Psychedelics in Therapy
The opportunity for you to feel deeply better than you do right now is here.
Therapy is wonderful. It's a tool that helps many people see themselves differently and access new levels of meaning in their lives. When you connect with a therapist, you get to have an hour of your week dedicated completely to you and your inner experience. If you're open to it, you learn new ways of thinking or behaving. And because your therapist is trained and licensed, they are using techniques that are well researched, with data to show that they result in improved mood. But…
Therapy isn’t the only answer. People find relief from the pain of being human in all sorts of ways. For some, religion helps people create meaning. For others it’s community service. There’s no one right way to get right. By integrating psychedelics into psychotherapy, we can push the potential for healing to much higher levels.
Ketamine supercharges the well known benefits of therapy by opening up the psyche so that the mind can actually shift. So often, my clients know they are good, valuable, lovable people, but that knowing is all up in the brain, with the words and the logical thinking. It’s the affirmations and the self help books. All great stuff, but not if it stays up in your brain without growing roots into your heart and your gut so that you have a full body belief rather than a set of words that you desperately want to believe but can’t get yourself there.
When you add ketamine to psychotherapy, the deep down parts of your psyche, where the scariest shadows live, those open up and you can really, truly change your mind.