Sample 8-Step Treatment Plan (About 4-6 weeks)

Step 1: Medical Intake Session (Individual)
The first step is to complete a psychiatric medical intake, which will be carefully reviewed by Harvest’s clinical and therapeutic team. With your wholeness team, you’ll review your medical history, treatment goals, and learn more about how ketamine works.

Step 2: Preparatory Session (Individual or Group)
Preparation sessions are essential for addressing concerns, clarifying the process, intention setting, and therapeutic prep before your first psychedelic experience.

Step: 3 Ketamine Journey 1 (Individual or Group)
The initial journey aims introduce a gentle sense of the ketamine experience, explore ways of navigating the space, experience a sense of ego loosening, learn how to transition after the journey and bring awareness to whatever arose during the experience.

Step 4: Integration Session 1 (Individual or Group)
Ketamine creates temporary changes in the brain that open a period of increased neuroplasticity that neuroscientists call the social reward learning critical period. Integration sessions are an integral part of taking advantage of the increased neuroplasticity to creatively explore insights gained from the journey and actualize new ways of being in the world.

Step 5: Ketamine Journey 2 (Individual or Group)
Your second journey will explore a more immersive experience moving from ego loosening to ego dissolution. This expanded state of consciousness is the space beyond our carefully constructed and often protected personalities – who we are beneath the stories that we or others tell ourselves. In this state, we have more capacity to explore disconcerting or challenging areas, gain awareness, access new insights, and shift our perspectives, which can then translate to behavior changes and transformational growth and healing.

Step 6: Integration Session 2 (Individual or Group)
In your second integration, you continue to explore your journey experience and what you’re noticing in your daily life. Thanks to the neuroplasticity and social reward learning critical period, you may experience an increased sense of movement, ease, and well-being and less of a reactive state in typically challenging experiences.

Step 7: Ketamine Journey 3 (Individual or Group)
By the third ketamine session, you will likely deepen your journey experience with an increasing sense of familiarity with the ketamine space. This growing sense of trust in yourself to navigate this space can open additional insights, awareness and capacity for positive growth.

Step 8: Integration Session 3 (Individual or Group)
As one of ketamine’s unique benefits is a stacking effect, journey and integration sessions tend to build upon one another and provide a cumulative therapeutic benefit. The third integration session is a good time to review the previous journeys and explore their effect on strengthening new and more adaptive ways of thinking and being in the world. You’ll also work with your Wholeness guide to determine any changes to your treatment plan, such as moving into group sessions if you have not already.

Follow-Up Treatment Options