At Marquette Medical Mindful Wellness, our mission is to provide compassionate, evidence-informed care that supports healing of the mind through an integrative and collaborative approach. We specialize in ketamine infusion therapy as one component of a broader commitment to mental Wellbeing, working alongside each patient’s existing care team—including counselors, psychiatrists, and primary care providers—to ensure continuity, safety, and meaningful progress.
We strive to create an environment that is open, welcoming, and thoughtfully supportive, where patients feel respected, understood, and at ease. Through personalized care, clinical excellence, and a focus on the whole person, we aim to help individuals navigate depression, anxiety, PTSD, and related conditions with dignity, hope, and renewed possibility.
Ketamine is a dissociative anesthetic medication. While originally developed to help people feel comfortable during invasive procedures, the role of ketamine in providing rapid relief for treatment-resistant depression and other mental health issues has been explored with new emerging data over the past decade.
Ketamine is delivered via an IV infusion over about 40 minutes to put your brain at a “dissociative threshold”, where you begin to feel mildly dissociated and allow your brain to explore suppressed areas in a safe way. It works in multiple ways to affect neurotransmitters and neuromodulation to help rewire your way of thinking. This is performed in a clinical setting over the course of two weeks, the “induction series”. People typically receive 4-6 treatments once weekly in order to feel they have received the most benefit from their treatments.
You will need a referral from your mental healthcare provider. This can be your primary care doctor, psychiatrist, psychologist, or counselor. While ketamine infusions can help get your head above water, it is important to keep working on your mental healthcare through traditional means to ensure that you have lasting benefit. Referral forms can be found here
Kyle Kakuk – Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner
Kyle is a Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. She lives in Marquette County with her husband, two children, two dogs, and two cats. After spending 16 years caring for patients as an RN, she chose to pursue a career as a PMHNP. Kyle is passionate about providing truly personalized, collaborative, and compassionate care to her community. She is an avid trail runner and enjoys gardening, reading, traveling, and spending time with her family– especially outdoors.
Dr. Loukusa – Medical Director, Mindful Wellness
Dr. Loukusa completed medical school at the University of Minnesota and residency in Marquette with a board certification in Family Medicine. He enjoys helping patients understand their conditions and how to get the most out of life. Outside of medicine, Dr. Loukusa enjoys spending time with his family and tries to find time for mountain biking, cross-country skiing and sauna.
We make sure to screen and prepare patients to help avoid any complications. The most common complications of treatment are nausea and anxiety. If you experience these related to treatment, we have medication to help. People who have a diagnosis of schizophrenia, certain cardiac dysrhythmias, glaucoma or uncontrolled aneurysms should not receive ketamine infusions.
The initial induction series is four infusions, one per week, over four weeks. Sometimes this needs to be extended to six or eight weeks, depending on response.
Since every plan varies, it is best to reach out to your insurance company directly to see if they will cover treatment. Many insurance companies will pay for treatment in part, or apply the cost of treatments to your deductible. The cash-pay pricing for ketamine infusions is $250 per infusion if you are not using insurance.
You will need a referral from your mental healthcare provider. This can be your primary care doctor, psychiatrist, psychologist, or counselor. While ketamine infusions can help get your head above water, it is important to keep working on your mental healthcare through traditional means to ensure that you have lasting benefit. Referral forms can be found here.