Meet Your Partners in Whole System Healing
Learn more about our dedicated collective of therapists and practitioners, who are ready to walk with you through deep transformation and healing.
✦ Specialized Expertise ✦ Collaborative Care ✦ Safe Connection
✦ Specialized Expertise ✦ Collaborative Care ✦ Safe Connection
LAUREN AMPOLOS, PHD, IFMCP
Founder / Clinical Director / Psychologist / Clinical Supervisor / KAP Trainer & Facilitator
Dr. Ampolos is a licensed clinical psychologist and the founder of Illuminate Wellness, specializing in providing true mind-body, root-level transformation.
Driven by a passion to move beyond traditional symptom management, Dr. Ampolos brings a forward-thinking, multi-dimensional framework to treating complex trauma, PTSD, eating disorders, chronic health challenges, and relational crises. She earned her Master’s and PhD in Clinical Psychology, with a dedicated emphasis in Health Psychology, from the California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant University in San Diego. Following her pre-doctoral training at the Wai’anae Coast Comprehensive Health Center on O’ahu and her post-doctoral residency on Maui, she established her practice to bridge the critical gap between traditional psychological frameworks and evidence-based whole-system care.
As one of the few dual-trained specialists in her field, she is an Institute for Functional Medicine Certified Practitioner (IFMCP) and holds advanced certifications in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). Deeply anchored in cutting-edge somatic and psychedelic-assisted frameworks, she completed the post-graduate Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy certificate program at Naropa University, the Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) training for MDMA-assisted therapy, and specialized training in Psychedelic Somatic Interactional Psychotherapy (PSIP).
At Illuminate Wellness, Dr. Ampolos synthesizes this comprehensive expertise to treat the entire biological and emotional ecosystem. Whether addressing systemic inflammation, autonomic nervous system dysregulation, or entrenched psychological loops, she is fiercely dedicated to expanding clinical accessibility and cultivating a warm, deeply safe, and non-judgmental container where sustainable healing can finally take root.
HI License #: PSY-1555
AMBER VANTZE, MFT, LMHC
Program Director of Psychedelic Services / Psychotherapist / Clinical Supervisor / KAP Trainer & Facilitator
Amber Vantze holds a BS in Psychology from the University of Central Florida and an MA in Marriage and Family Therapy from Touro University Worldwide. She is trained in Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP), Psychedelic Somatic Interactional Psychotherapy (PSIP), Brainspotting (BSP), and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR).
As a licensed psychotherapist and the Program Director of Psychedelic Services at Illuminate Wellness Maui, Amber brings extensive clinical experience to her work. She provides direct care, supervises clinicians, and facilitates clinician training with a focus on therapeutic readiness, somatic-informed practice, and ethical care. Her approach to KAP is grounded in her training and somatic orientation, supporting the safe emergence, processing, and integration of emotional and physiological experiences within expanded states.
Amber also facilitates PSIP intensives, including preparation and integration programs, supporting clinicians and clients in accessing deep nervous system healing. She brings a place-based, culturally humble approach to her work, particularly when serving the diverse populations of Hawai‘i. Her teaching and facilitation emphasize clinical rigor alongside relational sensitivity, inviting meaningful transformation across emotional, somatic, interpersonal, and transpersonal dimensions.
She is passionate about supporting sustainable healing at the root level through body-based, trauma-responsive approaches that honor the inner healing intelligence of each individual. She brings care, presence, and precision to her work. Through attuned and relational spaces, she supports nervous system safety, emotional depth, and the unfolding of transformative insight.
HI License #: MHC-931
BECCA MORICONI, LCSW
Psychotherapist / Clinical Supervisor / KAP Facilitator
Ms. Moriconi holds a Master’s degree in Social Work from the University of Hawai‘i Mānoa and a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Virginia Commonwealth University. Her professional work spans a range of mental health settings, where she has supported both adolescents, adults, and couples through complex emotional and relational challenges. Her clinical background includes work in residential treatment for eating disorders, as well as involvement in horticulture therapy and nature-based approaches, reflecting her integrative and holistic lens.
