First, let’s get to know each other. Book a consultation to discover if ketamine infusions can be your portal to transformation. We will invite you to complete a quick intake form to give us a sense of your background, situation, and prior knowledge of ketamine. Our patient care coordinator will contact you to schedule an initial virtual or in-person visit with Dr. Sara and answer any logistical questions. If you’re already working with a mental health provider and give us consent to collaborate with them, we’ll do so prior to your meeting with Dr. Sara. In the consultation, Dr. Sara will guide you to reflect on your goals and intentions and then design an individualized treatment course to bring you back to your foundation, values, and goals.

You’re about to travel deep into the layers of your mind and discover just how much of it has remained uncharted or forgotten. The mindset you bring to your session directly impacts what you are able to get out of it. We suggest the following steps to prime yourself for deep inner exploration:

Dr. Sara’s focus is to ensure that each ketamine infusion session is not only personally meaningful and therapeutically significant but also safe and comforting. You will be immersed in intentionally curated sounds, scents, and sights, with the goal of encouraging a transformative experience.

Dr. Sara’s focus is to ensure that each ketamine infusion session is not only personally meaningful and therapeutically significant but also safe and comforting. You will be immersed in intentionally curated sounds, scents, and sights, with the goal of encouraging a transformative experience.

Your treatment session will deliver you to new awareness about yourself and your power in your life. In the weeks that follow, you will likely feel a positive boost in your mood and general outlook. However, it’s vital to remember that you are the empowered force responsible for maintaining forward movement on your path toward healing.

To crystallize the therapy’s transformative effects, it’s essential to take intentional steps after your treatment to digest, embody, and apply the insights and discoveries from your inner exploration. Consistent, ongoing follow-up with your primary doctor and/or mental health provider during and after ketamine therapy is paramount to successful treatment and creates the best chances for long-term recovery. You can do this post-treatment processing alone or with the support of our in-house therapist or your trusted mental health clinician. Research suggests that cognitive behavioral therapy can extend the antidepressant effects of the treatment, thereby reducing the frequency of maintenance infusions needed.

We use the Osmind platform and mood-tracking app to stay in touch between appointments. Via secure message during business hours, we’ll ask you to submit brief surveys to track your feelings after sessions so that we can appropriately adjust your doses in ensuing appointments. Such measurement-based care (MBC) improves patient satisfaction, outcomes, and adherence to the treatment plan and thereby enhances ketamine therapy’s effectiveness and efficiency. Journaling—in Osmind or elsewhere—is another productive way to gather and record thoughts and lessons from the treatment experience. Finally, Osmind allows you to easily submit superbills for possible out-of-network insurance reimbursement. For details, see our Osmind page here.

Incorporating healthy sleep, diet, exercise, and social connections into your journey is beneficial. We can point you to additional resources to help you reap the most benefits from your treatment. We partner with specialists in nutrition, acupuncture, movement, bodywork, breathwork, and mental health care to help you adopt and adapt wellness into your larger soft reboot experience.

Learn more about how to get increased mileage from ketamine treatments using preparation, integration, and other simple ways to get the most out of each ketamine treatment.

Get more of your questions answered in our FAQs.

We invite you to consider a series of sessions. Ketamine therapy is not intended as a one-time treatment or cure. Research published in The American Journal of Psychiatry shows IV ketamine treatments are most effective in an induction series of six infusions. We find that scheduling treatment sessions at least 5 to 7 days apart is beneficial to facilitate processing and introspection after your ketamine experience.

We will customize the number of infusions based on your clinical response and any feedback you and your trusted mental health provider may offer. We firmly believe in the importance of a team approach in individualizing your experience, and that includes prioritizing your feedback and needs. We do ask that you commit to at least two sessions so that you can begin to feel the mental and emotional shifts that ketamine can induce.  A 2022 study suggests that response rates increase over infusions 4, 5 and 6 and that multiple infusions may not just increase durability but also the chance of response.  After you have reached a happy, steady state, together we can determine if subsequent single maintenance (or “booster”) infusions may be necessary to sustain symptom improvement and on the timeline best suited to your goals.