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Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy
Discover how Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy and a compassionate care team can help you build new habits, heal deeply, and experience lasting wellness. Thrive & Be Well, in collaboration with Real Holistic Doc, offers a state-wide, remote program to support all Missouri citizens in the comfort of their homes.
If you’ re reading this, chances are you’ ve already tried different paths to feel better. Maybe you’ ve lived with anxiety, depression, or the effects of trauma for years. Maybe you’ ve done your best with talk therapy, medications, or self-help, and you’ re still waiting for real relief. A new approach is helping thousands of people just like you experience deep psychological healing and long-term emotional wellness. It’ s called Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy, and when delivered by a trained, multidisciplinary care team, it can not only relieve distressful symptoms but can also support lasting positive change in your quality of life.
Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy( KAP) is an innovative treatment that uses low-dose Ketamine to support deep psychological processing and healing. Unlike conventional medications, Ketamine has the ability to create a relaxed, trance-like state while providing pain relief and disrupting typical thought patterns, offering a unique therapeutic advantage to accelerate personal transformation in a gentle and supportive way. Ketamine’ s medicinal effects last about 90 minutes and are utilized in carefully structured, restorative sessions designed to teach you best practices. This is paired with support as you learn how to integrate changes in your perspective and new insights for wellness into your lifestyle; this process assists you in feeling more present and joyful in your life. Ketamine doesn’ t mask symptoms. Instead, it can unlock the brain’ s capacity to form new connections and shift away from deeply ingrained patterns. With the guidance of expert therapeutic support, you can expect lasting improvements in functioning.
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Clients who have completed Thrive & Be Well’ s four-week program report improved moods, an ability to take on new challenges, form new healthy habits, and increase communication, resulting in improved quality of their relationships. Additionally, they experience a reduction in compulsive thoughts and behaviors, which boosts resilience and the capacity to adopt new strategies for living, ultimately leading to a lasting, positive transformation in various facets of their lives.
Why the Right Team Makes All the Difference
One of the most powerful aspects of the approach is the seasoned, Missouri-based, multidisciplinary team that has been working together for seven years. It will support you throughout the process. Healing doesn’ t happen in isolation— it happens with healthy relationships.
Amanda DiMartini, MA, LPC, of Thrive & Be Well, and Dr. Sergey Shealy-Sorin, MD, of Real Holistic Doc.
Meet the Team:
Amanda DiMartini, MA, LPC, has specialized in wellness-focused psychotherapy for 17 years, helping clients use personal strengths to overcome challenges. She offers support throughout KAP treatments by coaching clients through best practices and positive habit formation for ongoing wellness. Dr. Sergey Shealy-Sorin, MD, a Board-Certified Medical Doctor of 25 years, specializes in functional and regenerative medicine. He will medically screen you for Ketamine treatment suitability, customize your medication administration route( Nasal Spray and Troche), and provide an administration schedule tailored to optimize results in line with your lifestyle. Together, this team has provided KAP services to Missouri clients for three and a half years. Recognizing that each person has unique attributes and goals, the team honors this by being client-centered and responsive to each client’ s unique needs and lifestyle preferences, assuring the program works for you. The team wants to support your ongoing, lasting, and improved quality of life and offers multiple KAP Programs tailored to the patient.
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