Kammie DeGhetto, Col (Ret.), USAF, LCSW, SEAL Spouse. Episode 006 of Psychedelics Miniseries

Kammie J. DeGhetto, Col (Ret.), USAF, LCSW Kammie J. DeGhetto is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and retired United States Air Force Colonel with more than 30 years of combined military and civilian experience in mental health, leadership, and clinical practice. She is currently pursuing a Doctor of Philosophy in Counselor Education and Supervision at Concordia University’s Townsend Institute, with anticipated graduation in August 2027. Her scholarly interests center, allostatic load, moral injury, vicarious trauma, secondary traumatic stress, and the systemic impact of chronic stress on Special Operations Forces (SOF) families. Colonel DeGhetto served a combination of active duty and Reserve in the U.S. Air Force from 1994 to 2019, providing psychotherapy, leadership, and clinical oversight to active-duty service members, veterans, and their families across diverse operational and international settings. Since retiring from military service, she has continued her clinical work in both private and institutional settings, including emergency psychiatric services, telehealth psychotherapy, ketamine-assisted therapy, and psychological support for psychedelic clinical trials. She currently practices with Wellsprings Counseling Group in Tennessee and Beau Hill Psychological Services in Tennessee and Florida, offering trauma-informed psychotherapy, consultation, and group programming. Her clinical approach is integrative, client-centered, and evidence-based, drawing from EMDR, CBT, IFS, somatic trauma therapies, and spiritually integrated care. In addition to her clinical work, Kammie is actively engaged in counselor education scholarship and professional service. She has presented nationally on counselor competency assessment, interdisciplinary identity development in CES doctoral programs, effects of traumatic brain injury on mental health, psychedelic research, leadership, and the unique stressors faced by Special Operations families. Kammie serves as a board member of the Special Operations Forces (SOF) Network—the nation’s first clinical directory dedicated to mental health providers serving the SOF community—and on the Spouse Advisory Board for the STEPs Foundation, supporting SOF spouses nationwide. She is a member of the American Counseling Association, American Association of Christian Counselors, and Christian Association of Psychological Studies. Through her work as a clinician, scholar, and advocate, she remains deeply committed to advancing ethical practice, interdisciplinary collaboration, and trauma-responsive systems of care for military-connected populations and the next generation of counselor educators. Follow us on LinkedIn   / sof-network   Learn more about SOF Network at: www.sofnetwork.org Please consider subscribing to our channel to help support this nonprofit serving the Special Operations Forces (SOF) Community. We aim to be a resource for those seeking mental heath, providers serving active duty, veterans, and first responders. Lastly, we aim to help promote other nonprofits serving veterans and the SOF community. #mentalhealth #specialforces #specialoperations #veteran #veterans #navyseals #marsoc #greenberet #armyranger #armyrangers #nonprofit