In 1997, after 35 years as a nurse practitioner specializing in maternal and fetal medicine, Arlene was asked by His Holiness the Dalai Lama to save lives of mothers and their newborns in Tibet, where one in ten newborns were dying of preventable causes. In 2004, she left her clinical practice to found One Heart Worldwide. While working in Tibet, Arlene developed the “Network of Safety” model, which brings lifesaving care to the expectant mothers and infants where the need is the greatest. In 2009, One Heart World extended the model to remote villages in Nepal and the Copper Canyon of Mexico.

In 2015, Arlene attended CIIS as one of the first Cohorts in Psychedelic Assisted Therapy. She has been a TA and mentor over the past six years. She was certified by the Ketamine Research Center in Ketamine Assistant Therapy in 2019. Currently, she is a consultant in Psychedelic Assistant Therapy at Cedar Clinical Research Center.