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ketamine Therapy in Houston
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What is
Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy?
This innovative approach combines the benefits of ketamine with the transformative elements of psychedelic-assisted therapy. Unlike traditional antidepressants, ketamine engages the brain's glutamate system and creates new neural pathways that can lead to rapid relief from treatment-resistant depression, anxiety, OCD, trauma, and eating disorders. In doing so, ketamine opens the door for deeper healing by preparing the brain for meaningful change, offering a level of transformation that other treatments often can't reach.
Beyond its impact on the brain, ketamine also softens the ego, bringing down defenses and allowing repressed memories, emotions, and traumas to emerge during therapy. With a brain primed for healing, careful preparation, expert guidance, and a safe, nurturing environment, ketamine therapy offers a unique opportunity for deep emotional processing and life-changing breakthroughs. It offers new hope for those worn down by treatments that only skim the surface, leaving the real work of healing unfinished.
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our approach to
Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy
At Houston Healing Collective, we understand what it takes for ketamine treatment to be successful. As certified psychedelic-assisted therapy providers (PATP), our extensive training and experience set us apart. Our approach to ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP) prioritizes medical safety, therapeutic set and setting, and quality preparation and integration throughout your healing journey.
You are never left alone during a treatment. We provide a safe, nurturing environment and a team dedicated to helping you navigate and integrate your experiences before, during, and after every journey. While ketamine alone offers some benefits, its effects are often short-lived without therapy. Therapeutic Integration is a crucial part of ketamine treatment, as it helps you explore, make sense of, and apply the insights gained during your sessions to your everyday life.
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We offer intramuscular (IM), intravenous (IV), and sublingual ketamine treatments. In addition to individual ketamine therapy, we offer couples ketamine therapy and ketamine retreats. Your treatment plan will include a medical intake with a physician, collaboration with your current providers, preparation sessions, medicine journeys, and integration therapy, and will be customized to meet your unique needs. Our goal is to help you break free from treatment-resistant symptoms and achieve deeper, lasting healing.
Would you benefit from KAP?
Ketamine offers new hope for those struggling with depression, especially when traditional treatments have failed. Studies have shown that 67% of individuals with treatment-resistant depression saw at least a 50% reduction in symptoms of depression and suicidal ideation following ketamine treatment. This rapid relief provides individuals with the opportunity to use ketamine-assisted psychotherapy to explore and process underlying issues, leading to deeper and more lasting relief.
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For clients with PTSD, ketamine therapy can be a transformative tool in breaking the cycle of trauma. Ketamine's effects on the brain help reduce hyperarousal and intrusive symptoms, making it easier to engage in deep trauma work during therapy sessions. Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy further facilitates the reprocessing of trauma narratives, fostering a profound sense of safety, healing, and empowerment.
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Ketamine therapy offers relief for clients struggling with anxiety and OCD by disrupting overactive neural pathways that fuel anxious thoughts and compulsive behaviors, allowing space for new perspectives and greater psychological and behavioral flexibility. This calming effect creates a window of opportunity to explore and address the root causes of anxiety and OCD in therapy, fostering awareness, resilience, and lasting change.
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Ketamine can be especially beneficial for clients with eating disorders, as its impact on neuroplasticity supports changes in rigid thought patterns and behaviors related to food, exercise, and body image. Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy helps process and heal underlying trauma and root causes of the eating disorder, and is also effective in treating many conditions that often co-occur with eating disorders, such as anxiety and OCD.
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Couples Ketamine Therapy
Ketamine lowers defenses and quiets egos, facilitates profound introspective experiences, and enhances neuroplasticity. These effects from the medicine, combined with guided couples therapy, helps partners communicate more authentically, break entrenched cycles, and foster deep understanding and connection that leads to meaningful, lasting change. KAP can help couples heal from trauma, rebuild trust, and enhance intimacy.
A New Type of Therapy
Studies exploring the benefits of ketamine for psychiatric treatments date back to 1973. Ketamine therapy is now recognized as a groundbreaking treatment for mental health conditions resistant to traditional therapies. Emerging psychedelic-assisted psychotherapies, including ketamine therapy, have shown to be more effective than traditional treatments due to their rapid healing effects on the brain, as well as their ability to facilitate profound emotional and psychological breakthroughs for those who need it most.
Ketamine + EMDR Intensives in Houston, Texas
the transformative benefits of EMDR and Ketamine
Ketamine therapy can bring unconscious material to the surface, shining a light on root issues that may have never been addressed in previous therapy. Ketamine also enhances neuroplasticity, making the brain more adaptable to change while improving mood. With new insights and a brain primed for healing, EMDR is then able to help you more effectively process and reframe distressing memories, emotions, and beliefs. This treatment combination allows for faster symptom relief, profound emotional breakthroughs, and meaningful change.
- Treatment planning with an experienced EMDR and KAP treatment team, including a comprehensive assessment and preparation
- Ketamine treatments (IM, IV, or sublingual) with integration therapy followed by EMDR sessions
- Discharge planning
- Contact and coordination with your current treatment providers
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Ketamine Therapy Retreat
transformational healing in community April 4-6, 2025
Whether you're navigating a life transitions, seeking relief from burnout, or longing for deeper healing from trauma, depression, & anxiety, our transformative retreats offer a space to reset, restore, and reconnect. Through ketamine therapy and integrative healing approaches, you'll embark on a journey toward lasting change, inner clarity, and renewed purpose. Step into a supportive community that fosters healing, growth, and self-discovery.
