From ketamine to psychic readings, employers are thinking outside the box on mental health

What it is: “Ketamine is a dissociative anesthetic that blocks the transmission of pain signals in the brain. When you do ketamine therapy and you have a dissociative experience, you might have a hallucination, you will have an altered sense of perception. But that will lead to increased introspection and increase neuroplasticity in the brain. After an initial assessment, you will outline what your intentions and goals are for the experience. And then post-ketamine, there’s a therapy component while your brain is still in this active neuroplastic state. You can create new connections in the brain post-experience, and that’s where the learning happens.”  

Who it’s for: “Ketamine is useful for a variety of conditions: depression, anxiety, social adjustment disorder, and also substance abuse. We saw in our own patient data that 87% of people with PTSD had a reduction in their symptoms from a few ketamine sessions.”