Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy for Postpartum Depression

This article originally appeared on Glamour.com written by Melissa Whippo, LCSW and Juli Fraga

ELEVATEHER Ketamine Therapy in Santa Barbara is dedicated to focus on women’s mental health. Here is an article that talks about ketamine assisted psychotherapy can be used to treat postpartum depression.

Samantha Lau, PMHNP-BC, FNP-BC, is a licensed, dual board certified psychiatric nurse practitioner, ketamine psychedelic therapist, and the CEO of ELEVATEHER, LLC, a concierge mental health care practice that provides result-driven psychiatric care and transformation for women who are ready to unveil their vulnerable-badass selves to feel better, work better and love better.

ELEVATHER, LLC does not provide or condone the use of illegal substances. Please note ketamine is the only legal, evidence based psychedelic in the U.S.

After her youngest child was born, Sam* struggled to find any joy in motherhood. “I felt like a ghost,” she says. At her lowest point Sam fantasized about getting in her car and leaving her baby forever. “When I couldn’t tell myself confidently that I wouldn’t get in the car and drive away and never come back, I told my partner and called psychiatrists, begging for help.”

Sam is far from the only mother who has felt depressed, anxious, and traumatized after giving birth. In most cases, a combination of psychotherapy, social support, and antidepressant medication (when needed) helps ease harrowing symptoms like extreme sadness and hopelessness—all signs of postpartum depression (PPD), the number one complication of pregnancy, which affects up to 17% of mothers.

But for some, PPD doesn’t completely vanish…

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