Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy

Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP)

With over 200 hours of training in psychedelic assisted psychotherapy, this body based intervention is for those who feel stuck in depressive and anxious mind states.

What is Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy?

Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) is a new type of psychotherapy. Lower dose sublingual lozenge of Ketamine is ingested prior to a psychotherapy session to support more openness and less defenses.  The medicine works to facilitate the processing of difficult material from ones’ past.   The non-ordinary consciousness states of the ketamine experience provide for more material to work with in therapy, especially in the context of a psychotherapeutic relationship.

Why administer Ketamine within a therapy session?

Ketamine is considered a dissociative anesthetic, due to its ability to help people disengage from their usual ways of feeling and thinking.   At low doses, this effect produces shifts in awareness, perspectives, tremendous feelings of joy, pleasure, and openness towards oneself, and their life situation.  Worries and anxieties which usually accompany ordinary mind, shift and sometimes lift.  Psychotherapy helps people take actionable steps to cement the changes they realize are necessary and offers support through the integration process. 

At higher doses, Ketamine may, at times, promote psychedelic experiences such as expanded awareness and mystical or spiritual connection. These characteristics are like other psychedelic drugs that have been used successfully in psychotherapy sessions to reduce pain and distress. However, ketamine is currently the only legally available medication that may produce a psychedelic effect that can be used in psychotherapy

Issues that may respond to KAP include but are not limited to:

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), treatment resistant depression, depression associated with pain, bipolar depression, ruminative suicidality.