Sacramento Ketamine Psychotherapy

12/16/2023

Hello Folks,
Many of you were heartbroken with the news that Matthew Perry died. It is a tragedy. Today, the autopsy report was released and it appears he died of "acute effects of Ketamine." It appears the high dose of Ketamine (a dissociative anesthetic) was taken before getting into a swimming pool where he drowned. While, by report, he did receive a Ketamine infusion for depression and anxiety (which has risks, though minimal), his last supervised Ketamine infusion was 1.5 weeks before his death. Ketamine is a fast acting medication that has a short half life of about 2-4 hours. What that means is that Matthew Perry ingested Ketamine outside the protocols of established supervised treatment and drowned. This is truly tragic, but not the result of having Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy. If you have received Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy at The Attach Place, I want to put your fears and questions at ease. I will restate it. Matthew Perry ingested Ketamine outside the establish supervised Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy protocol and it cost him his life. Ketamine is a serious Schedule 3 controlled substance. It should only be taken as prescribed by a medical professional and supervised during treatment by a licensed mental health professional. Any other form of Ketamine use is illegal and can be fatal, as it was in this case. If you have questions or concerns, please contact me at ce@attachplace.com. I want to support you to understand the risks and benefits.

12/08/2023

Bodhi Day marks the day that Siddhartha Gautama reached enlightenment and became Buddha after meditating under a Bodhi tree for 49 days. We wish all who celebrate a day of peace and harmony.

12/07/2023

Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights, is celebrated over 8 days to mark the re-dedication of the Holy Temple. For those who celebrate, we send love and wishes for peace during this painful time.

11/23/2023

Go to https://tinyurl.com/48drk4s8 to listen to this podcast with therapist Ce Eshelman TODAY!

11/23/2023

Thanksgiving is celebrated worldwide as a harvest festival. We wish all who celebrate blessings for the year ahead.

11/22/2023

Change the toxic stress that may be poisoning your family life with a Self-care Regimen for yourself and a daily Felt Safety diet for your child. This is what we do in the Attach Place. Contact us today https://attachplace.com/
Felt Safety Diet:
1. First and foremost: Well regulated parents who have an established Self-care Regimen.
2. A slow pace. Pretend you live in a small sleepy town where no one feels the need to speed. Then, don't speed, rush, hustle, bustle, race, multi-task, or try to live three lives at once.
3. Attune to your child's needs for connection, engagement, attention, playfulness. Play with your children. Watching them play is not the same thing.
4. Lose the concept of punishment and consequences. Use structure and gentle correction instead. If you use punishment and consequences, your child will fear you while continuing to do the things you don't want them to do.
5. Set the behavior bar low, so your child is successful. Praise like crazy for achieving it. Setting the bar too high will cause behavior like giving up, throwing in the towel, defiance, opposition, or not even trying.
6. Accept your child for who they are, rather than for whom you wish they were. This is a big one. Stop working so hard to make them different. Imagine someone doing that to you every day, all day.
7. Never forget that your child probably has some kind of sensory integration issue because children from difficult beginnings usually do. Give them a steady schedule (every two hours) of physicality, healthy food/snacks and big hydration.
8. Finally, work to insure your child's school is trauma informed, so your child isn't inadvertently emotionally harmed.

11/20/2023

In part three of the CBS series on therapeutic psychedelic treatments Lisa Ling explores Activation Breathwork as a drug-free method that releases DMT to the brain to achieve a psychedelic state. While I recommend many types of breathwork for their therapeutic benefits, the key is finding the treatment that works best for you. Take my quiz here https://sacramentoketaminepsychotherapy.com/ to see if Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy is for you! Check out the report here: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/activation-breathwork-retreat-unlocks-psychedelic-state-naturally/

11/19/2023

For part two of the CBS series on therapeutic psychedelic treatments, veterans suffering from PTSD travel to Mexico for treatments that are not legal in the US. Ketamine-Assisted Therapy (KAP) IS legal in California. Click here https://attachplace.com/ketamine-assisted-psychotherapy/ for more information about KAP treatment with me.

Veterans who say traditional pharmaceuticals have failed to heal their mental scars are traveling south of the border to Mexico to use psychedelics they claim are giving them drastic results. CBS News contributor Lisa Ling reports.

11/19/2023

CBS recently did a three-part series on therapeutic psychedelic treatments. I offer Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) at The Attach Place in Sacramento, CA. KAP is wrap-around therapy that includes low-dose Ketamine in conjunction with psychotherapy for those who have struggled with depression, anxiety and posttraumatic stress. Check out the first part of the series and email me at ce@attachplace.com for more information.

Voters in Colorado legalized the use of psychedelic mushrooms last year. Now, groups of women gather at specialized retreats to use the ancient substance to try to cure modern ills. CBS News contributor Lisa Ling reports.

11/12/2023

Diwali, the Festival of Lights, is a five-day celebration of the victory of light over darkness, good over evil, and knowledge over ignorance. To all who celebrate, we wish you a Diwali that brings happiness, prosperity, and joy to you and all your family.

10/18/2023

Thought and Challenge for Today: the antidote to controlling parenting is radical acceptance with curiosity. When you feel you must control your child's behavior, accept it instead and be curious. See how it goes. Get support at the Attach Place attachplace.com where therapist Ce Eshelman helps parents of children with difficult beginnings break out of the cycle of psychological stress and move toward mental health.

