We believe you deserve a full and meaningful “life worth living”. We incorporate the concept of worthiness into everything we do at Arahant including the focus of our collaborative work with patients and our vision of reducing the stigma around mental health conditions.
Goals
While feeling better is a key aspect of treatment, the true goal of our team is to help our patients have meaningful relationships, find purpose, satisfaction in their work, and engage in pastimes they love. Simply put… Work, Play, Love. We focus on these key aspects of a full and meaningful life in every interaction with our patients.
Our Vision
Elevating the standard of mental health care through ethical, science-driven methods to reduce the stigma associated with mental illness and substance abuse disorders, leading to more meaningful lives.
THE ARAHANT DIFFERENCE
At Arahant Mental Wellness, we treat people suffering from mental health and substance use disorders with the same care and respect afforded patients with chronic medical conditions, such as heart disease and diabetes. Mental health issues are chronic medical conditions with strong biological, genetic, and psychological underpinnings, much like heart disease and diabetes. Often our friends, family, and even our doctors view mental illness and substance abuse as a personal or moral failing of the individual and not a serious medical condition.
What if you were diagnosed with chronic heart disease?
Your employer, family and friends would rally around you to make sure you have everything you need to get better. They would ask “are you following the doctor’s orders on exercise, food, and medications?” If you were unable to work or needed rest, everyone would be understanding and supportive because they know that it’s not your fault you have heart disease.
Contrast this with a depression diagnosis.
People say things like “Those medications are dangerous, you should stop taking them!”, “How is talking about it with a therapist going to help?”, or “It’s all in your head!” Your employer, family, and friends expect you to “shake it off,” because mental illness can be viewed as a choice, or that it is somehow your own doing versus a true medical condition.
At Arahant Mental Wellness we know that your mental health issues are real. We treat every patient with the care and respect they deserve and use treatments that work.
Why Diagnose?
The diagnosis is an important tool for you and your doctor. Psychiatric conditions and substance abuse disorders are true medical illnesses that have a clear biological and genetic basis. Arriving at an accurate diagnosis informs and directs a path of individualized treatment planning, and is essential for your future treatment success. It is impossible to know “where you are going,” if you don’t clearly understand from where you are beginning. The diagnosis is your starting point. We then build a plan of treatment to best suit your needs and encompass the most appropriate combination of treatment options.
Collaboration
What sets us apart from other organizations is our commitment to innovation and our belief in our patient’s own innate strength, wisdom, and courage. It is the collaborative work with the patient that will ultimately lead to the meaningful and purposeful life they were always destined to have.
Asking for help takes courage. This next step toward decreasing your suffering, whatever form that suffering takes, begins with a thorough evaluation and assessment conducted by a licensed psychiatrist or an advanced practice psychiatric nurse. This first meeting lasts roughly an hour. Our medical professionals listen carefully to both you and your supports in order to arrive at an accurate understanding of why you are seeking services, as well as a medical diagnosis.
“I feel the Parks have a special way of treating patients that I am not used to. I have made significant progress since starting. I feel they really care and are willing to think outside of the box to help someone. I wish more providers were like them. I think more people would get better.”
– S.S.
Charles Park, MD
Board Certified General and Addiction Psychiatrist
In 2002, Dr. Park left neurology residency in favor of residency in psychiatry because he felt that psychiatry was what truly captured the spirit of being a physician. At the time, addiction psychiatry struck a chord with him as there were very few medications or therapies available to address the chronic medical condition called addiction. He was challenged to become very well versed in the available treatments that did exist as well as be creative and innovative in applying the knowledge. The neuroscience of the brain and addiction have become a passion of Dr. Park’s since 2005 and the current flood of information on this subject has turned into the wellspring of innovative treatments we are creating at Arahant Mental Wellness.
Dr. Park has extensive experience treating mental health and substance use disorders and in a variety of health care settings. Dr. Park’s passion for helping people struggling with addiction started in his role as an psychiatrist for an independent residential addiction treatment program in Honolulu. After seeing how patients we able to turn their lives around, he committed his doctorate studies to addiction psychiatry and eventually held the position of Assistant Program Director for the physician training program at the University of Hawaii.
After his time in Hawaii, Dr. Park returned to Colorado and served as an addiction psychiatrist at the Denver VA Medical Center. His work helping veterans and those with PTSD informed his decision to start Arahant as a combination of substance abuse therapy and general psychiatry.
17 years of experience in public and private medicine
Graduated with an MD from New York Medical College
General Psychiatry Residency – CU Denver
Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship – CU Denver
Bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry from Colorado College
Medical Director for Denver community methadone clinics
National Institute of Drug and Alcohol research trial sub-investigator
Board Certified General, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist
“I was born at the tail end of the Vietnam War and by the time I was 3 or 4 years old, my family made the decision to flee war-torn Vietnam. We were among the millions of “boat people” who migrated out of Vietnam between 1978-79 on small overcrowded fishing boats. Unbeknownst to me, it was the experience of living in a refugee camp in Malaysia and witnessing people from different countries and backgrounds commiserating, cooperating, and sharing limited resources to create a life worth living that sparked what has become my life’s work. I chose to be a psychiatrist because I believe that despite pain, tragedy, and hardships in our lives we can do more than just survive, we can thrive. We just need to have the right tools and a “village” of support.”
1O years of public and private practice experience
MD University of Hawaii School of Medicine
General Psychiatry Residency CU Denver
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship CU Denver
Double Board Certified General and Adolescent Psychiatry
Masters in Public Health and Computer Programming
Bachelor of Arts Biochemistry from Colorado College
I graduated from University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine and completed a combined military and civilian residency at the University of Texas, Health Science Center of San Antonio, completing a chief resident year. Dr. Luinetti has been working in the Department of Defense since 2015 and in the VA system.
Coming from a diverse professional and cultural background, as medicine was a later career choice, I strive to empower my patients and build resiliency from within, as I combine psychotherapy as part of my practice with every patient. Working as the sole consultation-liaison psychiatrist at the largest military hospital in the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic gave me a new perspective on what it means to be a doctor, on the limitations that medicine can have at times while still being able to make a positive imprint on our patients through compassion and palliative care.
As I transition out of the military, I plan to continue to apply the skills and methodical approach I was taught in my current practice.
Graduated with MD from UNR-SoM (Class of 2015)
General Psychiatry Residency at University of Texas, Health Science Center San Antonio (Class of 2019)