How Senz helps
Senz offers a short, intensive, and comprehensive program through our multidisciplinary team.
Intensive Treatments
What treatments do we offer?
At Senz, you follow approximately five months of intensive guideline-based treatments. Your treatment package may include various components, both individual and group based. Some elements are standard for everyone, while others are offered only when specifically indicated. We provide treatments only if we believe they will genuinely benefit you.
All treatments are under the supervision of certified BIG-registered professionals.
Program components
Individual treatment
Standard individual treatment
- Lifestyle. Lifestyle plays a crucial role in recovery. Together with Senz, you will discuss your nutrition, exercise, sleep, and stress management. The goal is to identify helpful changes to achieve your goals.
- Psychomotor Therapy (PMT). This component teaches you how specific exercises and movements can alleviate psychological complaints. You learn to manage emotions and stress, improving both your physical and mental health.
- Twice-weekly Therapy Sessions. During treatment, you meet with a therapist twice a week. These sessions employ various therapeutic approaches to work toward your goals, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Interpersonal Therapy (IPT).
Optional individual treatment (When Indicated)
- Additional Sessions. Beyond the scheduled sessions in your treatment package, we can plan extra sessions, such as trauma therapy or meetings involving your partner, family, or others important to you.
- Psychiatrist. At Senz, the psychiatrist is part of the multidisciplinary team. This means the psychiatrist is involved in intakes and may provide psychotherapy and group therapies. Additionally, psychiatric consultations can address medication-related questions.
- Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP). KAP involves inducing an altered state of consciousness with ketamine, allowing you to explore new perspectives and deeper experiential processes. This therapy can help address persistent psychological complaints, such as depression.
Group treatment
Standard group treatment
- Running Therapy. Running therapy involves physical activities like walking or jogging to alleviate psychological issues like stress, depression, and anxiety. It combines physical activity with therapeutic guidance, improving both mental and physical health.
In addition to running therapy, you will also participate in one of the following group therapies:
- CBT-I (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia). This method addresses sleep problems by changing negative thoughts and habits around sleep. It combines cognitive exercises with behavioral adjustments to establish a healthy sleep routine.
- Mindfulness based cognitive therapy (MBCT). This treatment aims to reduce recurrent depression and anxiety symptoms. Over eight weeks, you learn mindfulness exercises and cognitive techniques to better manage negative thoughts and feelings, fostering greater peace and balance in your life.
Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) treatment
What is KAP?
At Senz, you can enrol in Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP). During KAP, ketamine induces an altered state of consciousness, opening you up to new perspectives and deeper, experiential processes. The therapy emphasizes bodily and non-verbal experiences in the moment. This treatment has proven successful in the United States and may help break persistent psychological issues such as depression.
What is Ketamine?
Extensive research is currently being conducted on ketamine’s effects. Studies show that ketamine places the brain in a state particularly receptive to learning and new experiences, potentially leading to deeper therapeutic insights. Ketamine promotes neuroplasticity, enabling the formation of new neural connections, especially in areas responsible for emotional regulation and cognitive functions. This process can accelerate brain activity and support recovery from mood conditions. Many describe their ketamine experiences as deeply spiritual or emotional, often fostering greater acceptance and meaning in life.
Ketamine is a well-known drug primarily used as an anesthetics. However, research shows that ketamine, under the right conditions, is also effective in reducing depressive symptoms. An important advantage is that ketamine treatments have minimal to no side effects. When administered in a specialized treatment center like Senz, the risk of addiction is minimal, and physical side effects are virtually absent.
KAP-session
During a KAP session, you relax in a comfortable reclining chair in a quiet room. A doctor conducts a medical check and administers the ketamine intravenously. Throughout the session, a therapist remains with you to provide guidance. The ketamine infusion induces an altered state of consciousness while you remain aware of the room and the therapist’s presence.
The therapist supports you in exploring, deepening and clarifying your experiences. A KAP session lasts approximately two hours in total. After a KAP session, you are not allowed to participate in traffic.
KAP therapy can be a profound and often surprising experience. You can discover new perspectives and emotions that can help you in your recovery. Do you want to know more
Preparation
When KAP is indicated, we will do an extensive preparation together. You will be introduced to the KAP room, will be explained what will happen and will receive tips about preparation and clothing, for example. This way we ensure that you know exactly what will happen and who will guide you. If you have any questions afterwards, you can always contact your therapist.
