Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy for Moms

I provide safe support for transformative healing with ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP), specifically for mothers.

I combine ketamine with IFS therapy and my deep knowledge of Mom Parts to hold you in a nurturing, nonjudgmental space where we can incorporate insights that emerge with your ketamine journey and access deep layers of healing.

All moms welcome, including bereaved moms, those who are trying to conceive, postpartum moms, moms of littles, moms of bigs, step-moms, foster moms, adoptive moms and grandmothers. This work can be especially powerful for moms who are trying hard to be good moms and who feel like they're not good enough.

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Therapy with Ketamine

How Can KAP Help?

Ketamine-Assisted Therapy is a powerful tool and offers numerous healing benefits. Here's how it can help:

Rapid Relief from Symptoms

For many folks, KAP provides quick relief from severe symptoms of depression, anxiety, and PTSD. Traditional antidepressants can take weeks or months to become effective. Ketamine has rapidly-acting antidepressant and mood-enhancing effects, which can begin to bring relief within1-2 hours after treatment.

Enhanced Neuroplasticity

Ketamine stimulates the growth of dendritic spines. It also promotes new neural connections, fostering greater neuroplasticity. This enhanced brain connectivity encourages adaptive thinking patterns and healthier emotional responses - healing at the source.

Expanded States of Consciousness

KAP opens up expanded states of consciousness, which helps clients process exiled psychological content. Many people feel an immediate increase in (self) compassion; this unique aspect of KAP leads to deep insights and long-lasting changes in mental health.

Improved Quality of Life

KAP alleviates severe mental health symptoms and promotes new ways of thinking. It helps individuals engage with their lives with more courage, clarity and calm (Self-energy).

Goals go beyond symptom relief and include increased psychological flexibility, curiosity, observing ego functions, ability to grieve and mourn, experience spaciousness of mind. Restoration of dignity/self-respect/integrity. Coming into one’s own healing intelligence. Returning to wholeness. Making use of internal resources. Increased: discernment, creativity, problem solving, improved relationships, joyfulness, relief of existential distress, meaning, purpose.

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Healing with KAP

Under the influence of ketamine we can observe our thoughts and emotions (our parts) with less resistance. As our protective parts relax, we contact our wounds, but now in the presence of increased courage, clarity and calm (Self-energy).

Ketamine helps us experience a softening of our usual reactive and protective states while still maintaining conscious awareness. It helps us engage more fully with formerly ostracized parts of ourselves, creating an opening for personal discovery, growth, healing and lasting change.

Ketamine’s biological mode of action is understood to be an NMDA antagonist working through the glutamate neurotransmitter system - but it also works as a psychedelic medicine, inducing non-ordinary states of consciousness. Insight and long-lasting change is born from these experiences.

I offer KAP in partnership with an organization called Journey Clinical. I take on the psychotherapy portion of the experience, while Journey Clinical’s medical team supports you with all the medical aspects. This includes determining eligibility, developing a custom treatment plan, prescribing the medicine and monitoring outcomes.

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Ketamine for Moms Groups & Retreats

Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy experienced in community with other moms is a powerful way to:

Reduce shame - connect with other moms in a healing environment
Reduce expense - group sessions are less expensive than individual work
Enhance healing - sharing the transformative experience with others deepens integration and helps anchor changes and insights.

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Where do we begin?

1. Set up an appointment for an Assessment with me.

2. Connect with Journey Clinical if we determine KAP is a good fit.

3. Attend one or more Prep Sessions with me to explore the parts you are bringing to the medicine as well as housekeeping tasks related to your journey.

4. Journey day.

5. Meet for one or more Integration sessions to explore your journey and all that you're taking from that experience.

Ketamine - assisted psychotherapy can offer a slow, supported, safe break from trauma.

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Click here to read more about Ketamine and the Brain
Ketamine is a legal, safe, effective medicine with rapid antidepressant and mood-enhancing effects, often noticeable within hours and can last for weeks. It is one of the most extensively studied psychedelic medicines.
It is in every hospital around the world. It’s on the WHO’s list of top 10 essential medicines and has a high safety profile. For this reason, it’s used in pediatrics.
As a mental health treatment, unlike typical antidepressants, ketamine helps by targeting the neurotransmitter glutamate, which influences mood and thought patterns. It promotes neuroplasticity—the brain's ability to form new connections. This process allows for a "reset," helping you break free from stuck patterns of thinking.

The effects of ketamine, which most patients find pleasant, last for approximately 45 minutes. These effects can make you feel “far from” your body, and facilitate shifts in perception that can often feel expansive in nature. Your motor and verbal abilities will be reduced, so you’ll be lying down in a comfortable position during the experience. Once these effects subside, we’ll spend the remainder of our appointment giving you space to process and discuss your experience. While it may feel hard to articulate what happens during the experience, patients feel like the insights gained are clear.

Moms who are suffering from postpartum depression and anxiety may benefit greatly from KAP. Consulting with a prescriber will help rule out any concerns and determine eligibility.

Moms are often concerned about KAP and breastfeeding. According to the Infant Risk Center, withholding breastfeeding for 8 hours after a treatment session would reduce exposure to the drug significantly.

The following articles offer more information about research with postpartum women and ketamine:

Is Ketamine an Option for the Treatment of Postpartum Depression?

In summary, this study demonstrated that a single dose of esketamine administered intravenously to women with mild depressive symptoms at delivery was associated with reduced depressive symptoms at week 1 postpartum. In addition, those who received esketamine had a 75% lower risk of experiencing significant depressive symptoms at 6 weeks postpartum.

Can Intravenous Ketamine Reduce the Risk of PPD?

The Pharmacokinetics of Ketamine in the Breast Milk of Lactating Women: Quantification of Ketamine and Metabolites

Glamour: How Some Women Are Using Ketamine to Treat PPD

Journey Clinical is a platform for licensed psychotherapists to incorporate science-based psychedelic therapies in their practice safely and effectively, starting with Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP). Journey Clinical’s in-house medical team takes on patient eligibility, prescriptions and outcome monitoring, while the therapist takes on the therapy. Their collaborative care model is designed to deliver personalized treatment plans to meet the client's individual needs and improve long-term outcomes.

Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy for Moms