Feel Relief with Ketamine Therapy in Seattle
Trauma lives in your body. Heal it there.
We often hear from our clients that before they came to us, they tried almost every kind of therapy, but hadn’t experienced sustainable and noticeable improvements. Ketamine therapy provided real relief.
What is Ketamine Therapy?
Ketamine therapy is a clinically proven therapeutic option for treatment-resistant depression, as well as a powerful tool for:
Improving anxiety symptoms
Managing addictive behaviors
Shifting negative beliefs
Nervous system reset
Spiritual growth
We offer ketamine therapy to individuals for deeper systemic healing.
$780/3-hour ketamine session
Why Ketamine Therapy?
If you are struggling with anxiety or depression, ketamine therapy, also called ketamine-assisted therapy, is a powerful tool for exploring and integrating negative thought patterns, uncomfortable somatic experiences, stuck emotions, and internalized beliefs that may contribute to your anxiety or depression through a more spacious and compassionate lens.
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Ketamine has a pleasant dissociative effect, which means that when it’s combined with therapy, habitual emotional barriers and defenses take a backseat so that you can explore memories, emotions, and fears. For many, a ketamine therapy session feels like a deep nervous system reset; oftentimes, it’s both relaxing and insightful.
In this state of non-ordinary consciousness, you may have a “peak experience” or feel like you can tap into your intuition. This can help you access more healing wisdom to implement in your day-to-day life. During your journey, we connect with you through small somatic interventions (e.g., inviting you to share what’s happening in your body) to help you make meaning out of your experience and integrate the material that comes up.
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Ketamine therapy is a quick treatment and has few side effects.
Ketamine leads to neuroplasticity, meaning your brain will become more flexible and open to positive change.
You can stay on your prescribed medication while undergoing ketamine therapy.
Ketamine therapy has incredible success and remission rates of treatment-resistant depression and anxiety, among other trauma symptoms.
Ketamine makes it a little easier to explore challenging memories, emotions, and core material that may otherwise be left unaddressed
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To compassionately explore self-defeating patterns
To feel relief from treatment-resistant depression, anxiety, and grief
To connect with God, Spirit, your Higher Self, or the Universe
To surrender and trust in life’s unfolding
To be able to step into the “witness perspective”
To feel safe in your body
To receive clarity around purpose and meaning
To feel connected to your ancestors
To simply be curious and present to whatever arises
Note: While setting intentions is helpful, it’s also important to hold them lightly! Ketamine is a medicine with its own intelligence, and a psychedelic journey isn’t one that we can control (more on this in our sessions).
Experience real relief from depression and trauma-related symptoms with ketamine therapy.
What to Expect
Consultation Call & Intake
Your journey begins gently and collaboratively. Our first step is simply getting to know you, understanding what you’re seeking support for, and making sure ketamine therapy is a good fit.
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Have a complimentary consultation to explore your questions and share how ketamine therapy works.
If it feels right, we schedule a 60-minute intake session.
A rough treatment plan is outlined, including what therapy will look like and how many sessions may support you.
We talk through your history, your healing goals, and the challenges you’re currently navigating.
This step helps us understand who you are and how to support you in the most attuned, grounded way.
Connect with Your Therapist & Prescriber
Once we’ve decided to move forward with ketamine therapy, we shift into preparing your mind, body, and support system so you can enter the experience with clarity and confidence.
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You connect with a medical prescriber for a required medical intake.
You arrange this appointment and obtain the ketamine prescription before your first ketamine session.
We begin building the therapeutic container through EMDR, somatic work, grounding tools, and other preparation practices.
We explore your intentions, what to expect in the altered state, and how to prepare for the experience.
We discuss integration tools to help you make meaning of what arises.
Most people meet for 5–10 preparation sessions to build trust, regulation skills, and a strong foundation.
The Ketamine Therapy Session
Your ketamine session is held in a slow, intentional space designed to support your nervous system and allow the medicine to work meaningfully.
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We begin with grounding, intention setting, and a simple opening ritual to establish your set and setting.
You take sublingual ketamine and settle into the experience; you may talk at times, or you may turn inward.
We support you in staying connected to your body and emotional landscape throughout the journey.
You’re welcome to use an eye mask to reduce external stimulation and deepen the process.
