What a Medicine Day Is Like

Kenny picks you up at home and provides local transportation throughout the day. The ride can be quiet or conversational, with curated music, friendly connection, or deeper conversation depending on what helps you feel most at ease.

If you are using prescribed ketamine lozenges through Journey Clinical, he brings you directly to 200 Lights with your medication.

If you receive ketamine through an IV clinic or another qualified medical provider offering intramuscular treatment, Kenny takes you to that appointment. After the medical team has completed your treatment and cleared you to leave, he brings you to 200 Lights for the therapeutic portion of your day.

When your medicine experience takes place with us, we begin by slowing everything down.

We check in with what has happened since your last session, listen for what is present that day, and prepare the internal ground for the experience. This might include intention-setting, IFS or parts work, attachment-focused work, or simply helping your nervous system settle enough to feel safe, supported, and receptive.

We don't force an agenda onto the medicine. We create the conditions for you to meet what is there.

For clients using prescribed lozenges, you take your medication exactly as directed by your prescriber, including the prescribed swish-and-spit process. Kenny helps keep track of the timing outlined by your medical provider, while I assess your blood pressure before the medicine begins - a standard safety requirement - and remain closely attentive to your emotional and physical experience throughout.

As the medicine begins to take effect, you may feel relaxed, light, distant from your body, or as though your usual way of thinking has temporarily loosened. You might also feel strange, nauseated, uncertain, or briefly afraid. I stay with you through all of it, helping you orient, settle, and remember that you are safe and cared for.

The room is arranged for comfort: a soft, deeply comfortable couch, supportive cushions, blankets and a weighted blanket, an eye mask, curated music, fans, cool washcloths, water, light snacks for afterward, aromatherapy when desired, easy restroom access, and what we may need if nausea arises.

Some people become quiet and inward. Some want a reassuring voice or hand nearby. Some begin talking while still within the experience, and others wait until they are returning. There is no correct way to do it.

Ketamine can temporarily soften the mind's familiar patterns and create more space around thoughts, emotions, and memories.

Some people notice relief from depression, anxiety, or emotional flatness. Some experience a wider, almost bird's-eye view of their lives. Connections that have remained intellectually understood for years may suddenly feel clearer or become emotionally real in a different way.

The experience may also create room to be with grief, relationship pain, protective patterns, or long-held beliefs without becoming as overwhelmed by them.

Not every medicine day is dramatic, blissful, or immediately understandable. With ketamine, we are attending to the transformation created by the whole series - not asking any single experience to do all the work.

As the medicine recedes, you may feel peaceful, open, joyful, tender, disoriented, thoughtful, or simply tired. Whatever is present becomes our starting point.

We take our time. You can talk, rest, have water or a snack, or begin putting words to what happened. I may jot down images, phrases, insights, and themes you share so they are not lost. We can return to them later that day or carry them forward into the preparation and integration work surrounding your next experience.

You do not have to understand everything before you leave.

When you feel complete and ready for the day to close, Kenny drives you home.

We encourage you to leave the rest of the evening quiet and lightly structured: dinner already prepared or easily ordered, a warm shower, clean comfortable clothes, and as few responsibilities as possible.

You may feel blissful and free. You may continue thinking about something that arose. You may want to journal, listen to music, rest, or simply let the day settle without trying to turn it into a lesson.

If reflections continue to emerge afterward, you can share them with me via text, email, or even a voice note if that is helpful for you. I'll hold those threads and revisit them with you as we prepare for the next medicine day.