A supported path toward deep, grounded healing
Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) is a powerful way to access layers of healing that are often hard to reach through talk therapy alone. Ketamine temporarily softens long-standing patterns in the brain and nervous system, allowing you to experience emotion, memory, intuition, and insight with more space and compassion. The psychotherapy component helps you feel safe during the experience and then integrate what arises so the changes take root.
What Is Ketamine?
Ketamine is a legal, well-studied medicine used safely in medical settings for over 50 years. At the low therapeutic doses used in KAP, it can create a sense of calm, openness, or emotional spaciousness without sedation.
It works by temporarily increasing neuroplasticity: your brain’s ability to form new connections. Old grooves soften, and new ways of relating to your thoughts, emotions, and history become possible. Many people describe the experience as peaceful, symbolic, expansive, or deeply insightful.
What Is Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy?
KAP combines the medicine of ketamine with the grounding, presence, and meaning-making of psychotherapy. Ketamine helps ease the mind out of rigid patterns so your deeper material can surface; therapy helps you navigate that experience safely and integrate the insights afterward.
A simple metaphor:
If your brain is a ski slope with well-worn tracks, ketamine is like a fresh layer of snow. For a short time, you can explore new paths. Integration helps those new paths become pathways you can actually live from.
What KAP Can Help With
KAP can be particularly healing for people navigating anxiety, perfectionism, looping thoughts, trauma (including complex or developmental trauma), grief, burnout, and major life transitions. It’s also meaningful for people with a high level of sensitivity or neurodivergence- especially for those people whose nervous system tends to absorb the world deeply.
Through KAP, many sensitive clients describe feeling more regulated, more compassionate toward themselves, and more connected to what matters.
Is KAP Right for You?
You may be a good fit if you:
- feel ready for a breakthrough or a shift that talk therapy alone hasn’t reached
- carry trauma and want a safe, accelerated way to work with it
- long to trust your inner knowing more fully
- feel stuck in recurring patterns or emotional loops
- are overwhelmed want a gentle way back into yourself
- sense that something inside wants to move, but you can’t quite access it
KAP can create the conditions for deeper work to become possible.
The KAP Process
(Preparation → Medicine Session → Integration)
Preparation
Before your first dosing session, we meet for a preparation session to explore intentions, clarify what you hope may shift, and review what the experience may feel like physically and emotionally. We also talk through any questions, fears, or concerns so your system can feel grounded and ready.
You will also meet with a collaborating medical provider (or your own prescriber) who reviews your health history and current medications and prescribes an appropriate dose.
I’ll support you in setting some initial intentions for your journey and getting to a place of inner readiness.
The Medicine Session
Your KAP session takes place in a calm, comfortable environment. You’ll take a prescribed sublingual dose of ketamine and settle into a reclined position with music and optional eye shades.
The medicine typically begins working within 15–20 minutes, and the active experience lasts around 40–60 minutes. Including arrival, intention setting and discussion afterwards, sessions last about 2.5–3 hours.
You might feel floaty, peaceful, symbolic, emotional, or deeply reflective. Some sessions are quiet; others feel vivid and alive. All are welcome.
You are never alone. I stay with you throughout, offering attuned presence and gentle support so you can surrender into the experience safely.
Afterward, we take time to help you reorient. Plan for rest, hydration, and minimal obligations for the remainder of the day. You will not drive after dosing.
Integration
Integration happens within 24–72 hours, while your neuroplasticity window is still open. This is where therapy helps the insights land.
Together, we explore what arose – images, memories, emotions, sensations – and understand what they mean for your history, patterns, and relationships. We translate the experience into grounded, meaningful change.
The ketamine experience is powerful, but integration is where transformation really happens.
How Many Sessions Are Typical?
Every person’s process is different, but many people start to feel a shift within one to three sessions. More stable change typically occurs over six to eight medicine sessions, supported by ongoing integration. I’ll have some recommendations for timing, but overall, we move at the pace that feels right for your nervous system.
Safety & Side Effects
Ketamine is considered very safe when used in a therapeutic, medically supervised setting. Temporary effects may include nausea, lightheadedness, a sense of floating, changed perception, or mild increases in heart rate or blood pressure. These usually resolve within hours.
Your prescribing medical provider handles dosing, medical screening, and follow-up. I handle emotional and psychological safety before, during, and after. You are fully supported throughout the entire process.
Cost
Preparation & Integration Sessions
Billed at your standard session length (50–75 minutes).
Medicine (Dosing) Sessions
Extended 2.5–3 hour sessions at $225/hour, typically totaling $560–$675.
Medical Costs
Your prescribing provider sets their own fees for intake, follow-ups, and the medication. Some insurance plans may reimburse part of the medical evaluation or therapy depending on your out-of-network benefits.
KAP is an investment in deep healing, often helping us breakthrough well-worn patterns that are stubborn or slow to shift. Additionally, even when your therapy has been moving along nicely, this can accelerate the pace of your growth.
My Approach
My work is relational, trauma-informed, and deeply attuned to highly sensitive and neurodivergent nervous systems. I move at the pace that your body and psyche can comfortably integrate, helping you stay grounded while still accessing depth.
Through my warm attunement and grounded presence, I’ll help you feel safe throughout your journey and supported in digesting and making meaning of the insights that emerge.
If You’re Curious
If you’re feeling drawn to this work or even just wondering about it, we can talk through your questions and curiosities as well as whether this path feels right for you.
If you’re already a client of mine, just mention KAP. If you’re not yet a client, please reach out with interest here.
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