Healing in Community, Not in Isolation
Struggling with depression, anxiety, or past trauma can feel isolating. Traditional therapy helps, but sometimes it is just not enough. Group ketamine therapy blends the medical benefits of ketamine with the power of group support. Instead of facing everything alone, you step into a space where others are showing up for themselves, too, and that changes everything.
At Zeam Health & Wellness, we create a safe space for people to explore, process, and grow together.
What Is Group Ketamine Therapy?
Group ketamine therapy is a mental health treatment that pairs low-dose ketamine with guided group sessions led by licensed therapists. These sessions allow multiple participants to explore their inner world while sitting alongside others who are walking a similar path. The ketamine softens mental defenses. The group provides reflection, safety, and insight.
Unlike individual therapy, where healing happens in private, this model brings people together to process, relate, and reflect. Each person has a unique experience, but the shared container creates trust and momentum that can amplify breakthroughs.
How the Therapy Works at Zeam
Step 1: Medical and Psychological Screening
Before joining a ketamine support group, you meet with our clinical team. We review your health history, current medications, and therapeutic goals. This screening ensures safety and determines whether group-based ketamine therapy is the right fit for your condition and personal comfort level.
Step 2: Preparation and Intention Setting
Healing begins well before the first dose. In your preparation sessions, you meet fellow group members, build rapport with your therapist, and begin to define what you hope to uncover or release. Intention setting creates a psychological anchor for the journey ahead.
Step 3: Dosing Sessions in Group
During the ketamine session, participants receive a dose via one of several routes: IV, intramuscular injection, lozenge, or nasal spray. Group members wear eye masks and headphones to encourage internal focus while remaining aware of the others around them. The environment is intentionally quiet, dim, and grounded.
Although everyone enters their own trance-like space, the shared container remains powerful. The knowledge that others are journeying nearby creates a sense of safety and presence.
Step 4: Group Integration
In the days that follow, the group meets to process insights and sensations. These sessions are structured, trauma-informed conversations designed to help you understand your experience, connect it to your story, and translate it into something lasting. Integration is what transforms an altered state into real emotional change.
Why Choose Group Instead of Going Solo?
You Are Seen and Reflected
One of the most profound aspects of ketamine-assisted group therapy is witnessing others and being witnessed. When another participant voices a realization that mirrors your own, the insight becomes real. The group reflects parts of your healing that you did not know needed attention.
You Move Faster
There is an accelerated quality to group healing. When you watch someone process grief, shame, or resistance, you begin to confront those same parts in yourself. Shared healing speeds up your own breakthroughs.
You Gain Ongoing Support
Groups often become small, temporary families. The bonds created through collective vulnerability tend to linger. People check in with each other, offer encouragement, and sometimes return for future integration work together.
You Save on Costs
Individual ketamine therapy, while powerful, can be cost-prohibitive. A ketamine support group provides access to the same medicine and expert facilitation at a lower price. At Zeam, we offer tiered programs that make care more accessible without sacrificing quality.
What Conditions Does It Help?
Because ketamine increases neuroplasticity, it opens a short window where thoughts, emotions, and behaviors become more malleable. When combined with group reflection, this change becomes easier to hold onto.
Research and real-world experience show that group ketamine therapy supports people dealing with:
Treatment-resistant depression
Generalized anxiety
PTSD and trauma
Substance use relapse prevention
Obsessive-compulsive patterns
Social disconnection or isolation
Chronic pain (including fibromyalgia and migraines)
Who Leads the Group?
All sessions at Zeam are led by licensed therapists trained in psychedelic integration and trauma-informed care. They know how to hold space, ask the right questions, and intervene if a participant begins to feel overwhelmed. During dosing, medical staff are also present to monitor safety.
Your group may also include two facilitators to support the emotional flow and ensure all participants are seen and supported.
What You Might Feel During the Session
Participants often describe a sensation of “floating,” “detaching,” or “entering a dream.” Time may stretch, and emotions may rise. Some see visuals or vivid memories, while others feel clarity or softness for the first time in years. Every experience is valid.
You may cry, laugh, or remain quiet. All of this is welcome.
After the effects wear off, you will return to a grounding environment and begin to gently reflect. The integration session may be later that day or in the days following, depending on your group’s format.
Is Group Ketamine Therapy Right for You?
This therapy can be deeply beneficial, but it is not for everyone. You may be a good candidate if:
You have tried traditional therapy or medication with limited success
You are open to exploring emotional experiences through altered states
You feel comfortable in a small, confidential group setting
You are committed to reflection and integration
It may not be ideal if you experience severe social anxiety, have a history of psychosis, or are uncomfortable sharing in group spaces. In those cases, we recommend exploring individual KAP first.
Real Change Requires Support
You do not have to carry everything by yourself. Trying to do so is often what keeps people stuck. Group ketamine therapy at Zeam Health & Wellness offers a different path. It is safe, structured, and built around connection.
If you have felt alone in your healing, this is your chance to do something that helps you feel part of something bigger. We will walk with you every step of the way.
Join a ketamine support group at Zeam. Reach out today to schedule your consultation and see if this journey is right for you.
