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Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy

At our practice, we offer ketamine-assisted psychotherapy—a transformative approach designed to help you move closer to your personal goals, heal past wounds, and build resilience. Unlike traditional treatments that focus solely on medication, our approach centers on integration therapy, with ketamine serving as a powerful tool to enhance the therapeutic process.

Ketamine is not the treatment itself—it’s a catalyst. It can help facilitate deeper insight, dissolve mental barriers, and open pathways for emotional growth, making therapy more effective. During sessions, our trained therapists guide you through reflection, exploration, and integration, ensuring that the insights gained translate into meaningful, lasting change.

By combining ketamine with expert-guided therapy, we create a safe, supportive environment where you can explore, process, and integrate experiences that lead to profound healing.

Veda House Wellness offers a range of mental health and wellness services designed to support long-term healing and resilience.
All psychiatric evaluation, diagnosis, and medication management services are provided by Bernard and Lucca Nurse Practitioners in Psychiatry PLLC, a New York professional limited liability company.

How Ketamine Works

Ketamine is a fast-acting, novel treatment for depression, anxiety, trauma, and other mental health challenges. Unlike traditional antidepressants that primarily target serotonin or norepinephrine over weeks or months, ketamine works on the brain’s glutamate system with a specific mechanism of action involving the NMDA receptors.

By modulating glutamate signaling, ketamine:

Promotes neuroplasticity – it encourages the brain to form new neural connections, helping break rigid thought and behavior patterns.

Rapidly reduces symptoms – many individuals notice improvements in mood, anxiety, or intrusive thoughts within hours to days, rather than weeks.

Opens pathways for therapeutic insight – by temporarily loosening mental and emotional barriers, ketamine can help individuals access thoughts, feelings, and perspectives that may be difficult to reach in traditional therapy.

This makes ketamine particularly effective for treatment-resistant conditions, trauma, and situations where traditional approaches have provided limited relief. When combined with integration therapy, ketamine acts as a catalyst—enhancing the effectiveness of therapy, deepening insight, and supporting meaningful, lasting change.

Who Can Benefit

Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy may be particularly helpful for individuals experiencing:

Treatment-resistant depression or anxiety

Trauma or PTSD

Persistent negative thought patterns

Difficulty accessing emotions or processing past experiences

Desire for accelerated personal growth and insight

Your Treatment Journey

Our ketamine-assisted psychotherapy program follows a personalized, step-by-step process to ensure safety, effectiveness, and meaningful results.

1. Comprehensive Psychiatric & Medical Evaluation

Every journey begins with a thorough assessment to determine if ketamine is medically appropriate and indicated for your needs. We carefully review your overall health and medical history to ensure safety.

2. Intake with Integration Therapist

You will meet with your therapist for a detailed therapy evaluation. Together, you’ll identify goals, set intentions, and determine if any preparatory sessions are needed before beginning ketamine treatments. This step ensures your therapy is fully tailored to you.

3. Personalized Treatment Plan

Based on your evaluations, our clinicians design a customized ketamine treatment plan, including the number of sessions, frequency, and approach best suited to address your goals and the specific challenges you’re seeking to treat.

4. Ketamine-Assisted Sessions

Each session is conducted under professional supervision and medically monitored throughout. Integration therapy typically follows in the days after treatment, helping you translate insights into lasting growth and meaningful change. At times, psycholytic therapy is offered during active ketamine treatment. In these sessions, the therapist is present during the peak of the experience to help the patient process emerging thoughts and emotions, provide guidance, and offer supportive therapeutic presence.

5. Ongoing Support & Follow-Up

Your progress is continuously monitored. Sessions are adapted as needed, and additional therapy or support is provided to ensure you gain the maximum benefit from your treatment.

Take the Next Step

Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy offers a unique pathway to healing and growth. If you’re ready to explore this innovative approach with experienced clinicians by your side, we’re here to guide you every step of the way.