Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy
ketamine becomes a catalyst for deep introspection and emotional processing, new perspectives, and new ability on a biological level to turn fresh insight into lasting change.
What is Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy?
Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy is the first and only current legal form of psychedelic therapy in Connecticut. This innovative therapeutic modality combines the healing potential of psychotherapy with the non-ordinary state of consciousness induced by ketamine. Ketamine has biological & emotional benefits that are used as a tool for transformation.
What can ketamine-assisted psychotherapy help with?
feeling stuck trying to translate change in the therapy office to lasting change in real life
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chronic treatment resistant depression that has not responded to psychiatric medications
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trauma symptoms that make it hard to access, identify and express emotions in therapy
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working to maintain sobriety, minimize substance use or maintain contentment & progress in recovery
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feeling stuck having the same fights with a partner over and over and nothing seems to help deepen the connection
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Anxiety, rumination, chronic overwhelm, or OCD symptoms that make life hard to manage
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Individual or Couples
Individual or couples sessions allow for fast-paced growth and integration of change in a new way. Partnering with our qualified prescriber, we will create a custom plan to address the challenges present and changes you want to see. Typically, KAP treatment includes a shorter duration than talk therapy, usually lasting 3 months with 2-4 medicine sessions per month as well as preparation and integration support.
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Group Sessions
Group sessions are intimate, powerful and rapidly transformative. They are designed to run for 3 consecutive days over one weekend for maximum biological impact & benefit. Groups provide a financially accessible way to access the benefits of ketamine assisted psychotherapy. Group Sessions typically use intramuscular ketamine.
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Retreats
Retreats are an unforgettable experience that prioritize rest and reset in a luxury environment, while offering powerful change in short period of time. Retreats typically run 3-6 days and include preparation, guided medicine sessions, and integration sessions as well as holistic healing, workshops and group therapy. Retreats typically use intramuscular ketamine.
Why use ketamine as a tool in therapy?
Ketamine enhances the benefits of traditional psychotherapy approaches.
By inducing a state of heightened emotional openness and introspection, ketamine can facilitate deeper insights and emotional processing during therapy sessions. It allows you to process and access difficult, deeply rooted emotions and beliefs without typical defense, avoidance, or fear responses. KAP provides unique perspective and takes clients on a trip to examine their patterns from a non ordinary viewpoint.
Ketamine creates physical changes in your brain and body that promote growth.
It does this by increasing neuroplasticity and promoting adaptive synaptic growth- which is your brain’s biological ability to create new neural patterns. It’s believed that ketamine works biologically by stimulating glutamate production, getting your brain out of its Default Mode Network, and increasing Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor. In basic terms- ketamine helps your brain more effectively develop new patterns and habits.
Ketamine has well-established therapeutic benefits of rapid antidepressant effects.
Numerous clinical trials have demonstrated that a single dose of ketamine can lead to significant improvements in depressive symptoms within hours, including rapid reduction in suicidal ideation with effects lasting days to weeks in some individuals, including those with with treatment-resistant depression who have not responded to traditional medications. Ketamine creates immediate and lasting change, and does not need to be taken daily.
Ketamine research has shown unique promise in the treatment of trauma.
Ketamine allows the overactive nervous system of those stuck in ‘fight or flight’ to be regulated enough to process traumatic memories and emotions, leading to symptom relief and improved quality of life. This includes those with complex trauma such as individuals who grew up in high-conflict homes, dealing with grief and loss, coping with chronic or terminal illness, or first-responders, healthcare workers, and military service members who may have had repeated exposure to trauma.
What exactly is ketamine?
Ketamine is a medication originally developed as an anesthetic with unique properties that make it valuable in the treatment of certain mental health conditions. It’s the first and only current legal psychedelic medicine to be available as a tool in therapeutic interventions.
It has a unique profile that makes it safe for use in non-medical settings. It has been shown to be low risk for medical complications. It is the only medication of its kind that doesn’t depress respiratory or cardiovascular functioning and has limited drug interactions.
Ketamine is used in many different dosages and routes of administration depending on its desired therapeutic use and desired level of psychedelic properties and experience.
Ketamine produces a range of effects, including pain relief, sedation, euphoria, dissociation, and altered perception of time and space. Many individuals report experiencing a sense of profound relaxation, introspection, and heightened emotional awareness during ketamine sessions.
A trained psychedelic therapist works with a partnered medical provider to determine safe and appropriate dosing of ketamine, facilitates guided sessions with the medicine, and uses their unique skill set to help integrate insights gained into lasting patterns of change.
Medicine sessions can use different administration and dosages to achieve different desired therapeutic interventions- from oral lozenges for interactive and processing sessions to higher intensity intramuscular medication administration for almost entirely internally directed sessions with a therapist present to guide & support.
“There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul.
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”
—Carl Jung
