Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy

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Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy

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If you are looking for profound symptom relief and expanded neuroplasticity,
Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy might be your solution!

What is Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP)?

Ketamine dosing and guided protocol combined with integration therapy

Ketamine is a powerful dissociative anesthetic used to reduce symptoms of Depression, Anxiety, OCD, SUD and PTSD.

It boosts therapeutic bonds in your neural networks, dismantles and reorganizes ego defense mechanisms, and increases feelings of self-worth.

Ketamine is used for treatment resistant symptoms because it is generally fast-acting and has low side-effects. After years of feeling down and discouraged with other treatments, Ketamine gives a different way to jump-start your brain. Working on glutamate receptors (unlike common psychiatric medications that focus on serotonin, norepinephrine, epinephrine), Ketamine can be effective as a stand-alone treatment or in conjunctions with other medications.

While experiencing ketamine, you will notice a softer and kinder self- perspective and the ability to face internal debates and past events with strength and compassion.

Integrating your discoveries from your journey and expanding on a more positive view of yourself is critical to healing and making changes. Using a therapist with Ketamine or Psychedelic training or supervision can increase your success!

Indy Counseling Professionals
has partnered with
Journey Clinical to offer
Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy

To get started with Journey Clinical, we will create a profile for you after your initial consultation and send you a virtual invite. Once you've accepted the invite and fill in any applicable information, Journey Clinical will reach out to you to set up your initial consultation.

For more information on Journey Clinical, please visit their website.

Journey Clinical is a web-based psychiatric prescribing service that provides Ketamine lozenges for Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP). Journey Clinical hosts sessions virtually for all consultations, then sends the lozenges directly to you for use either at our office or during a virtual session from home.

We like to start by meeting you. We offer a free consultation with our KAP provider to make sure KAP is a good fit for you. If you would like to have Ketamine administered by a local Spravato clinic rather than using Journey clinical, we can still provide KAP services.

Journey Clinical

Meet Julie Timke, LCSW, LAC, KAP Provider

Julie is a Certified Provider through the Integrative Psychiatry Institute. She has seen the incredible power of psychedelics in the mental health field, and is passionate about helping clients change their lives when they feel they have tried every option.

Pricing Information

You cannot use insurance for ketamine dosing sessions.

We can use your health insurance for set-up sessions including the intake, and integration therapy sessions.

Our office does NOT provide Ketamine. We recommend Journey Clinical and their Rapid Dissolving Tablets that can be witnessed by Julie in-office or virtually or done in a self-guided manner with a "trip buddy" or chaperone at your home.

We also have the option of a psycholytic dose that can be taken during EMDR Intensive Sessions.

Out of Pocket Costs:

Ketamine Self-Guided Administration Fee (Julie enters session information for Journey Clinical)

$40.00

Ketamine Dosing Sessions if in-office or virtual with Julie

$175/hour

EMDR Intensive Experience (Lasts 2 - 4 hours depending on need)

$250 / hour

When you can use Insurance:

We accept most major medical insurances, Medicare, Medicaid, and HIP, Hoosier Healthwise, and Hoosier Care Connect. You will be provided an estimate of your insurance benefits before scheduling the Initial Session.

Initial Session (55minutes)-only held if uncertain about doing ketamine.

Set and Setting sessions (55 minutes each)

Post integration sessions (55 minutes each)

If you'd prefer to be all self-pay the costs are as follows:

Set and Setting Sessions

$200.00*

Ketamine Witness Session In-Office or Virtual Option

$175.00/hour*

Ketamine Integration Sessions

$175.00/hour*

Journey Clinical Costs:

If you are using Journey Clinical to acquire doses of ketamine, please see their below costs. They cannot accept insurance at this time.

First-Time Patients – $347
Initial medical consultation with Journey Clinical: $250
Cost of medication: $97 (2 doses of ketamine)

Ongoing Treatment – $313
Follow-up medical consultation with Journey Clinical: $150
Cost of medication: $163 (6 doses of ketamine)

Journey Clinical recommends 6 - 8 Ketamine sessions to achieve the greatest results.

How are sessions structured?

First Steps

Attend Julie's monthly informational Zoom meeting about ketamine or sign-up with Journey Clinical and request Julie as your therapist.

Initial intake session (60 minutes) with Julie (No Ketamine used)

Attend optional 2nd pre-ketamine session

(55 minutes)

Ketamine Sessions

Take Ketamine at home (self-guided with chaperone) session

(1.5-2 hours)- or Schedule in-office ketamine session (2 hours)

Attend post ketamine integration session (55minutes) within 24 - 72 hours of the Ketamine session.

If doing 2 ketamine medication session per week- 1 integration session 24-72 hours after the 2nd session is an option

Treatment Protocol

Generally, clients are prescribed 6 - 8 ketamine doses (with boosters) and follow-up maintenance sessions dosing 1x/month for 3-6 months.

Many clients will complete another 6-8 dosing sessions and then do maintenance after that.

If you have gone through Ketamine treatment in another form (IV, IM or Spravato), Journey Clinical might offer maintenance dosing to extend your results.

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