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Paradigms of Ketamine Treatment: A Community Conversation and Q&A

  • Sana Healing Collective 3324 W North Ave Chicago United States (map)

Have you ever considered participating in ketamine-assisted therapy for your mental health? Do you know all the options that exist from at-home prescriptions, to infusion-only clinics, to therapeutic models that integrate the medicine within a healing relationship? Are you curious what makes ketamine-assisted therapy different from at-home lozenges or IV infusions, and why it may offer deeper, longer-lasting transformation?

If these questions stir something in you, we invite you to join Geoff Bathje and Nicole Thompson for a community conversation at Sana Healing Collective on Tuesday, September 2nd from 4:30-5:30pm. We will explore the evolving paradigms of ketamine treatment and why Sana’s relational, community-centered model offers something unique.

This gathering will open up space to discuss and reflect on:

  • Why ketamine-assisted therapy goes beyond symptom reduction into deeper transformation.

  • The role of community, and why group healing can be more powerful than going it alone.

  • Whether ketamine should be considered a psychedelic, and how that shapes our approach to care.

  • How insurance coverage and accessibility factor into your choices.

  • Why integration matters as much as the medicine itself.

  • The somatic, trauma-informed, and liberation-based frameworks that shape healing at Sana.

About the Facilitators

  • Geoff Bathje, PhD (he/him) is a licensed psychologist, professor of counseling, researcher, and advocate. His work spans substance use and addiction, multicultural therapy, trauma, mindfulness, and harm reduction. With a deep commitment to community psychology and social justice, he brings decades of clinical expertise alongside a passion for ending the war on drugs and creating systemic change.

  • Nicole Thompson (she/her) is a queer clinical psychotherapist who supports individuals in cultivating authentic connection, liberated pleasure, and emotional resilience. With a doctorate in Clinical Psychology and training in Ketamine-Assisted Therapy from Alchemy Community Therapy Center and Sana, she weaves together somatic psychology, feminist relational cultural theory, and liberation-based approaches. Nicole integrates yoga and embodied practices to support nervous system regulation and presence.

Geoff and Nicole will invite you into a conversation that is both clinically rigorous and deeply human, offering a vision of psychedelic care that is relational, politically conscious, and rooted in the wisdom of community.

PS: Please also consider staying for Yoga for Integration with Nicole at 6:00 pm!