Unlock Your Potential With Ketamine Therapy for Depression
Achieve the depression breakthrough you’ve been waiting for. Mindbloom’s psychedelic therapy uses clinician-prescribed ketamine for depression treatment, which often leads to rapid, meaningful results after your initial sessions.
See if you’re a candidate today.
Unlock Your Potential With Ketamine Therapy for Depression
Achieve the depression breakthrough you’ve been waiting for. Mindbloom’s psychedelic therapy uses clinician-prescribed ketamine for depression treatment, which often leads to rapid, meaningful results after your initial sessions.
See if you’re a candidate today.
Benefits of Mindbloom for Depression Treatment
Safe
Ketamine has been an FDA-approved anesthetic since 1970, is used safely as an off-label prescription for depression treatment, as well as anxiety, PTSD, OCD, and other diagnoses. It’s well tolerated and used with patients from young children to seniors.
Legal
Ketamine is the only clinician-prescribed psychedelic medicine. Mindbloom’s licensed clinicians are highly qualified to prescribe and provide a therapeutic environment using ketamine as a treatment for depression and anxiety.
Effective
Over 85% of clients with depression or anxiety report improvement in symptoms after four sessions with Mindbloom. Our therapeutic program helps produce rapid outcomes from beginning to end.
Learn more about Ketamine as an effective treatment for depression.
Convenient
Mindbloom’s ketamine therapy is fully virtual! Enjoy your therapeutic journey in comfort and safety, wherever you are, assisted by our expert psychedelic medicine guides and clinicians.
Please review the important safety information on our website for more information about the potential risks and side effects of ketamine
Why Ketamine is Effective for Depression Treatment
It’s Rapidly Effective
Conventional antidepressants can take weeks to months to become effective. Ketamine’s benefits often begin to appear within hours, and clinical trials with ketamine have shown peak mood elevation about 24-36 hours after treatment, continuing to have a lasting effect throughout the week.
You Don’t Have to Take it Every Day
Unlike other psychiatric medications that are typically taken daily, ketamine treatments are far less frequent, which results in far fewer side effects. Our clients often begin with weekly administration during their initial four-session program and then transition to less frequent sessions in subsequent programs.
It can promote awareness for new perspectives with enhanced neuroplasticity
One of the many benefits of the guided ketamine experience is to create a psychedelic, or “mind-revealing,” state of consciousness in order to facilitate lasting, meaningful personal growth and transformation.
The biological and neurochemical basis of ketamine creates an ideal state for making powerful, positive changes in your life. The actions and behaviors you take can be received more fully, and settle in more naturally, through the neuroplastic state ketamine induces.
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FAQ
What is the neuroscience behind ketamine therapy for depression disorders and symptoms?
We know that ketamine modulates additional receptor types, but the glutamate receptors seem to play the most important role in ketamine’s ability to treat depression and anxiety.
Neurons have a number of different binding sites for glutamate, but when it comes to ketamine, two are of particular interest: the NMDA receptor and the AMPA receptor.
By increasing the level of glutamate transmission while also shifting the balance of glutamate activation from NMDA to AMPA receptors, ketamine rapidly upregulates neuronal production and release of BDNF (brain-derived neurotrophic factor). Aptly called fertilizer for the brain, BDNF is a protein that helps promote the growth, maintenance, and survival of neurons—in other words, it enhances neuroplasticity.
Read more on the neuroscience of ketamine.
Can I use ketamine for anxiety treatment if I’m on other anti-anxiety or antidepressant medications?
The answer is often yes. Each person’s health profile is unique, and during your video consultation, a clinician will work with you to determine the best treatment plan based on your evaluation and health history. Some medications are contraindicated with ketamine, so please be sure to walk through your current medications with your clinician.
Some Mindbloom clients have been able to safely taper off their anti-anxiety or antidepressant medications under the close supervision of their existing psychiatric providers, following improvements from ketamine therapy.
Which other conditions / diagnoses is ketamine-assisted therapy used to treat?
In addition to ketamine for anxiety, ketamine therapy is backed by research and used by Mindbloom to treat depression.
Ketamine has also been used successfully to treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), OCD, chronic pain, and is an emerging treatment for other diagnoses.
Is ketamine therapy for depression safe?
Ketamine therapy has an excellent safety record.
Mindbloom’s clinical team and board of expert advisors have decades of experience in psychiatry, psychedelic research, and ketamine treatment. The clinical protocols that they’ve implemented ensure that we’re providing safe and science-backed treatment for all of our clients.
Our expert clinicians are licensed, and Mindbloom Guides are equipped with experience and training to lead you safely through the entirety of your psychedelic therapy experience.
Mindbloom has helped hundreds of clients achieve positive outcomes through ketamine therapy.
How long will it take to see results or outcomes from my treatment?
Treatment outcomes are unique to each individual. However, ketamine treatment can be effective within hours, and some clients report positive outcomes after their first session. A small percentage can achieve lifelong results after initial sessions.
To achieve lasting outcomes, we recommend our clients play an active role in their treatment and work closely with their clinician and guide to integrate the benefits of treatment into their day-to-day lives.
Is ketamine therapy legal?
Using ketamine for depression treatment is 100% legal.
Currently, ketamine is the only legally prescribable psychedelic medicine available, and is available for off-label use for diagnoses like depression. Ketamine prescriptions are given exclusively through Mindbloom’s licensed clinicians.
Learn more about the psychedelic medicine pipeline, and current clinical trials leading to advancements in the field of psychedelic therapy.
How do I know ketamine therapy is right for my depression?
Mindbloom guides you every step of the way.
You begin with our online candidate assessment, to determine if ketamine therapy is right for your depression treatment.
If you decide ketamine therapy aligns with your mental health goals, you’ll sign up and receive a video consult and psychiatric evaluation with a licensed clinician.
These resources will ensure that you achieve the best possible outcome for your depression treatment, which means a brighter future ahead.
How does ketamine for depression work?
Ketamine therapy helps you facilitate an increased capacity for enhanced thought patterns, assisting in deconstructing old patterns and behaviors, and does so by enhancing your brain’s neuroplasticity — the ability to adapt and respond appropriately to its own activity.
For individuals with depression, neuroplasticity is diminshed by chronic stress, anxiety, and other depression-related symptoms.
Learn more about ketamine’s positive effects, and ketamine therapy’s lasting transformation for those with depression.