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Business Education
Bolster your business knowledge in starting your own ketamine practice.
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Motivational Mindset
Your clinic’s success begins with you and the mindset and attitude you bring
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Effective Marketing
You can be the best clinic, but if no one knows about you, you might as well not exist.
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Psychedelic Medicine
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Transitioning from salaried physician to certified business owner of your own ketamine clinic is a huge step. In this blog, learn about the essential steps for transitioning from a salaried physician to a ketamine clinic owner, including personal financial planning, obtaining health insurance, and working with financial and tax professionals.
Is opening a ketamine clinic going to financially reward you as much or more than your hospital job? In the second part of this two-part blog series, we are going to answer this question plus the factors that affect how big your clinic’s expenses will be.
We get this question a lot, and we completely understand why. Leaving your stable hospital job to start a ketamine clinic is a risk and requires money. Will you be able to earn that money back and increase your income? In part one of this two-part blog series, we talk about the various factors that affect your clinic’s revenue.
Do you have to be a medical professional to open a ketamine clinic? It depends on where you will open your clinic and the rules and regulations governing that state. In this blog, we will take a deep dive into this commonly asked question!
Many businesses rely on investors to get started. So should your ketamine clinic get investors as well? That will depend on several factors, which we will talk about in our blog.
As a small fish in the vast ocean of business, your options for funding your ketamine clinic are endless. In this blog post, we’ll cover these options so that you can decide which one suits you the most.
Explore the factors to determine how much money you’ll need to start a ketamine infusion clinic and the realities of when to expect a return on investment in this blog post.
Whether you're curious about ketamine therapy, building your first clinic, or optimizing an established practice, this comprehensive guide has you covered. Featuring 12 essential blog posts organized into three key pillars: Clinical Foundation (ketamine science, protocols, patient selection), Business Operations (best practices, common failures, transition timing), and Marketing & Growth (content strategy, email marketing, sustainable systems).
Learn why email newsletters are the MVP of ketamine clinic marketing and how to create them effectively. This guide covers the MASTER framework for newsletter power, the IBEC template for easy creation, and essential metrics to track success - helping you build lasting patient relationships through consistent, valuable communication.
Explore the 4-step content creation machine that prevents burnout while keeping your ketamine clinic consistently visible online. Learn how to create pillar content, convert it into multiple formats, and generate micro content for social media. One video can become dozens of marketing pieces when you build the right system.
Discover how to create authentic organic content that pulls ideal patients toward your ketamine clinic instead of pushing generic ads. This guide covers the push vs. pull marketing concept, addresses AI concerns, and introduces our proven Venn diagram method for creating sustainable content that connects patient needs with your authentic interests and expertise.
Learn the medical marketing funnel that transforms cold prospects into warm, ready patients for your ketamine clinic. This guide covers the 3-stage ACC framework (Awareness, Consideration, Conversion) and shows you how to create content that attracts ideal patients while letting unqualified leads self-select out.
Learn how to grow your ketamine clinic with HIPAA-compliant email marketing. Discover best practices, legal must-knows, and high-ROI email strategies.
Discover 5 actionable strategies to grow your ketamine therapy clinic, build trust with patients, improve marketing, and overcome slow business periods.
Struggling to market your ketamine clinic? Learn strategies to navigate social media bans, boost SEO, and turn followers into patients in this 2024 guide.
Want to learn how to avoid wasting time and money when marketing ketamine infusions? Learn from mistakes we made and have seen others make in this blog post!
Explore strategies for ketamine specialists to uphold ethical practices and manage public relations effectively, especially in light of high-profile incidents. This blog provides essential guidance for navigating the delicate balance of patient care and public perception in ketamine therapy.
Explore five key reasons you should not convince or pressure patients into trying ketamine therapy, plus learn an ethical, patient-centered marketing strategy.
Discover five key steps to build and maximize referral relationships for your ketamine clinic. With actionable tips on identifying and connecting with potential referral sources, plus insights on establishing a strong online presence and maintaining sustainable relationships you’ll be set to create your network.
The world of marketing is an entirely different world for physicians, and we’ve made plenty of mistakes along the way as ketamine clinic owners. In this blog, we talk about these mistakes and the lessons that will help you choose the right marketing strategy for your clinic.
Social media can be a powerful tool to launch your ketamine clinic forward. It is definitely a double-edged sword and isn’t for everyone. Should social media be part of your marketing strategy? Read our blog post to find out.
Nowadays, every business is practically marketing online. But are there reasons why you shouldn’t market your ketamine clinic on social media? Read our blog post to find out.
A new hypothesis from a leading NMDA receptor researcher suggests ketamine may work by weakening active brain circuits. Here is what that could mean for clinical practice.
Not sure what your ketamine patients should listen to during a session? Learn which music types support the therapeutic process, what to avoid, and how to build a playlist that works clinically.
Learn the four critical techniques to ensure patients are both mentally and physically prepared for their sessions, contributing to the success of their care and your ketamine clinic.
