Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy
What is Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP)
Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) is a form of deep healing therapy under the guidance of a trained therapist like Ektha Aggarwal, that addresses the root emotions and helps you rewire traumatic emotional memory with the use of small dose ketamine. This allows you to enter and embrace an introspective state where you can gain insight into your mental health, understand your thought patterns, and explore parts of your life you have been repressing.
Ketamine is powerful and safe anesthetic that has profound and rapid impact on your mood and consciousness. results in neuroplasticity (a condition in which your brain can more readily learn, develop, and adapt), allowing the brain to create new connections and disengage from old habits of thought that lead to mental health issues. This mental health treatment modality offers a opportunistic window for forming new habits, cognitive processes, and perceptions.
Ketamine Therapy offers a comprehensive approach to healing, addressing not just symptoms but also negative thinking patterns, lifestyle variables, trauma, coping abilities, and chemical systems in the brain, allowing it to be very effective where other therapies have failed.
As renowned psychedelic therapists in Los Angeles, our practice has been a leading voice in the field for ketamine assisted psychotherapy. Through the use of ketamine, we are dedicated to helping you experience healing from depression, anxiety, PTSD, and other mental health conditions.
During a ketamine therapy session with us, you can expect a safe, supportive, and non-judgmental environment. Your therapist will guide you through the ketamine experience by helping you uncover your thoughts and feelings to gain insight into your life. After each ketamine session, you will engage in an integration session to help you anchor in your experiences and insights into your life.
KAP's introspective character promotes emotional growth, general well-being, and overall quality of life.
Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) is a unique approach to traditional psychotherapy that combines the medicine with psychotherapy to heal traumas and ignite happiness. This combination accelerates growth and change to treat depression, anxiety, and PTSD.
Who is KAP for?
Ketamine therapy is effective in treating many mental health conditions, including depression, anxiety, PTSD, burnout, OCD, bipolar disorder, and addiction. It can also be helpful for you if you are e struggling with end-of-life issues. At Shakti Therapy we also use ketamine therapy to help you explore and deepen your spirituality.
Depression
Anxiety
PTSD
Ketamine has the power to modify neuronal circuits in the brain and, when paired with treatment, can transform chronic depressed thinking patterns.
Unlike standard anti-anxiety drugs, Ketamine Assisted Treatment seldom has major long-term negative effects.
KAP allows you to revisit prior traumas more comfortably and confidently, allowing you to process your emotions and heal from these events.
Benefits of KAP
Takes a holistic approach to mental health services where ketamine medicine is combined with psychotherapy and mindfulness practices to help you quiet your ego mind and connect with your heart center.
Has rapid and profound impact on mood and consciousness, which gives you relief from depression, anxiety, and PTSD after just one session.
Promotes the growth of brain connections that have been destroyed by prolonged stress.
It works rapidly and lets your body and mind to release limiting thoughts holding you back by impacting your consciousness.
Ketamine increases the activity of glutamate in the brain, which enhances mood, decreases anxiety, and decreases addiction cravings.
It increase neuronal connections and decrease inflammatory response in the brain.
Is a personalized treatment approach where your care team develops personalized treatment plan that meets your individual needs and goals
It is safe when administered in a supportive and supervised care team environment.
Promotes deeper, longer-lasting repair.
Testimonials
Addiction Medicine Doctor
"Having an intelligent, insightful, kind and loving therapist who is strong, supportive and clearly gifted allowed me to open up and feel safe. I learned change IS possible when I surrender to the process. I was able to comfort my limiting beliefs and make changes in my life I've always thought about doing. I feel emotionally free and more present in my life."
NBA Athelete
"I have battled with anxiety for most of my life and meds don't work for me. I was scared to go through this and was not sure what would come up for me. Ektha allowed me to feel safe and trust my inner healer. Ketamine therapy with Ektha has changed my life. I feel different and people around me see how much happier I am. It's truly a mindset shift where anxiety has no room to take over."
Startup CEO
"The experience was incredible! The integration process was by far the most powerful experience. Learning to see the world differently, others differently, myself differently allowed me to feel liberated and joyful. Coming out of it, I feel empowered to live my best life - and there’s a sense of renewed confidence. Ketamine has been incredibly healing for me."