- Guidance from expert, certified psychedelic-assisted therapists
- Comprehensive medical intake & personalized dosing to meet your needs
- 2 m,edically monitored IM/IV ketamine treatments
- Group therapy to help you prepare for, navigate, & integrate your journeys
- Movements, sound healing, art, and other mind-body practices
- All overnight accommodations & meals
Upcoming retreats:
April 4-6, 2025, Chappell Hill, Texas: Pricing $1700-$1875
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We are experienced therapists and medical providers with training and expertise in psychedelic-assisted therapy, mental health, and trauma recovery. Your safety and well-being—both physical and psychological—are our top priorities. We go beyond surface level symptom relief, helping you find deep, lasting healing at the source of your pain. Through ketamine therapy, movement, sound, art, EMDR, and IFS-informed parts work, we guide you toward true transformation by reconnecting mind, body, and spirit. Our retreats foster community, connection, and integration, because true healing happens together.
The Ketamine Team
Your ketamine treatment team includes a psychedelically trained physician, registered nurse, and ketamine therapist. We partner with your current treatment providers to ensure a seamless and comprehensive approach to your care, supporting you through every step of your healing journey.
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The Treatment Process
- Overcoming depression, anxiety, & trauma
- Healing deep emotional wounds
- Gaining a deeper sense of clarity, purpose, connection, & direction
- Repairing trust, deepening understanding, & enhancing intimacy with your partner
- Exploring innovative treatments for mental well-being
You’ll book your free 30-minute discovery call where we'll answer all of your questions and discuss the best course of treatment to meet your unique healing needs.
step one: Discovery Call
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Each 2 hour medicine session includes medical check-ins and monitoring (for IV/IM treatments), grounding and intention setting, a 45-60 minute ketamine journey, and an immediate integration session. Many individuals choose to have additional integration sessions between ketamine treatments. Our retreats include group preparation, 2 IV/IM ketamine treatments, and group integration sessions.
step three: Preparation, Administration, and Integration
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step four: Continued Healing and Support
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Insurance and Fees
Houston Healing Collective is not in-network with any insurance panels. However, we will be able to provide you with an itemized receipt (called a superbill) that you can submit to insurance for potential reimbursement. Limited financial assistance through nonprofit partners is available for those in need.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How do you work with your clients?
Is it possible for me to fully recover from my eating disorder or heal my complex trauma? I feel like the work never ends.
I’m not sure about ketamine or psychedelics in general. Can I still work with you?
Can you guarantee that I’ll see results? I feel like I’ve tried everything already.
Do you take insurance?
What's your cancellation policy?
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Who do you work with?
How do you work with your clients?
Our work is designed to help individuals with a history of trauma, disordered eating and body image issues, perfectionism, and treatment-resistant depression and anxiety. We offer EMDR, parts work, DBT, eating disorder treatment, and ketamine-assisted psychotherapy for individuals, couples, families, and groups. All of our therapists work from an anti-diet, Health at Every Size (R) approach
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Who do you work with?
Our services for teens (12+) and adults include individual therapy, family and couples therapy, group therapy, ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, EMDR, and specialized intensives & ketamine retreats. Our comprehensive approach ensures that you receive the best possible care tailored to your unique journey.
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Is it possible for me to fully recover from my eating disorder or heal my complex trauma? I feel like the work never ends.
Yes! It’s possible to lead a more free and fulfilling life that honors your past and creates space for a brighter future. If your healing journey has ever felt disorganized or like it’s one step forward and two steps back, our innovative and specialized treatment options could likely be beneficial for you. Oftentimes therapy only scratches the surface, offering skills to help you survive, not thrive. We're committed to diving deep to help you heal your pain at the source. That's where true healing happens.
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I’m not sure about ketamine or psychedelics in general. Can I still work with you?
Absolutely! While Houston Healing Collective offers ketamine-assisted therapy, we recognize that it's not for everyone! We are trained to treat eating disorders, trauma and anxiety, and family conflict through diverse therapy modalities, including EMDR & DBT, allowing us to find a treatment plan that works for you and your family.
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Can you guarantee that I’ll see results? I feel like I’ve tried everything already.
We understand your frustration with your journey so far and are here to honor your experience. That said, there isn’t a guarantee of what will or won't work for you. Our biggest intention with building your care plan is to make sure you have flexibility and fluidity as we determine which method(s) are the most aligned for you or your loved one.
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I’ve never been part of a community or group while receiving care before. What can I expect?
While it might seem counterintuitive to involve strangers in your healing journey—especially if you’ve worked one-on-one with care providers in the past—our clients often see faster, more effective results when incorporating our groups and retreats. This is because much of the depression, anxiety, and shame you’ve experienced in the past has taken place in solitude. But at Houston Healing Collective, we believe that true healing happens in relationships and in community.
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Do you take insurance?
Houston Healing Collective is not in-network with any insurance panels. However, we will be able to provide you with an itemized receipt (called a superbill) that you can submit to insurance for potential reimbursement. Through our resources and partnerships with various organizations, we are able to offer financial aid, payment plans, and reduced rate services.
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What's your cancellation policy?
We have a 24 hour cancellation policy for individual, family, & couples therapy and a 48 hour cancellation policy for groups & ketamine-assisted psychotherapy. Any sessions cancelled within 24 and 48 hours, respectively, will be charged a full session rate.
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6300 West Loop S, Suite 525
Bellaire, Texas 77401