10/05/2023

The Attach Place https://attachplace.com/ is a judgment-free zone. Yes, being understood and not judged is part of what we offer. And so is learning how to understand our children. But the most important offer is freedom to move away from self-judgment and psychological stress toward better mental health. The greatest gift you can give yourself and your family is self-understanding and self-acceptance. Give yourself a break and contact us TODAY!

10/01/2023

At the Attach Place attachplace.com, our therapists show clients that traumatized children learn, grow, and thrive when they feel deeply safe. Connect 80% of the time with your child, correct 20%. Children learn best when their survival brains are taking a nap. Correction startles awake the trauma brain. Connection helps children feel deeply safe. Join our membership today.

09/30/2023

Ever wonder why melt downs often follow “fun” times? Fun takes a lot of emotional energy. Your child’s emotional bandwidth gets more and more narrow the longer the fun lasts. What you can do is accommodate your child’s brain fatigue by lowering your expectations following good times. “Hey, you don’t have to feed the dog tonight. I’ll do it for you.” “Let’s have some quiet time reading or listening to some music together.” “You can skip the shower tonight if you want.” Any number of things can happen to reduce psychological stress and restore good mental health.

09/30/2023

An excerpt from my article: Care and Feeding of Parents [In case you are new to the therapeutic parenting world]

Adopting a child holds the promise of a family life filled with love and joy. Often that promise is fulfilled and a new vision for the future springs up complete with hopes for successful completion of high school, promotion to higher education, love, marriage and families filled with another promise of bucolic grand-parenting. These are American dreams and goals that do come true for many who bring children into their lives through the doorway of adoption.

When these promises seem possible, then it is the ordinary stresses and challenges of raising children in the 21st Century that gets dealt with on a daily basis. This alone makes parenting a marathon event, in and of itself. And if your child has attachment challenges due to an early history of neglect and/or abuse, then the ordinary stressors of "bringing up baby" becomes an extraordinary daily battle to win the heart and mind of your child; to gain just the simplest of parent child interactions--hugs, kisses, laughter, play.

The "tired" that goes with parenting an attachment challenged child is more mountain climbing than mole hill, to mix a metaphor. Every day you may be faced with unnatural responses from your child to your natural parental gestures of affection--outright rejection, f***s smeared around the room, self-induced vomiting 12 times a day, tantrums without end, your child comforted only by strangers. The fear and devastating realization that your child may not experience any part of the original promise begins to way heavily on your parent heart. The weight of which is nearly impossible to push through. Some days you think you may need to be hospitalized just to get a moment of relief.

If you are the parent of an attachment challenged child, the following are prescriptive steps just for you.

09/30/2023

Grandpa, here are some things recommended by an attachment therapist to help you understand and support the healing in your family.

Complex Developmental Trauma is a combination of trauma and attachment challenge from early childhood maltreatment and abandonment. It is an unbelievably difficult time being a loving family. Every single day child and parent must work at learning to have a balanced emotional life together and to heal from internalized negative messages about parents, self, and the world.

Sometimes this is more a love “commitment” than a love “feeling.” Please don’t judge adoptive parents for their frustration, anger, resentment, hurt, grief and wounded feelings.

A child from difficult beginnings deserves love and kindness. It would be really great if you noticed out loud to the adoptive parents the loving things you see them do for the adopted child.

It is not helpful for you to tell the parent how awful or how great the child is. They really just need you to listen when the parents need someone to talk to.

Dysregulation (uncontrolled upset) is something both parents and child experience. The child’s Complex Developmental Trauma has an impact on the parents. Offer a listening ear, a cup of tea, a pedicure or a shoulder massage.

Parents really appreciate it when you are willing to care for their children, so they can rest and rejuvenate. When you do give them respite, it important that you follow all their stated rules; otherwise, your kindness will backfire on the family when the child comes home. The child cannot have more fun or excitement with you than there is at home. This will be hard for you, but the child needs to be regulated emotionally while in your care. Too much fun, excitement, change, and freedom will only serve to dysregulate and cause a split between child and parent. Please don’t think spoiling, paying extra close attention, listening to wild, made up stories or “siding” with the child against parents will help the child. It will destroy the child’s connection with the parents. Please only do attachment supportive things—attachment to the parents supportive things. The parents are working every second to create that connection and it only takes a couple of visits with a well-meaning, overly solicitous family member or friend to set the child’s attachment with the parents into reverse.

The child can be an angel for you. Attachment challenge is usually between the child and the parents. Others may never see it. The child has been a victim in the past and still feels that way inside. The parent is the healer of this world view for the child, and it is hard to be balanced enough all the time to be healing.

You may not know this, but traditional parenting doesn’t work with attachment challenged children, so please don’t give traditional parenting advice. They are using a therapeutic parenting approach to heal the complex trauma these children experience.

Finally, few people want to spend time with these families, and they feel isolated and lonely. They may not reach out much, but that is because they are emotionally exhausted and don’t want to feel like a burden to you. Please check in with them. They need you.

I hope this helps you understand what these families are going through. There is support for them at the Attach Place attachplace.com where they can get on the path away from psychological stress and toward good mental health.