Anxiety disorders affect an estimated 19.1% of U.S. adults every year, according to the National Institute of Mental Health
Anxiety Treatment in La Crosse, WI: Relief When Conventional Treatments Haven't Worked
IV ketamine therapy and Spravato offer a faster, fundamentally different path to relief for people living with persistent, treatment-resistant anxiety. Medically supervised and personalized to you, right here in La Crosse.
Anxiety Is the Most Common Mental Health Condition in the U.S. Most People Still Aren't Getting Relief.
An estimated 19.1% of U.S. adults experience an anxiety disorder in any given year, making it the most prevalent mental health condition in the country. Yet despite how common anxiety is, far too many people never find adequate relief. Medication helps some. Therapy helps others. For many, neither is enough.
At Relevate Ketafusion, we work with people whose anxiety hasn’t responded to conventional treatment. IV ketamine and Spravato both act on the brain’s glutamate system rather than serotonin, calming the overactive neural circuits that drive persistent anxiety in a way that SSRIs and benzodiazepines often can’t. And they work fast. Many patients notice a meaningful shift within hours to days of their first session.
We’re the only clinic in the Coulee Region offering both IV ketamine and Spravato, with continuous medical supervision at every session.
Understanding Anxiety: When Worry Takes Over
Everyone feels anxious sometimes. But an anxiety disorder is something different. It’s a persistent, often overwhelming state of fear, worry, or unease that doesn’t match the situation and doesn’t go away on its own. It can interfere with work, relationships, sleep, and daily functioning in ways that compound over time.
Anxiety disorders develop through a combination of genetic predisposition, brain chemistry, and life experience. When the brain’s threat-detection system gets stuck in overdrive, everyday situations can feel dangerous, and the nervous system never fully settles. That’s exactly where ketamine therapy’s ability to calm overactive neural circuits becomes clinically significant.
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Types of Anxiety We Treat
Anxiety isn't a single condition. It shows up in many forms, and the right treatment depends on understanding which one you're dealing with. Ketamine therapy has shown meaningful results across several anxiety disorders, particularly when other treatments haven't worked.
Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
GAD affects 6.8 million U.S. adults and is characterized by chronic, excessive worry about everyday things: work, health, money, relationships. The worry feels uncontrollable and is often accompanied by physical symptoms like muscle tension, fatigue, and difficulty sleeping. For patients who haven't found relief with therapy or medication, ketamine therapy offers a neurologically different approach by directly calming the overactive circuits driving that persistent state of worry.
Panic Disorder
Panic disorder affects 6 million U.S. adults and involves recurrent, unexpected panic attacks alongside persistent fear of future attacks. The condition can become severely limiting, causing people to avoid situations where escape might be difficult. Ketamine therapy's rapid action on neural circuits can help reduce both the frequency and intensity of panic episodes, often providing relief that slower-acting medications haven't.
Social Anxiety Disorder
Social anxiety goes far beyond shyness. It's an intense fear of social situations where you might be judged, embarrassed, or scrutinized, often severe enough to limit career opportunities, relationships, and daily life. Ketamine's ability to promote neural plasticity and reduce the brain's threat response can help loosen the grip that social anxiety holds on everyday interactions.
Anxiety with Depression
Nearly half of people diagnosed with depression also carry a significant anxiety disorder, and the two conditions reinforce each other in ways that make both harder to treat. Standard antidepressants often address one while leaving the other unresolved. Ketamine therapy acts on both simultaneously, calming overactive anxiety circuits while rebuilding the neural pathways that depression has depleted.
PTSD-Related Anxiety
PTSD and anxiety are deeply intertwined. Hypervigilance, fear responses, and chronic worry are hallmarks of post-traumatic stress, and they often persist long after the traumatic event. Ketamine therapy supports neural healing and helps interrupt the entrenched threat-response patterns that trauma leaves behind. Our team includes Lisa Knudtson, a Navy veteran and PMHNP with over a decade of ketamine experience who brings authentic connection to this work.
Burnout-Driven Anxiety
Chronic workplace stress and burnout don't just exhaust you. Over time, they can rewire the brain's stress response in ways that look and feel like an anxiety disorder. When rest and lifestyle adjustments haven't been enough, ketamine therapy can help restore the neural pathways that sustained stress has depleted.
Your Anxiety Treatment Journey at Relevate Ketafusion
From your first conversation to your last session, we're with you at every step.
