Cozy UpWelcome to our cozy office where you can experience ketamine in a safe and comfortable space filled with plants and flowers, fuzzy blankets, musician curated music, and anything else you might need for your journey.
We stay with you to keep you safe and to help you along during the entire session. We are right next to you, literally, sitting next to you the whole time. We offer in office ketamine as an intramuscular (IM) injection for treating mental health, it is especially helpful for depression, anxiety, and PTSD. Therapists or anyone you would like with you are always welcome to join us and we can also travel to your therapist's office. 
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"I wouldn't be alive right now if it weren't for ketamine”
- Said by a patient, several times
Ketamine the Novelist*
*The newest treatment and the writer of a new story
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25 Years of UseFor almost 25 years ketamine has been used to help break through depression and anxiety. More recently it has been used to help with PTSD and there is emerging support for it's use with substance use and other mental health disorders.
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Helps Fast Ketamine often works quickly, people can start to feel better during the first session, and it is one of the medications that can help rapidly with suicidal thoughts.
Research suggests about 60% of people have a positive response to ketamine and it has been shown to be as effective as some antidepressants. ❈
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PsychotherapyKetamine is used as a medicine by itself or it can also be used in combination with therapy. Together, it creates a powerful synergy that can speed up the healing work you already do in therapy.
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How will you write your new, healing story?
Contact us for a free consultation
[email protected]
408-767-2337
The Nitty Gritty: Fees and Insurance
Evaluation and TherapyEvaluations may be covered by insurance, without insurance is $350.
Therapy or medication management may be covered by insurance, without insurance is $250. Ketamine Informed ConsentKetamine Informed Consent Form
The consent includes information about the ketamine process from beginning to end and side effects, risks, and benefits as well. |
Ketamine Sessions2 hour session $400
3 hour session $500 |
InsuranceUnfortunately, because ketamine is not approved by the FDA for mental health treatment, it is also not typically covered by insurance.
Separate appointments, not including the ketamine sessions, are usually covered by insurance. This includes the psychiatric evaluation, psychotherapy, or medication management appointments. We are In-network with Medicare
Aetna Anthem Blue Cross Cigna |
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What's Happening in my Brain?
We don't totally know why or how ketamine works. It is known to work in the brain by affecting the function of multiple neurotransmitters and ultimately ends up improving the function of those important neurotransmitters, reducing inflammation in the brain, growing new dendrites, and increasing neuroplasticity in the brain.
This means, the brain actually changes and improves its physical structure as well as how it functions after receiving ketamine. The same happens with psilocybin-see the image below for a map of this effect- and it also happens with antidepressants such as SSRI's, but is slower.
The overall effect is the potential to reduce mental health symptoms and emotional suffering through better brain structure and function. Some of these positive effects may be long lasting, sometimes they are short lived and some people may need ongoing treatment to maintain the positive effects. People can also have a spiritual experience from the psychedelic effects of ketamine. There's no right or wrong way to experience ketamine, but rather, to feel better and to be our true selves.
This means, the brain actually changes and improves its physical structure as well as how it functions after receiving ketamine. The same happens with psilocybin-see the image below for a map of this effect- and it also happens with antidepressants such as SSRI's, but is slower.
The overall effect is the potential to reduce mental health symptoms and emotional suffering through better brain structure and function. Some of these positive effects may be long lasting, sometimes they are short lived and some people may need ongoing treatment to maintain the positive effects. People can also have a spiritual experience from the psychedelic effects of ketamine. There's no right or wrong way to experience ketamine, but rather, to feel better and to be our true selves.
Visualization of the brain connections in the brain of a person on psilocybin (right) and the brain of a person not given psilocybin (left) showing higher connectivity and plasticity after psilocybin. From the Journal of the Royal Society Interface.
Light and Not so Light Reading
- How To Change Your Mind, Michael Pollan, Humans, psychedelics, and the potential for healing.
- Ketamine—50 years in use: from anesthesia to rapid antidepressant effects and neurobiological mechanisms.
- Brainfacts.org Listening to Ketamine
- Ketamine as an antidepressant: overview of its mechanisms of action and potential predictive biomarkers
- Ketamine and serotonergic psychedelics: An update on the mechanisms and biosignatures underlying rapid-acting antidepressant treatment
- Clinical use of ketamine in psychiatric disorders
- Single i.v. ketamine augmentation of newly initiated escitalopram for major depression: results from a randomized, placebo-controlled 4-week study
- Worth the trip: psychedelics as an emerging tool for psychotherapy.
- Ketamine exerts its sustained antidepressant effects via cell-type-specific regulation of Kcnq2
- Is (R)-ketamine a potential therapeutic agent for treatment-resistant depression with less detrimental side effects? A review of molecular mechanisms underlying ketamine and its enantiomers.
- Ketamine for treatment-resistant depression: recent developments and clinical applications.
- Repurposing Ketamine in Depression and Related Disorders: Can This Enigmatic Drug Achieve Success?
Gilroy Office
8339 CHURCH STREET, SUITE 114, GILROY, CA 95020
Phone 408-767-2337 Fax 415-376-4572
[email protected]
Gilroymentalhealth.com
Phone 408-767-2337 Fax 415-376-4572
[email protected]
Gilroymentalhealth.com