Ketamine Therapy: Curious, Skeptical, or Somewhere in Between? (The Edge)
Velvet's Edge with Kelly Henderson
iHeartPodcasts
4.5 • 927 Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Ketamine therapy is everywhere right now — and opinions about it are strong. Some people see it as a breakthrough in mental health. Others feel uneasy about what it means to bring a drug like ketamine into a therapeutic setting.
In this Friday episode, Kelly and Chip have an honest, open conversation about where they actually land. Kelly asks Chip whether he’d ever consider ketamine therapy himself, and he shares insights from friends who have tried it — what seemed helpful, what raised questions, and what surprised him.
Together, they unpack why ketamine tends to be judged differently than antidepressants or other psychiatric medications. They talk about the cultural line we draw between “acceptable” mental health treatments and those that feel more controversial, and what that says about how we think about healing, control, and stigma.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:15.5 | Good morning. |
| 0:17.3 | Hello. |
| 0:19.1 | This is abnormal. |
| 0:38.9 | I barely have a voice. Yeah. Well, you're acting like it's so early. I'm like, I've got a full fucking day already. This is life right now. We are back, you guys. I was just telling Chip how, I mean, obviously we accrued you in last week that I wasn't going to air the episode, but we were just talking it through. |
| 0:40.2 | And I was like, let's just start recording. |
| 0:44.4 | So the listeners can be in on this because I do feel like we're all in this together. |
| 0:45.4 | I really do. |
| 0:52.4 | And that kind of touches on why I didn't want to air the episode last week is as much as you and I tried. |
| 0:57.4 | And like, I truly believe, I mean, I'm making it so like daunting this episode, but like we really tried to have an open perspective and open conversation that |
| 1:03.6 | took into consideration that everyone has different opinions. Like we tried not to be one-sided. |
| 1:10.0 | But the reality is, is you and I both |
| 1:12.0 | have opinions about things that are happening in the world and as much as we try to be open-minded |
| 1:18.6 | to other perspectives and and conversation we still have an opinion and that's fine we should we should |
| 1:25.6 | be like in the conversation, paying attention up to |
| 1:29.9 | date on the things that are happening and we should have our own perspective about what this |
| 1:34.4 | means for the world, how this is impacting things, how we would want to do things differently, |
| 1:39.3 | all of those things. We also should be working on things behind the scenes to, you know, fight for the things that we believe in. |
| 1:45.9 | I truly believe that. |
| 1:47.5 | I just really am starting to feel frustrated online and in the podcast world, all of these things like overall because I feel like people assume that since you have a microphone and a platform, then you need to be weighing in on everything. |
| 2:03.1 | And it's overwhelming to me. |
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