psychedelics
Psychedelic Experiences After Bereavement Improve Symptoms of Grief: The Influence of Emotional Breakthroughs and Challenging Experiences (Low, et al, 2025)
"Findings provide preliminary evidence that support the development of a psychedelic-assisted therapy protocol to target symptoms of grief. Psychedelic-assisted therapy might offer an alternative to current grief treatment options. "
ketamine
Unfolding States of Mind: A Dissociative-Psychedelic Model of Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy in Palliative Care (Gonçalves Campolina & Tuena de Oliveira, 2025)
Dissociative-psychedelic model offers a compassionate, pragmatic, theoretically grounded approach to relieving psychological & existential suffering in palliative care
ketamine
Spotlight: Efficacy and safety of ketamine maintenance therapy in treatment-resistant depression: A systematic review of treatment protocols and clinical outcomes (Al-Garni, et al, 2025)
"Concurrent psychotherapy improved treatment maintenance. Adverse events were generally mild to moderate... Ketamine maintenance therapy shows promise as a treatment option for TRD, with regular dosing schedules and early intervention associated with optimal outcomes."
at home ketamine
Spotlight: Ketamine Harm Reduction
Prevention & Treatment in Ketamine Use Disorder - When a medicine becomes a poison
ketamine
Spotlight: The Effectiveness of Combining Ketamine and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in Treating Major Depressive Disorder (2025)
" This study seeks to investigate the combined effectiveness of ketamine and CBT in the treatment of MDD, with the hypothesis that integrated treatment will outperform either modality administered alone."
cbt
Psychedelic Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: On Ketamine, Context, and Competencies in "Assisted-Psychotherapy”
There are many tools to help a psychotherapist help clients learn to speak the language of cognitive behavioral therapy, especially tools which may help facilitate therapeutic alliance, including, but not limited to telehealth.
