds, questions the praise.
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Length 0:23
Let's talk about anger
Anger as information: what it protects and what it asks for. Anger is the emotion people most often apologize for in a first appointment. The clip's premise is that it is a messenger with a job, usually standing in front of something more vulnerable, and that the useful question is what it is….
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Length 0:21
Let's talk about bottling up emotions
Where pressed-down feelings actually go, and what release can look like. Bottling up is a skill most people learned because expressing feelings once cost too much. The body keeps the ledger: a jaw that never unclenches, a chest that braces before hard conversations, a stomach that answers the phone….
Medication Management
Ketamine Therapy
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Length 0:45
The ketamine journey is not the whole treatment
The session is one chapter, not the book. The ketamine experience is described hour by hour elsewhere on this site; this 45-second clip, from my psychiatric practice, is the corrective. The two hours in the room are the part people ask about, and the screening before and the integration after are….
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Length 1:34
Ketamine therapy is not just the experience, integration matters
Many people think ketamine therapy is only about the experience itself, but clinically the most important work often happens after the session, during integration. That is my own framing of this 94-second video. In it I explain how ketamine can temporarily shift rigid patterns of thinking….