Age-appropriate ketamine sessions designed to support younger clients with thoughtful and precise care, guidance, and integration.
If your child is struggling with depression, anxiety, trauma, OCD-related behaviors, eating disorders, or suicidal thoughts, ketamine therapy and ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP) may offer a supportive next step.
Ketamine offers fast-acting support for adolescents and young adults facing serious mental health challenges, often providing relief much faster than traditional antidepressants. This can be especially meaningful for those experiencing acute distress, trauma, or treatment-resistant symptoms.
For adolescents, this approach can help reduce daily symptom burden, lessen reliance on medication alone, improve engagement with talk therapy, and support healthier functioning for both the individual and the family as a whole.
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.
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.
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:
At the end of your session you can stay and relax or continue on with personal integration time for as long as you need. When you’re ready to leave, you will be picked up by your pre-arranged ride home.
The entire experience is smooth and comfortable.
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.
We’ll answer the questions: Is ketamine a good fit for my child and our family? What are the next steps? If your child is a potential candidate, we will provide an overview of our process and next steps and discuss any questions you may have.
