Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy
We invite you to experience a transformative group led by a licensed mental health therapist to support an improvement in your mental health.
Please join us at the GREENHOUSE at Secret Garden to experience a healing innovative therapeutic approach using the legal, safe, and gentle medicine of Ketamine to engage in a transformative therapeutic group experience.
This intimate group of four participants will be supportively led by Michelle Gutierrez, a licensed mental health therapist combining the use of the medication ketamine with traditional psychotherapy techniques in a safe and supportive setting.
Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) is a holistic modality that is used as a complement to psychotherapy to help eligible participants experience a breakthrough in your mental health.
What is Ketamine?
Ketamine is a legal, safe and effective medicine used to treat a variety of mental health conditions, including depression, anxiety and PTSD.
Ketamine has a rapidly-acting antidepressant and mood-enhancing effect, which will last for approximately 45 minutes.
The KAP Process
Meet your Facilitator:
Michelle Gutierrez
Michelle Gutierrez, LMFT 120309 (she/her/ella) is a bilingual/bicultural Spanish speaking therapist with an extensive history working with diverse, multicultural populations in a social justice framework.
Michelle believes we are all here to heal something and there are many avenues to healing. Michelle uses a variety of approaches, including EMDR, Brainspotting, Internal Family Systems (IFS), CBT, Psychedelic Harm Reduction and Integration, Ketamine Assisted Therapy (KAP), and talk therapy. She has 15 years experience providing therapy. She values knowing your spiritual and cultural beliefs and honoring them to support your healing process.
(510) 871-4051
Let’s get down to the details
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You will be in a comfortable and safe ADA accessible space where music specially curated to provide a gentle support to your journey will be played. Lighting, scent, temperature and other sensory experiences will be curated to your preferences and needs.
Read More about our commitment to addressing Access Needs at GREENHOUSE here
Personal eye shades will be offered to enable a deeper experience with less external distractions.
Offerings: Tea and water, journals, eye-shades, soft mats to lay on, blankets, etc.
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The cost per person is as follows:
-Three 50 min preparation sessions at $150 each: $450
-1 three hour medicine session: $375
-1 50 min integration session: $150
50-minute medical intake via Journey Clinical: $250
Ketamine prescription – $97
Total Investment: $1,322
Please let us know if you have any questions or need any support with any of these steps.
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Insurance is an option. Please read Journey Clinical’s website on how insurance may be accepted:
https://journeyclinical.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/28002696219028-Insurance-FAQs
Payment can be in the form of zelle or credit card.
Michelle accepts Care Credit, a no-interest credit card as long as you pay the balance within the agreed upon time. www.carecredit.com
Michelle also accept all credit cards through Ivy Pay https://www.talktoivy.com/ivypay or my payment platform through Simple Practice.
Michelle can also provide a super bill for you to be reimbursed by your employer or insurance.
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The facilitator Michelle Gutierrez, LMFT partners with an organization called Journey Clinical. Michelle takes on the psychotherapy portion of the experience, while Journey Clinical’s medical team supports you on the prescription of the medicine. ww.journeyclinical.com
In order to receive the medicine, you will need to schedule a virtual initial evaluation with a clinician from the Journey Clinical medical team via zoom. They will go over your medical and psychiatric history with you, provide education on the treatment, and determine if you are eligible for KAP based on your medical and psychiatric history.
If Journey Clinical’s medical team determines that you are eligible for KAP, they will develop a personalized Ketamine prescription and outcome monitoring plan for you and mail you the medicine to your home.
*Please let us know if you already have ketamine prescribed by a qualified provider and do not need a prescription from Journey
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IPreparation sessions are like regular therapy sessions prior to the KAP dosing session. The goal of a preparation session is to align on the process and set intentions for our KAP sessions together.
An integration session is key to all psychedelic journeys to help anchor any insights and bring whatever was gleaned into concrete reality. Together we will review the memories, thoughts, & insights that arose during your dosing session, and to bring closure to your group experience. We wil process verbally and externally symbolizing through journaling, drawing, and other means to ground oneself and work more fully with the material from the journey itself. Michelle will be an ally in this endeavor and help facilitate this process with you.
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Connection with Self at a deeper level than typically available, and this is reported to be enduring by many people.
Group bonding has been a feature of the KAP group.
Group cohesion and relationship building with like minded people is a nice natural occurrence.
Relationships with like minded people are built
Shared experience of journeying together.
Shift in perspective and healing
