Group Ketamine-Assisted Therapy
It is part of our core mission to include community and connection as essential aspects of healing. Group KAT can provide a powerful container, particularly when looking to deepen work previously done in individual KAT sessions, and when seeking treatment within cohorts of shared background or shared mental-health conditions. There is an excellent body of evidence for the treatment of mental health conditions in the group context. Offering group KAT also allows us to offer treatment at a lower cost.
Our groups are carefully curated and held with experience and compassion. It is typically an edge for most people to enter into a shared group space for Ketamine-Assisted Therapy. Together, we cultivate a safe and vulnerable container, and honor that this process happens over time. The group format offers a unique opportunity to explore our mutual humanity and dip into the collective consciousness with a sense of camaraderie; to support and be supported; to be held accountable and to pursue a mutual goal of healing and growth.
We understand that it can be difficult to know for certain if the group environment will be a good fit. Group work requires the desire and ability to be in the presence of others' processes, while also tending to your own. We are here to help you determine what path will meet your unique goals and needs best. This sometimes looks like a hybrid of both individual and group offerings.
Typical Group Offerings
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Continuation Groups
These occur approximately every 6 weeks and are available to clients who have participated in past KAT treatment with Riverbird who are interested in deepening their healing journey with KAT.
They include a 5-hour medicine session and a 2-hour integration session.
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Healer Experiential Groups
These groups are curated to support those who work in healing arts or have dedicated caregiver roles.
They intend to combat compassion fatigue and burnout, provide a safe space to be held and deepen into personal healing and self-care, explore roles as healers, and become familiar with the medicine.
These groups are offered in a 2-day intro format or a 3-day intensive format.
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Grief Groups
A soul-opening, heart-expanding KAT cohort, held in the lineage of grief teacher Francis Weller, to support softening and making contact with our grief. It is through this intention that we may experience vitality, gratitude and joy.
This multi-week offering includes preparation sessions and multiple medicine and integration sessions, which allows time to slow down together, find courage to be with our tender places and be reminded that we are not alone on this path of healing.
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Cohort Groups
We offer rotating groups intended to support people in their healing journeys coming from shared backgrounds, symptom presentations, or themes. These may occur in multi-day mini-retreat formats, or over a more longitudinal course.
Examples of this include mental health groups, recovery groups, groups for community leaders, teachers, nurses, or combining KAT with other healing modalities such as breathwork.
If you know of a particular population or group that would like to be supported through this modality, please let us know!
Group KAT Pricing
Longitudinal KAT Group
The Longitudinal KAT Group typically costs somewhere around $3,875 in total. This includes groups such as the Grief Group and Mental Health Groups. There is some variability in price, depending on the number of group sessions planned, and the possibility of participating in at-home sessions. The deposit to hold your spot in the group is typically 50% of the total cost of the group and is non-refundable and non-transferable. Payment for the remaining balance of group treatment is expected at the start of the group. A patient is responsible for the full cost of the group regardless of whether they attend all treatment sessions. If you have any questions or concerns about the deposit or cost of the group, please contact us: info@riverbirdclinic.com .
Continuation Group
The Continuation Group is offered to individuals who have previously participated in treatment at Riverbird Clinic. It is a one-session group ketamine session, followed the next day by a group integration session. This group costs $625. Upon acceptance into the group, we ask for a $300 non-refundable/non-transferable deposit to hold your spot.
Healing For Healers
Healing for Healers is a series for professionals working in the human services field or in the healing arts.
The 2-day offering includes 1 group ketamine session and 1 group integration session and costs $625. Upon acceptance into the group, we ask for a $300 non-refundable/non-transferable deposit to hold your spot. There will be 4-6 participants in each cohort and 2 Riverbird staff members facilitating the group
The 3-day offering includes 2 group ketamine sessions and 2 group integration sessions and costs $1200. Upon acceptance into the group, we ask for a $600 non-refundable/non-transferable deposit to hold your spot. There will be 4-6 participants in each cohort and 2 Riverbird staff members facilitating the group.