Grounding Flight's Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy Treatments

KAP treatments at Grounding Flight involve a 3-4 hour medicine sessions in a comfortable, low stress environment. Each patient receives individual support throughout the medicine experience. During your KAP journey, you are the only patient.

These sessions combine pre-dosing preparation, the medicine experience, and post-experience integration to maximize the benefit of the session and the open window of learning.

  • Pre-dosing includes talk therapy to refine your intention and to work through the things that we can before dosing so that the medicine can get to what needs the medicine.
  • During the medicine session, you are supervised and offered any support that is needed to keep the journey moving forward and to work through any difficulties that arise.
  • After the medicine session, there is an opportunity for light talk therapy to anchor significant moments from the medicine and begin the process of integration.
Grounding Flight is a leading pioneer in the integration of Internal Family Systems therapy and Ketamine assisted psychotherapy since 2019.  Ketamine opens our access to our inner world; IFS provides the map and skills to navigate this inner world for profound and lasting change.

In the span of 4-12 KIFS sessions, past clients have resolved difficulties related to:

  • Childhood trauma
  • Active PTSD
  • Depression
  • Suffering related to infertility
  • Problematic alcohol use
  • Divorce
  • Chronic illness
  • and more

 

What is Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP)?

Ketamine assisted psychotherapy (KAP) is a therapeutic approach that incorporates the use of ketamine, a dissociative anesthetic, within the context of a psychotherapeutic session. Unlike traditional psychedelics such as LSD or psilocybin, ketamine is legally approved for medical use and is commonly used in significantly higher doses as an anesthetic in medical settings. In recent years, there has been growing interest in its potential therapeutic effects when used in controlled settings for mental health treatment.

In KAP, the medicinal benefits of ketamine are combined with psychotherapy to enhance the efficacy of both. Ketamine is self-administered under the supervision of a trained therapist or healthcare provider, typically through lozenges held under the tongue then swallowed.  The therapist works with you to refine your mindset to make the most of the medicine effect and offers skilled support through the experience, helping them explore their thoughts, emotions, and memories in a safe therapeutic environment.

Ketamine is known to induce alterations in consciousness that can feel similar to lucid dreaming which facilitate the processing of traumatic memories, encourage emotional insights, and open existential or spiritual experiences. KAP works by allowing greater access to experiences that are the root of mental health struggles and symptoms. Ketamine (in KAP or via IV infusion) stimulates new connections in the brain that make it easier to establish new thought, emotional, or behavioral patterns.

Some benefits of ketamine-assisted psychotherapy include:

  • Rapid relief from symptoms of depression, anxiety, PTSD, and other mental health conditions.
  • Enhanced introspection and self-awareness.
  • Facilitation of emotional processing and trauma resolution.
  • Promotion of neuroplasticity and synaptic growth in the brain.

Ketamine is a controlled substance with potential for abuse, so it should only be administered by qualified healthcare professionals in a clinical setting with appropriate safeguards in place.

Who Can Benefit from Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy?

Ketamine first works like WD-40 to help loosen habitual patterns of protection which allows us the opportunity to access the root of you suffering.  It then works like Miracle-gro to allow new patterns to emerge and take root.  These two characteristics make it an essential medicine for moving out of mental and spiritual health issues that are deeply entrenched like depression or PTSD.

KAP can benefit any person who feels “stuck” in therapy and needs the support of the medicine to get “unstuck” and move forward. It is most beneficial for those who are medically stable and feel like they are not able to make the progress they need in traditional talk therapy.

Said simply, it helps us do new things.

 Ketamine IFS Sessions at Grounding Flight

  • 3.5-4 hours
  • $675
  • Expert therapeutic support
  • Lozenges prescribed by medical partner
  • Comfortable, low stress environment
  • Low medical support
  • Deep work to address root of suffering
  • Referral from ongoing therapist (preferred)

 

Ketamine Infusion Clinic

**Included for comparison.  Not offered at Grounding Flight

  • 1 hour 
  • $350-500 (range dependent on clinic)
  • Little to no therapeutic support
  • Medicine received via IV
  • Medicalized environment
  • Higher medical support if needed
  • Focus on symptom reduction

At home Ketamine Program

**Included for comparison. Not offered at Grounding Flight.

  • Self determined time
  • $180/session ($1000 for set) (depends on program)
  • Ketamine lozenges
  • No in person therapy support if difficulty arises
  • No in person medical support if difficulty arises
  • Home environment (with comfort and distractions)
  • Focus on symptom reduction

 

To Schedule or Inquire Further

Email Jennifer at groundingflight@gmail.com

Put "KAP" in the subject line

All appointments and payment are through Calendly

Insurance does not currently cover ketamine assisted psychotherapy.

If you need to use insurance, contact PsychAtlanta for Spravato treatment.