Holistic Ketamine Therapy for Depression, Anxiety & PTSD

There are a few underlying disorders that can preclude you from treatment. Specifically, if you are in an acute manic phase of Bipolar disorder, if you have uncontrolled, untreated hypertension or glaucoma (elevated pressure in the eyes), untreated or poorly controlled cardiovascular disease, untreated hyperthyroidism, active substance abuse, or if you have a previously documented allergy to Ketamine. Also, we do not currently treat patients that are under the age of 18 or are pregnant. These potential contraindications will have been discussed and evaluated during your initial consultation to ensure that you are a candidate for the therapy.

Generally speaking, we encourage you to continue to take your daily medications to optimize your medical condition prior to treatment. Certain medications such as sedatives (benzodiazepines such as valium, ativan, clonazepam, etc.) can dull the effects of the Ketamine therapy.

Although each individual's response to treatment cannot be predicted, the advantage of ketamine assisted therapy is that there is an actual physical change that occurs in the brain with the growth of new neuronal connections. This allows for a pathway to create permanent changes to the brain. For many people, once the initial ketamine course has been completed, they may no longer need further ketamine treatments or may only need an occasional “booster” to maintain the same level of effects of the initial treatment.

Ketamine is not considered to be an addictive medication if it is administered under the guidance of a physician and administered in a controlled setting. At tHKI, ketamine is not given as an agent that is self administered and is otherwise not readily available to the general public which greatly diminishes its abuse potential.