What Treatment Actually Looks Like

No mystery, no surprises — here is your path from first phone call to lasting relief.

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Step by Step

From Consultation to Success Plan

1. Free Consultation

A provider reviews your history, explains the science, and answers every question — by phone or in person. No referral needed for most patients.

2. Assessment & Plan

We select the protocol that fits — mood, pain, or hybrid — and coordinate with your existing providers where helpful.

3. Stabilization Phase

Your infusion series (six 40-minute mood infusions, or extended pain infusions) over 2–3 weeks, each administered by a CRNA in a private, low-stimulation room.

4. Tracking & Success Plan

Osmind tracks your outcomes in real time; your Success Plan meeting converts the neuroplastic window into lasting change. Boosters only as needed.

During a Session

What an Infusion Feels Like

You’ll settle into a private treatment room designed to be calm and quiet — dim light, comfortable recliner, minimal stimulation. Your CRNA starts the infusion and monitors you continuously. Most patients describe a dream-like, deeply restful state — dissociative, not psychedelic. Afterward you’ll rest briefly before your driver takes you home; plan to take the rest of the day off.

  • ✓Private room, continuous CRNA monitoring, anesthesia-level safety
  • ✓Dream-like and restful — most patients find it calming
  • ✓A driver is required after each infusion
  • ✓The neuroplastic window is strongest in the days after — we help you use it
treatment room

Healing happens in calm places. Our treatment rooms are built on that principle.

Step One

Your No-Cost Consultation

The process begins with a no-cost consultation. One of our qualified medical providers sits down with you to determine whether you are a good fit for therapy, or whether you have any contraindications that would put you at risk. Alongside your mental and physical health history, your provider explains how the infusion process works — and you have as much time as you need to ask questions and raise concerns.

You are welcome to bring a friend or family member, though it is not required. During treatment you may feel the need to talk things through, and it helps if your support system understands how neurotherapies work and why.

MSKIT® requires significant patient preparation and education. We believe every patient deserves a fair understanding of how infusion therapy works and accurate expectations for physiologic improvement — which is why you leave your consultation with our detailed treatment guides.

Step Two

Building Your Treatment Plan

If you are a candidate, our Care Team collaborates with you on a personalized plan. Promoting the right environment before, during, and after treatment is critical to reaching your goals. A few things we work through together:

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    Do you need a new counselor?
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    If you are being treated for chronic pain, do you need physical therapy?
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    Is it time to reevaluate your medications?
  4. 4
    Do you need to consider a change in your lifestyle or employment situation?
  5. 5
    Who will drive you to and from your infusions?

When you feel prepared to begin, our Patient Care Coordinator handles logistics with you — paperwork, payment, drivers, and schedules all sorted before Stabilization starts.

Your care team can include counselors, general physicians, psychiatrists, physical therapists for pain, and our anesthesia team. See treatment pricing and payment options.

Step Three

The Stabilization Phase

Stabilization refers to your initial series of infusions. Every infusion is delivered by a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist in a private treatment room with continuous vital-sign monitoring.

Mood & hybrid protocols

Six infusions over three weeks. Plan about an hour and a half door to door for a standard mood infusion appointment.

Acute pain protocol

Four infusions over two weeks. These infusions run longer — ask your provider about the length of your pain-focused sessions.

Your comfort

While your experience in the chair does not affect the outcome, our goal is to make your time there as comfortable as possible. We provide a reusable eye mask, water bottle, and headphones with music.

Preparing for your infusion

  1. 1
    Be well hydrated and nourished — it helps your provider start your IV and aids recovery. Food and liquids should stop two hours before treatment.
  2. 2
    Bring a blanket or other comfort items.
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    Keep the drive over light — pleasant conversation or soft music. Ask your driver to avoid difficult topics beforehand.

