Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy

Ketamine is a powerful psychedelic medicine that can lead to lasting psychological healing and growth.  

How can I access KAP?

I work with KAP in several different ways. My individual therapy clients may choose to pursue KAP as part of our work together. I also take referrals from other therapists that feel that KAP would be helpful to their clients, but don’t practice it themselves. I offer KAP to individuals and groups, both remotely, and in a retreat setting. Group KAP is a great opportunity for those looking for a more affordable option, and can have the added benefit of working with others that are also on their healing journey. 

How do I get started?

Your first step will be to get a referral to Journey Clinical, which will come from me. The prescribers at Journey will then schedule an intake to see if you are a candidate for KAP. If so, you will receive a prescription with dosing instructions that are specific to you, as determined by your prescriber. Journey will then mail your doses to you at your home. Journey prescribes ketamine sublingually, which means that you will administer a tablet that dissolves instantly under your tongue. 

Once you receive your prescription, we will schedule both a dosing and integration session if we are working remotely. These sessions will occur on different days. If we are working together in a retreat setting, we will schedule that retreat ahead of time. See here for more details on retreats.

What happens when we meet?

In the dosing session, we will prepare the space, set intentions, and make sure that you have everything you need. You will take your own blood pressure and pulse, and we will check in with your chaperone if we are meeting remotely. After that, you will take your dose, and embark on your journey. You will use an eye mask, lay down in a comfortable place, and put on noise canceling headphones to engage with a music playlist, which I will provide.

As you are in your experience, I will hold space with you throughout that time, call you out of your journey, and close the session with intention. You may or may not want to process what you experienced immediately afterwards, and either way is totally fine. We intentionally set a date for an integration session within a week to take advantage of your brain’s post-KAP neuroplasticity. 

Remote KAP

Clients located in Colorado and Oregon can access remote KAP through the prescribers at Journey Clinical. Once you have received your prescription, we will work together to schedule a dosing session and an integration session to process your experience. 

Intensive Retreats

KAP is an essential component to my intensive individual retreats. Clients living in CA, CT, CO, FL, GA, NY, NJ, MA, MD, MN, OH, OR, PA, TN, TX, VA, WA, and WI may all travel to Bend, Oregon for treatment, while receiving their prescription from a provider in their state through Journey Clinical. Learn more about individual retreats here, and stay tuned to learn about upcoming group retreats.

Curious about KAP?

If the idea of KAP is intriguing to you, you can learn more details through this blog post or reach out here for a free consultation.