Are you interested in seeking ketamine treatments to help you overcome depressive, anxious or trauma symptoms?
Have you already started on the path of ketamine infusions and find yourself seeking to properly prepare or integrate those experiences?
If your answer is yes to one of these questions, you are in the right place. I am a psychotherapist who specializes in working with psychedelic integration as well as treating mental health issues.
I’m going to give you the top five reasons why it is imperative that if you seek Ketamine treatment, you must also prepare with a therapist beforehand and integrate with a therapist afterwards.
1. A therapist can help you with setting the right intention. Preparation is so very important when it comes to getting the most you possibly can out of Ketamine treatments. Setting the right intention could be a game changer when it comes to the results of ketamine infusions. For example, if you go into the ketamine therapy with no intention whatsoever, your mind may go where it typically does which may be a dark place. It doesn’t mean the treatment wouldn’t work at all, it just means it wouldn’t work nearly as well. Ketamine has a way of getting us into our subconscious mind which is a place where incredible change can take place. But if we are going into our subconscious and just implanting more of the same depressed, anxious and self-critical thoughts, it won’t allow for as much as a shift to happen.
2. A therapist can also help you develop mindfulness. There is so much that is brought to the surface in a ketamine infusion, and if you haven’t learned mindfulness skills… you just might miss transformative information. Learning to pay close attention to what comes up will provide valuable pieces to the process of healing moving forward.
3. A therapist can help you develop maybe the most important skill of all: self-compassion. During a ketamine infusion, you have control to set an initial intention and with mindfulness can have a bit of sway in how the experience goes but overall the journey will take you where it is meant to go. With that being said, regardless of what your brain and body present during the ketamine treatment, you will have learned how to treat yourself loving regardless. I can’t emphasize this enough, self-compassion could make all the difference in having a “positive” or “negative” experience. It is all a matter a perspective and how you treat yourself with whatever it is that comes to the surface.
4. A therapist can help you integrate the experience. There are so many therapeutic connections from the past, present and future that will be presented in a ketamine experience. It is very important that you have a trained mental health professional to help you properly integrate these experiences in a healthy, positive and long-lasting way.
5. A therapist will help you continue to process what the Ketamine journey brought to the surface. Even though Ketamine is incredibly effective – it is not an instant and forever fix. Sometimes it brings to the surface what we have needed to heal in order to begin the process of peace. That means we need to continue to utilize therapy to finish the work that our Ketamine journey began. We can do this with evidence-based therapeutic modalities such as EMDR, IFS, mindfulness and somatic-experiencing.
As a trained masters-level therapist who has also tried first-hand the experience of medically supervised ketamine treatments for stress reduction, I have discovered how truly important these top 5 reasons to prepare and integrate with a therapist are.
As time goes on, we will continue to see psychedelic therapy rise. The research is indisputable and incredibly hopeful. I encourage you to consider to talk to your doctor about what they feel is best for your medical symptoms and I also encourage you to reach out to a therapist to work on your mental health symptoms if you are interested or already involved in Ketamine treatments.
I would be happy to answer questions or talk about a free consultation for therapy for Ketamine preparation or integration! Please reach out via the Metta Holistic Therapy contact page or email me directly at reneeminxtherapy@gmail.com
Thanks so much for reading until the end! You are worthy of wisdom, healing, and being LOVED.
Metta Holistic Therapy 