Cognitive-behavioral therapy stresses the role of thinking in how we feel and what we do. It is based on the belief that thoughts, rather than events, cause our negative feelings. The therapist assists the client in identifying, testing the reality of, and correcting the dysfunctional beliefs underlying a problem. CBT has been clinically proven to help clients in a relatively short amount of time with a wide range of disorders, including depression and anxiety.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is the treatment most closely associated with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). The therapy combines elements of CBT to help with regulating emotion through distress, tolerance, and mindfulness. The goal of Dialectical Behavior Therapy is to alleviate the intense emotional pain associated with BPD.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a non-invasive, evidence-based psychotherapy treatment to alleviate the distress associated with traumatic memories. EMDR therapy facilitates processing of traumatic memories and other adverse life experience to bring these to an adaptive resolution. After successful treatment with EMDR therapy, affective distress is relieved, negative beliefs are reformulated, and physiological arousal is reduced.

Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is an approach to therapy that helps clients identify their emotions, learn to explore, and experience them, to understand them and then to manage them.

Internal Family Systems (IFS) is an approach to psychotherapy that identifies and addresses multiple sub-personalities or families within person’s mental system. IFS focuses on healing the wounded parts and restoring mental balance and harmony by changing the dynamics that create discord among the sub-personalities and the Self.

Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a method of therapy that works to engage the motivation of clients to change their behavior. Clients are encouraged to explore and confront their ambivalence. Therapists attempt to influence their clients to consider making changes, rather than non-defectively explore themselves. Motivational Interviewing is frequently used in cases of problem drinking or mild addictions.

Psychodynamic therapy, also known as insight-oriented therapy, evolved from Freudian psychoanalysis. Like adherents of psychoanalysis, psychodynamic therapists believe that bringing the unconscious into conscious awareness promotes insight and resolves conflict. But psychodynamic therapy more brief and less intensive than psychoanalysis and also focuses on the relationship between the therapist and the client, as a way to learn about how the client relates to everyone in their life.

Solution-focused therapy, sometimes called “brief therapy,” focuses on what clients would like to achieve through therapy rather than on their troubles or mental health issues. The therapist will help the client envision a desirable future, and then map out the small and large changes necessary for the client to undergo to realize their vision. The therapist will seize on any successes the client experiences, to encourage them to build on their strengths rather than dwell on their problems or limitations.

Today, we know that trauma is any unresolved autonomic nervous system response to an experience rather than an event itself. Peter Levine, developer of somatic experiencing discusses the physiological origin of trauma and how the method is an effective approach to release trauma from our nervous system.

Strength-based therapy is a type of positive psychotherapy and counseling that focuses more on your internal strengths and resourcefulness, and less on weaknesses, failures, and shortcomings. This focus sets up a positive mindset that helps you build on your best qualities, find your strengths, improve resilience and change worldview to one that is more positive. A positive attitude, in turn, can help your expectations of yourself and others become more achievable.

Ketamine is a dissociative anesthetic and has many different applications. Ketamine is widely used in veterinary and pediatric medicine and every major hospital around the world. Ketamine is one of the top 10 global medications and has been shown to be effective in treating
depression, anxiety, PTSD, eating disorder, end of life care and OCD.

Ketamine is being widely used ad IV but the method is not therapeutic. The therapeutic part of the KAP is human connection which is lost in IV form. Ketamine in therapy is used in the form of intramuscular, sublingual or intranasal. Ketamine quiets our default mode network in the brain and increases neuroplasticity. When therapy is partnered with ketamine, it helps the client to see more and expand more. Client gets
an intrinsic antidepressant effect.

Who is an appropriate client for KAP? If you are 18 years and older, looking for human connection and are suffering from Depression, Anxiety, Social anxiety, PTSD, OCD or eating disorder and haven’t found healing in other modalities, KAP might be a good alternative.