Achieve your breakthrough with
ketamine-assisted therapy
There’s a time and place for daily medication ~ it can be life saving ~ yet it often fails to get to the ROOT of the issue. Instead, it often acts as a perpetual band-aid, covering the wound (your cognitive/emotional/behavioral symptoms), rather than healing it. Making matters worse are the medication side effects, ongoing office visits, copays, lost time/productivity, etc.
Ketamine, while still a medication, is time-limited (as few as six weekly doses) with little-to-no side effects. With the support and guidance of Whole Mind, ketamine-assisted therapy can help you discover and finally resolve the underlying cause(s) of your struggles.
The best part? No spending hours in a clinic getting infusions that costs $3,000+.
Clients routinely describe FINALLY breaking free from anxiety and depression, getting closure on past trauma and grief, as well as experiencing epiphanies that free them from a lifetime of limiting thoughts, behaviors, low self-esteem, impaired relationship dynamics, and more.
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Ketamine is a medicine developed more than 50 years ago for anesthesia during surgery, and it continues to be used for that purpose in children, adults, and animals today. More recently, ketamine has been found to be highly effective in the treatment of depression, anxiety, and other mental health concerns.
It comes in a variety of forms (oral, nasal, intramuscular, and intravenous), all of which have different degrees of tolerability and bioavailability.
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An analogy: If your mind is a garden, your brain is the soil. Ketamine helps loosen the soil so you can more easily pull any weeds (i.e. limiting thought/behavioral patterns) and make room to plant the seeds you’d rather see grow. These seeds (aka: intentions) are the desires you have for your new self and life. Throughout your ketamine journey, you’ll “fertilize” these seeds and your garden through integration therapy. Integration looks different for everyone…just know you’ll have lots of support and guidance with this. You can read more about integration here.
A more technical explanation: Ketamine is an NMDA receptor antagonist, which modulates glutamate (the excitatory neurotransmitter) in various parts of the brain, thereby increasing neuroplasticity (the ability to create new neural networks). This pathway is very different from that used by other psychiatric drugs (e.g., SSRIs, SNRIS, lamotrigine, antipsychotics, benzodiazepines), which is part of what makes ketamine’s psychological effects so unlike any other form of treatment. Ketamine also suppresses the brain’s default mode network, which is often the culprit of negative and ruminating thought patterns.
The effects of ketamine are cumulative. While a single dose may provide brief insight and relief, deep and lasting change comes with repeat doses. The optimal number of sessions varies by person, but we’ll start with 6 sessions and re-evaluate from there.
Read more cool science stuff here!
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The effects begin 5-10 minutes after administration, and the peak experience lasts approximately 30-45 minutes thereafter. Individuals typically return to baseline mental status 60 minutes after dosing with some minimal physical grogginess that usually resolves by 90min.
At-home ketamine is a gentle experience. Clients often reporting mild to moderate dissociative effects, increased relaxation, reduced mind chatter, love, empathy, and their awareness of themselves and their experiences expanding and taking on new meaning and value. Depending on the dose and a person’s unique biochemistry, closed-eye visuals may also present. These are typically beautiful and/or informative.
Ketamine has been shown to alleviate symptoms across a variety of mental health issues. For people who have responded to ketamine in clinical studies, the initial antidepressant effects are often detectable within hours of administration, with peak antidepressant effects typically occurring approximately 24-48 hours after administration. The duration of ketamine’s neuroplastic effects (creating the potential for lasting change) varies from person to person and can range from a few days to two weeks or longer following a single treatment. The most transformative work happens with multiple ketamine sessions.
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At-home ketamine, when taken as prescribed, is very safe and very well-tolerated. The largest-ever peer-reviewed study of ketamine therapy showed that at-home ketamine therapy was not only effective but safe, with minimal side effects or adverse events reported by participants. Specifically:
~ Only 4 patients (0.3%) dropped out of treatment due to adverse events or intolerable side effects.
~ Fewer than 1% of the study’s participants’ experienced worsening of symptoms over the course of the study.
~ Fewer than 5% of participants reported any side effects.
The most common (though still infrequent) side effects reported with at-home ketamine are mild nausea, mild headache, and a mild increase in blood pressure and heart rate, all of which tend to resolve spontaneously as the acute effects of the ketamine wear off. In heavy daily users (>1,000mg/day), it’s possible to develop bladder damage and cognitive impairment. These doses are 20-30x greater and used in far greater frequency than you will encounter with Mindbloom’s trusted approach. You can read more about safety practices here.
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Drugs are classified into 5 levels of dependency potential. Schedule 1 is the strongest potential for dependency and schedule 5 is the lowest. Ketamine is a DEA schedule 3 drug. This means that it has a low to moderate potential for dependence. Other drugs in this category include codeine (90mg or less), anabolic steroids, and testosterone. Common anti-anxiety medications, such as Ativan or Xanax, are schedule 2 and considered to be more addictive than ketamine. Even alcohol and tobacco are generally considered to have greater risk for addiction, not to mention adverse health effects.
Is it effective?
Mindbloom participated in the largest-ever clinical study on ketamine therapy. The study tracked 1,200+ Mindbloom clients over 4 sessions. The following outcomes were reported:
89% of clients reported improvement in their depression and anxiety symptoms after 4 sessions
62% of participants who reported suicidal ideation no longer reported any suicidal ideation after 4 sessions
95% of clients reported no side effects from their ketamine treatment with Mindbloom
30% of clients experiencing depression and anxiety achieved remission (or virtually no symptoms) after 4 sessions
Only 4.7% of clients reported side effects (versus 38% for SSRI antidepressants)
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***Eligibility***
Your safety and well-being is priority #1! Therefore, before participating in ketamine treatment, we will carefully review your intake information and, in some circumstances, may require medical clearance or updated labs in order to confirm that ketamine is a safe option for you. You must be at least 18 years old and cannot meet the exclusion criteria below.
If you have concerns about your eligibility, please schedule a free 10-minute consultation before booking your initial consultation.
Ketamine use disorder, mild, moderate, or severe; active or in remission
Known hypersensitivity to ketamine
Active psychotic symptoms, manic symptoms
History of a primary psychotic disorder (e.g., schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder)
Active suicidal ideation with method, intent, or plan in the past 3 months
Suicide attempt within the past year
Uncontrolled hypertension
Congestive heart failure or other seriously impaired cardiac status
Severe or poorly-controlled respiratory problems (e.g., COPD)
History of hyperthyroidism with currently elevated thyroid hormone
Elevated intraocular pressure (e.g., glaucoma)
Pregnant, nursing, or currently trying to become pregnant
Other serious medical illness not listed above
Will insurance pay for ketamine?
Although an inhaled form of ketamine (Spravato) is FDA-approved* for mental health purposes and, therefore, covered by insurance, the oral and injectable forms are still considered “off-label”. This means you will need to pay for the medication out-of-pocket (typically $75-100 total). However, we CAN run your initial intake and integration therapy appointment through your health insurance or provide a superbill for reimbursement. We also accept HSA/FSA and Care Credit.
*It is common practice to prescribe medications for “off-label” use that are known to be safe and effective, but not officially FDA-approved. We will review the risks and benefits during your initial consultation so you can make an informed decision.