A Breakthrough Treatment for Depression & Anxiety

Ketamine is a robust and powerful anti-depressant. Studies have shown that ketamine relieves depressive symptoms for 75% of patients with depression, including Major Depressive Disorder and Treatment-Resistant Major Depressive Disorder. Ketamine is also helpful in addressing the symptoms of PTSD, Anxiety, OCD, and chronic pain. Many people seek ketamine therapy to provide a “deep reset” when they are dealing with stress and overwhelm. It provides a “time out” period of peacefulness, and therefore anyone can benefit from a session. 

We recommend once a week sessions, until the completion of six doses. Upon completion of the six dose package, your provider and you can discuss the need or possibility for continuing care.

The most common side effects are feelings of grogginess, lack of balance, nausea, and occasionally, vomiting. An anti-nausea medicine will be given before the session, and mint tea and ginger tea are encouraged during the fasting period.  

Ketamine is a very safe medicine. If has been used since the 1970’s. It is used daily in the emergency room and operating room, even on children. Ketamine is completely legal, and is considered an “off label” FDA treatment for depression.  

This varies from person to person. But, many people describe it as peaceful, a sense of deep relaxation and a dissolving.  Many people may describe seeing colors or landscapes, or having the sensation of floating through space. Many people describe feelings of deep gratitude, love or bliss. Many people see their lives from a “zoomed out perspective” allowing them deeper insights and perspectives. Many people may sees visions of deities, or avatars, or loved ones. 

There is no right or wrong experience to be had. ALL experiences have value.

Your ketamine session will begin with a 20-30 min session with Kate, discussing your intentions for the journey as well as catching up on your life, thoughts and feelings.  Kate will ensure you are comfortable, safe, and as relaxed as possible before the beginning of the session. Your vital signs will be taken. You will be given an anti-nausea medication, and any questions or concerns you may have, will be addressed before you are given any medication. After the medication is administered, via intramuscular injection, you will be in “journey” for an hour to an hour and a half. Afterwards, you will “process” this experience with your provider, to help you access deep insights and tools that will support the integration of this experience. Your session is one on one, and is always scheduled for a total of 3 hours. It is a deeply personal, curated, and supported experience.  

The term “psychedelic” was first coined by English psychiatrist Humphrey Osmond, in a letter addressed to Aldous Huxley in the 1950s. It’s a combination of the Greek words psyche, which means “mind”, and delos, meaning “to reveal”. At its very core, a psychedelic experience is a manifestation of the mind, which naturally lays way for its potential for introspection and learning.  

Ketamine treatment reliably and effectively produces many or all of the classic indicators of a psychedelic experience within a single session. Individuals commonly report a distorted sense of time, find their experiences difficult to describe, feel detached from their self (dissociation), and feel as if they were able to access a new, yet familiar, space with novel realizations and information.  

Psychedelics like ketamine can open critical periods that are usually closed. They do this by modulating a pathway involving increasing neuroplasticity in the brain, which then “opens” that critical period and allows for the brain to temporarily be extraordinarily receptive to new ways of thinking, feeling, and processing information about the world and oneself. This is thought to be one of the main therapeutic mechanisms for psychedelics. Ketamine in particular can also reduce activity in the Default Mode Network, which is notable in that this network is overactive and unable to be turned off in individuals with Major Depressive Disorder.