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At Pala Medicine we help our clients take advantage of ketamine’s powerful psychedelic healing potential — which is known to play a key role in helping transform one’s life to be free from addiction, depression, PTSD, OCD, anxiety, suicidality, or chronic pain.
Is ketamine therapy a good fit for me?
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Ketamine infusion therapy and ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP) are exciting new treatment options providing relief for many who suffer from persistent mood and pain disorders.
Ketamine is a dissociative anesthetic that has been safely used in many clinical settings for decades. Its strong safety record allows us to provide services in a comfortable, home-like setting. This allows you to relax into a more intentional, and less medical, healing journey.
A new indication for an old medicine
When administered at doses much lower than used for anesthesia, ketamine has a psychedelic (mind-manifesting) effect, which is thought to play a key role in mind-body healing.
Ketamine therapy provides medically supervised and legal access to the power of the psychedelic healing.
How do we approach ketamine treatment?
Our holistic approach emphasizes effective preparation and on-going integration support to help you make the most of your healing journey.
Our approach is based on proven clinical protocols that achieve >70% success rate for improvement in symptoms related to treatment-resistant depression.
At Pala Medicine, we provide our clients with integrative ketamine treatment services in safe and comfortable spaces that support deep healing journeys.
Ketamine
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The psychedelic experience opens a window, a break in the clouds of depression, anxiety, or trauma, allowing the light in.
Patients frequently report gaining perspective into their issues that they couldn't access prior to treatment. This, in turn, assists in growth, healing, and improved mental health.
Ketamine therapy has been shown to help improve mobility, meaning less time lost to painful CRPS episodes and decreased reliance on pain killers.
Neuroplasticity extends the impacts of ketamine beyond the infusion of medicine itself, for lasting relief.
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Psychedelic journeys often lead to useful insights, profound awareness, or even mystical experiences -- all of which can play a key role in healing.
Integration coaching helps you make the most of these transformative experiences along your own life journey.
Help for burnout-related mental health challenges commonly faced by frontline workers in healthcare, first responders, and service members.
Find healing and community with other professionals who understand your situation.
Every journey begins with preparation. We will help you understand what to expect and how to get the most out of your time working with the medicine.
Every successful journey respects the importance of set and setting.
You’ll arrive well prepared and ready to drop into the session. We typically begin with some breathwork or a short meditation, as well as honoring the intentions you have set.
Your ketamine experience will take place in a comfortable, home-like setting.
During your journey, you may experience powerful insights or learn something deep and transformational.
Integration means bringing these experiences into your everyday life. We provide guidance on how to select, work with, and maintain integration practices as an essential part of your healing journey.
Integration activities are fun, energizing, and heart-opening — helping us stay connected to the healing journey experience.
Integration support from a certified coach is included with every ketamine treatment we provide, at no additional cost.
Transformation happens when we ‘do the work’ to become whole, happy beings.
It doesn’t happen overnight, and ‘the work’ is usually hard work. But it is meaningful work.
We provide tools and support for you to integrate new healthy habits and self-care rituals into your daily life. And in this way, you establish a pathway toward your own personal transformation, one building block at a time.
We are by your side throughout your ketamine treatment journey.
Pala Medicine is led by co-founders Dr. Suraiya Simi Rahman, MD and Rob Matthews.
We are caring and experienced professionals combining the most effective aspects of clinical and traditional approaches to healing.
Our mission is to provide safe and effective ketamine journeys that support healing and personal transformation.
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You’ve got options when you seek ketamine treatment.
Here’s why you should choose us.
Pala Medicine provides ketamine treatments that support your wellness goals and personal transformation. We are a woman and minority-owned small business.
Pala Medicine differs from the ‘ketamine-at-home’ programs in several key ways:
Our business model is quite different than at-home, which is why we can’t compete with their lower cost. Pala Medicine offers the highest quality care, providing safe and effective ketamine journeys for personal transformation. We hope you see the value of our approach!
Some people do have profoundly transformative experiences on their first journey, so it is possible, but not typical.
