Ketamine-assisted therapy & integration
Thoughtful preparation. Physician-led treatment.
Support for bringing insight into everyday life.
A new way forward.Reaching out for help can feel overwhelming. At The Drake Center, we make room for your questions, your hopes, and the story that brings you here.
Our ketamine-assisted therapy program brings physician-led treatment together with guided reflection, integration coaching, meditative art, and immersive practices. Dr. Cassius Drake and Jacqueline Drake help you explore your experience in a supportive, individualized setting.
Through The Way of the Butterfly, our goal is to help you move toward greater clarity, emotional resilience, and connection—and build practices that support meaningful change.
These are concerns discussed at our center. Dr. Drake reviews your history and clinical needs to determine appropriate options; suitability and expected benefit vary by condition and person.
A clear plan, a comfortable setting, and space to ask questions along the way.
Meet Dr. Drake and Jacqueline to review your history, discuss your goals and treatment plan, answer questions, and arrange future sessions.
The intake includes a meditation led by Jacqueline and helps identify areas to focus on throughout your care.
Dr. Drake explains arrival details, clothing, fasting instructions, and any medication adjustments specific to your care. You will discuss potential benefits and side effects and set intentions for your first treatment.
Preparation helps establish a “north star”—a personal direction to return to as your experience unfolds.
Treatment takes place in person at The Drake Center, with Dr. Drake and Jacqueline present. Jacqueline checks your vital signs and guides a centering exercise using meditation or VR, according to your needs.
You receive a ketamine injection and spend approximately one hour in the treatment experience, with support throughout. After a brief discussion and recovery, you leave with your driver once the clinical team determines you are stable.
Please arrange a driver for treatment visits. Our team provides your individual preparation and departure instructions.Return for integration sessions with Dr. Drake and Jacqueline to explore your experiences, insights, and questions. Guided conversations, meditation, creativity, and appropriate VR practices offer different ways to reflect and connect.
Together, we explore how these practices can become part of everyday life—from returning to a meditation to expressing an experience through art.
Insight can be a beginning. Living from it is an ongoing practice.
Integration follows each ketamine session. We help you explore what arose, connect it with your intentions, and consider how it relates to your relationships, choices, and daily rhythms.
Guided meditative art is available in person and virtually. VR may be incorporated when appropriate for creative or meditative exploration. We encourage journaling from intake onward so you have a place to record and revisit your experience.
Our focus is meaningful, sustainable change. We support that work through continued reflection and practice; individual outcomes and the duration of benefit vary.
Ask us about integration ↗Insight-oriented coaching, meditation, and journaling help you explore what an experience means to you.
Mindful and immersive practices offer ways to return to the present and bring your attention to lived experience.
Art and creative exploration give you room to express feelings and insights that can be difficult to put into words.
Created by Dr. Drake, The Way of the Butterfly sees healing as a journey of readiness, surrender, growth, and emergence. Like the transformation from caterpillar to butterfly, meaningful change asks for both inner work and time.
This framework guides your care from intake and preparation through treatment and integration. It helps us return to what matters to you while making space for what you discover.
Sessions are spaced to give you time to reflect, internalize, and practice new insights. A treatment course commonly includes six ketamine-assisted therapy sessions, with the number and timing individualized to your needs. Additional sessions may be discussed as part of ongoing care.
The Way of the Butterfly also has a separate eight-week healing and integration program, offered virtually or in Franklin. That program does not include ketamine.
Explore healing without medication ↗“The mindfulness after my ketamine treatment continues to help me thrive.”
C. Cage · Patient testimonialRead more patient experiences ↗Begin with a free consultation. Dr. Drake will discuss your concerns and the assessment needed to determine clinical suitability. Your treatment plan is individualized.
The ketamine experience is approximately one hour. Your visit also includes preparation and recovery. Our team will explain how much time to allow and when your driver should collect you.
A course commonly includes six ketamine-assisted therapy sessions, but needs vary. Dr. Drake will discuss your plan and whether additional sessions may be appropriate. Sessions are spaced to allow time for integration and practice.
Yes. Treatment is in person at our Franklin center with Dr. Drake and Jacqueline present. Your visit includes a vital-sign check, a centering practice, guided support, and recovery before departure with your driver.
You return for guided integration and practice ways of applying insights in everyday life. Journaling, meditation, art, and appropriate immersive experiences can support this work.
View our program pricing and financing information, or ask our team to explain the options during your consultation.
Tell us where you are and what you are hoping for. We’ll help you explore a way forward.
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