Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy
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Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP)
Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) is a multidisciplinary treatment approach that combines ketamine therapy and psychotherapy to address depression, anxiety, PTSD, and other mood disorders. Both ketamine and psychotherapy are effective on their own, but when used together, they may enhance and extend treatment results.
At Lone Star Infusion, we offer KAP to help patients achieve meaningful improvements in mood, emotional resilience, and overall well-being. Treating depression, anxiety, and other mood disorders can be challenging, and KAP provides a powerful, integrative tool that may improve outcomes where other approaches alone have had limited success.
By integrating the therapeutic effects of ketamine with guided psychotherapy, KAP helps patients process emotions, explore insights, and create lasting changes in a safe and supportive environment. KAP can be integrated at the same time as the ketamine therapy at Lone Star Infusion. Most patients, however, have their KAP therapy session within 24 hours after their ketamine therapy, either the same day or the next day. Ketamine helps the body to lower its cognitive behavioral defenses, particularly the first 24 hours after a treatment. This period allows a window to make the most significant progress with therapy, whether it is KAP or other types of therapy and whether in person or virtual.
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What to Expect During Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP)
When you arrive for a KAP session at Lone Star Infusion, you’ll be welcomed into a private, comfortable room designed to provide a calm and supportive environment.
Healing, One Step at a Time
Before the Session
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Intake and Review
Your therapist and medical provider will review your history, current symptoms, and treatment goals. -
Discussion of the Session
The therapeutic approach and what to expect during the infusion are discussed, giving you an opportunity to ask questions. -
Preparation
An IV is placed for the ketamine infusion, and vital signs are monitored throughout the session.
Care in Action
During the Session
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Ketamine Infusion
You will receive a carefully dosed ketamine infusion tailored to your needs. -
Psychotherapy Integration
Guided psychotherapy takes place during or shortly after the infusion, helping you process thoughts, emotions, and experiences that arise. -
Environment
Many patients choose to listen to calming, instrumental music with headphones while focusing inward. The team maintains a therapeutic, supportive, and safe atmosphere throughout.
Recovery & Care
After the Session
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Recovery
You will rest for a short period under supervision to ensure you feel stable and alert before discharge. -
Follow-Up
The therapist will help you integrate insights gained during the session and discuss strategies for continuing progress between appointments. -
Transportation
Patients must arrange for a responsible adult to drive them home, as ketamine can temporarily affect coordination and perception.
KAP is designed to maximize the therapeutic benefits of ketamine while providing structured support through psychotherapy, helping you achieve lasting improvements in mood and mental health.
Why It Matters
Benefits
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Psychotherapy is not required to see excellent results from ketamine treatments, but it may help.
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One of the most common and reliable ways to improve mental health is to use psychotherapy or talk therapy. Psychotherapy will likely improve the results that you would otherwise see from ketamine treatments.
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One of the ways that psychotherapy can help is by providing an opportunity to process the experiences of the ketamine treatments themselves.
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Research into KAP and other forms of psychedelic assisted psychotherapies is limited but growing. The existing research to date shows good results.
Backed by Research
Why It Works
There are probably several reasons why psychotherapy goes well with ketamine treatments:
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Good therapy is good for you. In other words, talk therapy typically helps people in a wide variety of situations, including depression and anxiety. Adding therapy is probably good at any time, but likely most beneficial from the time of a ketamine therapy session through the first 24 hours after a session. including when undergoing ketamine treatments.
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The best information we have suggests that ketamine increases a patient’s neuroplasticity, helping to escape unhealthy ruminations or ruts, and permitting you to be more receptive to new ways of thinking. This means that therapy sessions may, in theory, be particularly effective around ketamine treatments.
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Ketamine infusions provide clinically significant reduction of negative symptoms for about 70% of patients – even helping those with severe and treatment-resistant symptoms. When you’re experiencing positive changes, that is an excellent time to keep the positive momentum going as much as possible with positive lifestyle changes and strategies like KAP or other talk therapies.
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Insights and themes can emerge from ketamine sessions that can be helpful to explore in a therapeutic setting.
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Finding a good fit with a therapist is difficult for many patients. If you have a therapist that you work well with, we support continuing with that therapist. If not, we can help identify a therapist that may work well for you.
Support That Fits You
Is this required?
No, you do not need to sign up for KAP to receive ketamine treatments. However, for most people, it will likely be helpful.
You may choose to pursue psychotherapy through Lone Star Infusion, on your own, or not at all.
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Start Your Journey Toward Relief
We recommend a series of therapy appointments scheduled loosely around your initial series of ketamine infusions. Patients typically schedule 3 appointments for therapy around their initial series of ketamine treatments.
After the initial series of therapy appointments and ketamine infusions, you can decide how to move forward in consultation with the therapist and the practitioners at Lone Star Infusion.
To get started with KAP, talk with us at any time.
