With various IV therapies growing in popularity in the past several years, the Revive Ketamine and IV Infusion Clinic suddenly needed more space than its Arlington location provided.

Dr. Ginger Williams, the owner, and her staff moved into the Bartlett Station Historic District earlier this month.

“We needed some more infusion rooms so we could handle an increased patient load,” said Williams, an advanced practice nurse anesthesiologist from Atoka, Tennessee, who opened her clinic in Arlington three years ago.

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Revive’s ketamine therapy helps patients deal with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), treatment-resistant depression, anxiety, some chronic pain syndromes and even helps with getting off opioids.

Developed in the 1960s and used for operating on soldiers during the Vietnam War, ketamine is an anesthetic drug that blocks pain and also affects receptors in the brain associated with depression, according to WebMD.

In addition to the need for more space, another factor for the move was the clinic’s patients coming from out of state.

“Bartlett is a little more convenient for them, a little less of a drive,” Williams said.

The new space at 5820 Stage Road in the Bartlett Town Square commercial center measures nearly 3,000 square feet, more than double the size of Revive’s 1,400-square-foot clinic in Arlington.

“We needed some more infusion rooms so we could handle an increased patient load.”

Dr. Ginger Williams
Owner of Revive Ketamine and IV Infusion Clinic

“It’s a great location. We’re already getting a lot more foot traffic here,” Williams said.

Some controversy has been attached to ketamine therapy due to the drug’s recreational use, but Williams stresses that the therapy involves “microdoses” and is tightly controlled based on a patient’s body weight and reaction to the medicine.

She wants to reverse the stigma associated with ketamine therapy, having seen that it is proven and effective for people whose bodies don’t respond to normal antidepressants or who can’t handle the side effects.

“I get attacked online so bad with people saying I’m a drug pusher and a horrible person. It’s really hard to read those comments, and I have to try to not look at them. When I see people come in who are suicidal or have no quality of life where they don’t know what to do, when I see that change, I know that I’m doing something positive and helping people,” said Williams, who has worked in the medical field for 31 years and practiced anesthesia for nearly 20 years. Next May, she will complete her master’s degree in psychiatry.

“So I’ll be able to offer a little bit more to my patients with psychiatry-med management and ketamine-assisted psychotherapy,” she said.

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Williams was inspired to start her business because her son is in the U.S. Army, and many military personnel and their family members suffer from PTSD. She also discovered during an anesthesia course that ketamine can help those suffering from mental illness.

Revive also offers weight loss therapies that have grown increasingly popular over the past three years, with semaglutide administered to those patients once a week.

“It works really well for people that are insulin-resistant. People who work out and diet and don’t seem to lose any weight. It helps the body burn fat,” Williams said.

Revive’s services also include intravenous vitamin hydration that helps combat hangovers, migraines, heavy-training workouts and fatigue – with the most popular being the Myers’ Cocktail and B12 injections.

Bartlett Alderman Kevin Quinn lives in and owns property in Bartlett Station. He likes that Williams chose the historic district for her relocated business.

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“We’re just very happy to have more professionals move into this area as we try to revitalize it,” he said. “We’re trying to make it better as far as what the tenants are like.”

Bartlett Station Commission Chairman Glen Mullins is also encouraged to see the district attract professional service providers. He said through discussions with property owners, the commission has tried to establish an identity.

“I think they agree that professional services and higher-end shops that sign a longer lease are better for their bottom line and better for Bartlett Station as a whole,” said Mullins, director of membership and community development for the Bartlett Area Chamber of Commerce. “Keeping the vacancies down and properties filled with businesses who want to see growth in the station is my main goal.”