Ketamine-Assited Psychotherapy
What is Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP)?
Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy is a therapeutic approach that combines the safe, medically supervised use of ketamine with guided psychotherapy to support emotional healing and meaningful psychological growth. Ketamine is a legally prescribed medication with rapid-acting antidepressant and anxiolytic effects, and when used intentionally within a therapeutic setting, it can help clients access new insights, shift rigid patterns, and reduce emotional distress.
I work closely with a trusted prescribing psychiatrist who conducts a thorough medical and psychological evaluation to determine whether KAP is an appropriate and safe option for each client. Once approved, we move through the process together in a structured and supportive way. The psychiatrist and I utilize a collaborative approach to help you through the process.
KAP includes preparation sessions, where we clarify intentions, discuss the experience, and build the grounding tools needed for your journey. After each ketamine session, I offer integration sessions to help you reflect on the experience, make sense of emerging insights, and translate them into meaningful, lasting change.
KAP can be especially helpful for individuals experiencing treatment-resistant depression, anxiety, PTSD, or patterns of emotional stuckness. With the combination of therapeutic support, mindful preparation, and thoughtful integration, ketamine can create a powerful window of neuroplasticity—opening space for healing, clarity, and renewed wellbeing.
What to expect:
Step 1: Consultation
We will do a no-cost 30-minute consultation to determine if you are a good fit for KAP. We will look at trauma history, current life circumstances, past therapy treatment, and coping skills. It is a time to ask questions and inquire about the process.
Step 2: Psychiatric Evaluation
Before beginning Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy, each client completes a medical intake with a psychiatrist highly trained in KAP. During this evaluation, he reviews your medical and mental health history, symptoms, and medications to determine whether ketamine is a safe and appropriate option for you. He provides expert medical oversight and collaborates closely with me throughout the process, ensuring your treatment is grounded in safety, clarity, and individualized care.
Step 4: Dosing Session
A dosing session is the therapeutic space where ketamine is administered in a safe, supportive environment. During the session, you are monitored throughout the experience while I provide grounding, reassurance, and gentle guidance as needed. The medicine may help you access new perspectives, insights, or emotional shifts, all within a calm, intentional setting designed to support your healing.
A single dosing session last 2-3 hours. A client can expect 3-8 dosing sessions.
Step 5: Integration Session
Integration sessions take place 24- 72 hours after your ketamine experience and help you make sense of the insights, emotions, or shifts that emerged during dosing. Together, we explore how to apply these discoveries to your daily life, strengthen new patterns, and support lasting change. Integration is where meaningful, long-term growth takes root.
Step 3: Preparation Session
preparation sessions help you enter Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy with clarity, grounding, and support. During these meetings, we discuss your intentions, review what to expect during the ketamine experience, and develop the tools you’ll use to navigate it with confidence. This time also builds trust and safety, ensuring you feel ready—emotionally and physically—for the journey ahead. Clients can expect 1-3 preparation session depending on their individual circumstances.
Benefits of Ketamine- Assisted Psychotherapy
Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP) offers a unique and often transformative path to healing by combining the therapeutic effects of ketamine with guided psychotherapy. Many people experience relief and emotional breakthroughs much more quickly than with traditional talk therapy, sometimes noticing shifts within hours or days instead of weeks or months.
One reason KAP can be so powerful is its impact on neuroplasticity—the brain’s ability to form new neural connections and reorganize old patterns. Ketamine temporarily enhances this neuroplastic window by influencing the glutamate system and promoting the release of growth-supporting factors like BDNF. Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor is a vital protein in the brain that acts like a fertilizer for neurons, promoting their survival, growth, and the formation of new connections, which is crucial for learning, memory, and overall brain health. In this more flexible state, the brain becomes better able to “rewire” itself, allowing entrenched patterns related to depression, anxiety, trauma, or rigid thinking to soften and reorganize. When this biological openness is paired with skilled therapeutic support, clients often access deeper emotional material, gain clearer insights, and make progress that might have taken much longer through talk therapy alone.
Over time, these shifts can lead to greater psychological flexibility, resilience, and a more grounded sense of well-being. This integration of neurobiology and psychotherapy is what makes KAP a truly groundbreaking approach, one that supports both rapid relief and lasting, meaningful change.
Pricing
3 Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy Sessions
30-minute consult to assess fit
Detailed intake assessment
Preparation materials
1-2 preparations sessions depending on need
Three 2-3 hour ketamine dosing sessions
Three integration sessions
Total therapeutic hours: 12-15
*psychiatric evaluation is required and billed separately
6 Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy Sessions
30-minute consult to assess fit
Detailed intake assessment
Preparation materials
1-2 preparations sessions depending on need
Six 2-3 hour ketamine dosing sessions
Six integration sessions
Total therapeutic hours: 12-24
*psychiatric evaluation is required and billed separately