And that changed everything.”At Cedar Oaks Clinic, a mental health practice in Wake Forest, Adam found people who he said took the time to listen and understand him. The clinicians at Cedar Oaks say they take a holistic approach to mental health care, which for Adam includes talk therapy, health coaching and Spravato, a ketamine-derived therapy for treatment-resistant depression. What could that give back?”Connection and collaboration are the two guiding principles of Cedar Oaks’ model of care, Donnelly said. Cedar Oaks clinic provides health coaching, where patients learn things like exercises, stretches and breathing techniques to improve their mental health and cope in times of distress. Cedar Oaks has many nurse practitioners — nurses with advanced training — who must have an expensive collaborative agreement with an overseeing physician.