Psychedelic therapies, including those done with ketamine, are not a ‘silver bullet’. They don’t cure illnesses or treat diseases directly. The realizations, realignment to deep values, or any other transformative experience requires on-going work to integrate these insights into daily practice. We are here to support you in this way.
Most clients require 4-6 treatments to see substantial results. For some, these results are lasting, and for others they wane over time, sometimes requiring a ‘booster’ at some interval.
Working with a licensed therapist or psychiatrist is generally recommended, but is not always required, when receiving ketamine treatment.
Our standard ketamine infusion sessions are fully supported by a certified psychedelic integration coach to hold space and help maximize the benefits of your journey work. Many find this support to be sufficient or preferable to working in a more formal psychotherapy framework.
We also wholeheartedly endorse ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP) in many circumstances, so we can work with your current therapist, or we can help you select one from our network of psychedelically-aware and trained experts.
The choice is yours.
Dr. Rahman, a physician with 15+ years’ experience working with ketamine, will administer all intravenous (IV) and intra-muscular (IM) medicines. She will oversee sublingual administration done by the patient as well.
Your journey is also supported by an integration coach and psychedelic practitioner with 15+ years of work with plant medicines and non-ordinary states of consciousness.
Someone will be with you throughout your journey, holding space and able to support immediately should any need arise.
Ketamine is a clinically applied, off-label treatment for various chronic treatment-resistant mental health conditions. It has also shown efficacy in the treatment of certain kinds of complex pain issues.
Off-label use by a physician is 100% legal and very common, constituting up to one-third of all prescriptions for common drugs in the United States overall. (Source: National Library of Medicine)
Ketamine is a very common Schedule III medication that has long been used safely as an anesthetic and analgesic agent, and now, often effectively for the treatment of depression, alcoholism, substance dependencies, PTSD and other mental health issues.
A typical session is 90-120 minutes (1-1/2 to 2 hours)
Our individual sessions use the following format:
Integration is highly personal, so we help you explore a variety of effective techniques.
Our goal is to provide you with tools that support your ongoing wellbeing and growth, so the benefits of your healing journeys can be transformative, not transitory.
Yes, an integration coach will work with you after every ketamine infusion session, at no additional cost. However, if you want to take your journey even deeper, or want more on-going support, transformational life coaching is available.
From the chemical point of view, ketamine is not considered to be a ‘classical’ psychedelic substance, but it nevertheless produces powerful psychedelic effects for most people. Pala Medicine specializes in helping our clients harness the psychedelic benefits of ketamine journeys.
Ketamine is generally classified as a dissociative anesthetic. At the doses used for ketamine therapy, which are much lower than for anesthesia, dissociation means a sense of disconnecting from one’s ordinary reality and usual sense of self for a short time. This ‘non-ordinary’ state of consciousness is a critical part of how psychedelic medicine works.
Not at this time. However, as the FDA approves additional psychedelic medicines in the future, we will be able to provide related services legally. There are several Phase 3 clinical trials that may result in legal, clinical access to other psychedelic medicines in the next few years.
Pāla (Sanskrit पाल, ‘guardian’)
Refers to the pala mudra from yoga, two hands in a gesture of protection; a metaphor for our work creating safe and comfortable spaces for transformational journeys
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The science and art of psychedelic medicine
Evidence-based, physician-supervised ketamine healing journeys, supported by a certified integration coach.
We are located in Pasadena’s beautiful Playhouse District near Lake Avenue.
Serving the following communities within a short 20-minute drive
Northeast Los Angeles, San Fernando Valley (SFV), San Gabriel Valley (SGV), Pasadena, Glendale, Burbank, La Crescenta, La Cañada-Flintridge, Hollywood, Los Feliz, Silver Lake, Highland Park, Echo Park, Eagle Rock, South Pasadena, Altadena, San Marino, San Gabriel, Alhambra, Arcadia, Monrovia, Sierra Madre, Rosemead, Temple City, Azusa, Glendora, Covina, San Dimas, Baldwin Park, and Monterey Park.
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