Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) at Wholeness Health
Wholeness Center has been a national leader in the ketamine field for many years. Wholeness was one of the first to offer ketamine-assisted psychotherapy and the use of multiple modalities for treatment. We are the only facility in the region to offer the combination of psychiatric evaluation and psychotherapists trained in this modality. Wholeness Center is the only program in the state of Colorado that employs all four modalities of ketamine use: IV, IM, SQ and oral. We rarely use the nasal inhaler method because of unpredictable response and excessive cost We do not believe in the infusion only model of care, although that can be somewhat cheaper in the short-run. Over time, our providers have found that the benefits of the infusion only method do not seem to endure. We have found that integrating the powerful insights from the ketamine experience with talk therapy are necessary to make lasting behavior and personal changes.
At Wholeness we use the psychedelic psychotherapy format with selected music, headphones and eyeshades to deepen the inward journey and enhance the power found in this medicine. Sessions last about two hours and almost everyone finds the experience positive and helpful for the challenges they face. Over the last ten years we have witnessed an explosion of research that documents the benefits of ketamine for depression, trauma, OCD, addiction and other mental health challenges. Studies document that even treatment resistant depression with many failed courses of therapy and medications responds to ketamine, often very quickly. We think of it as a way to catalyze the benefits of psychotherapy by reducing our defensiveness and sensitivity while enhancing our ability to see our life in a new perspective. As evidence of this, multiple studies now document that ketamine typically eliminates suicidal ideation within hours.