Ketamine Assisted-PsychoTherapy

What is Ketamine-Assisted PSychoTherapy (KAP)?

Ketamine is a dissociative anesthetic, first FDA-approved in 1970, and has since gained traction for its positive effects on mental health, especially for treatment-resistant depression, anxiety, PTSD, and trauma. At low doses, ketamine helps "rewire" neural pathways in the brain linked to emotional pain, stuckness, and survival mode thinking.

Ketamine can give you a little more space between you and your symptoms — the negative messages and the overactive logical brain — helping you access deeper places that traditional therapy sometimes can't easily reach.

In low, controlled doses, ketamine’s dissociative state can allow you to step back, view your Anxiety and Trauma from a new angle, and work through overwhelming emotions with more clarity.

Maybe you feel…

… stuck.

… like traditional talk therapy or other specialized therapies haven’t moved the needle,

… overwhelmed with symptoms,

… tired of battling the same patterns,

… ready to explore deeper meaning, consciousness, and purpose.

Why KAP?

The potential rapid relief of ketamine, combined with the introspective power of integration therapy, allows you to address emotional pain and trauma more effectively.

Most people describe ketamine experiences as peaceful, introspective, or dreamlike.

Ketamine Therapy for trauma and depression is a profound tool for those ready to go deeper and to feel more, integrate more, and reconnect to yourself in a whole new way.

Online KAP at Big Mood Therapy

At this time, Big Mood Therapy does not provide standalone KAP.
To participate in KAP here, you must become an established client and agree to ongoing individual psychotherapy alongside your KAP.

We believe long-lasting healing happens through integration therapy + the medicine.

1

Initial Intake

Attend an initial online therapy session to explore whether KAP might be a good fit.

Investment

Individual Psychotherapy (45 min): $275

 

2

Medical Assessment

Meet with a licensed prescribing psychiatrist for a medical evaluation and screening.
If appropriate, you'll be prescribed ketamine lozenges for KAP sessions.

Investment

Initial Psychiatric Assessment + Medicine for 2 KAP sessions: $350

3

VIRTUAL KAP Sessions

Complete your preparation session, then participate in a 2.5-hour KAP session with your therapist.

Recommendation:

3–6 KAP sessions, about every other week.

Investment

Preparation Sessions: $275

KAP Sessions (2.5 hours): $825

4

Integration Sessions

Integration sessions happen within 1–2 days after each KAP session to tap into your brain’s enhanced neuroplasticity, helping you process deeper, faster.

Investment

Integration Sessions (45 minutes): $275

Are you a good fit for KAP?

During your intake period and medical assessment, we’ll carefully screen for the following factors:

  1. Medical Conditions

Uncontrolled high blood pressure

Heart disease

History of stroke

Liver disease or untreated thyroid conditions

2. Substance Use

Active substance use disorders (especially involving dissociatives)

3. Psychiatric Conditions:

History of psychosis, schizophrenia, or dissociative disorders

Active mania or severe bipolar symptoms

Active suicidal ideation without a support system

If KAP isn’t a fit, we'll work together to find alternative therapy options to meet your goals.

KAP IS NOt a quick fix

At Big Mood Therapy, we believe that ketamine is not a quick fix or short cut to healing. Actually, quite the opposite. KAP in California is a profound agent of change used to help you be able to feel your feelings, lower your defenses, and do some deep inner work.

Ketamine as a stand alone medical treatment (without integration psychotherapy) may only scratch the surface of basic symptom relief. However, in conjunction with psychotherapy, Ketamine can be a powerful tool to propel you into new realms of understanding yourself and the world around you.

KAP may bring up unhealed parts, big questions, or even uncomfortable emotions and just like with all therapy, you may feel worse before you feel better.

It’s for people who are ready to go deeper in their therapy work.

Virtual KAP in the San Francisco Bay Area isn’t a magical fix, but it can help you access the stuff that you’ve been stuffing deep down or help you in your quest of deeper self-understanding, healing, and meaning.

Ready to get started on one of the most important journeys of your life?

If you wanna go far,

Then you gotta go far.

Noah Kahan

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