Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy
At this time, Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) is the only legal psychedelic medicine available in New York State.
We work closely with Expert Medical Providers to provide our patients with a medically safe, emotionally secure, and holistic medicine experience.
What is Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy?
True healing requires an alignment between the body, the mind, and the spirit. This is a universal truth that can be observed in all major theories or religions focused on overall well-being. We also can become blocked or disconnected from one or more aspects of these three pillars.
Psychedelic Assisted Psychotherapy attempts to help remove these blocks and acts as a catalyst for movement, growth, and ultimately re-connection with our authentic selves
This model provides one or more dosing sessions where the patient is actively experiencing the effects of the psychedelic medicine. All of this happens within a therapeutic environment and under the care of a certified clinician.
Role of Our Facilitators
Client
I know psychedelics help my brain in all kinds of neurobiological ways but how does it help me therapeutically? What is your role in all of this?
Facilitator
We call the sessions during which you take psychedelics, “Medicine Days”, not only because you take the medicine on that day but also because psychedelics help you access the “medicine” and power to heal within yourself. My role is to facilitate your awareness of, contact with, and access to your own healing energy and capacity.
Client
Can you explain it further?
Facilitator
The idea of our own internal “medicine” can be described simply as an inner ability we have to heal ourselves and realize inner peace. We do this by accessing our true nature and discovering a new way to change patterns that don’t serve us, move beyond our shadows and transform our lives.
David Bedrick has described it well. These experiences create opportunities for:
AWARENESS because the internal medicine/healing energy you carry is rarely fully conscious. It is hidden in the shadow, veiled in shame. People are blind to it because they often grew up in a family or culture that didn’t see their gift or even actively denied it. In addition, your medicine is unique to you. Your medicine is extra-ordinary, making it even harder for those around you to see it. Without a witnessing world, family, or culture, people often remain unaware of their extra- ordinariness. It is the facilitator’s job to become your witness.
CONTACT because you must meet your medicine. You must feel it in your body, hear it in your inner dialogue, see it in your dream images, identify it in your projections, reveal it in your addictive tendencies, unearth it in your early stories and traumas. Without this immediate contact, the relationship with your medicine remains an idea instead of a manifested relationship with yourself.
ACCESS because people need to learn the path to the well of medicine that lives inside them – the medicine is always available, abundant, and coursing through you. We will help you find your inner medicine. Once you find that inner resource, you will build a consistent pathway to it. Having consistent access to your inner healing will allow you to develop a true sense of who you are and how you want to show up in the world – your outer life and inner life will become attuned and aligned.
Resources
Ketamine & Depression: How it Works – Yale Medicine Explains
New therapies like ketamine are changing how depression is understood, and may pave the way for future research that helps us understand the brain in all of its complexity.
A Psychedelic Drug Passes a Big Test for PTSD Treatment
A new study shows that MDMA, known as Ecstasy or Molly, can bring relief when paired with talk therapy to those with severe posttraumatic stress disorder.
by Rachel Nuwer
Love: The Nature of Our True Self
My Experience as a Guide in the Johns Hopkins Psilocybin Research Project
by MARY COSIMANO, M.S.W.
Dr. Paul Conti: Therapy, Treating Trauma & Other Life Challenges
This episode is must listen for anyone seeking or already doing therapy, processing trauma, and/or considering psychoactive medication. Both patients and practitioners ought to benefit from the information.
A Balm for Psyches Scarred by War
MDMA-assisted treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder “represents real hope for long-term healing,” health experts say.
by Rachel Nuwer
Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy and Post-Traumatic Stress
New uses for psychedelic drugs offer potential breakthroughs for patients with post-traumatic stress, working with trained therapists to guide the experience and open perspectives into a patient’s state of mind.