Assisted Psychotherapy (AP)

We cannot guarantee success for any medical condition.

Our treatment may provide some benefit to individuals living with depression.

There are many ways to administer our treatments with advantages and disadvantages to each route. Your psychiatrist will discuss this with you to determine the most suitable path (if you are suitable for the program).

The treatment our psychiatrist and anaesthesiologist organise is sandwiched around psychological therapy. Psychological intervention is the primary focus and our team just support this.

The bread is the psychological therapy and the other treatment can be considered the meat in the sandwich. The bread is the important part.

The psychologist is the most important part of our program.

Treatment is used as a catalyst for psychological change and healing.

When given as part of a holistic treatment program tailored to each individual patient, our psychiatrist and anaesthesiologist aim to create a time-sensitive window where other forms of psychological therapy might be more effective.

We aim to temporarily enhance the brain’s neuroplasticity, enabling old thought patterns and beliefs to be replaced by new, healthier ones.

Our treatment is for individuals with serious, ongoing mental health issues which have resisted other forms of psychological and/or psychiatric treatment.

Our treatments are only considered for the most difficult-to-treat cases.

In hospital. We DO NOT provide out of hospital treatments.

You will need a referral from your Psychiatrist and psychologist and/or general practitioner. Our treatment is best suited to patients who have had no benefit from other psychological and psychiatric interventions.

You can obtain a referral from your psychologist, general practitioner and your psychiatrist. We do not accept self-referred patients.

All treatments are individualised and overseen by Australian registered psychiatrists.

Our medicine is delivered in a medical setting, with specialist medical supervision, and as part of an individual package of complementary medical care.

Yes. The Neu*Era team welcome working with other like-minded clinicians. We can educate your team and add on supportive services as required. Collaboration is important if we are going to be part of the paradigm shift in mental health within Australia.

The cost varies depending on the number of sessions you need.

Cost covers hospital admission, nursing staff, equipment, anaesthesiologist fees.

The time interval between sessions varies.

They all include individual one on one sessions with a psychiatrist, anaesthesiologist and perioperative nurse in a hospital.

Glutamate is the major excitatory neurotransmitter in the brain.

Concepts:

-JUMP STARTS the brain by enhancing neurotransmission in glutamate neurons.

-DEFRAGS THE MAINFRAME by its actions on serotonin receptors that influence the default mode network, where entrenched ways of thinking about the self, the world and others are encoded.

-FERTILISES THE BRAIN through its action on various growth factors that support new nerve growth, underlying its potential to help brains develop new pathways and new ways of thinking, feeling and behaving.

-ACTS LIKE A FIRE EXTINGUISHER by targeting the lateral habenular nucleus in fear networks, allowing trauma memories to be reprocessed and possibly extinguished, in conjunction with trauma informed evidence based psychological interventions.