As the experience winds down, we spend time reflecting on insights, sensations, or themes that arose.
Plan for the full session to take about three hours.
Each journey is unique, and the medicine supports neural healing regardless of what your session looks like
We generally recommend a minimum of three sessions, with six or more often creating the greatest and most lasting change
What Makes Ketamine Therapy Different?
Ketamine is a commonly used anesthetic in medical settings and has been included in the World Health Organization’s List of 100 Essential Medicines. In other words, it is very safe. It’s even used on premature babies. Ketamine has become a more common feature in therapy offices as a treatment for myriad symptoms related to trauma, including depression, anxiety, and substance abuse.
You may have heard about IV ketamine clinics. This is not what we do. Sona Collective offers ketamine therapy with the therapy and an emphasis on integration. The difference between ketamine-assisted therapy in our office and receiving a ketamine infusion at an IV clinic is that we use a holistic, compassionate, and trauma-informed approach, which focuses on repairing relational wounds and therapeutically treating the trauma itself to achieve deeper and longer-lasting healing.
In our office, ketamine is a tool (one of many in the toolbox!) that helps you access deeper parts of your psyche and understand core material in a safe and comfortable “set and setting,” which refers to the environment and context in which you take the medicine, your intention, and the integration that follows. Trauma-informed ketamine therapy works because we tailor your “set and setting” to your therapeutic needs and integrate the most important aspect of it all—the therapy.
Check out our blog to learn more about ketamine therapy.Ketamine Therapy FAQs
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We accept credit, debit, and HSA cards. We will request that you provide your payment information in a secure client portal before our intake so that we can charge you upon completion of our session. We will provide an invoice each time a payment is processed, and we are happy to provide a Superbill upon request.
To schedule a consultation call, please use this booking link.
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We’re an out-of-network provider, which means we do not bill your insurance company directly, but can provide a receipt for the sessions you paid for, called a Superbill, upon request. You can submit this to your insurance provider for any out-of-network benefits you may have, and they may issue a reimbursement check. We recommend contacting your insurance company before beginning therapy to find out what your out-of-network benefits are.
To schedule a consultation call, please use this booking link.
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It is hard to give a prescriptive recommendation to everyone, but we have found that ketamine therapy usually requires a minimum of three to six sessions to build momentum and create sufficient neuroplasticity. To create a safe and secure container (e.g., the therapeutic relationship), we recommend starting with at least five 50-minute sessions to build rapport with your therapist and begin the holistic treatment plan.
To schedule a consultation call, please use this booking link.
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Our Seattle office is located at 1811 Queen Anne Ave N # 201, Seattle, WA 98109.
We also offer virtual therapy throughout Washington, Oregon, and Colorado for clients who prefer online sessions.
To schedule a consultation call, please use this booking link.
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Schedule a complimentary consultation call where we’ll discuss what brings you to therapy and determine if our approach is the right fit. If it feels like a good match, we’ll schedule your 60-minute intake session to begin building your personalized treatment plan.
To schedule a consultation call, please use this booking link.
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$260/prep and integration sessions
$780/3-hour ketamine session
To schedule a consultation call, please use this booking link.
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Yes! We use a service called Thrizer to verify your out-of-network benefits before you start therapy. Simply enter your insurance information here, and Thrizer will provide a detailed breakdown of your coverage, including your deductible, out-of-network reimbursement rate, and estimated out-of-pocket costs.
This helps you understand exactly what your insurance will cover before your first session, so there are no surprises.
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We request at least five days’ advance notice for 180-minute ketamine sessions. In the event of a no-show or late cancelation, we will charge half the full amount in the event of a canceled 180-minute ketamine session.
To schedule a consultation call, please use this booking link.
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Yes, ketamine is FDA-approved and legal for medical use in the United States. It’s been safely used as an anesthetic for decades and is on the World Health Organization’s List of Essential Medicines. When prescribed by a licensed medical provider and used in a therapeutic setting like Sona Collective, ketamine-assisted therapy is completely legal and regulated.
To schedule a consultation call, please use this booking link.
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In our office, you will be taking sublingual ketamine, which means that you will be prescribed lozenges that dissolve in your mouth.
To schedule a consultation call, please use this booking link.
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