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Frequently Asked Questions

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What is a Kontainer?

A Kontainer is a metaphorical safe, physical, and sensory holding space in which true transformation and healing take place.

What is Ketamine-assisted Psychotherapy?

Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP) is a mental health treatment method that involves using ketamine’s trance-inducing and pain-relieving properties to help individuals work through various mental and emotional challenges.

What is an Entheogen?

​Entheogens are psychoactive substances that induce alterations in perception, mood, consciousness, cognition, or behavior for the purposes of engendering spiritual development or otherwise in sacred contexts.

What is Ketamine?

Your first image of ketamine might be of an illicit drug used and abused at raves. Yet ketamine has been safely and legally used for anesthesia in medical settings with adults, children, and animals for well over sixty years. Developed in 1960 to support surgical sedation, doctors inadvertently discovered ketamine’s antidepressant qualities when patients receiving ketamine reported significant mental health benefits. Since then, psychiatrists have prescribed ketamine intravenously or intramuscularly in higher doses and through the nose or under the tongue (via lozenge) in lower doses for the treatment of mental health conditions.

How does Ketamine work?

As a ‘dissociative’ medicine, ketamine disables the Default Mode Network (DMN) giving perspective without ego ( enhanced neural plasticity) which allows many patients to process emotional waves in a way that offers them helpful separation from emotional pain that might normally feel intolerable.

What is the Default Mode Network?

The default mode network (DMN) is functional brain activity across different regions at rest, when a person is being introspective or not interacting with the world (Buckner et al., 2008.  Recent research has begun to detect links between activity in the default mode network and mental disorders such as depression and schizophrenia. Furthermore, therapies like meditation have received attention for influencing activity in the default mode network, suggesting this may be part of their mechanism for improving well-being.

What are the Risks and Side Effects?

For over fifty years, ketamine has been safely used in hospital and office medical settings, and medically, the risks of ketamine use are quite low. There is a brief increase in blood pressure, and a very small percentage of individuals experience nausea. While the recreational use of ketamine can be addictive, problems with addiction have been rarely seen in the KAP setting due to its therapeutic use and limited access to the medicine. Like any other mind-altering experience that may lower your defenses, there are some emotional risks to ketamine. If difficult emotions emerge and you don’t have the support to contain them, you may feel worse. That is why we promote using KAP with a trained KAP therapist who you can trust to hold whatever experiences or emotions may arise within you.

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