Group Ketamine Therapy in Brooklyn: September 19th–21st & 26th–28th
A Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) Group Retreat for Healers Experiencing Compassion Fatigue & Burnout
As a healer, you hold space for others—but who holds space for you? When compassion fatigue and burnout take over, it can feel like you've lost touch with your own inner healer, creativity, and joy.
This group retreat is designed to help you restore balance, process trauma, and reconnect with your sense of play and imagination through ketamine therapy, art therapy, somatic therapy, and sound healing — all in a supportive community setting.
Give yourself the care you so generously give to others.
What's Included:
- One Virtual Group Preparation Session – Set intentions and prepare for your journey (Date TBA)
- Three (or possibly four) In-Person Group KAP Sessions – Guided ketamine experiences (September 19th, 21st, 26th, and possibly 28th)
- Two Virtual Group Integration Sessions – Reflect, process, and integrate insights (Dates TBA)
In-Person Location:
- Grand Street Healing Project – A safe, nurturing space for holistic healing by the waterfront of Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Your Facilitators:
- Juanita Viera, Creative Arts Therapist
- Laura Foxx, Creative Arts Therapist
- Shannon Starr Mostafiz, Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner with Journey Clinical
Info Sessions:
- Virtual Info Session: Ketamine 101 (Date TBA)
Intake Process:
- Brief Application via Google Form
- Individual Therapy Intake – 60-minute virtual consultation with Juanita or Laura
- Individual Medical Intake – 30-minute virtual consultation with Shannon
📩 Application coming soon! 📩
- Check back soon for the link!
FAQ's:
WHO IS A HEALER? AM I A GOOD FIT FOR THIS GROUP?
If your life centers around holding space with or for people towards a more meaningful existence in our world, you are a healer! This group is appropriate for therapists, activists, doulas, movement workers, practitioners, creatives/artists, space holders, EMT’s, caretakers, brujas, community organizers, empaths, lawyers, nurses, school professionals, etc.
IS KETAMINE RIGHT FOR ME?
Ketamine is a safe and legal psychedelic being used as an innovative treatment for depression, PTSD, addiction and some forms of anxiety. Research indicates that 50-70% of patients prescribed ketamine for depression or anxiety experience a significant decrease in symptoms. As an adjunctive to therapy, ketamine serves as a catalyst for personal development by bolstering neuroplasticity while offering anti-anxiety and antidepressant properties. By helping form different neural pathways, ketamine offers fresh perspectives to old patterns, often likened to a mental cleanse.
WHAT REASONS WOULD RULE ME OUT FOR THERAPEUTIC KETAMINE?
There is a short list of conditions and life circumstances that would prevent someone from being a good candidate for this group. Our medical team will verify your eligibility during the medical intake before your admission to the group is confirmed with a down payment. In case you’re still curious, the following reasons are considered contraindications for ketamine use: active suicidal ideation, current ketamine abuse, uncontrolled hypertension, current life-threatening eating disorders, pregnancy, active states of mania or psychosis.
WHAT TYPE OF KETAMINE?
Your medical provider, Shannon Starr, will prescribe legal and safe ketamine doses for both of the in-person group medicine sessions. Ketamine in this form is administered using intramuscular injection by the prescriber. We’ll follow Shannon's recommendations for the medicine journeys; IM ketamine is an effective treatment protocol for various conditions.
WHAT IS THE COST?
The total cost of $2,700 includes: 1 virtual therapy intake with Juanita or Laura, 1 virtual medical intake with Shannon, 1 virtual group preparation session, 2 in-person group dosing sessions, and 2 virtual group integration sessions. This may be partially reimbursed with insurance; we can provide a superbill for prep and integration. We have two sliding scale spots at $2,100 available for financial assistance; please indicate your interest at the bottom of your application.
CAN I JUST ATTEND THE DOSING SESSIONS & SKIP THE VIRTUAL GROUPS?
No. We have intentionally chosen a therapeutic ketamine protocol to structure the schedule for this group. All components of the group process are considered prerequisites to enroll in the group. Ketamine works best therapeutically with preparation and integration therapy to fully absorb the benefits from the medicine in combination with therapy.