Ketamine-Assisted Therapy (KAT) offered in both the individual and group settings
Why group KAT?
It is part of our core mission to include community and connection as essential aspects of healing. Group KAT can provide a powerful container, particularly when looking to deepen work previously done in individual KAT sessions, and when seeking treatment within cohorts of shared background or shared mental-health conditions. There is an excellent body of evidence for the treatment of mental health conditions in the group context. Offering group KAT also allows us to offer treatment at a lower cost.
Our groups are carefully curated and held with experience and compassion. It is typically an edge for most people to enter into a shared group space for Ketamine-Assisted Therapy. Together, we cultivate a safe and vulnerable container, and honor that this process happens over time. We understand that it can be difficult to know for certain if the group environment will be a good fit. Group work requires the desire and ability to be in the presence of others' processes, while also tending to your own. In general, we have found that folks with severe social anxiety, newly discovered or unprocessed trauma, and diagnosed personality disorders are not served best by group Ketamine-Assisted Therapy.
Group Offerings
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Continuation Group
One group ketamine and one group integration session for those who have participated in previous Ketamine-Assisted Therapy at Riverbird. Expanded states of consciousness can shift our internal patterns and belief systems. The Continuation Group invites us to support each other in deepening our embodiment of these shifts.
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Longitudinal KAT Group
The Longitudinal KAT Group is a multiple-week series that provides a potent container for exploration and growth. It includes group ketamine and group integration sessions, individual integration sessions, and the possibility of self-guided ketamine sessions.
This group may be particularly helpful for individuals struggling with depression and/or anxiety; those interested in building community; those desiring the accountability, inspiration, reciprocity, diverse perspectives, interpersonal learning and cohesiveness that a safe group space has to offer.
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Healing for Healers
Healing for Healers is a series designed for professionals in the healing arts to support a deepening familiarity with the ketamine experience and the unique opportunity to explore this mind state in a group setting. This particular series invites individuals in the human services field to deepen their personal healing work, explore their role as healers, address burnout and compassion fatigue, and foster connection and community.
