Avesta Ketamine and Wellness

Avesta Ketamine and Wellness began its operations in 2018. During that time, the company's founder, Dr. Ladan Eshkevari, when she was a professor at Georgetown University, worked on research studies and clinical trials to devise ketamine protocols for mental health and chronic pain.^[6]

Before 2020, the company operated its clinic out of a shared office space.

In 2020, Avesta Ketamine and Wellness opened its first standalone clinic in McLean, Virginia. The same year, the company began offering Spravato for its patients at its clinics.^[7]

The company opened up two more clinics in 2021 and 2022; In 2021, it opened up a clinic in Bethesda, Maryland followed by another one, which was its third one in Washington D.C..^[8][9]

In 2023, Avesta Ketamine and Wellness also started offering coaching and therapy options.

In 2024, the company went-in-network with the United States Department of Veterans Affairs as a community care provider and started offering free intravenous ketamine therapy and spravato treatments to eligible veterans.^[10][11] The same year, Avesta Ketamine and Wellness began to work with commercial payers such as being in-network with The Cigna Group and Virginia Medicaid for Spravato and billing out-of-network on their patients’ behalf for United Healthcare, Kaiser, and Aetna.

In February 2025, Avesta Ketamine and Wellness opened up another clinic for mental health and pain management treatments in Columbia, Maryland.^[12] In September 2025, it replaced its original McLean, Virginia clinic with a newer clinic in Tysons, Virginia.^[13]

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