Ms. Moriconi utilizes a strengths-based, trauma-informed approach, is trained in psychedelic somatic interactional psychotherapy (PSIP,) and Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP), with a focus on helping individuals explore and resolve patterns that often lie outside of conscious awareness and are not easily accessed through traditional talk therapy. Within her practice, Ms. Moriconi provides a safe, nonjudgmental space for self-exploration and growth, supporting clients in bridging the conscious and unconscious while developing greater self-trust and emotional resilience. She draws from modalities including CBT, DBT, narrative therapy, art-based interventions, somatic healing, and mindfulness-based practices. Her work is collaborative and person-centered, aimed at empowering clients to access their own strengths and capacity for healing.
HI License #: LCSW-5422
AMA COLÓN, LCSW
Psychotherapist / Clinical Supervisor / KAP Facilitator
Ama Colón, LCSW, is a trauma-informed psychotherapist specializing in the treatment of complex trauma, traumatic bereavement, and the effects of interpersonal violence. She holds a B.A. from Cornell University and a Master of Social Work from the University of Pennsylvania.
Ama’s approach is grounded in the belief that healing involves more than understanding our experiences intellectually: it also involves developing a deeper relationship with the body, emotions, and inner world. Her work integrates somatic and mindfulness-based approaches with Gestalt therapy and Internal Family Systems (IFS), creating space for clients to explore difficult experiences with curiosity and compassion.
Ama has received specialized training in Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) and has also completed training in MDMA-Assisted Therapy through the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). Ama is particularly passionate about integration and the process of bringing profound psychedelic experiences into everyday life. She sees the medicine session not as an endpoint, but as the beginning of a deeper journey toward embodying new insights and perspective.
Her clinical work is collaborative and rooted in the belief that people have an inherent capacity for healing and growth. She supports clients in moving beyond survival patterns and reconnecting with a greater sense of embodiment, authenticity, and possibility.
HI License #: LCSW-5544
JAMEE PALOMIQUE, PSYD, LMHC
Psychotherapist
Dr. Palomique holds a BA in Psychology from California State University Dominguez Hills and earned her MS and PsyD from California Southern University. Her warm and nonjudgmental approach fosters a safe space for patients to share their feelings and experiences. She specializes in treating eating disorders and trauma resolution, recognizing the importance of finding one's voice in the healing process. She works collaboratively with each individual to help them gain a sense of empowerment while utilizing evidence-based therapies such as DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy), IFS (Internal Family Systems), Brainspotting, and EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing). Dr. Palomique is dedicated to helping individuals of all ages lead fulfilling lives by emphasizing self-awareness and self-compassion.
HI License #: MHC-909
KRISTINA RODRIGUEZ, RN, IFMCP
Nurse / Psychedelic Medicine Specialist
Ms. Rodriguez earned her BS in Nursing from Texas Tech University. She’s an Institute for Functional Medicine Certified Practitioner (IFMCP), licensed massage therapist, and therapeutic yoga instructor. She completed a Certification in Psychedelic Therapy & Research from the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco, CA and is trained through the Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). Additionally, she has studied with traditional wisdom carriers in spiritual lineages from India, Peru, Brazil, Mexico, Hawai'i, and indigenous tribal nations of North America. It was through these beautiful traditions that she discovered the healing power of sacred plant medicines, ceremony, prayer, and ritual. She is passionate about social justice, equality, and access to healthcare for all. Kristina weaves her study of nutrition, nutraceuticals, bodywork, yoga, dance, meditation, shamanism, sacred plant medicine, somatic therapy, Hakomi, IFS, and psychedelic integration into her therapeutic presence as a nurse coach and psychedelic medicine specialist.
HI License #: RN-98911
JAMES HILTON, MHCP
Associate Psychotherapist
James Hilton holds a Master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling with an emphasis in Wilderness Therapy from Naropa University. His training and clinical experience have centered on helping people reconnect with themselves through psychotherapy, nature, embodiment, and deeper exploration of the experiences that shape how we relate to ourselves and the world around us. His clinical background includes working with adolescent and adult women in residential eating-disorder treatment, as well as facilitating individual and group therapeutic processes.
James takes an integrative, trauma-informed approach to therapy and draws from parts work, attachment-based and somatic approaches, mindfulness, narrative therapy, and experiential and nature-based practices. He is particularly interested in working with anxiety, depression, PTSD, trauma, eating disorders, relationship patterns, identity and life transitions, and the ways we can become disconnected from ourselves in the process of adapting to difficult experiences.
