Huntsman Mental Health Institute Park City

Huntsman Mental Health Institute runs its Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy Clinic in Park City, Utah. It is part of University of Utah Health, and it opened here specifically because the model needed room to be flexible.

Dr. Benjamin Lewis directs the clinic and is board certified in adult psychiatry, with a specialty in the science and clinical use of psychedelic medicines. Ketamine is given orally or by intramuscular injection, with music and eye shades during the active phase, followed by psychotherapy with a therapist trained in this work.

Lewis describes ketamine as opening a window of neuroplasticity where the brain is more open to new connections, and the therapy is timed to use that window. Research is built into the clinic's mission. It serves Park City and Summit County.