Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy

For a transformative, cutting-edge approach, explore our ketamine-assisted psychotherapy services in Colorado. Address deep emotional challenges and embark on a transformative path to healing.

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What is Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP)?

Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) is an innovative therapeutic approach that merges the transformative qualities of ketamine with the foundational principles of psychotherapy. At its core, KAP seeks to amplify the healing journey, allowing patients to delve deeper into their consciousness, confront past traumas, and foster sustained improvements.

By seamlessly blending the pharmacological effects of ketamine with therapeutic guidance, KAP provides a holistic pathway to mental well-being, unlocking avenues of understanding and self-awareness previously unattainable through traditional methods alone.

What to Expect for Your Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy Treatment Plan

Entrust our expert team at CRS to guide you through the innovative realm of Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy in collaboration with Skylight. We provide the therapeutic backbone, allowing you to experience profound breakthroughs in your mental health journey, while Skylight ensures medical precision and safety. Together, we craft a holistic pathway for your sustained healing and growth.

Addressing Core Issues

KAP offers a transformative space to navigate a range of deep-seated issues. Whether it’s trauma, anxiety, depression, or lingering emotional challenges, this therapy paves the way for genuine healing.

Collaborative Care

Our partnership with Skylight ensures a seamless experience. CRS leads the psychotherapy, while Skylight manages all medical aspects.

Group KAP Sessions

For additional support, explore healing in a group setting. With a consistent set of participants, experience mutual growth and support throughout the KAP series.

Sublingual Administration

We prioritize a non-invasive method of ketamine delivery. Skylight exclusively uses self-administered sublingual lozenges for a more comfortable patient experience.

Eligibility Screening

Skylight plays a pivotal role by determining patient eligibility for Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy, ensuring it’s a safe and appropriate choice for you.

Dedicated Follow-Up Care

After your initial KAP session, we will continue to monitor your progress. Skylight’s team schedules regular follow-up consultations, assessing outcomes and providing ketamine lozenge refills when necessary.

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Affordable & Accessible Care

Quality mental health care shouldn’t break the bank. At CRS, we prioritize making our services both affordable and easily accessible to all.

Holistic & Personalized Strategies

Your journey is unique, and so should your treatment. We take into account the entirety of your experience, crafting a tailored approach that addresses all facets of your well-being.

Innovative Treatment Options

Harness the power of cutting-edge therapeutic methods. CRS constantly evolves, integrating the latest techniques to offer innovative solutions for your mental health needs.

Proactive Care Approach

We believe in addressing challenges before they amplify. Our proactive approach ensures you’re equipped with tools and strategies to navigate life’s complexities with resilience and confidence.

Frequently Asked Questions

Ketamine is a legal and safe medication used for treating mental health conditions such as depression, anxiety, and PTSD. Its potent antidepressant and mood-enhancing effects can start within 1-2 hours of administration and persist for up to two weeks.

This drug functions by modulating the brain’s NMDA and AMPA receptors, establishing new synaptic connections and reinforcing neural pathways that control stress and mood, thus fostering enhanced neuroplasticity for lasting symptom alleviation. Among its various administration methods, such as IV infusion, intramuscular injection, and nasal sprays, CRS, in collaboration with Skylight, exclusively uses the sublingual lozenge method.

Ketamine induces a unique experience that many describe as a detached feeling from one’s body, combined with expansive shifts in perception. This sensation typically endures for about 45 minutes. During the treatment process, we have all patients lie comfortably as their motor and verbal abilities are reduced.

Once these effects subside, the remainder of the appointment is devoted to reflecting upon and discussing the experience with your CRS therapist. While many people struggle to articulate exactly what they experienced during the session, many patients walk away with a sense of clarity of enlightenment. According to documented studies, the benefits of KAP, including mood and neurological growth, can last for up to two weeks.

Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) at CRS begins with an initial 1-hour consultation with a CRS therapist to delve into your mental health history, explore current issues, and evaluate the suitability of KAP for you; this is potentially billable to specific insurance providers. Next, you’ll have a virtual evaluation with Skylight’s medical team to discuss your medical background, be educated on the procedure, and gauge eligibility for KAP. Eligible candidates receive a personalized ketamine prescription and a kit for their first two sessions, including guidance on self-administration and vital checks.

