Client Experience Comparisons

Ketamine-Assisted Therapy vs Rewiring?

Shared Goals

Both Ketamine-Assisted Therapy and Anxiety Rewiring aim to help clients release long-held emotional distress, especially where other interventions have failed. Both work by facilitating access to usually inaccessible inner states, but the pathways and felt experiences differ significantly.

Some wounds might not heal just because we’ve talked it through.

Client Experiences with Ketamine-Assisted Therapy

IIn Ketamine Therapy, clients are administered a dose of ketamine, typically via lozenge, IV, or IM, in a clinical setting, often under the guidance of a therapist or sitter. The goal is to induce a non-ordinary state of consciousness, a dissociative experience that shifts the client out of their default identity and opens the door to novel emotional or cognitive insights..

A Ketamine-Assisted Therapy client typically experiences:

  • Detatchment from self and story: identity may feel fluid or dissolve altogether. Clients often report floating, observing themseves, or becoming one with their environment

  • Emotional flooding or breakthrough: with defenses down, buried emotions can rise quickly - grief, awe, clarity, love, or fear. These may resolve internally or surface post-session.

  • Symobolic or imaginal content: clients may encounter vivid visual landscapes, metaphoric entities, or dreamlike scenarios, sometimes deeply meaningful, other times disjointed or bizarre

  • Temporary cognitive disruption: time may stretch or collapse. language and sequencing may be difficult to acces. memories may serface in fragments or waves.

Sessions may be accompanied by music, eyeshades, and a quiet therapeutic container. Integration is often required after the experience, through journaling, talk therapy, or somatic practices, to convert emotional insight into functional change.

Make space for the story you’ve been carrying.

Client Takeaways in Ketamine-Assisted Therapy

Ketamine-Assisted Therapy excels when:

  • Clients feel emotionally blocked, shut down, or dissociated, and benefit from a state-shift that circumvents lymbic overwhelm and their usual coping strategies

  • Depression, suicidal ideation, or treatment-resistant anxiety have not responded to traditional interventions

  • Dissociation under safe conditions feels comforting rather than frightening

But it can stall if:

  • Clients begin to associated progress only with the altered state, potentially undermining their sense of agency in non-altered consciousness

  • There is discomfort with loss of control, ego disruption, or temporary identity diffusion, especially in trauma affected populations.

  • The client has poor integration support after the session, leading to symptoms that reflect Psychedelic Crisis, i.e. feelings of existential dread or loss of meaning, panic, confusion, or disorientation lasting beyond the drug’s half-life

“It was like watching myself dissolve into something much bigger. I touched a deep truth, but I needed more help assimilating it later.”

If you identify with this statement, you might benefit from the Anxiety Rewiring modality.

Anxiety Rewiring

Client Experiences with Anxiety Rewiring

Anxiety Rewiring achieves altered perspective without chemically altering consciousness. The shift comes from interntional distancing form emotional pain, guided inquiry, and gradual approach. There are no substances involved. No loss of ego, no immersion in altered reality. Instead, it centers on intuitive insight, accessed through a calm, structured, and emotionally distanced approach to painful memories.

An Anxiety Rewiring session will specifically include:

  • Identifying a target problematic emotional pattern

  • Revisiting an inciting moment for that pattern

  • Reducing your stress responses with imagined distance

  • Inviting clarity, compassion, and self-support

  • Gradually closing in on the root memory, gaining insight at every step

Client Takeaways in Anxiety Rewiring

In Anxiety Rewiring, clients engage with emotionally significant memories from an imagined distances without the use of psychedelics. At each stage, they’re invited to inquire of themselves what they need to know in order to move forward from the emotional and cognitive impact. The process is structured, internally guided, and emotionally grounded — centered on healing, not storytelling.

Clients often report:

  • Relief at being able to process without much, if any, verbal explanation

  • Spontaneous clarity about wht was needed to let the pain resolve

  • A lasting sense of emotional shift at every stage of rewire

“I didn’t argue with my fears. I learned from myself what was propping them up, and then I learned to let those things go.”

If you want to identify with this statement, you might benefit from the Anxiety Rewiring modality.