Serious illness patients
Advanced cancer, organ failure, ALS, COPD, and other life-limiting conditions with complex symptom burden.
Valor Health Solutions · Palliative Care
Palliative care ketamine therapy, healing at life's most profound crossroads
Ketamine-assisted therapy and psychotherapy designed to ease suffering, restore connection, and honor the full humanity of every person we serve, not simply their diagnosis.
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Who we serve
Care for those navigating serious illness
Valor Health Solutions provides palliative care ketamine therapy for individuals living with life-limiting or serious illness who are experiencing significant physical, emotional, or existential distress. Our program meets patients where they are, in the outpatient clinic, in the home, or coordinated with their existing care team in Clearwater, FL and Johnson City, TN.
Hospice-eligible individuals
Patients approaching end of life seeking relief from depression, anxiety, pain, and existential distress.
Caregivers & family
Those experiencing anticipatory grief, compassion fatigue, or emotional exhaustion while caring for a loved one.
Grief & bereavement
Individuals navigating profound loss who may benefit from ketamine psychotherapy to process and integrate grief.
Ketamine therapies
How ketamine supports palliative care
Ketamine is a well-established medicine with growing evidence for palliative use. Valor offers both ketamine infusion therapy and ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP), two complementary approaches tailored to each patient's needs, values, and stage of illness.
Ketamine works rapidly to reduce treatment-resistant depression, anxiety, and neuropathic pain. Paired with psychotherapy, it creates a supported space for deep emotional and existential processing. Learn more about how ketamine infusion compares to other options.
Rapid relief from depression & anxiety
Ketamine can reduce symptoms within hours to days, a compassionate option when time is limited.
Chronic & neuropathic pain
Acts on NMDA receptors involved in pain signaling, offering an adjunctive pathway to difficult-to-treat pain.
Existential distress & fear of death
Psychotherapy-supported sessions help patients gently confront and process fear and uncertainty.
Acceptance & meaning-making
Guided experiences open space to find peace, reconcile relationships, and embrace a sense of meaning.
Grief & anticipatory loss
Supports processing grief over lost identity, independence, and anticipated loss in all its forms.
Connectedness & relational healing
Many patients report renewed connection to loved ones, to nature, and to something larger than themselves.
Acceptance · Grief · Connectedness · Wellbeing
Supporting the whole person, not just the diagnosis
Serious illness does not affect only the body. It reshapes identity, fractures relationships, and raises profound questions about life, legacy, and what comes next. Every person deserves care that honors this full experience.
Our care is oriented around how a person feels, functions, and finds joy, not just lab values or disease progression. Dignity and emotional ease are always central. Explore our clinical team to see who will be guiding your care.
Acceptance
Moving toward peace
Ketamine-assisted sessions help patients ease resistance, soften fear, and gradually move toward acceptance at their own pace, in a calm and therapeutically supported environment.
Grief
Processing loss in all its forms
Grief includes the loss of roles, abilities, and futures imagined. Ketamine psychotherapy creates a safe container for exploring and integrating these layered losses.
Connectedness
Restoring a sense of belonging
Isolation is one of the most painful aspects of serious illness. Patients frequently describe ketamine experiences as profoundly reconnecting, to loved ones, to memories, to life itself.
Wellbeing
Quality of life as a worthy goal
Symptom relief, emotional ease, and dignity are always central. We measure success by how a person feels and functions, not disease markers alone.
Community partners
A continuum of care built on trusted relationships
No single provider can meet all the needs of a person navigating serious illness. Valor actively collaborates with care teams, agencies, and services already supporting our patients, strengthening that network rather than replacing it. Learn how to partner with Valor.
Hospice providers
We coordinate directly with hospice teams to provide complementary symptom management for emotional, existential, and psychological distress, working within the care plan, not around it.
Home health agencies
For patients with limited mobility or who prefer in-home care, we partner with home health agencies to coordinate comfortable treatment in the patient's own environment.
Case management services
We work closely with case management teams to ensure smooth referrals, appropriate patient selection, and seamless transitions throughout the care journey.
An important distinction: Ketamine therapy at Valor is not a substitute for hospice care. Hospice remains an essential, irreplaceable service at end of life. Our role is to serve as a complementary partner in symptom management and psychological wellbeing, filling gaps hospice services are not structured to address.
Common questions
Frequently asked questions about palliative ketamine therapy
Is ketamine therapy appropriate for hospice or end-of-life patients?
Yes. Ketamine has a well-established safety profile and growing evidence base for palliative use. It provides rapid relief from treatment-resistant depression, anxiety, chronic pain, and existential distress, areas where traditional medications often fall short or take too long to work. Valor works in coordination with the patient's existing hospice or palliative care team.
Does Valor Health Solutions replace hospice care?
No. Ketamine therapy at Valor is designed to complement, not replace, hospice and palliative care services. We serve as a specialized partner in symptom management and psychological wellbeing, filling gaps that hospice services are not structured to address, particularly around treatment-resistant mood disorders and existential distress.
Can caregivers or family members receive therapy at Valor?
Yes. Valor serves caregivers experiencing anticipatory grief, compassion fatigue, or emotional exhaustion, as well as individuals navigating profound loss after a loved one's passing.
What is ketamine-assisted psychotherapy for palliative care?
Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP) pairs the neuroplasticity-enhancing effects of ketamine with the guidance of a trained therapist. Sessions create a supported space for deep emotional and existential processing, including confronting fear of death, processing grief, and finding meaning and acceptance.
Where are palliative ketamine services available?
Valor Health Solutions offers palliative care ketamine services at two clinic locations, Clearwater, FL and Johnson City, TN, as well as via telehealth where applicable. Call 888-214-2144 to inquire about your specific situation.
How much does palliative care ketamine therapy cost?
Costs vary depending on the type of ketamine service (infusion therapy vs. ketamine-assisted psychotherapy) and individual treatment plans. Valor Health Solutions accepts select insurance plans and offers CareCredit financing. Call 888-214-2144 for a personalized estimate, or visit our FAQ page for more details.
Every person deserves to be treated as a whole
At Valor Health Solutions, we believe healing is possible at every stage of life, honoring serious illness with dignity, compassion, and the full range of modern therapeutic tools available to us.
Not an emergency service. If you are in immediate danger, call 911.