Medical experience.
Creative heart.
Co-founders, partners, and guides. Our work brings clinical experience, creativity, and lived understanding of healing together.
A shared calling
to care.
Jacqueline and Cassius met while caring for the same patient in a local hospital. Their shared commitment to helping people became the foundation of a life together—and eventually The Drake Center.
Experiences of loss, personal challenges, and healing shaped their wish to care for the whole person. In Franklin, they bring medical expertise, mindfulness, and creative practice into a compassionate, individualized approach.
Dr. Cassius Drake
Dr. Drake brings more than two decades of emergency medicine experience and a commitment to understanding healing beyond the physical. After treating tens of thousands of patients, he sought ways to better support people living with the effects of trauma, stress, and loss.
His own experiences of loss and the demands of emergency medicine led him to explore mind, body, and spirit practices. He created The Way of the Butterfly, the guiding paradigm behind the center’s approach to transformation and integration.
- Bachelor’s degree, Cornell University
- Medical degree, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
- Emergency medicine residency, William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak
- Board certified in emergency medicine
- Certified Medical Ketamine Provider, Integrative Psychiatry Institute
- Experience as Medical Director, Henry Ford Brownstown Emergency Department
Jacqueline Drake
A former nurse, professional artist, and mindfulness guide, Jacqueline combines her clinical and creative background with a personal understanding of the work of healing.
After closing her Healing Arts Gallery in 2020, she experienced depression and began a journey of reconnection through mind, body, and creative spirit. Immersive technology, movement, meditation, and art became meaningful parts of that journey.
Today, she brings those experiences to integration, coaching, books, and workshops. Her practice includes painting, journaling, VR and AR creativity, and immersive wellness. She is grateful to help others find practices that make space for presence and possibility.
- Certified Therapeutic Art Life Coach
- Certified Mindfulness and Meditation Instructor
- Certified in Psychedelic Integration
- Healing Arts Therapy Workshop Facilitator
- Owner and founder of The Jacqueline Drake Gallery
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