Wendie Trubow, MD, MBA, IFMCPPresident at Five Journeys, Functional Medicine & Wellness Provider, Best Selling Author, Passionate Champion for Health

Methods of Integrating Ketamine Therapy

12 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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This YouTube conversation ("Methods of Integrating Ketamine Therapy") discusses practical approaches to integrating ketamine-assisted therapy into patients' lives. Speakers describe offering a "smorgasbord" of integration methods—creative tools like drawing, plus a strong focus on behavior change and establishing daily wellness habits (diet, exercise, relationships, sleep, hygiene)—and frame depression/anxiety and maladaptive behaviors as a self-reinforcing vicious cycle.

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So when you say integration, what does that mean? Well, it's different for each person and we like to offer a smorgasbord or a big menu of different styles of integration, different approaches to integration. For some people, making use of artwork like markers and paper and crayons and drawing the symbols of the download or the nugget that the person received, that's. That we think helps move them forward in their lives. A big part of it is behavior change and establishing new habits. Because obviously while wellness is something that isn't given, it's earned every day with the habits that we have in our lives. And people who are very impacted by depression and anxiety disorders often have a lot of targets that we need to address for their the way they live, diet, exercise, relationships, sleep, hygiene and so on.
Do you mean that it becomes a self fulfilling loop? That the depression and anxiety cause you to exhibit certain behaviors and then those behaviors reinforce the depression and anxiety which then makes it worse and so that you get stuck in a vicious circle essentially?
I think that's a great way to put it.