Dr. Josh Hooton graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Utah Valley University. He then attended the University of Utah where he earned his Doctor of Nursing Practice. During his career, Dr. Hooton has developed chronic pain management treatment plans for a variety of mental health patients and provided intensive outpatient psychiatric care to them as well. He worked at Intermountain Utah Valley Hospital as for 8 yrs in the ICU, where he acquired many critical skills in safely managing sedating and therapeutic IV infusions and injections. In he early years as a Nurse Practitioner he worked in chronic pain management at Utah Pain Relief Institute and then began using Ketamine therapy at Life Spring Pain Management Center. He quickly realized the therapeutic benefits it had on patients. In 2016 he started started working at Cedar Psychiatry. In February 2019 Dr. Hooton decided to enter into private practice where he could further help treat the chronic conditions and mental illness of his patients. Dr. Hooton has been using Ketamine for depression since 2016 and is passionate about providing mental health care to his patients. He is dedicated to further advancing his knowledge of psychiatry, addiction, treatment resistant mental conditions, and complex medication management. He is also a licensed suboxone/buprenorphine provider and continues to help treat the opioid abuse/dependence epidemic.