Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy
Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy
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.
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.
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.
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.
How Ketamine Works
Boosts neuroplasticity, which promotes the brain’s ability to adapt, heal, and learn new behaviors and patterns.
Has a calming effect that helps regulate emotions. This allows you to release looping thoughts and break free of stuck patterns.
Stimulates growth of neural pathways and disrupts thought loops that may contribute to anxiety and depression.
Boosts neuroplasticity, which promotes the brain’s ability to adapt, heal, and learn new behaviors and patterns.
Helps control emotions and creates an anti-anxiety effect helping to alleviate the need to continue to use.
Ketamine offers new hope for lasting life change for those suffering from mental health conditions.
Regulates glutamate, a vital neurotransmitter that helps us process thoughts and emotions.
Stimulates growth of neural pathways and disrupts thought loops that may contribute to anxiety and depression.
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.
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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.
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