At Golden Afternoon Clinic in Santa Monica, all ketamine infusions are personally overseen by Dr. Jenn, ensuring safe dosing, careful monitoring, and a deeply supportive environment designed to promote healing and emotional restoration.
Ketamine works differently from traditional antidepressants, triggering powerful changes in neural pathways linked to mood and emotional resilience.
IV ketamine therapy uses a carefully controlled dose of ketamine delivered through an intravenous infusion. Unlike SSRIs or SNRIs, which regulate neurotransmitter levels, ketamine affects multiple neurotransmitters, but it's primary effect is through the glutamate system to promote rapid neuroplasticity, allowing the brain to form new connections and break out of rigid, depressive or anxious patterns.
Because the medication is infused intravenously, dosing can be adjusted with high precision, allowing our clinicians to personalize treatment for mood disorders, trauma, or chronic pain.
Ketamine acts primarily as an NMDA receptor antagonist, which sets off a cascade of benefits:
Ketamine stimulates synaptic growth, improving the brain’s ability to adapt and heal.
Many patients feel improvement within hours to days, even after years of trying other treatments without success.
By modulating glutamate pathways, ketamine can interrupt entrenched cycles of depressive, anxious, or intrusive thoughts.
Patients often gain clarity, perspective, or a sense of relief that complements psychotherapy and integration work.
Ketamine’s effect on the central nervous system can reduce pain sensitization and help treat chronic pain conditions.
Not every patient is a fit for ketamine, so all treatment plans begin with a free medical and psychiatric screening.
While ketamine can be administered orally, intranasally, or intramuscularly, IV infusion remains the gold standard for medical and psychiatric use because:
Golden Afternoon uses a trauma-informed, comfort-focused model to make the experience feel safe, warm, and healing.
Because the medication is infused intravenously, dosing can be adjusted with high precision, allowing clinicians to personalize treatment for mood disorders, trauma, or chronic pain.
The IV infusion process is overseen by Dr. Jenn, ensuring the highest standard of care.
Zero-gravity chairs, cozy blankets, aromatherapy, optional eye coverings, and curated music help create a deeply calming space for healing.
Optional integration, written reflections, and post-session grounding help patients make meaning from their experience.
Accessible to Santa Monica, Venice, Mar Vista, Brentwood, Culver City, and the greater Los Angeles area.
We coordinate with providers to ensure continuity of care and long-term success.
Our safe and integrative IV and intranasal Ketamine sessions can help re-wire your neurons and are a proven treatment for depression, anxiety, PTSD, mood disorders and chronic pain.
Golden Afternoon is a dba of Jennifer A Ellice MD PC