During your infusion

  1. 1
    You may have a trusted comfort person in the room. They should stay the whole time, sit quietly, avoid conversation, take no photos or video, and only hold your hand if you ask.
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    If you feel any discomfort, alert staff by removing your finger probe or pressing the call button beside your chair.
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    Five minutes before the infusion finishes, a ketamine tech silences an automatic alarm — that is what the beeps are. They return shortly to remove your IV and monitors.
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    After your first infusion, your provider comes in to confirm you were comfortable and answer questions. After that, you are free to leave once you can walk independently.

Stabilization is only the beginning. The work you do outside our treatment room — during and after this phase — is what carries you toward the long-term goal of self-maintenance.

Step Four

Maintenance and Your Success Plan

The rapid improvements seen with infusion therapy are only the halfway mark. Custom maintenance plans and booster infusions as needed are how rapid relief becomes sustained progress.

Our Post-Stabilization Success Plan meeting is personalized to your goals. It is designed to harness the neuroplastic changes from Stabilization — outlining next steps, optional boosters, educational resources, and connections to neurotherapy-educated providers.

How boosters work

Boosters are a safety net that help maintain plasticity while you optimize coping skills, environment, and medications. Most patients receive their first booster roughly 4 to 6 weeks after Stabilization, though frequency and timing are tailored to your response. The need for regular treatment diminishes as your practices and coping skills improve.

Infusion therapy enhances how your brain communicates, which lets you maximize the gains you make outside the treatment room. Psychotherapy — building coping skills, working through past trauma, optimizing daily habits — is markedly more effective after completing our process. Patients treated for chronic pain may also need physical therapy to rebuild muscle and flexibility.

Good mental and physical health is a process to achieve and a lifetime of practice. Improvement is incremental, not always linear, and comes from continuous effort and self-prioritization.

  • ✓You and your provider track progress in the Osmind app throughout treatment
  • ✓Every session begins with time to debrief, ask questions, and adjust care
  • ✓If you feel things start to slip, it may be time to schedule a booster

Common Questions

Ketamine Process FAQ

How long is a ketamine infusion appointment?

Plan about an hour and a half door to door for a standard mood infusion. Pain-focused infusions run longer — ask your provider about the length of yours. Your appointment includes time to recover in the chair, so there is no need to rush out.

How many infusions are in the Stabilization Phase?

The mood and mood/pain hybrid protocols consist of six infusions over three weeks. The acute pain protocol typically calls for four infusions over two weeks.

Do I need a driver?

Yes — arranging who will drive you to and from your infusions is part of building your treatment plan. Ketamine is active in your system for only 2 to 4 hours; beyond that you judge your own limits, and you will be ready to resume normal activities the next day.

Can someone stay in the room with me?

You can choose to have a trusted comfort person remain with you. If you do, it is important they stay for the entire treatment, sit quietly, avoid conversation, take no photos or video, and only hold your hand if you ask.

Do I have to eat or fast beforehand?

Being well hydrated and well nourished helps your provider start your IV more easily and aids recovery — but food and liquids should be discontinued two hours prior to treatment.

Do I need to feel dissociated for it to work?

No. Clinical benefit does not depend on feeling dissociated or having a hallucinogenic-type experience. The science supports the therapeutic effect being linked to what happens in the brain 24 to 48 hours after the infusion.

When will I notice a change?

Some patients notice subtle shifts within hours; others feel meaningful change gradually through the Stabilization Phase and beyond. There is no standardized timeline, as individual responses naturally differ.

Is ketamine safe?

Ketamine has been used safely in medicine since the 1970s and, unlike many anesthetics, does not suppress breathing or heart function. Here it is delivered intravenously at low, controlled doses by a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, in a private room with continuous vital-sign monitoring and dosing individualized to you.

Watch Before Your Visit

After Stabilization: Using the Neuroplastic Window Well

What to do after completing the Stabilization Phase of Minimally Stimulated Ketamine Infusion Therapy — using the neuroplastic window well.

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