Ketamine-Assisted Therapy · Adults · Trauma
Sometimes the storm has gone on long enough that the usual doors won't open. Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy is a way to access deeper healing — when nothing else has been able to get there.
A note on availability: Ketamine-assisted therapy is an area I'm actively developing and expanding. If you're interested in this work, reach out — we can talk about where things currently stand and what the process would look like for you.
What it is
Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP) uses ketamine — a legal, FDA-approved medicine — in combination with therapy to facilitate deeper healing. The ketamine creates a temporary altered state that can loosen the grip of rigid thought patterns, reduce the fear response, and open a window of neural plasticity that makes therapeutic work more accessible.
This is not recreational use, and it's not ketamine therapy where you sit alone with an infusion. The medicine and the therapy are integrated. What happens during the medicine experience is processed with a therapist — before, during, and after — which is where the actual transformation happens.
Research on ketamine-assisted therapy has shown particularly promising results for treatment-resistant depression, PTSD, and people who feel stuck despite significant prior therapeutic work. For people carrying trauma that hasn't moved, it can be a meaningful part of the path forward.
The process
Before any medicine is involved, we do the groundwork. We explore your history, what you're coming in with, your intentions for the work, and we make sure you have the capacity to move through a medicine experience with some degree of stability. This phase matters enormously. How you prepare shapes what's possible.
Ketamine is a prescription medicine, which means working with a prescribing provider for evaluation and administration. I coordinate closely with the medical side of this work. You'll be screened to ensure ketamine is medically appropriate for you, and the therapeutic and medical pieces stay connected throughout.
The ketamine session itself takes place in a safe, supported environment. The experience is different for everyone — some people have vivid internal experiences, others feel primarily physical. My role is to hold space, keep you grounded, and be present as you move through it. We're not chasing a specific experience. We're creating conditions for your nervous system to do something different.
This is where I believe the most important work happens. The medicine experience opens something — integration is how you actually make use of it. In the days and weeks following, we meet to process what arose, make meaning of it, and connect the insights to your actual life and relationships. Without integration, a medicine experience is just an experience. With it, things actually change.
"The medicine creates a window. The therapy is what you climb through it with." — Alyssa Davis, LMFT
Why this approach
The medicine session doesn't stand alone. Preparation and integration are where the therapeutic work lives. If anyone is offering medicine sessions without robust preparation and integration, I'd be skeptical. The container matters.
I'm not handing you off to a stranger for the medicine experience. The relationship we've built is what makes the medicine work safe and productive. You should be working with someone who knows your nervous system, your history, your patterns.
The goal isn't a peak experience. The goal is that you notice something has changed — in how your body holds anxiety, in how you respond in your relationships, in the quality
Is this a fit?
Questions
Yes. Ketamine is an FDA-approved medication that can be legally prescribed by a licensed medical provider. In the context of ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, it's administered under medical supervision and in conjunction with therapy. This is distinct from recreational use or illegal substances.
I partner with Journey Clinical, a telehealth platform that connects therapists with prescribing providers who specialize in KAP. Through Journey Clinical, you'll complete a medical evaluation, and if ketamine is appropriate for you, you'll receive a prescription for sublingual ketamine — a lozenge taken under the tongue. This means you're not going to a clinic for an IV infusion. The medicine comes to you, and we work with it together in a supported therapeutic setting.
Yes — KAP sessions can be conducted via telehealth, which makes this accessible regardless of where you're located. If you'd prefer to meet in person, reach out and we can talk through options near you. Either way, the process — preparation, medicine session, and integration — stays the same.
Ketamine does produce an altered state. You may feel dissociated from your usual sense of self, you may have unusual perceptual experiences, and your sense of time may feel different. This is temporary. Most people describe it as loosening rather than losing control. You won't be left alone, and the environment is designed to feel safe and grounded.
Many ketamine clinics offer IV infusions with little to no therapeutic component. What I offer is different — sublingual ketamine prescribed through Journey Clinical, integrated into ongoing therapeutic work. We prepare together, I'm present during the session, and we integrate afterward. The research strongly suggests that this integrated approach produces more lasting change than medicine alone.
Ketamine-assisted therapy involves both therapy fees and medical costs through Journey Clinical. We'll go over all of this transparently before you commit to anything. Reach out to start that conversation.
Let's start with a conversation. A free consultation is a low-stakes way to talk through what you're working with and whether KAP makes sense for where you are.
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