This blog explores why social and emotional support is important for your patients when undergoing psychedelic ketamine therapy, which reveals deep insights that require integration.
Explore the six steps to help your patient navigate a challenging ketamine infusion experience. Plus learn about the intention setting, integration, and trusting in psychedelic ketamine journeys.
We answer the question, “What medical specialty can provide ketamine treatment” and discuss the key qualities of a good ketamine specialist and the importance of set and setting in the treatment process.
We are all about including integration in your ketamine patient’s treatment. In this blog, we talk about a tool you can use to guide your patients during the integration process and how you can implement it during the treatment.
Sometimes your patients may be pressured to have a ketamine infusion go a particular way, or feel the need to remember the experience. They can experience so much and get discouraged that they don’t remember. But does it really matter? Let’s explore this topic and more in this blog!
Part of our patient’s treatment is the psychedelic ketamine experience itself. Going through the entire treatment can be quite a journey for your patients; a journey supported by you. In this blog, we talk about what YOU can do to help your ketamine patients in this transformative journey.
As aspiring ketamine specialists, chances are that most of us are aware of how effective ketamine infusions are in treating mood disorders. However, ketamine should be treated as more than just a medication. Through following the four stages of a ketamine treatment, it can become transformational for your patients as well.
Learn what “set and setting” is and why you should care about it when running a successful ketamine infusion clinic here!
Did you know that there was a study conducted that found that tea intentionally treated by Buddhist monks actually had a positive impact on those who drank the tea? Just like tea, you should also encourage your patients to set an intention before their infusion. Read our blog to learn more.
As a ketamine specialist, you will be dealing with patients who will face negative experiences. There are a few things that you can do to help alleviate their challenges, which we will talk about in this blog post.
During ketamine infusions, it’s important to create the right set & setting for your patients. This includes playing the right music, which creates a more positive and transformative experience. Find out why music is so crucial in this blog post.
Your patients will experience a lot of emotions before and during their ketamine infusion. There are a few things that you, as their doctor, should reassure them about so that they know what to expect. Read this blog post to learn what are the 4 things that you should let them know about.
Ketamine is a dissociative anesthetic, so when you administer ketamine infusions, your patients will have non-ordinary experiences. In this blog post, we’ll talk about these 4 types of experiences which you should be aware of.
Using ketamine to treat depression and chronic pain is considered “off-label.” What does that mean, and how do you know if you are providing ketamine treatments that are scientifically based?
Discover 6 inspiring books to help ketamine clinic owners grow personally and professionally, fostering creativity, mindset, and purpose.
Discover strategies to overcome slow growth in your ketamine clinic by reconnecting with your passion and turning challenges into opportunities.
Explore how focusing on the positives can transform the daunting task of starting a ketamine clinic into an achievable goal. This blog offers practical advice on harnessing the power of a positive mindset to overcome challenges and seize opportunities.
This blog offers insights into balancing entrepreneurship with personal life; providing practical strategies to effectively prioritize your to-do list and focus on what truly matters.
In this blog, explore the unique intersection of mnemonics and entrepreneurship, uncovering actionable insights for medical professionals eager to establish their own successful ketamine infusion clinic.
Are you ready to open a ketamine clinic, but are feeling overwhelmed by all the things you need to do to get it done? Plus, you also have to juggle your current job, not to mention all the chores of personal life. We want to share a simple but powerful exercise you can do to help you start prioritizing and get your clinic opened. In this blog, we talk about this practice called a brain dump exercise.
We share the story about a king and a ring. Explore the concept of “this too shall pass” and how it can apply to navigating starting your ketamine clinic.
In a conversation with Andrea Austin of The Revitalizing Podcast, Dr. Kim shares her experience on making the shift from full-time ophthalmologist to full-time ketamine clinic owner together with her husband. She talks about the importance of knowing yourself and why action brings clarity.
Starting a ketamine clinic is no easy feat and can naturally make you fear failure and criticism. In this blog, we talk about what you need to get over these fears and some practices you can do today to start taking action.
In continuation to the first part of this 2-part series, we talk about some practical steps for you to take to rid yourself of any limiting beliefs that are stopping you from taking action and starting your ketamine clinic.
In the first part of this 2-part series, we explain what limiting beliefs are and why they’re stopping you from building the ketamine clinic of your dreams.
We all have our own reasons why we want to start a ketamine clinic. However, some are stronger than others. Does it even matter if one is strong or weak? It does, actually. In this blog, we talk about the importance of a strong why.
When we made the shift from working in the hospital to becoming ketamine clinic owners, we had to let go of some tools that no longer served us. In this blog, we talk about our learnings from letting go and why you should even let go in the first place.
You found all the right reasons to start a ketamine clinic and seem pretty confident about it. But why haven't you opened one yet? Are you really as prepared as you think? Read the blog to find out the REAL reasons why you haven’t taken action yet.
Owning a ketamine clinic requires a lot of your time. Is work life balance even possible when you run this type of business? More importantly, is it even necessary?
Find out what the regulations and considerations are in determining if a physician is required to be present during a ketamine infusion here at our blog.