10/27/2025
🌞 Introducing Golden Hour 🌞
by Sunshine Community Services of Tulsa, Inc.
We’re thrilled to announce the upcoming launch of Golden Hour, our Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) for adults with eating disorders.
💛 Why “Golden Hour”?
In emergency medicine, the “golden hour” refers to the critical period following a traumatic event when timely care can make all the difference. The name is both a nod to our roots — EMS and ER where many of our founding members met — and a reflection of the interconnection between trauma and disordered eating.
At Sunshine, we believe healing begins when people are met with compassion, understanding, and community during their own golden hour.
✨ About the Program
Golden Hour will begin as a small, five-spot program, serving individuals through private insurance, Medicaid, and pro bono placements — because access to care shouldn’t depend on income. Tulsa is severely underserved in this area, and we’re working to change that.
We will also be integrating Spravato (esketamine) treatment when clinically indicated, supporting individuals whose recovery is impacted by treatment-resistant depression and trauma.
🧡 Our Team
Our diverse and passionate team includes individuals with lived experience of disordered eating, chronic illness, and body image struggles, as well as members of the LGBTQ+ community, neurodivergent clinicians, and people representing all body sizes and shapes.
• Program Director: Katarina Norman, APRN (she/her) — Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner specializing in trauma and eating disorders in underserved communities, currently pursuing her PhD research at the University of Oklahoma on this topic.
• Clinical Director: Adair Welsh, LCSW (they/them) — Longstanding therapist with deep experience in eating disorders, adoption, trauma, LGBTQ+ care, neurodivergence, and chronic illness.
We’re already receiving referrals and can’t wait to open our doors soon. 🌈
Stay tuned as Golden Hour comes to life — a space where healing meets humanity, and every meal is part of recovery.
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