Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy at Denver Emotional Health

Welcome to Our Practice

At Denver Emotional Health, we offer Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) as an affordable yet expert clinical psychotherapy option. Our aim is to provide therapeutic support using psychedelic therapies like ketamine-assisted psychotherapy to help you achieve mental, spiritual, and personal growth.

What is Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy?

Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) is a holistic modality where ketamine complements psychotherapy, facilitating frequent breakthroughs and sustained symptom improvement. Our medical team handles the medical aspects, including eligibility, treatment plans, prescriptions, and monitoring outcomes. KAP integrates the use of ketamine with therapeutic guidance to help clients navigate their experiences, making the most of the ketamine’s rapid antidepressant effects and enhancing the overall therapeutic process.

What is Ketamine?

Ketamine is a legal, safe, and effective medicine for treating mental health conditions like depression, anxiety, and PTSD. Unlike traditional antidepressants that can take weeks or months to show effects, ketamine has rapid antidepressant and mood-enhancing effects, which can begin within 1-2 hours after treatment and last up to two weeks. This quick response can provide immediate relief for those suffering from severe symptoms. Combined with psychotherapy using the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model, ketamine can facilitate profound and lasting changes, helping to transform your depression or anxiety completely.

Ketamine works by blocking NMDA receptors and stimulating AMPA receptors, forming new synaptic connections and boosting neural circuits that regulate stress and mood. It also enhances overall neuroplasticity, which is the brain’s ability to adapt and reorganize itself, leading to lasting symptom improvement and greater resilience against future stressors.

How is Ketamine Administered?

Ketamine can be administered via IV infusion, intramuscular injection, nasal spray, or sublingual lozenges. At Denver Emotional Health, we use the sublingual lozenge form, which is effective for long-term treatment and allows for a comfortable and manageable administration process. This method is less invasive than IV infusions and can be more easily integrated into a therapeutic session, providing a seamless experience for clients.

How Does Ketamine Feel?

The effects of ketamine last about 45 minutes to an hour, during which you may feel “far from” or “out of” your body, experiencing expansive perception shifts and deep introspection. You will be in a comfortable, safe setting during this experience, as your motor and verbal abilities are reduced. After the guided portion ends and the effects subside, we will process and discuss your experience, helping you unburden exiles and articulate insights gained. This integration phase is crucial for translating the insights and emotional breakthroughs from the ketamine session into real-life changes.

Why Combine Ketamine with Therapy?

Ketamine infusions alone can offer temporary relief from symptoms, but combining ketamine with psychotherapy maximizes the benefits and ensures lasting change. Therapy provides a structured framework to make sense of the ketamine experience, allowing clients to explore and integrate the emotions, thoughts, and insights that arise. This combination helps address underlying issues and facilitates deep, transformative healing. The therapeutic support helps clients navigate difficult emotions and memories that may surface, promoting a more comprehensive and sustained recovery.

How Do We Differ from Other Providers?

At Denver Emotional Health, we unlock the full potential of your inner healing intelligence and develop a healthy relationship with your mind using Internal Family Systems therapy and Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy. By integrating ketamine with the Internal Family Systems framework, we focus on relating differently to your mind as a focal point of the healing process. We provide compassionate care, building deep relationships with our clients to work through depression, anxiety, and trauma/stress-related disorders. Our approach emphasizes the integration of psychedelic experiences into everyday life, ensuring that the benefits of ketamine therapy extend beyond the immediate effects of the treatment.

How Does Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy Work?

Our process begins with recognizing your most distressing symptoms and intentions for using Ketamine. We aim to find the “purpose or role” of the symptom, uncovering the root or protective part, and using ketamine to access hidden parts of yourself. We help you build a connection to your Self, healing old wounds and integrating experiences into daily life. The combination of ketamine and therapy helps you gain insights into your internal world, facilitating a deeper understanding and resolution of your issues.

There are typically several preparation sessions before engaging with Ketamine and several integration sessions afterward. These sessions ensure that you are fully prepared for the ketamine experience and that the insights gained are effectively integrated into your daily life. We are always aware of your personal and health histories, challenging symptoms, prior substance relationships, and intentions before any sessions, ensuring a safe and personalized treatment plan.

Affordable Ketamine Treatment and Psychotherapy

KAP is affordable at our Denver outpatient therapy office. Medical intake and follow-ups are not covered by insurance but are eligible for out-of-network reimbursement, as are individual therapy services outside of dosing sessions, including preparation and integration phases.

• Therapy Sessions: $150/session (mostly reimbursable through out-of-network)
• Medical Intake: $250 (reimbursable through out-of-network)
• Follow-up Medical Intake: $150/session (reimbursable through out-of-network)
• Ketamine Lozenges: $75 for 4-6 lozenges (not covered by insurance)

How Do I Sign Up?

To explore Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy with us in Denver, Colorado, email us at biggansLPC@gmail.com to discuss eligibility and next steps.

Contact Us for a Free Consultation

We will guide you through your ketamine journey, ensuring safety and comfort while helping you integrate experiences into new ways of being. Whether dealing with anxiety, depression, OCD, or PTSD, contact us to learn how our therapy can help you achieve your goals.

Experience and Compassionate Care

Ensure your journey is guided by experienced, knowledgeable, and compassionate professionals. Contact us today for a free consultation at biggansLPC@gmail.com.

Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy

What is Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy?

Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy is a compassionate, evidence-based approach to psychotherapy that helps individuals explore and understand their internal “parts” or subpersonalities. Developed by Dr. Richard Schwartz, IFS posits that the mind is naturally multiple and that we all have various parts that interact within us. These parts often include wounded or exiled parts that hold pain or trauma, protective parts that try to shield us from harm, and the core Self, which is centered, compassionate, and wise.

How Does IFS Therapy Work?

IFS therapy fosters self-awareness and self-compassion by encouraging clients to identify and communicate with their parts, leading to greater internal harmony. The goal is to help individuals heal their wounded parts, reduce the influence of extreme protective behaviors, and allow the Self to take a more prominent role in guiding their lives. This approach promotes emotional healing, personal growth, and overall well-being, enabling individuals to lead more balanced, fulfilling lives.

Benefits of IFS Therapy

• Self-Discovery: Uncover and understand your inner parts, fostering greater self-awareness.
• Emotional Healing: Heal wounded parts and reduce the influence of protective behaviors.
• Self-Compassion: Develop a more compassionate relationship with yourself.
• Internal Harmony: Achieve greater balance and harmony within your internal system.
• Personal Growth: Promote overall well-being and personal growth.

Integrating IFS with Other Therapies

IFS can be effectively integrated with other therapeutic approaches, such as Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy, to enhance the healing process. Combining IFS with KAP allows for deeper exploration and integration of internal parts, leading to more profound and lasting change. The synergy between ketamine’s rapid mood-enhancing effects and IFS’s deep, compassionate self-exploration can accelerate healing and promote long-term mental health improvements.

Contact Us for More Information

If you’re interested in learning more about IFS therapy or integrating it with other therapeutic approaches, contact us at Denver Emotional Health. Our experienced and compassionate team is here to help you achieve your mental health goals.