A bridge between inner and outer healing
Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP) combines the safety of a grounded therapeutic relationship with the transformative potential of ketamine. Unlike traditional medication models, KAP is a collaborative process that blends medical and psychological care. The goal isn’t simply symptom relief, it’s deepened self-understanding, emotional release, and the capacity to live more fully connected to yourself and others.
Why ketamine? Why now?
For some, traditional therapy alone can feel like it reaches a plateau. Ketamine can temporarily soften the defenses that make it difficult to access certain emotions, memories, or perspectives. In this expanded state of awareness, clients often experience moments of clarity, compassion, and release that allow healing work to move in new directions.
When held in a safe therapeutic container, these experiences can accelerate emotional processing, unlock creativity, and bring a renewed sense of meaning. My role is to help you bridge these expanded moments of insight into the steady ground of your daily life.
The process: preparation, experience, and integration
Preparation:
experience:
integration:
KAP is a structured yet deeply personal process. It unfolds through three phases designed to support you before, during, and after each ketamine experience.
We begin with an intake and preparation phase where we explore your history, clarify intentions, and discuss what to expect. We also collaborate with a prescribing medical provider who ensures medical appropriateness and dosing.
Sessions typically last around two hours in a calm, supportive setting. You’ll take the medication (usually in sublingual form) and settle into an inner experience, accompanied by music and gentle guidance. Throughout, I remain fully present—attuned to your process, offering grounding, reassurance, and emotional containment.
After the session, we meet to process what emerged and connect insights to your ongoing therapy work. Integration is where meaning takes root, helping you turn expanded awareness into practice growth and lasting change.
Expanding awareness, anchored in safety
Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy is not a stand-alone medical intervention—it’s psychotherapy within an altered state. The medicine may open new doors, but the therapeutic relationship provides the structure, attunement, and emotional safety that makes exploration healing rather than overwhelming. My approach integrates trauma informed, emotionally focused, and psychodynamic principles, helping clients encounter themselves with compassion and curiosity even in altered states.
Every KAP journey is unique and developed collaboratively. Your dosing plan and treatment schedule are designed in consultation with a psychiatric prescribing provider, ensuring both medical and psychological safety at every step.
Ketamine-assisted Psychotherapy may be a good fit for those experiencing:
• Trauma resistant depression or anxiety
• Trauma and PTSD
• Grief or existential distress
• Emotional numbness or disconnection
• A desire for psychospiritual growth or deeper emotional integration
If you’re already engaged in individual therapy, KAP can complement that work by deepening access to emotional material.
Couples Ketamine -Assisted Psychotherapy
beyond communication skills
Guided by Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
For some couples, ketamine-assisted psychotherapy offers a profound way to explore their relational patterns through a new lens. When appropriate, KAP can help partners access the deeper emotions that shape their bond by softening defensiveness, deepening empathy, and inviting repair.
In this format, the focus isn’t on techniques or scrips, it’s on accessing the deeper emotional currents that shape your bond. The altered state often helps partners see one another with fresh empathy, curiosity, and compassion.
My approach integrates EFT’s attunement to attachment needs within the inner openness ketamine can facilitate. The combination can accelerate moments of repair, deepen emotional contact, and support long term relational growth.
safety and pacing
Couples KAP requires careful preparation and medical clearance, just like individual KAP. We’ll meet for joint preparation and integration sessions to ensure both partners feel grounded and supported before and after the dosing experience.
by referral and consultation only
Because of its depth and intensity, Couples KAP is available only through referral and an extended consultation process to ensure readiness and alignment with your goals.
A shared healing space
Couples KAP creates a structured, emotionally safe environment where partners can experience expanded awareness together. The medicine allows each person to soften defenses and access deeper emotional truths, while therapy helps translate those moments into connection and understanding.
Referral and readiness
KAP is available by referral only and is especially suited for individuals who have depth-oriented therapeutic engagement, are medically cleared, and seeking more than symptom relief. It may be especially helpful for treatment-resistant depression, trauma, disconnection, or those pursuing psychospiritual growth. We’ll clarify together whether this path is a good fit by exploring readiness, intention and support resources.
While ketamine is medically prescribed, its use in psychotherapy and expanded states is off-label. This means strong screening, collaboration with medical professionals, and clear therapeutic boundaries are essential. My work focuses on the therapeutic container, from preparation through integration, not on prescribing or administering medication independently.
Integration and ongoing growth
The most profound change often comes after the medicine session ends, during the integration that follows. Together, we work to help insights unfold over time rather than fade away, translating inner experiences into shifts in how you think, feel, and relate.
Whether your path involves KAP, ongoing therapy, or a combination of both, my goal is the same: to help you move toward wholeness, emotional freedom, and a life that feels more deeply your own.
