Explore Group Ketamine Therapy in New York

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What Is Group Ketamine Therapy

Ketamine Assisted Therapy uses lozenges that dissolve and are held in the mouth for ~15-20 minutes to take effect. Ketamine has rapidly-acting antidepressant and mood-enhancing effects, which can begin to take effect within 1-2 hrs. after treatment and that can last for up to 2 weeks. Ketamine works by blocking the brain’s NMDA receptors as well as by stimulating AMPA receptors, which are thought to help form new synaptic connections and boost neural circuits that regulate stress and mood. The benefits of Ketamine are cumulative when sessions are done in close proximity to each other. Following their expertise & experience working with Ketamine, and the clinical research on treatment-resistant Depression (TRD), Nikki and Camila developed a process with three, weekly subsequent sessions to aid in symptom relief and perspective shifts. In a multi-session model, Ketamine has been shown to enhance overall neuroplasticity for lasting symptom improvement.

Ketamine-assisted group therapy at OUR HOUSE involves working with Ketamine in a professional, supportive setting with two trained facilitators and psychotherapists, who provide psychological preparation, support and integration to help you create change in your life.

It is always essential to consider not just the healing potential of psychedelic medicines, but also the container in which healing takes place. OUR HOUSE works in a community container, because this container has shown to be more effective than individual healing. The OUR HOUSE community container provides safety from interpersonal harm, complete removal from legal risk, safe facilitation and the use of substances known to be free from harmful adulterants - and in recommended doses to not overwhelm clients.

Every step at OUR HOUSE is designed to help participants find safety, help find connection, and discover that the group itself becomes a quiet, powerful healer.

Why take Ketamine in Community?

Psychedelic group journeys let us experience other people with an open heart, often for the first time. That experience changes everything: our inner dialogue moves from guardedness to trust, and old walls start to come down.

Research backs this up. Group psychedelic experiences amplify the benefits of individual therapy, helping people move beyond old pain toward a more compassionate view of themselves and each other.

Medicine work is always about connection, about re-storing connection to ourselves. You’ll learn just as much from the group as from the program content and the journey itself. As licensed therapists with years of experiences working with mental health conditions and in groups, we know that nothing is more powerful than working with psychedelics in groups.

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Who is the OUR HOUSE program for?

This program is for anyone above the age of 18, who wishes to find healing and more calm in their lives. Every applicant will be guided through a thorough intake process, to understand whether this program is the right fit. OUR HOUSE facilitators, Nikki and Camila, are experienced trauma therapists and can hold clients with childhood trauma wounds, depression and more. Most clients are able to join the OUR HOUSE healing program for that reason.

For clients with severe, unaddressed trauma, active psychosis or active substance abuse, this program will not be the right fit at this time, and individual psychedelic sessions or talk therapy may be good starting point instead. Participating a group requires the ability to regulate nervous systems which can be learned, and is a key skill clients learn in individual therapy.

What Conditions may Ketamine Therapy support?

Ketamine-assisted therapy is associated not only with symptom reduction in depression, anxiety, OCD, substance use, trauma, relationship healing and more, but also with increases in openness, emotional processing, meaning-making, and life satisfaction. Many improvements have shown to be sustained for months after only one or two supervised sessions.

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How does the OUR HOUSE Ketamine program work?

Psychotherapists Nikki and Camila built a hybrid, 5-week Ketamine Therapy program, guiding you gently and safely towards deep exploration of yourself.

• Intake: Nikki and Camila review your intake information and conduct a structured safety screens and risk reviews before coordinating a medical intake with their ketamine prescriber. A thorough mental health intake and medical screening is always part of the process to ensure fit and safety.
  Some participants may need additional medical or psychiatric consultations outside of the OUR HOUSE framework, at extra costs.

• Safety Screening: Every participant without an existing, valid Ketamine prescription will go through a virtual medical intake with our trusted medical prescriber. The additional cost for medical clearance is $250 and may be covered by insurance via out-of-network benefits. The medical intake will assess for heart disease, active mania or history of psychotic illness, and uncontrolled hypertension to ensure safety.

• Mental & Physical Preparation via Virtual Group Workshops: Nikki and Camila developed tools and processes to help you begin accessing trauma & shadows safely, before the medicine sessions.

• Asynchronous Online Ketamine Coursework created by OUR HOUSE

• Three Professionally Guided Ketamine Journeys: one size does not fit all - dose is always determined in conversation with each client.

• Three Integration Session: OUR HOUSE offers integration support the day after each dosing session and, as well as ongoing, donation-based integration community support.
  

The goal at OUR HOUSE is to teach you how to sustain and grow the benefits of your journey experience.

Why work with us?

Nikki and Camila are highly trained Medicine Facilitators and Psychotherapists, who create the necessary container for healing. Nikki and Camila help clients ground and build trust in themselves and the medicine. Over the years, the OUR HOSUE co-founders have built many tools and practices to help clients enter journeys with clear goals instead of fear. Their legal, therapy-backed framework helps client understand how to fully use the potential psychedelics create.

OUR HOUSE prioritizes safety and leads with professional knowledge in trauma-informed mental health care. Anyone - at any psychedelic experience level - can participate. And everyone will benefit from their effective healing process. Camila and Nikki are experts at holding space, with care and support, for deep healing.

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What are the facilitator’s credentials?

Camila Pastor, LCSW and Nikki Fall, LCSW are licensed in New York and Colorado, with training including a Masters of Social Work from NYU, EMDR certifications, Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy, Psychedelic Harm reduction and Integration, and Psilocybin Facilitation training.

Is Ketamine safe?

Ketamine is a safe and well-known medicine and currently the only legal psychedelic being used in New York state as an innovative treatment for depression, PTSD, addiction, and some forms of anxiety. It has also been utilized successfully in managing acute and chronic pain conditions due to its analgesic properties.