Healing with Psychedelic Assisted Psychotherapy

Our experienced therapists are certified in Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy, offering virtual and in-person sessions in New York state & Massachusetts.

We’re honored to be featured providers of KAP. Read about how Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy has helped our clients this year:

Journey Clinical Blog Feature

How Ketamine helps ease the symptoms of stress, anxiety, and PTSD:

• Ketamine works by quickly increasing the activity of glutamate in the brain.

• Glutamate is one of the brain’s chemical messengers and plays an important role in mood regulation, as well as memory and learning.

• Glutamate also supports neuroplasticity, or your brain’s ability to adapt and change with every new experience you have.

• By increasing neuroplasticity, researchers believe ketamine may help “re-wire” your brain, disrupting problematic or harmful thought patterns and allowing you to form new pathways.

• These new pathways enable you to create more positive thoughts, which can help to relieve anxiety symptoms.
  

Integration with Creative Arts & Somatic Therapy

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. What makes working with us unique and especially effective is that we will engage in Creative Arts Therapy and Somatic Therapy. During the period of time after dosing, the brain is especially neuroplastic and able to learn: Enhanced by the inclusion of the body and creative in these types of experiential therapies, you give yourself the support of practicing your intention, goals, and newly learned insights right in the sessions.

Who can benefit from KAP?

Research studies have been showing the marked, positive impact of Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy for symptoms of mood disorders such as anxiety and depression as well as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. The process of KAP includes a meeting with a Journey Clinical Psychiatrist who will review your medical and mental health history before the potential of prescribing the medicine. Below you will find links to studies and articles on KAP as an evidence-based tool to help you heal:

Helpful Resources:

1. Paradigms of Ketamine Treatment by Raquel Bennett, Psy.D. for MAPS

2. 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

3. Ketamine for Depression and Mood Disorders by Erica Zelfand, ND for Townsend Letter

4. Ketamine-Facilitated Psychotherapy for Trauma, Anxiety, and Depression by goop

5. Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy with Jonathan Sabbagh of Journey Clinical - Psychology Talk Podcast

Schedule a free consultation with our Intake Coordinator to see how this retreat can help you on your healing journey:

email hellobalancedlifemovement@gmail.com 

call (516) 847-4289