Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy

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Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP) is a catalyst for change, it is therapeutic method used to address many diverse conditions, including depression, anxiety, PTSD, chronic pain, and addiction. It involves the use of the psychoactive substance ketamine to enhance and deepen the therapeutic process. 

Ketamine works as a dissociative, seemingly it can quickly induce a state where one can feel detached from their body and their everyday awareness and perception. This everyday awareness and perception of our world is known as “ordinary consciousness”. Whereas “Non-ordinary consciousness”, the dissociated consciousness that can be induced through psychedelics such as ketamine, meditation, holo-tropic breath work, and other ways, opens up an opportunity to view the world differently. Away from our normal way of thinking. Some of our normal patterns of thinking can include rumination, obsessing, or depressing thought patterns. These patterns don’t always serve us well. This pliable state of mind may bring about new ways of experiencing our inner and outer worlds. It can alter how you view yourself and your thought patterns, and your relationships. Ketamine can be combined with psychotherapy to create a powerful mechanism for healing when letting go of ordinary consciousness and when letting down the guard of the mind, also known as the Default Mode Network (DMN), which can be the origin of critical or anxious thoughts, defenses and judgments that are characteristic of depressions and anxiety disorders.