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Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy
Psychedelic (psycholytic) Assisted Psychotherapy
The goal of psycholytic (or low to moderate dose) ketamine assisted therapy is to experience an altered state of consciousness in a gentle, grounded way. The term “psycholytic “, is derived from the Greek words "psyche" (mind) and "lytic" (loosening or dissolving), implying a loosening or dissolving of psychological defenses or rigid patterns of thought.
Ketemine helps to extinguish the fear response in the brain.
In a more relaxed and receptive state that is experienced with a lower dose, you may find that you can examine your thoughts and experiences from a new perspective- making it particularly powerful for touching into trauma that is hard to work with in our normal day to day consciousness. Ketamine can help you get you life back, metabolizing pain gently and to begin the rewiring of pathways toward a more alive way of being.
Ultimately, psycholytic therapy enhances the balance between introspection and guidance through talk therapy and body awareness that enables meaningful work and progress to be accomplished.
Ketamine
Currently, ketamine is the only legal psychedelic medicine available to mental health providers for the treatment of emotional suffering. KAP is an effective method for decreasing depression and anxiety in a home or private practice setting, especially for patients with severe symptom burden.
We believe ketamine can benefit patients with a wide variety of diagnoses, especially when administered with psychotherapy. Over the past several years, ketamine has gained mainstream acceptance as an intervention for treatment resistant depression (TRD), Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) and others. Ketamine offers a unique experience that facilitates both experiential and psychological work at a deeper level than regular Psychotherapy alone.
While scientists are still trying to work this out exactly, the research so far shows that ketamine works by changing the way our brain cells communicate. Ketamine also blocks a receptor in our brains called NDMA that is thought to play a role in depression. Overall ketamine is thought to create neuroplastic changes in the brain which facilitates the growth of new neuropathways. Which is a fancy way of saying that it basically re-wires your brain. Some experts compare ketamine’s effect on the brain to a hardware fix on a computer versus a software fix (which is compared to antidepressants).