Lumin Health adds Harvard Divinity students for chaplaincy support

Lumin Health will become an official field education site for Harvard Divinity School, bringing Master of Divinity and Master of Theological Studies students into patient chaplaincy and spiritual care roles during ketamine treatment. The program begins in fall 2026 and expands Lumin Health’s clinical model with supervised spiritual support.

Why it matters: - The partnership adds structured spiritual care to ketamine treatment, a setting where patients may experience intense emotional and psychological shifts. - Harvard Divinity School students will gain supervised field education in a health care environment, while Lumin Health patients receive an added layer of support. - The program may broaden how interventional behavioral health care addresses physical, emotional and spiritual needs.

What happened: - Lumin Health announced it will become an official field education site affiliated with Harvard Divinity School. - Harvard Divinity students in the Master of Divinity and Master of Theological Studies programs will provide chaplaincy and spiritual care to patients undergoing ketamine treatment. - Lumin Health said the first Harvard Divinity School students will arrive in fall 2026. - Dr. Matthew J. Mosquera, psychiatrist and regional medical director at Lumin Health, will serve as program lead.

The details: - Students will join interested patients in processing sessions and help them work through uncertainty and meaning-making under supervision. - Board-certified chaplain Tara Deonauth, MDiv ’21, will supervise the student chaplaincy work. - The program is expected to expand over time to include group-based work. - The Harvard Divinity School Field Education Program combines guided learning with practical experience. - Lumin Health becomes one of about 100 accredited field education sites affiliated with Harvard Divinity School. - Those sites include parishes, educational institutions, community-based social justice agencies, hospitals and other health care institutions. - Lumin Health provides ketamine treatment and insurance-covered esketamine, also known as Spravato, for treatment-resistant depression. - Lumin Health operates five locations across Massachusetts and Maryland. - Lumin Health describes itself as one of the largest U.S. providers of esketamine and ketamine therapy. - Harvard Divinity School is a nonsectarian school of religious and theological studies that prepares students for academic study and leadership roles in service organizations. - Lumin Health’s website is lumin.health. - Harvard Divinity School’s website is hds.harvard.edu. - Lumin Health’s LinkedIn page is the company’s LinkedIn page.

Between the lines: - The deal reflects a growing overlap between mental health treatment and chaplaincy-style support. - Lumin Health is signaling that its care model extends beyond medication delivery into holistic patient experience. - The partnership also gives Harvard Divinity students exposure to clinical care settings that are not traditional hospital placements.

What's next: - Lumin Health will begin hosting its first Harvard Divinity School students in fall 2026. - The program will start with individual processing sessions and may later add group-based support. - Dr. Mosquera will oversee the program as Lumin Health and Harvard Divinity School formalize the field education placement.