At the heart of James’s work is a belief that the symptoms and patterns people struggle with often have a story behind them. Rather than viewing these parts of ourselves as something to simply get rid of, he helps clients approach them with curiosity and compassion, exploring what they may be trying to protect and what becomes possible when those patterns are understood in a new way. His goal is to create a therapeutic relationship where clients can feel safe enough to be honest, curious enough to explore, and empowered enough to discover their own capacity for change.
James’s transpersonal background also allows him to make room for the existential, spiritual, and meaning-making dimensions of healing. He believes that therapy does not have to be limited to symptom reduction, but can also be an opportunity to ask deeper questions about who we are, what matters to us, and what kind of life we want to create. He has a particular passion for nature-based and experiential work, and for supporting clients in reconnecting with their bodies, their relationships, their sense of purpose, and the natural world.
James approaches each client as the expert on their own experience. His role is not to tell someone who they should become, but to walk alongside them as they develop a deeper understanding of themselves and discover what healing and growth can look like in their own lives.
HI License #: MHCP-62
KRIS HORVATH, MHCP
Associate Psychotherapist
Kris holds a Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling with a concentration in Mindfulness-Based Transpersonal Counseling from Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. He offers an embodied, present-moment approach to therapy grounded in mindfulness, Gestalt therapy, somatic awareness, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and transpersonal perspectives.
His work is rooted in the belief that the parts of us that feel stuck, anxious, disconnected, or in pain are not problems to be solved but expressions to be met with presence and compassion. By attuning to the body, emotions, and patterns, space opens, insight deepens, and a more authentic sense of self can emerge. From this place, self-trust deepens, confidence grows, and the courage to meet life more fully becomes available. Kris works with adults navigating anxiety, depression, life transitions, grief and loss, relational patterns, identity exploration, and trauma, with a particular draw toward clients seeking to go to the root of what ails them and heal the thing itself.
He brings a warm, grounded, and playful presence to the therapeutic relationship, creating a space where clients feel safe to explore difficult experiences and develop greater self-trust, resilience, and capacity for growth.
HI License #: MHCP-69
KRISTIN MARLIN, MHCP
Associate Psychotherapist
Ms. Marlin is an Associate Mental Health Counselor at Illuminate Wellness, where she specializes in holistic, trauma-informed care for individuals and groups. Her therapeutic philosophy integrates mind, body, and spirit, heavily influenced by her personal practice of yoga, meditation, and conscious movement.
Ms. Marlin holds a Master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from National University, building upon an undergraduate foundation in Economics. She brings valuable clinical experience from residential eating-disorder treatment, where she facilitated deep individual and group therapeutic processes for adolescent and adult women. Committed to clinical excellence, she is currently undergoing advanced training in the NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM), a specialized framework for addressing developmental and relational trauma.
A native of Germany who has traveled the world, Ms. Marlin has been a proud resident of Maui for more than ten years. This rich cultural background informs her clinical lens, allowing her to offer a deeply compassionate, collaborative environment where clients can safely untangle complex patterns and foster long-term emotional growth.
HI License #: MHCP-113
OLIVIA MORRISSEY, LSW
Associate Psychotherapist
Ms. Morrissey, MSW, is a trauma-informed therapist passionate about helping individuals reconnect with themselves, their bodies and their capacity for authentic connection. She holds a Master’s degree in Social Work from the University of Denver and has clinical experience supporting adults with complex mental health and substance use concerns in intensive outpatient and residential treatment settings.
Olivia takes a holistic, strengths-based approach to therapy, integrating evidence-based modalities including cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Internal Family Systems (IFS), motivational interviewing, mindfulness, and somatic and body-based practices. She is particularly interested in the ways our nervous system, relationships, beliefs and lived experiences shape the patterns we carry, and she helps clients develop a deeper sense of self-trust, emotional awareness and inner safety.
Olivia brings a warm, intuitive and nonjudgmental presence to the therapeutic relationship. She believes that healing is not simply about understanding why we feel the way we do, but learning to listen to the body, meet protective patterns with compassion and develop new ways of relating to ourselves and others. Her work supports clients in moving from survival and self-abandonment toward greater agency, authenticity and a life that feels genuinely aligned. At the heart of Olivia’s work is the belief that clients already possess an innate capacity for healing. Therapy offers a space to slow down, become more deeply connected to oneself, and access the clarity, courage, and self-trust needed to create meaningful and sustainable change.
HI License #: LSW-3500