Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy
Bridging the worlds of psychiatry and psychotherapy to help those suffering from depression, anxiety and PTSD.
How does ketamine therapy help with depression?
Ketamine therapy is essentially a time-out from one’s usual consciousness. The process is characterized by the relaxation of our ordinary concerns mindset which can lead to a disruption of negative feelings and obsessional preoccupations.
Over time and through proper integration, this interruption can produce significant shifts in overall well-being. A ketamine treatment session also has the potential to create a non-ordinary state of consciousness, which may also facilitate a profound transpersonal or mystical experience. These peak experiences have been shown to expand one’s sense of self and understanding of existence.
Helping you gain access to what may be laying right out of sight.
Ketamine therapy draws from psychedelic therapy frameworks. Combining the best of Western psychiatry and psychology with Eastern and Indigenous Wisdom traditions, KAP therapy creates a container for your healing that helps you dive deeply into your inner world. With the help of the medicine and access to the unconscious, it can be possible to complete unfinished business in the psyche, releasing trapped energy in the body and unblocking parts of you that may be stuck in time. After a KAP series, people have reported feeling lighter, more alive and more free to be fully present in their lives.
Getting to the root of the problem.
Often the focus of treatment in medicine is merely on symptom reduction. While symptom relief is important, it does not offer long lasting transformative change. Ketamine assisted psychotherapy is different. The intention behind this modality is to help you gain awareness and clarity of what the root sources of your mental health issues are and how they impact you. KAP sessions offer the potential for a unique window to open in the mind, that is then catalyzed by deep psychotherapy. This unique combination can help transform the core of what may be keeping your symptoms in place.
Bridging the clinical with the ceremonial.
Not exclusively clinical and yet not fully ceremonial, KAP therapy is a unique hybrid of both worlds. The intention is to help you with the biological aspects of depression, as well as engaging the symbolic nature of your mind. While some ketamine approaches are strictly medical, I believe it is important to honor the fact that we are active participants in our healing. This approach draws from many healing modalities including indigenous wisdom, somatic psychotherapy, transpersonal psychology and Jungian archetypes.
