Ketamine Assisted Therapy on Long Island
“To be truly visionary, we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.”
— bell hooks
Ketamine-Assisted Therapy
Life-altering change to your healing game, one hour at a time? It’s possible with ketamine-assisted therapy as a part of your clinical counseling experience.
Beyond what you thought possible
You know what it’s like to live with stubborn depression, defeating ennui, or a sense of doom that you cannot escape. If you are one of the millions of people who have tried anti-depressants and antipsychotics to alleviate the symptoms of difficult-to-manage mental health disorders and found no relief, ketamine-assisted therapy may be the next step you’ve been waiting for.
Ketamine offers you a glimpse beyond the spaces you’ve visited to access healing. Thought to offer a life-altering opportunity to re-grow the connections in your mind that allow you to heal and thrive, ketamine therapy immediately impacts your ability to function right here and now.
Ketamine-assisted therapy may be the psychotherapy supercharger you’ve sought if you have treatment-resistent mental health disorders.
Benefits of Ketamine-assisted Therapy
See immediate improvement from the first treatment!
Eases PTSD symptoms
Treats chronic neuropathic pain
Alleviate intrusive thoughts
Effective alternative to other long-term medications
Reduces feeling of depression
The only treatment to provide relief from suicidal ideation
SPOTLIGHT ON THE SCIENCE OF KETAMINE ASSISTED THERAPY
Surprising impacts for depression and OCD symptoms
While ketamine has become an established therapy for chronic pain management through decades of effective use, it’s still being explored as a treatment for psychotherapeutic support. These developments are exciting, particularly for clients who experience disruptions to their daily routines due to their diagnoses.
In early studies, ketamine-assisted therapy has been found to provide immediate and effective relief for those suffering from many troubling symptoms, including suicidal ideation.
When you’re stressed, scared, or under overwhelming pressure due to what you’re going through, your mind becomes rigid. It loses the ability to respond effectively to your experiences as it works hard to protect you from the impact of the trauma you’ve been through before. Ketamine-assisted therapy acts as a massage for these areas of your brain, relaxing the rigidity they’ve developed and allowing for more fluidity in how you respond to experiences, thoughts, and energy at a cellular level. Through increased neuroplasticity, the changes you experience can change how you experience things long-term!
Ketamine-assisted therapy gives you the edge to perceive the things you experience in a new way, without long waits to see the results you need.
Unprecedented possibility awaits you
While the medications used to support your mental health are typically focused on interrupting the chemicals in your brain that cause your symptoms, ketamine is different. Acting as a mind-opening gateway to a new headspace, you’ll experience ketamine in a safe and fully supported environment.
This life-changing treatment combines ketamine’s ability to relax and regulate the emotional response of the mind at a cellular level with the guidance and expertise of a therapist prepared to explore your experiences with you.
Frequently Asked Questions
You’ve got questions, and we’ve got answers. Some of our most-asked questions are below, but if there’s something else on your mind, we love to chat. Feel free to reach out for the clarity you seek at any time.
How is ketamine given?
Under your therapist’s supervision, you’ll take your dose as an under-the-tongue (sublingual) tablet that will dissolve. This delivery system allows for the best balance between gentle and time-sensitive efficacy.
Who is ketamine for?
Ketamine-assisted therapy is for people who have taken other psychotherapeutic medications and felt no relief. Notably, this treatment is ideal for people who have depression, anxiety, PTSD, suicidal ideation, or Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD).
Ketamine-assisted therapy is a short-acting, long-lasting treatment experience. You may feel immediate effects on your mental state that will be supported by the psychotherapy sessions you’ll have during your ketamine experience.
How many sessions will I need?
After your first session, you’ll begin to feel new and exciting changes, but you may find additional change through infrequent but regular low-dose treatment across 1-3 months.
What are the risks?
You may feel a brief discomfort like dizziness, nausea, or disorientation when you take your dose.
The data on ketamine risks are low-level and related to chronic pain treatment. Due to the psychoactive nature of ketamine, the primary risk is a negative or scary altered state. This is temporary. Other potential risks of ketamine-assisted therapy are related to long-term use, like a (low) risk of addiction or development of lesions with overuse.