Ketamine Therapy for PTSD
(Big Trauma or small trauma)
in Oakland & Berkeley, CA
PTSD / Trauma / trauma
A stressful experience stays imprinted in your mind, intruding on the present, and continues to stress you out.
You can’t control it, bad memories keep popping up.
You develop negative beliefs — about yourself, other people, the world.
Your emotions are often negative — you have too much fear, anger or shame.
You are easily startled, irritable, impatient, hyper-vigilant, and often lash out.
You have trouble sleeping.
You feel detached from your emotions or your body; things seem distant and unreal.
Living with post-traumatic stress can feel overwhelming, especially when traditional approaches fail to provide relief.
How does ketamine therapy treat PTSD / Trauma?
Treatment starts where you are. First we listen to your story. You are always in control and you decide what to talk about and what pace to proceed.
When you feel ready, treatment focuses on addressing the fears that underlie your disordered eating. This may be fear of food, weight gain, judgment, or something else. We gently explore recent experiences and also the ones from long ago, when you started worrying about food. We design a new experience using ketamine that will allow you to learn a new way of being — reprograming your nervous system to feel calm, safe, and at ease.
Fear plays an important role in the development and maintenance of disordered eating. Ketamine therapy gets to the root of the problem by rewiring the fear. We walk together through the darkness and recover your light.
We do more than ketamine therapy. If you feel trapped in a cycle you can’t control, if intrusive thoughts keep running through your mind, then micro-dosing a peptide may quiet food noise and help you feel at peace.
Research and my personal experience show that people with long-standing patterns of disordered eating may finally recover using this combined approach.
Response to ketamine therapy in patients with a 10-year history of anorexia nervosa: Eating disorder scales show robust effect
Published research - Calabrese et al, 2022: Ketogenic diet and ketamine infusion treatment to target chronic persistent eating disorder psychopathology in anorexia nervosa.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s40519-022-01455-x
Real Dr. Zeus patient treated for eating disorder with ketamine-assisted psychotherapy: Anxiety scale shows rapid, robust, and persistent effect
Real Dr. Zeus patient treated for eating disorder with ketamine-assisted therapy: Trauma response scale shows rapid, robust, and persistent effect
