Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy in Palm Beach County, with Heather Scholnicoff, LMHC. A 16-session protocol pairing medicine sessions with the integration work that makes them stick.
Some people arrive here after years of good therapy. They understand their history. They can explain exactly why they are the way they are. And none of it has moved the thing that actually hurts.
Others arrive after a shelf of medications that either did nothing or cost more than they gave.
If that is you, it is worth saying clearly: that is not a personal failure, and it does not mean you are beyond help. Depression and trauma that resist treatment are a well-recognised clinical reality, not evidence that you did it wrong. Sometimes the conditions have simply never been right for the work to land.
Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy is one way of changing those conditions.
Ketamine is a medicine that has been used safely in medical settings for decades. Given carefully under medical supervision, it appears to briefly increase neuroplasticity, the brain's capacity to form new connections, and to loosen the grip of rigid, well-worn patterns of thought.
That opening is temporary. It is also the point. The medicine does not do the healing. The therapy done inside that window is what creates lasting change, which is why every medicine session in this protocol is paired with a dedicated integration session within 24 to 48 hours, while things are still moveable.
Said plainly, because you deserve accuracy. Using ketamine to treat depression, anxiety or PTSD is an off-label use. Off-label prescribing is legal and common throughout medicine, but it is not an FDA-approved indication for this purpose.
Nobody can promise you a result. What is offered here is careful screening, a structured process, and real therapeutic support around it. If KAP is not appropriate for you, you will be told so.
Structured so the work has somewhere to go, rather than stopping the moment the medicine wears off.
90 minutes. Medical and psychological assessment, intention setting, safety planning, and building the grounding skills you will use throughout.
Eight pairs, sixteen sessions. Each 2.5-hour medicine session is followed within 24 to 48 hours by a 50 to 60 minute integration session.
50 to 60 minutes. Drawing together what came out of all eight journeys, reviewing what has actually changed, and building the plan for afterwards.
A medical organisation specialising in ketamine-assisted therapy. Their clinicians decide whether you are medically eligible, build your treatment plan, prescribe the medicine and monitor your outcomes.
A Licensed Mental Health Counselor providing the psychotherapy: preparing you, holding the medicine sessions, and doing the integration work that turns an experience into change.
This is the question to be precise about. Ketamine itself is FDA approved as an anaesthetic, and has been used safely in medicine for decades. Using it to treat depression, anxiety or PTSD is an off-label use. Off-label prescribing is legal, common and well established across medicine, but it is not the same as an FDA-approved indication and nobody should tell you otherwise.
A related medicine, esketamine, is FDA approved under the brand name Spravato for treatment-resistant depression. That is a different medicine, a different route, and is not what is offered here.
Research suggests ketamine temporarily increases neuroplasticity, the brain's ability to form new connections, and briefly loosens rigid patterns of thought. Many people describe some distance from the usual grip of their own thinking.
That state is a window, not a cure. What matters is the therapeutic work done inside it, which is why every medicine session here is paired with an integration session.
The eligibility call is free, fifteen minutes, and carries no obligation. You describe what you have already tried, and you get an honest answer about whether this is worth pursuing. If it is not right for you, you will be told, and pointed somewhere better.
There is no wrong door. If a different pathway suits you better, Heather will say so.
A half day outdoors, for when your body has not caught up with what you understand.
Regular sessions walking side by side, instead of across a desk.
In person or virtual, anywhere in Florida. Insurance accepted.