Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy
Build a New Connection With Life
Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) is a collaborative approach that combines ketamine therapy with skilled psychotherapy to support deeper insight, emotional flexibility, and meaningful change.
Ketamine can create a temporary window of openness in the brain and nervous system. When this experience is supported by a trained therapist, it can allow individuals to explore thoughts, memories, and emotional patterns in new ways.
At NeuConnections, ketamine-assisted psychotherapy is offered as part of a thoughtful process that includes preparation before sessions and integration afterward.
What Is Ketamine- Assisted Psychotherapy?
Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP) combines the neurobiological effects of ketamine with the guidance of a licensed therapist.
During a KAP session, ketamine may create a temporary state of increased emotional openness and cognitive flexibility. This state can allow individuals to explore difficult emotions, memories, and perspectives in a way that may feel more accessible than traditional talk therapy alone.
Rather than focusing only on symptom relief, KAP creates space for therapeutic exploration, insight, and new perspectives that can support meaningful change.
To learn more about Ketamine or KAP, please Call our Highlands Ranch Office or Click Here to have a consultation with our team.
What Makes NeuConnections Different
At NeuConnections, we go beyond symptom relief. Your care is designed around you, your goals, your story, and your journey toward lasting wellness.
Our mission is to provide exceptional care, fully support each client’s transformational journey, and make this powerful modality accessible to our greater communities. The structure of our protocols, along with the continuity, depth, and quality of support we offer, is why we’ve been voted Colorado’s highest-rated ketamine clinic for four years running.
Every treatment includes:
- Medical expertise
- Therapist-guided preparation
- Therapist support during treatment
- Integration after treatment
- Personalized care from beginning to end
Your healing is never treated like a procedure – it’s treated like a relationship.
Your medical team and KAP therapist will be with you providing personalized care and support the whole way through your six session induction series. This induction series builds a strong foundation for your wellness, giving you and your care team real insight into your response to the ketamine experience, the challenges and opportunities you’re navigating internally and externally, and access to new pathways forward. We’ll also partner with you in exploring what kinds of continued support might benefit your long-term integration of lasting benefit.
Together, we will:
- Monitor your response and adjust as needed;
- Support you holistically, mind, body, and spirit
- Guide your preparation and integration every step of the way
Many clients find value and benefit from this modality well beyond the initial six sessions. If this work proves valuable, it can become something you return to over time, as needed, not a program you finish once, but a tool you carry with you. Reduced-cost booster options will be available after you
complete your initial induction series. When you’re ready, we’d love to keep going with you.
When KAP May Be Helpful
Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy may be recommended for individuals who want to engage more directly in therapeutic work during treatment.
KAP is often helpful for people who:
• are working through trauma or difficult life experiences
• feel stuck in long-standing emotional patterns
• have tried traditional therapy but feel progress has plateaued
• want deeper therapeutic exploration during the ketamine experience
• value having a therapist present to help navigate the experience
Our team will help determine whether ketamine therapy alone or ketamine-assisted psychotherapy is the most appropriate approach for your goals.
Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy may be recommended for individuals who want to engage more directly in therapeutic work during treatment.
KAP is often helpful for people who:
• are working through trauma or difficult life experiences
• feel stuck in long-standing emotional patterns
• have tried traditional therapy but feel progress has plateaued
• want deeper therapeutic exploration during the ketamine experience
• value having a therapist present to help navigate the experience
Our team will help determine whether ketamine therapy alone or ketamine-assisted psychotherapy is the most appropriate approach for your goals.
Integrating Lasting Benefit
We believe integration is where the real journey happens, it’s what turns meaningful infusion experiences into lasting holistic wellness that’s yours to keep. That’s why we strongly encourage using every hour of integration time included in your series. If you find the transformational power of integration and would like more support, additional integration sessions are always available. Whether during your series to help process what’s coming up, or afterward to keep deepening the work. Just let your therapist know.
Learn about IV and IM (intramuscular) ketamine treatments from an Expert
Some of the most basic questions about ketamine are still under investigation:
- Which patients are ideal responders?
- What is the therapeutic dose range?
- Is there a meaningful dose/response curve?
- Are fully dissociative treatments necessary for optimal efficacy?
- How important is psychotherapy after a higher dose IV or IM session?
- And how should we think about frequency of initial treatments and then ongoing maintenance treatments, if needed?
Here Dr. H synthesizes and summarizes his experience over the last 6 years doing over 3000 IV and IM ketamine treatments and addresses each of these critical treatment dilemmas.
Are You Ready To Begin Your Journey?
Schedule a free consultation with our Care Coordinator below. This call is an opportunity to ask questions, learn about our process, and explore whether NeuConnections is the right fit for your goals.
How Ketamine Works
Increases Neuroplasticity
Boosts neuroplasticity, which promotes the brain’s ability to adapt, heal, and learn new behaviors and patterns.
Stimulates Neural Pathways
Stimulates growth of neural pathways and disrupts thought loops that may contribute to anxiety and depression.
Regulates Emotions
Helps control emotions and creates an anti-anxiety effect helping to alleviate the need to continue to use.
Rapid Antidepressant Effect
Regulates glutamate, a vital neurotransmitter that helps us process thoughts and emotions.
A New You
Ketamine offers new hope for lasting life change for those suffering from mental health conditions.
Alison McGinty, LPC
KAP Program Director
Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy combines the neurobiological effects of ketamine with the support of a trained therapist. The medicine can create a temporary window of openness that allows individuals to explore thoughts, emotions, and patterns in new ways.
At NeuConnections, KAP sessions are part of a thoughtful process that includes preparation before treatment, therapist support during, and integration afterward. This approach helps clients translate the experience into insights and changes that extend beyond the session itself.
While some people notice improvements early in treatment, meaningful and lasting change typically develops through a series of sessions supported by preparation, therapy, and integration.
Ketamine can create the conditions for new perspectives to emerge. Psychotherapy helps those perspectives take root.
Click here to learn more about Alison and the rest of our team.
Frequently Asked Questions
“It varies.” is the simple answer. There is no “one size fits all” model as every person is as different as their life experiences. While most people may see results after their first infusion, sustained, life-changing results generally take a regimen of at least six infusions. While the research points to this number, there is something magical that tends to happen with our clients as they learn to navigate this process. Occasional booster infusions may be needed, but we do our best to ensure a minimum amount of maintenance sessions. We offer a comprehensive program that combines integration coaching, a thorough understanding of the medicine, expert dosing skills, and may add talk therapy and other tools to assist you in finding lasting results.
Yes! Ketamine is considered a World Health Organization (WHO) essential medicine and is one of the most commonly used anesthetics in the world because of its safety profile. Ketamine is used world-wide because it easily administered without advanced equipment. Ketamine does not inhibit the respiratory or cardiac functions of a patient like most anesthetics.
Check out our Pricing Page for our most up to date pricing.
We started NeuConnections because we wanted to help people and we are committed to keeping our pricing as low as possible to make this life changing therapy accessible. Ketamine treatment is an investment in mental health. Allow this self-care to become an investment in your wellbeing; an investment that grows and pays dividends that last a lifetime.
The first step is an initial consultation with our patient care coordinator to answer any questions and discuss if treatment is right for you.
Visit our Begin Intake page to schedule your free consultation.
Call our office if you have more questions or visit our page with FAQ.