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.
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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.
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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
News
The latest updates from our team
Lucid News – Awakening a Broad and Critical Understanding of Ketamine
The Ketamine Research Foundation and its practitioner authors share our article for awakening a broad and critical...
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...
Our View
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 understand that fee reductions and financial support are not guaranteed, are limited by resources and practitioner availability, and should not be assumed when you apply to our program. As you look at fees with us, you will find comparatively that our program is the least expensive and most intensive over time.
Testimonials
Some reviews from patients who have been in our care
I wanted to say thank you to The Center for Transformational Psychotherapy for the healing work that you do. I believe that KAP should be the first life of defense for problems like anxiety and depression.
I think young people go into psychedelic states with more ease than adults because teens are closer to birth than death. And they have less fear in general, and are supposed to and want to experience novelty in life. I feel I am changing from this work
There was a positive change that happened inside me. The treatment made me go from ‘I don’t care about my life anymore’ to ‘I want to live.’ Thanks to the folks at The Center for Transformational Psychotherapy, I can share my story with the world and let everyone know that life’s worth living.
When I came across The Center for Transformational Psychotherapy and underwent the ketamine treatment, I felt hope and my spirits lift. I knew I was in good hands the moment I entered the office.