Put simply, sometimes talk therapy just isn’t enough. And as a psychologist and long-term therapist, I say as someone who has felt for much of my life that almost anyone could benefit from the experience of talk therapy.

And there are also very few more frustrating experiences than when you feel like you have talked about a concern session after session, week after week, year after year and despite progress being made, you and your therapist are left with this haunting feeling that there’s more work to do but just can’t quite reach.

This is why Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy feels like a game changer in so many ways. Through the use of this modality, clients are more easily able to connect with parts of themselves that have historically been more difficult, if not impossible, to access. Coupling ketamine with psychotherapy has the potential to open up a much wider and, at times, more rapid path to healing for many people. Not only are we talking about the things that are struggles, we are moving through them. We are feeling new, profound things not just in our logical, thinking brains but experiencing them in deeper and more embodied ways.

What I’ve found is that when we can embody the experience of thinking and feeling differently about an issue, we can make sustainable changes in our lives that support that new direction. I’ve found such hope and promise in this approach, and I love being able to offer it to those who have felt stuck or even disappointed with the changes they’ve seen through traditional talk therapy.