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Initial Consultation
Your journey starts with a virtual consultation. We'll talk through your diagnosis, your treatment history, and what's worked and what hasn't. You'll receive a thorough mental health screening and medical clearance review, and we'll explain clearly whether IV ketamine, Spravato, or both make the most sense for your situation. No commitment, no pressure.
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Personalized Treatment Plan
We build your treatment plan around your specific diagnosis, history, and goals. For IV ketamine, that typically means 6 to 8 infusions over 2 to 4 weeks. For Spravato, the induction phase runs twice-weekly sessions for four weeks before tapering to maintenance. We'll walk you through the full timeline, what to expect at each stage, and how we'll track your progress.
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Treatment Sessions
Every session takes place in a private, calm treatment room with ambient lighting and soothing music. Our medical team stays present throughout, monitoring your vitals and your comfort in real time. Most patients describe the experience as peaceful and grounding. Plan to have someone drive you home afterward.
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Integration and Ongoing Monitoring
We track your response carefully and adjust your plan as needed. Integration support helps you build on what shifted during treatment and carry that progress forward between sessions. After your initial series, we'll develop a maintenance schedule to protect the gains you've made.
Our Anxiety Treatments: IV Ketamine and Spravato
We offer two clinically validated, rapid-acting treatments for anxiety and co-occurring conditions. Your provider will help determine the better fit based on your diagnosis, history, and goals.
IV Ketamine Therapy
Administered directly into the bloodstream through a small IV line, ketamine infusions offer precise dosing and immediate effect. Sessions typically last 40 to 60 minutes in a private, comfortable treatment room. IV ketamine is a self-pay treatment and is not covered by insurance, but it's often the more precisely dosed and immediately effective option. Most patients complete an initial series of 6 to 8 infusions over 2 to 4 weeks.
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Spravato (Esketamine) Therapy
FDA-approved for treatment-resistant depression and MDD with suicidal ideation, Spravato also shows meaningful benefit for anxiety that co-occurs with depression. You self-administer the nasal spray in our clinic under direct medical supervision, then rest during a required monitoring period. Sessions last approximately two hours. Spravato is covered by most major insurance plans, and our team handles verification before your first visit.
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The Science Behind Ketamine for Anxiety
Most anxiety medications work by increasing GABA activity to slow the nervous system down, or by adjusting serotonin levels over weeks. They help many people, but they don’t work for everyone and they can take a long time to build up. Ketamine takes a fundamentally different route.
By blocking NMDA receptors and acting on the glutamate system, ketamine triggers rapid changes in how the brain processes threat and stress. Overactive neural circuits that drive anxiety begin to quiet. New, healthier neural pathways form. The result is relief that comes in hours or days rather than weeks, often giving patients a window of calm that allows other therapeutic work to take hold more effectively.
Our own Robyn Brown, FNP-C and PMHNP-BC, has personal experience with anxiety and brings that firsthand understanding to every patient she works with. She doesn’t just know the research. She knows what it feels like.
Why Choose Relevate Ketafusion for Anxiety Treatment
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The Only Clinic in the Coulee Region Offering Both IV Ketamine and Spravato
Relevate Ketafusion is the only provider in the La Crosse area offering both IV ketamine infusions and FDA-approved Spravato therapy under one roof. The nearest alternative is over two hours away. You don’t have to make that drive.
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A Provider Who Understands Anxiety Personally
Robyn Brown, our FNP-C and PMHNP-BC, has her own experience with anxiety. She brings 20 years of nursing expertise alongside that personal understanding, approaching every patient with the philosophy of meeting them exactly where they are. That combination of clinical depth and lived experience is rare.
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Spravato Covered by Insurance
Spravato is covered by most major insurance plans. Our team verifies your coverage before your first session and handles prior authorization so you’re not navigating it alone. For IV ketamine, we offer transparent self-pay pricing with HSA/FSA acceptance and CareCredit financing available.
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Continuous Medical Supervision at Every Session
You’re never alone during treatment. Our medical team monitors your vitals and your comfort throughout every session. For someone dealing with anxiety, knowing that a qualified team is present and attentive the entire time makes a real difference.
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A Space Built to Lower Your Anxiety, Not Raise It
Our clinic doesn’t feel like a clinic. Private treatment rooms, calming decor, ambient lighting, and soothing music create an environment designed specifically to support the healing process. Patients consistently say the atmosphere itself is part of the treatment.
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Founded by Someone Who's Been There
Tina Schumaker, our CEO and co-founder, built Relevate after experiencing treatment-resistant depression and PTSD firsthand. She knows what it means to feel like nothing is working, and then find something that finally does. That experience shapes everything about how we show up for our patients.
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