Your Personalized Journey to Healing:
Consultation - Treatment - Integration
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Fill out our questionnaire (~5 mins)
Click the link at the bottom of this page.
This brief questionnaire will cover your general medical history and current symptoms.
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Pre-Screen Video Call (~15 mins)
Once the intake questionnaire is reviewed, we will reach out with follow-up questions or to schedule a video call for pre-screening. This will allow us to assess whether the next step - a psychiatric evaluation and medical screening - is appropriate based on your medical and psychiatric history.
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Psychiatric Evaluation & Medical Screening (~50 mins)
Our psychiatrist will meet with you via video call to provide a psychiatric and medical screening to ensure that ketamine assisted therapy is a safe and appropriate form of treatment for you.
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Treatment Plan
Our team will then suggest an individualized course of treatment. This will include recommendations related to the form of administration (i.e. IM or oral lozenges), suggested number of dosings, and suggested course of preparation and integration sessions.
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Prep Session with Therapist (~50 mins)
Meet with our therapist in preparation for dosing. (video or in person)
Establish therapeutic relationship
Clarify current problems and treatment goals
Intention Setting
Review self-regulating techniques
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Medicine Sessions (~ 1.5 - 2.5 hours)
Depending on your method of treatment, plan to spend 1.5 - 2.5 hours in our office for each session.
Medicine Sessions could scheduled over days, weeks, or months depending on your specific plan.
Arrange for transportation as patients are not be able to drive home on dosing day.
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Integration Sessions with Therapist (~50 mins ea.)
Integrations sessions are conducted as needed throughout the series of treatments. (video or in person)
Typically patients will have 2-3 integrations over a series of 6 treatments.
Treatment Plans
Where do we begin?
Ketamine treatment plans can vary significantly depending on factors such as the patient’s medical history, mental health condition, response to initial treatments, and personal preferences for administration methods like oral or IM.
Is this your first psychedelic experience?
We can start with administering an oral lozenge.
While all treatment plans are tailored for each patient’s needs, we find that many patients prefer to begin their treatment with a sublingual dose - an oral lozenge that dissolves under the tongue for ~10 mins. After this initial session we can decide whether to remain with the oral option or transition into intramuscular (IM).
Patients may start with oral administration before transitioning to intramuscular (IM) options for several reasons:
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Oral ketamine generally has a slower onset and a milder effect compared to IM. This can help patients who are new to ketamine therapy gradually adjust to its effects without feeling overwhelmed.
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Oral ketamine produces a less intense experience than IM, which might be preferable for patients with concerns about strong dissociative effects or those who are anxious about the treatment.
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Starting with oral ketamine allows clinicians to gauge the patient’s response to the treatment, including how they tolerate the medication and its effects, before moving to more potent administration like IM.
Reasons patients may transition from oral ketamine to IM administration:
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IM administration provides more potent and consistent effects, which may be necessary for patients who do not experience adequate relief from oral ketamine.
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Some patients may find that the effects IM ketamine administration last longer, providing extended periods of symptom relief, particularly for conditions like depression, anxiety, or PTSD.
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For certain therapeutic purposes, such as achieving deeper states of consciousness or treatment-resistant conditions, the stronger dissociative effects IM administration offers may be more beneficial.
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As patients become more comfortable with ketamine therapy, transitioning to IM may allow them to explore more intensive therapeutic benefits under close clinical supervision.
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IM ketamine administration delivers the medication more quickly into the bloodstream, resulting in a faster therapeutic response compared to oral administration.
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IM administration allows for better control of dosage, enabling clinicians to tailor the treatment more accurately to the patient's needs.
