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Team Associates Our Center Program Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy Fees and Process Music Contact View our New Being at Dharma K Documentary Unmatched Experience and Expertise with Ketamine Therapy Our comprehensive Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy program addresses your needs for healing, understanding, balance, and relief through compassionate attention to who you are and how you would like to feel and be. If you are ready to apply for treatment, you can fill out our intake packet and after review, we will contact you to schedule an intake appointment. Submit Intake Packet Submit an Inquiry Fill out your information below and someone from your team will be in touch with you to discuss your inquiry Name * First Last Email * Phone * Ketamine Code of Ethics Our founder and lead clinician, Dr. Phil Wolfson, is the founder of both the Ketmaine Training Center as well as the Ketmaine Research foundation. His extensive training of other practitioners and pioneering efforts in the application of Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy is unparalleled in the industry. As Featured in: Understanding Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy-KAP KAP focuses on reducing the influence of past trauma on present life, on healing from depression, and on reducing stress and harmful preoccupations. Successful KAP work makes for a new personal harmonization with self and others. Its application is broad and is not restricted to particular diagnoses. Based on each person’s sensitivities and needs, KAP provides an experience of letting go, a time-out for a deeper experience of being, and a sense of newness and attunement. The emotional nature of ketamine work in our relaxing atmosphere tends to be positive and uplifting. Often there is a sense of relief from viewing oneself as a fully depressed person. Sessions tend to last about three hours with time for Integration of the experience and for full re-orientation. How We Work Based upon our experience and research with MDMA-assisted psychotherapy, we often work dyadically as a male/female team and always with a prescribing medical practitioner. We collaborate with outside therapists and psychiatrists and given our capabilities provide a full psychiatric/psychotherapy overview. We are the creators of The Ketamine Code of Ethics and are at the forefront of the KAP standard of care, having provided KAP to almost a thousand patients with many thousands of KAP experiences and Integration sessions. After review of your Intake materials and an initial Intake session in which we assess your suitability for KAP and inform you of your expected process, we schedule your fist KAP session. It is an imperative for us to build familiarity, trust, and connection with you prior to beginning KAP. Our Informed Consent document provides you with information about our process, and the safety and use of ketamine in our practice. What we treat, Who we treat, and What are our Outcomes What Depression, Anxiety, PTSD, OCD, Suicidality, Relationship Issues, Existential Distress, Substance Dependence if deemed appropriate. Who Individuals, Couples, Families, Adolescents over 14 years of age with accompanying Family Therapy. Outcomes We have published our data on 235 patients from our initial group. We are in the process of creating a much larger study of our work. The length of treatment varies with each person. We discuss our plan, its potential length, and costs with you as we get to know you and your response to KAP. It is common for a course of treatment to have 4 to 6 sessions over 2-6 months (Please don’t take this as an accurate estimate for your experience with us). When ready and appropriate, we monitor and prescribe for At-Home sessions with ketamine. This supports the in-office work and reduces your costs. KAP is a highly effective method, and we have a success rate of about 80% overall for a full course of treatment that is individualized to you. We use a wide variety of psychotherapy methodologies, from psychodynamic, to IFS, gestalt, systems theory, and many others. Methods are only as good as they fit the person and their situation. KAP Training The Ketamine Training Center invites you to its KAP Fundamentals training at Bishop’s Ranch in the splendor of the Dry Creek Valley of Sonoma, February 25 – March 1st, 2024. The Fundamentals Program is a community experiential journey of learning what KAP is truly about both personally and didactically. With Phil Wolfson, Julane Andries, Mark Braunstein, Heather Hart Kennedy Licia Sky, Bessel van der Kolk and more. For more information, go to TheKetamineTrainingCenter.com . News The latest updates from our team Dr. Phil Wolfson Featured in Oprah Daily Articles There are a series of articles featuring the work of Dr. Phil Wolfson that recently appeared in the Oprah Daily... MDMA and Life-Threatening Illness study KRF is pleased to announce Wolfson, Andries, et al’s study of the MAPS sponsored MDMA and Life Threatening Illness,... Read our Latest Paper Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP): Patient Demographics, Clinical Data and Outcomes in Three Large Practices... We’ve been named the best Bay Area Ketamine Clinic CTP/Phil Wolfson named by Double Blind online mag as a best Bay Area Ketamine Clinic! Read the article here Our View The Center offers our view of Transformational Psychotherapy—assisting individuals, couples and families towards healthy minds and healthy bodies in a setting that is gentle, safe, and creative of new and freer energy for life and connection. We cultivate awareness, imagination, and loving kindness using methods that utilize the best of mainstream psychology and psychiatry and of alternative methodologies. We are particularly focused on depression and trauma–past and present–and its alleviation. Learn More FAQs Questions are good. Answers are even better. How is KAP administered? We provide ketamine principally in both lozenge—sublingual-and intramuscular injection (IM) formats. Occasionally, we will provide intranasal ketamine-IN. We do not provide intravenous-IV administration and see no value to its use. We are an in-office provider and do not see a need for the traditional medical model. Great set and setting are a priority for us. We use the generally available, historically safe RS racemate, off-label. We see no need for the cumbersome and too expensive Spravato esketamine. Pleased to discuss with you. How long is each session? Intake and Integration sessions last one to one and a half hours. KAP sessions tend to last 2 and a half to 3 hours with time for recovery for safe departure. We encourage rides. Is everyone accepted for Ketamine treatment? We evaluate each application as received and decide on an Intake session if medically and psychiatrically appropriate. The Intake session is about your and our understanding of your suitability for KAP, evaluation of any obstacles to success such as medical issues, medications, dependency, etc., and an informed decision on your part to go ahead. More importantly it is about getting to know and appreciate each other. Is insurance accepted? There is no actual insurance coverage as yet for ketamine in any format other than for anesthesia and analgesia. As we are providing psychotherapy, we are able and adept at providing you with forms to submit to your insurer. You are asked to pay us directly at the time of your session. As insurers are highly variable in their reimbursement, we are unable to predict what you will be paid by them. We do our best to help you receive the best level of reimbursement possible. We are Outside Providers. Fees and Financial Considerations Fees are applied according to the schedule provided on this website. Fee reductions may be made at the discretion of the practitioner(s) at the time of intake going forward. CTP is part of Access to Care of the non-profit, donation based Ketamine Research Foundation. Your practitioner may find you qualified financially to receive this session-limited support. Please...