Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy:

A Path to Deep Healing

For the patterns that won’t break, the emotions that won’t release, and the healing that still feels out of reach.

Maybe you’ve been in therapy for a while—doing the work, showing up, trying to move forward. But something still isn’t shifting.

✔ The same thoughts, memories, or emotions keep coming back.
✔ You understand why you feel the way you do, but it doesn’t stop the pain.
✔ You’re tired of just coping— you want deep, lasting change.

Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) offers a new way forward.

KAP is not about escaping reality— it’s about seeing it differently. This therapy combines the mind-expanding effects of ketamine with the support of psychotherapy to help you:

  • Break free from old patterns that feel impossible to change

  • Access deep emotions & insights that aren’t always reachable through talk therapy alone

  • Feel relief from emotional pain, anxiety, or trauma that’s been stored in the body

  • Experience yourself & your life in a new, more connected way

Ketamine is a dissociative medicine that creates a state of expanded awareness, deep introspection, and emotional openness. When combined with therapy, it can help you:

✔ Access memories, emotions, and subconscious patterns from a new perspective
✔ Lower the emotional charge around difficult experiences
✔ Break free from rigid thinking & self-criticism
✔ Create new neural pathways that support lasting change

This is not about a one-time experience. KAP is a guided process of preparation, exploration, and integration that allows you to make meaningful shifts in your healing journey.

How Does KAP Work?

A Highly Individualized Approach

There is no one-size-fits-all KAP experience.

I tailor the process based on your support system, needs, and therapeutic goals.

    • Before starting KAP, we’ll meet for two therapy sessions to:

    • Explore your history, mental health, and goals for KAP

    • Discuss safety, expectations, and what to expect during a session

    • Create a grounding plan for your journey

  • Every client is different, and KAP is designed to be a flexible, personalized experience that fits your unique needs.

    • Some clients prefer a fully supported, guided KAP experience within a therapeutic setting

    • Others feel comfortable with self-guided sessions at home while continuing therapy for preparation and integration.

    • For clients interested in EMDR + KAP, I provide an in-person EMDR-based approach to deepen trauma processing during KAP.

    We will decide together what is best for you— based on your comfort, experience, and healing goals.

  • Your ketamine journey is only the beginning. The real work happens in integration therapy, where we:
    ✔ Make sense of the insights & emotions that surfaced during your session
    ✔ Turn those insights into meaningful change in your daily life
    ✔ Continue healing with supportive therapies like EMDR, IFS, & somatic work

    Integration ensures that your KAP experience becomes a lasting part of your healing— rather than just a temporary insight.

Ketamine & The Brain:

A Window for Change

Ketamine works not just emotionally, but neurologically.

Unlike traditional medications that take weeks to show effects, ketamine rapidly impacts the brain— helping create new neural pathways and restoring areas affected by trauma, depression, and chronic stress.

How Ketamine Affects the Brain:

  • Ketamine helps the brain form new, healthier connections, making it easier to shift old thought patterns.

  • The DMN is the brain’s “autopilot mode” that often fuels rumination, self-doubt, and stuck thinking. Ketamine quiets this network, allowing for new perspectives.

  • By temporarily relaxing the brain’s defense mechanisms, ketamine can help access and process emotions without overwhelm.

This is why integration is so important.

During this window of increased neuroplasticity, we focus on:

✔ Identifying new goals & making commitments toward change
✔ Practicing new behaviors while the brain is most receptive to them
✔ Strengthening self-awareness & emotional regulation

 Ketamine doesn’t “fix” things on its own– it opens the door.

Integration therapy ensures you step through it in a way that creates real, lasting change.

My Integrative Approach to KAP

KAP is most effective when combined with other therapeutic approaches. I incorporate a mind-body-spirit approach to support your entire system in healing.

  • For clients healing from trauma, EMDR during KAP can deepen processing, release stored emotions, and create faster breakthroughs.

  • Ketamine can help us connect with different “parts” of ourselves in a way that feels clearer and more compassionate. IFS therapy helps you make sense of what you discover and integrate those parts into a more whole, healed self.

  • A ketamine journey can create a profound shift in awareness. For many, this feels calming, expansive, and deeply restorative.

    Because ketamine temporarily relaxes the brain’s usual defenses, emotions and memories may surface in new ways. To support your system, I incorporate:

    • Somatic and nervous system-based tools to help you feel grounded and safe

    • Guided self-regulation techniques so you can move through the experience with ease

    • Practical strategies to integrate insights into daily life

    This ensures that your experience is not only meaningful but also deeply supportive of your healing journey.

Who Can Benefit from KAP?

KAP is not for everyone, but it can be deeply impactful for those who:

✔ Feel “stuck” in traditional therapy and need a different approach
✔ Struggle with trauma, anxiety, or chronic stress
✔ Have experienced PTSD or significant emotional distress
✔ Want to move past fear, self-doubt, or emotional numbness
✔ Are ready for deeper self-exploration and healing

If you’re unsure whether KAP is right for you, we can explore it together.

FAQs

  • No. I partner with a licensed prescriber called West Eastern Health to explore whether KAP is a good fit for you.

  • I offer both online and in-person KAP therapy, including for the medicine session itself.

If doing KAP online, you will need a trusted sitter to ensure your safety during the experience. This is a completely valid and supported way to engage in KAP.

If Traditional Therapy

Hasn’t Been Enough

KAP Might Be the Missing Piece

Healing doesn’t have to take forever. KAP can help you break free from what’s holding you back, connect with yourself in a deeper way, and finally move forward.

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