OUR TEAM

Dr. Davila was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She completed her medical school training in Buenos Aires before moving to Kansas City where she completed her psychiatric residency training at UMKC. She has been practicing in the community since 1998 and has served in many positions in local universities and hospitals. She is a bilingual (spanish) physician that has a passion for serving those in her community and helping with their needs.

Zach Dillon, Doctor of Nursing Practice, Nurse Practitioner, and Certified Psychedelic Assisted Therapy Provider, has been in practice at Awakenings KC Clinical Neuroscience Institute since March of 2022. Currently, he serves as the lead ketamine therapist and nurse practitioner, evaluating and treating patients with various types of mental health conditions. Zach has an extensive background in emergency, flight, and critical care nursing. After working in one of the largest psychiatric emergency departments in Kansas City, Truman Medical Center, he completed his master’s degree in nursing and obtained national board certification as a family nurse practitioner. As a nurse practitioner, he spent almost four years working for the department of trauma surgery at the University of Kansas Medical Center. In 2020 he began working on his doctoral research at Wichita State University, investigating the effects of ketamine for major depressive disorder. His research study was completed and presented in 2022, earning his doctoral degree in nursing practice. During his doctoral program at Wichita State, Zach was accepted into a yearlong fellowship training program, in psychedelic assisted therapy, at the Integrative Psychiatry Institute in Boulder, Colorado. His training focused on the therapeutic use of ketamine, psilocybin, and MDMA, for the treatment of mental health conditions. In 2022, he completed his fellowship training and passed the certification exam to become a Psychedelic Assisted Therapy Provider. Zach has a deep passion advancing therapeutic treatments and helping patients get to the root cause of their ailments. In his spare time Zach enjoys traveling and spending time at the lake with his family.

Jessica Wunder is a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner providing psychiatric and ketamine services for Discovery Behavioral Health (DBH). She obtained her BSN from Creighton University in 2007, and her MSN from Rush University in 2014. In 2022, she completed a fellowship for integrative psychiatry at the Integrative Psychiatry Institute in Boulder, Colorado. Jessica practices with the principles of holistic healing which are focused on mind, body, and lifestyle. She has over 15 years’ experience working in the mental health field in various settings, and now works with adults in an outpatient setting. Jessica takes great privilege and honor in being a part of your journey towards healing and self-discovery. She is a long-standing advocate for increasing mental health awareness, decreasing social stigma, and promoting self-agency within the mental health community. Her approach is with great compassion, respect, and understanding. Given Jessica’s long career working with individuals with trauma and treatment-resistant depression, she is passionate about the work unfolding in integrative psychiatry and psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy which provides alternative treatments, hopeful outcomes, and unique pathways towards healing.

Amelia Hess is a Provisionally Licensed Professional Counselor, practicing under licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, Becky Milks. Amelia received her Master of Arts in Counseling with an emphasis in Mental Health from the University of Missouri-Kansas City in 2022 and has been in practice at Awakenings since January of 2023. She is accepting new clients. Amelia’s therapeutic interests include working with clients experiencing depression, anxiety, trauma, stress management, and more. Amelia’s populations of interest include adults, LGBTQ+ individuals, and neurodivergent individuals. Amelia’s counseling style is a person-centered, interpersonal process approach which she supplements with evidence-based interventions from acceptance and commitment therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy, and mindfulness-based techniques.