Ketamine Therapy for Healing: A New Path to Overcome Depression, Anxiety, and Trauma
At Psyberspace, we understand how challenging it can be to live with mental health struggles. Whether it’s depression, anxiety, PTSD, or chronic pain, the emotional weight can feel overwhelming. But you don’t have to face this alone. In partnership with medical prescriber Journey Clinical, we offer Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP), a revolutionary approach that can help you find relief and healing when other treatments haven’t worked. KAP is a holistic modality in which ketamine is used as an adjunct to psychotherapy to help clients experience more frequent breakthroughs and sustained improvement in symptoms. Psyberspace takes on the psychotherapy aspect of the experience while Journey Clinical addresses all of your medical needs. This includes determining eligibility, developing a custom treatment plan, prescribing medicine, and monitoring outcomes.
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What is Ketamine Therapy?
Ketamine therapy is an innovative, transformative treatment for individuals struggling with mental health conditions such as depression, anxiety, PTSD, and chronic pain. It involves the use of low-dose ketamine, an anesthetic medication, to help rewire the brain and promote healing from mental health disorders. Unlike traditional antidepressants, ketamine works rapidly and effectively to provide relief when other treatments may have failed to alleviate symptoms of depression, anxiety, PTSD, and other conditions, offering hope for those who have struggled for years without relief.
How Ketamine Therapy Can Help You
Mental health struggles such as severe depression, anxiety, and PTSD can feel overwhelming and isolating. No matter how hard you try, it can be difficult to break free from the grip of negative emotions, intrusive thoughts, or debilitating pain. Ketamine therapy offers a breakthrough treatment that can help you reclaim your life from the clutches of mental health challenges. By stimulating brain function and promoting the growth of new neural connections, ketamine therapy can help reset the way your brain processes emotions, memories, and stress. This may look like breaking free from intrusive thoughts, self-sabotaging behaviors, emotional outbursts, and flashbacks.
Conditions Ketamine Therapy Can Treat:
- Severe Depression: Find relief from the emotional numbness and hopelessness of depression.
- Anxiety & Panic Disorders: Break free from the constant cycle of worry and fear.
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): Heal from the emotional scars of trauma and regain control over your life.
- Chronic Pain: Address the physical and emotional aspects of chronic pain conditions like fibromyalgia or CRPS.
- Addiction: Support recovery and healing from substance use disorders.
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Why Choose Ketamine Therapy at Psyberspace?
At Psyberspace, we are committed to providing a compassionate and safe environment for your healing journey. Our highly trained professionals use the latest research-backed protocols to ensure your treatment is effective, comfortable, and tailored to your individual needs.
Ketamine therapy offers a fast-acting solution when traditional treatments like antidepressants or talk therapy haven’t worked. With its ability to provide relief in just a few sessions, it’s especially beneficial for people who have struggled with treatment-resistant conditions.
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The Benefits of Ketamine Therapy:
Rapid Relief
Ketamine’s effects can be felt rapidly, offering relief in as little as a single session.
Non-Addictive
Potency
Individuals experience significant improvement when other treatments (antidepressants, SSRIs, or therapy) have failed.
Sustained healing
Ketamine resets neural pathways and promotes healthier brain activity, leading to lasting improvements in mood and emotional states.
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How does Ketamine feel?
The effects of ketamine, which most clients find pleasant, last for approximately 45 minutes. These effects can make you feel “far from” your body, and facilitate shifts in perception that can often feel expansive in nature. Your motor and verbal abilities will be reduced, so you’ll be lying down in a comfortable position during the experience. Once these effects subsided, we’ll spend the remainder of our session giving you space to process and discuss your experience. While it may feel hard to articulate what happened during the experience, clients feel like the insights gained are none-the-less clear. Studies have shown that the benefits to mood and neurological growth can last up to two weeks after the Ketamine experience.
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How Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy Works
Initial medical consultation:
- You schedule an initial evaluation with a medical team provider. They will go over your medical and psychiatric history with you, provide education on the treatment, and determine if you are eligible for KAP.
- If you are deemed eligible for KAP, they will develop a personalized Ketamine prescription and outcome monitoring plan for you.
- Medical staff will write a ketamine prescription for you, and a small amount of oral ketamine will be sent to your home, enough for the first 2 KAP sessions. You will be taught to take your vitals and self-administer the ketamine lozenges by the medical team, if seeking telehealth, in advance of our KAP sessions.
Preparation sessions:
- Once you receive your ketamine lozenges, we will schedule time together for our KAP preparation, dosing and integration sessions. The goal of a preparation session(s) is to align on the process and set intentions for our KAP sessions together.
KAP Dosing Session:
- A typical ketamine dosing session lasts between 1-2 hours and can take place via telehealth in the comfort of your own home.
- During a dosing session, you will record your vital signs and self-administer your ketamine lozenge. You will be in a comfortable, reclining position wearing an eye mask and listening to calming music. Although a KAP dosing session may be largely an internal experience, a therapist will be present with you the entire time to hold space and provide support as needed. You will also have a chaperone on site for any additional support.
Integration Sessions:
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- After our KAP dosing session, we will meet for multiple integration therapy sessions to review the memories, thoughts & insights that arose during your dosing session, and to prepare for the next dosing session.
Follow-up medical consultations
- After our first KAP session, our medical team schedules quarterly follow ups with you to monitor outcomes and prescribe ketamine lozenge refills, as appropriate. The frequency of follow ups depends on your unique treatment plan, at a minimum of once per quarter
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Helpful Resources:
- Paradigms of Ketamine Treatment by Raquel Bennett, Psy.D. for MAPS
- Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP): Patient Demographics, Clinical Data and Outcomes in Three Large Practices Administering Ketamine with Psychotherapy – research study by Jennifer Dore et al, 2018
- Ketamine for Depression and Mood Disorders by Erica Zelfand, ND for Townsend Letter
- Ketamine-Facilitated Psychotherapy for Trauma, Anxiety, and Depression by Goop:
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Start Your Healing Journey Today
If you’ve been struggling with depression, anxiety, PTSD, or chronic pain and nothing seems to work, ketamine therapy could be the solution you’ve been searching for. Psyberspace is here to help you take the first step toward healing and reclaiming your mental health.
You don’t have to struggle alone. Our team is here to help you find the relief you deserve. Take the first step toward healing today and experience the transformative power of ketamine therapy at Psyberspace.
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