Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy

In our Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) practice, our therapy team works in partnership with skilled physicians to offer the assurance of safety and medical monitoring, along with transformative methods of depth-oriented psychotherapy, all within a comfortable private practice office setting.

Why ketamine?

Ketamine has been increasingly prescribed as an off-label treatment for various chronic treatment-resistant mental health conditions, such as depression, alcohol and other substance dependencies, post-traumatic stress disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, and other psychiatric diagnoses. It is distinguished from other psychotropic medications by its rapid onset, often producing transient relief in as soon as a few hours.

Ketamine's dissociative effects create a time out from one's habitual ways of thinking and ruminative worries; this tends to disrupt patterns of negative feelings and obsessional preoccupations, and creates opportunities to explore novel ways of being.

In lower doses, some people experience empathogenic effects, with a relaxing of typical defenses, which can greatly enhance a psychotherapy session. At higher doses, ketamine acts as a potent psychedelic and dissociative agent, often facilitating a profound transpersonal or mystical peak experience.

These sorts of peak experiences have been shown to expand one’s sense of self and understanding of existence, and are particularly well-suited for exploration with providers who are open to transpersonal inquiries. The emergence of core emotional themes can also provide a wealth of material to work with in therapy, especially in the context of a long-term therapeutic relationship.

What to Expect

Connect

Schedule a free phone consultation to see if KAP is right for you.

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Prepare

Patients typically go through 1-3 50 minute preparatory therapy sessions. In these prep sessions, you will build a rapport with your therapist and get ready for the KAP experience.
Experience

We use a range of dosing and route of administration (ROA) strategies to tailor a personalized approach for each client.
In our practice, ketamine is administered by either:
Sublingual (oral) dissolving tablets, a lower-dose strategy which may allow for psychotherapy during the treatment, and an easier experience for those who are hesitant about injections,
Intramuscular injection (IM), given in the shoulder or hip, which delivers a highly bioavailable amount of medicine and a rapid onset; IM can provide the same dose used in sublingual administration, or a higher dose that creates a more dissociative experience.
Intravenous infusion (IV), given by an intravenous line inserted into a vein when you arrive. We only provide intravenous infusions to clients who have already received IM or sublingual treatment from us.
Integrate

Psychedelic experiences can provoke peak experiences, life-altering insights, and spiritual growth. Our integration sessions are about incorporating those experiences into your everyday life to maximize their transformative potential.
Repeat

KAP treatment and integration sessions are repeated as needed. The number of KAP sessions will be determined by your therapist.
Although a course of ketamine treatment typically provides only a few months of benefit, repeated treatments have been shown to have a cumulative effect, prolonging mood improvements, and current research is focused on how to sustain these benefits with an optimal dosing schedule and integration of psychotherapy.