Ketamine Therapy
in Boulder, CO
Are You Searching For A Better Way To Resolve Trauma?
The long-term effects of unresolved trauma often stick with us into adulthood. Despite our desire to move beyond painful memories and negative belief systems, the chronic symptoms triggered by trauma—anxiety, depression, and other forms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)—can be a roadblock to self-actualization. Although we long to find deeper meaning and purpose, we may be stuck in survival mode, which can stagnate our personal growth and disconnect us from our highest potential.
Perhaps you’ve tried in vain to heal yourself through various means, such as talk therapy and lifestyle changes, only to find your best efforts fall short. You may crave a modality that goes deeper than talk therapy, one that allows you to forge new neural pathways to support a higher level of functioning aligned with who you truly are.
What Is Ketamine Therapy?
Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) is a safe, legal, and evidence-based method that can deepen the therapeutic experience, providing medical, psychological, and spiritual benefits. Ketamine treatment can significantly reduce the symptoms associated with depression, anxiety, PTSD, and trauma.
Ketamine isn't a pharmaceutical designed to numb emotional pain and mask symptoms—it provides an inward journey that helps clients reconnect with their inner intelligence, supporting profound healing and expansion. Over 2,200 scientific papers have been published on the effectiveness of KAP for mental health conditions. [1]
Studies have shown that ketamine therapy works on the glutamate system in the brain to provide relief for treatment-resistant depression that hasn't responded to medication. [2] As a dissociative, ketamine allows clients to experience themselves without interference from anxiety and depression symptoms, bringing long-lasting relief from these symptoms. [3] Another study found that ketamine has efficacy in improving anxiety in clients with PTSD and developmental trauma. [4]
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How Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) Is Structured
Preparation sessions are as important as the ketamine session itself. Before journey day, we will have several preparation sessions to identify intentions, hopes, and any content you wish to address while also building rapport to nurture feelings of comfort and openness. We will also sort out the practical aspects of the journey, such as the music and other comfort items you may like, such as eye masks or pillows.
On journey day, we will create a sacred container designed to feel safe and inviting. Ketamine therapy is either self-administered via a lozenge, nasal spray or administered by a medical professional through an IV. Within 20 minutes of administration, you will feel relaxed and open, and may experience internal visuals.
Depending on dosage, your experience can either be a psychedelic, “interior” journey or a psycholytic session, where you feel the effects of the ketamine but retain more awareness in the room, allowing you to process and share your impressions with me. Throughout your session, I will act as scribe, space holder, and therapist, following wherever your journey leads. The experience lasts 2-3 hours, with the strongest effects lasting approximately 30 minutes.
The following day, we will have an integration session to help crystallize your insights. This post-ketamine session is where your journey comes alive and truly serves you. We traverse the ground of releasing, reclaiming, and welcoming in new parts of self. Integration ensures we create a supportive framework for the new self that has been called forward.
Although experiencing one ketamine therapy session can deeply benefit your healing process, for sustained benefit, 6-8 ketamine therapy sessions, ideally spaced out twice weekly or week-to-week with integration sessions the following day, can offer a more accelerated pathway to addressing trauma, depression, and anxiety. However, you can adjust the number of sessions at any time based on your progress and what your medical prescriber determines.
Other Things To Know
Ketamine therapy is contraindicated in pregnancy, breastfeeding, hypertension, and certain mental health conditions.
Unlike other psychedelic therapies, KAP can be given concurrently with most psychotropic medications.
We will decide in advance how you would like ketamine administered and if it appropriate for in-office use. If you don’t have a care provider who can prescribe the medicine, I can refer you to one. I can support with integration if you choose to go to a ketamine clinic.
Ketamine therapy sessions take place on the couch or a soft bed in my office.
After each journey, you will need to arrange transportation home.
Although you may have negative connotations about ketamine when used recreationally, the effects of ketamine in a controlled, therapeutic environment are vastly different.
Who Can Benefit From Ketamine Therapy?
Ketamine medicine can be beneficial for anyone ready to embark on a deeper healing experience in their psychotherapy work, or who feels limited by trauma or PTSD. KAP can help individuals who seek support in treating anxiety, depression, and grief by getting to the core of their suffering in a way that talk therapy can’t. I also offer ketamine therapy for couples looking to deepen their relationship, heal emotional wounds, and resolve trauma while supporting each other.
Clients have reported that ketamine-assisted therapy accelerates healing and leads to breakthroughs in ways other treatments don’t. That’s because ketamine acts as a psychological aide to the therapeutic process, offering access to challenging internal material with less distress.
Psychedelic researcher Robin Carhart Harris likened the aftermath of a psychedelic experience to freshly fallen snowfall in the mind, filling in worn grooves or neural pathways and allowing for new possibilities. This temporary change in consciousness provides a neuroplastic window, making it is easier to change in daily life. [5]
I Am Honored To Offer Ketamine Therapy To My Clients
As a therapist, I’m always seeking cutting-edge modalities to best support my clients. The research on the efficacy of ketamine-assisted therapy drew me to offer it in my practice. More importantly, psychedelic therapy aligns with my deepest beliefs about healing and humanity—it allows us to access our internal healing intelligence and harness the ancient power of non-ordinary states of consciousness in an intentional container. In this way, we can confront our pain safely and effectively, moving through it and healing it as opposed to masking it.
Through connection to a symbolic realm of experience and the spacious nature of the Self and mind, ketamine therapy invites personal growth and transformation. The insights, emotions, and healing work experienced in a journey, coupled with its pharmaceutical benefit, can lead to an innovative and effective treatment like no other.
Find Out How Ketamine Therapy Can Help You
If you’re ready to embark on a sacred journey of healing, consider ketamine therapy. Please contact me to schedule a free 20-minute consultation and discover if we are a good therapeutic fit.
[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9207256/
[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40051583/
[3] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24679390/
[4] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30917760/
[5] https://www.carhartharrislab.com/about
