Ketamine Therapy for OCD | Obsession | Compulsion in Oakland & Berkeley

Understanding the Exhausting Cycle of OCD

  • Unwanted thoughts or urges keep running through your mind.

  • You ruminate and can’t stop thinking about something; you can’t make a decision and worrying gets you nowhere. 

  • You feel overwhelming pressure to do something, fearing something bad will happen if you don’t.

  • You know it’s not rational, and still you can’t stop.

  • There is a war between the logical part of your mind and the fear-based impulses.

  • Living with obsessive-compulsive disorder can feel overwhelming, especially when mainstream approaches hardly help.

How does Dr. Zeus treat OCD?

Treatment starts where you are. First we listen to your story. We learn what triggers your OCD response and make a plan. We design an experience using ketamine that will allow you to learn a new way of being.

Fear plays an important role in the development and maintenance of obsessions and compulsions. Ketamine therapy gets to the root of the problem by rewiring the fear response. In the safety of my therapy space, we intentionally activate the worries that underlie OCD and use ketamine to reprogram your nervous system’s response.

You learn to do this for yourself and receive a prescription to continue ketamine treatment at home on a schedule that fits your needs.

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Proven Results

Ketamine with therapy reduces intrusive thoughts

Published research

Doctors at Stanford and Columbia showed ketamine reduces intrusive thoughts in people with OCD.

The graph shows level of intrusive thoughts before ketamine treatment and up to one week later, on a scale of 0 (none) to 10 (constant).

Combining ketamine with therapy to intentionally trigger obsessive thoughts produces a greater and lasting effect.

Published research - Rodriguez et al, 2013
https://doi:10.1038/npp.2013.150

Published research - Rodriguez et al, 2016
https://doi:10.4088/JCP.15l10138

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