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Ketamine-assisted therapy.
For the pattern that hasn't moved. You've done the talking, you understand your history, you can name exactly what you do and why - and it still runs you. Ketamine-assisted therapy isn't a shortcut past that work. It's a way of loosening the grip long enough for the work to actually land.
- Length
- Dosing sessions run 2 to 3 hours. Preparation and integration are standard 50-minute sessions.
- Cadence
- Journey Clinical's protocol is typically 6 to 8 dosing sessions in an initial course, usually around every other week, with integration in between.
- Format
- Virtual or in-person (Hudson, WI.)
This is therapy first. The medicine is a tool inside the work, not a replacement for it. What ketamine tends to offer is a temporary loosening of the usual defenses - the inner critic gets quieter, the story you tell about yourself holds a little less tightly, and there's room to see the pattern from the outside instead of from inside it. My job is to prepare you for that opening, to sit with you while it's happening, and to help you turn what surfaced into something that holds after the session ends.
Medical care in partnership with
Journey Clinical
I provide the therapy. The prescribing, medical screening, and ongoing monitoring are handled by Journey Clinical's licensed medical team, who determine independently whether ketamine is appropriate for you. Two separate roles, on purpose. I'm not your prescriber, and your prescriber isn't your therapist.
Read about Journey ClinicalBest fit if…
- 01You've been in therapy, you have real insight, and the insight hasn't been enough to change anything.
- 02Depression, anxiety, or PTSD that hasn't responded the way you hoped to talk therapy or medication alone.
- 03You can describe your pattern in detail and still find yourself repeating it.
- 04You want to go deeper than your defenses usually allow, and you want someone with you while you do.
What it looks like
The shape of the work.
Nothing about this is improvised. There's a medical gate before we start, preparation before the first dosing session, and integration after every one of them. The structure is what makes the openness safe.
Medical intake
Before anything else, you meet with Journey Clinical's medical team. They review your health history, current medications, and psychiatric background, and decide whether ketamine is safe and appropriate for you. Some histories rule it out. If they say no, that's the answer, and we find another way in.
Preparation
We meet before your first dosing session to set intention, talk through what the experience can feel like, and make sure you go in grounded rather than braced. If we haven't worked together before, this is also where I get to know you and your history.
The medicine
Journey Clinical prescribes sublingual ketamine lozenges, dispensed and shipped by an independent compounding pharmacy. You self-administer them at the start of a dosing session. Nothing is injected, and there's no IV.
Dosing sessions
A two to three hour appointment with me, in person or remotely. You take the lozenge, then settle in somewhere quiet and comfortable. Effects usually begin within about fifteen minutes and the main part lasts roughly 45 to 60 minutes. You stay awake and aware the whole time. I'm there throughout.
Integration
Within a few days of each dosing session we meet again, and this is where most of the actual change happens. Whatever surfaced gets processed, named, and connected back to your life. Skipping this step is how people end up with a memorable experience and no lasting difference.
Ongoing medical follow-up
Journey Clinical checks in on symptoms and safety as you go, with a required follow-up after your first two dosing sessions and at least quarterly after that. Your dose and plan can be adjusted along the way.
Ketamine-assisted therapy isn't right for everyone, and eligibility is a medical decision made by Journey Clinical's prescribing team, not by me. Ketamine is not approved by the FDA for the treatment of depression, anxiety, or PTSD, and its use in this setting is off-label. Certain conditions, including uncontrolled high blood pressure, a history of psychosis, and active substance use disorders, may mean this isn't a safe option for you. If you're in crisis or thinking about harming yourself, please call or text 988 to reach the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.
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