The core of the therapy involves preparation sessions to set intentions, followed by 2-3 hour dosing sessions, either in-person or via telehealth. Here, patients, under the guidance of their therapist, self-administer a ketamine lozenge, recline comfortably with an eye mask and headphones, and immerse themselves into a therapeutic and introspective experience. For safety, an at-home chaperone is necessary, and for in-office dosing, a designated driver post-session. After each dosing session, integration sessions help patients process and interpret their experiences. Skylight ensures regular post-session medical consultations, at least quarterly, to monitor progress and determine any prescription adjustments.

Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy is an affordable, accessible modality. Although the medical intake and follow-ups with Skylight are not covered by insurance, they are eligible for out-of-network reimbursement. CRS Intake, Preparation, and Integration are billable to insurance with a covered diagnosis (CRS is In-Network with Aetna, Anthem BCBS, Cigna, and Friday Health Plans. Please note we are unable to accept Medicaid for KAP at this time). CRS accepts payment via debit/credit card, HSA, or cash.

CRS offers KAP in an individual or group format (you may discuss these options with your CRS KAP therapist)

  • Intake Session: $150 (always conducted individually)
  • Individual Hourly Rate for CRS Preparation and Integration Sessions: $150
  • Group Hourly Rate for CRS Preparation, Dosing, and Integration Sessions: $100

Dosing Session: $450 for a 3-hour session ($150 per hour). $225 deposit is due when scheduling the dosing session with your therapist (typically within a week of your preparation session). *Dosing session not billable to insurance.

Skylight Medical Costs

  • Medical Intake: $250 (One-time fee, reimbursable through out-of-network insurance)
  • Follow-up Sessions: $150/Session (minimum of 1/quarter, reimbursable through out-of-network)
  • Cost of Ketamine Lozenges: Approximately $75 for 4-6 doses (not covered by insurance)

Skylight is a platform for licensed psychotherapists to incorporate science-based psychedelic therapies in their practice safely and effectively, starting with Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP). Skylight’s in-house medical team takes on patient eligibility, prescriptions, and outcome monitoring while I take on the therapy. Their collaborative care model delivers personalized treatment plans to meet your individual needs and improve long-term outcomes.

From Our Clients

I have been dealing (not in a good way) with trauma from an early age. I was diagnosed with depression and anxiety in high school and since then have used therapy, self-medication and frankly putting on a brave face to “get through it.” I had a moment a year ago where I realized this was not sustainable. I [sought] out therapy and after a lot of research, I agreed to try KAP. I’ll be honest, I had a lot of hesitation but I trusted my therapist, the approval process was really informative and we went at my own pace.

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Something I rarely think about because I’m always in defense mode. And it was great. It was simple and easy and it felt right. I was kind to myself and to those around me and I didn’t just see myself happy, I felt that happiness come over me. I slept that night for the first time in, possibly forever, without a single thought racing through my head. No to-do list, no fear, just rest. One session and I feel more peace than I have ever felt. I have a sense of calmness that I will process this trauma knowing I will be okay.

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For the first time in my life, during my first session, I had A moment where my mind was completely blank. No racing thoughts, no anxiety, no fear. And then I saw my future.

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I don’t remember not feeling overwhelmed. My day-to-day is filled with chaos in my mind. My thoughts are always racing between what has happened, what’s to come – I can’t focus on what the present is. I understand now that I’ve lived the majority of my life in survival mode.

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I don’t want to say Ketamine saved my life because I don’t think the life I had was what I have now.

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I was at moments catatonic – going through my life as a spectator, unwilling and unable to be my own protagonist. Ketamine gave me a life. I have felt true joy and I have felt real pain, I have cried more in the last month than I have in the last 30 years. Sometimes out of fear, other times out of sadness, and a handful of times out of pure happiness.

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I can stop and breathe. I can enjoy a single moment like time has stopped for me. I know I’ll have bad days again. My goal is to keep going despite them.

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The journey I went through on ketamine was transformative. Absorbing my memories, confronting my past has ironically been the piece that was missing for me to be able to let go. I tire myself out all the time – replaying these scenarios in my head, analyzing in excruciating detail every choice I made, and avoiding any triggers. I have experienced true moments of peace now. I understand what it’s like to take in what’s around me. I’m letting go not just of what haunts me from my past but what scares me about my future. I’ve gone from chaos to calm.

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