What Is Ketamine-Assisted Psychoherapy?
Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) is a compassionate, heart-centered approach that blends the therapeutic power of ketamine with the safety and depth of guided psychotherapy.
In a calm, medically supported environment, this process invites you to explore your inner world with curiosity, openness, and care.
Through gentle shifts in awareness, ketamine can help the mind and body access deeper layers of emotion and understanding—supporting release, renewal, and new pathways for healing.
Many people describe it as a doorway to reconnect with parts of themselves that have felt distant, hidden, or burdened by pain.
Our goal is not simply symptom relief, but true integration—a process of coming home to yourself with greater ease, clarity, and compassion.
How It Works
Preparation: Setting the Foundation
Your healing journey begins with intention.
Before your first session, you’ll meet with your therapist and medical provider to explore your story, your hopes, and your goals. Together, we’ll create a plan that honors your emotional readiness, medical safety, and unique path forward.
This stage is about building trust and safety, two essential ingredients for deep healing.
Ketamine Session: The Experience
When you arrive for your session, you’ll be welcomed into a peaceful, supportive space. You may rest in a recliner or on a couch, perhaps with calming music or an eye shade to help you turn inward. Ketamine is administered at a low, sub-anesthetic dose, either through an IV injection or a lozenge under careful supervision.
As the medicine begins to take effect, you may enter a state of expanded awareness or deep reflection. Your therapist remains present throughout, offering grounded support and gentle guidance as you explore whatever arises.
Integration: Bringing It All Together
In the days following your session, you’ll meet again with your therapist to reflect, process, and make meaning of your experience.
This is where transformation truly deepens—where insights become action, and emotional release becomes lasting change.
Integration helps translate the clarity and openness of the ketamine journey into your everyday life, relationships, and self-understanding.
Who Might Benefit
Ketamine-Assisted Therapy may be especially supportive for those who:
- Have experienced depression, anxiety, or PTSD that has not fully responded to traditional treatments.
- Are seeking a deeper emotional or spiritual healing experience.
- Wish to move beyond old patterns, limiting beliefs, or emotional blocks.
- Feel called to reconnect with themselves in a new and more compassionate way.
Every individual’s journey is unique, and we honor that uniqueness with care, respect, and personalized attention.
Why It Helps
Rapid Relief
Many people notice shifts in mood, perspective, or self-connection within hours or days.
Renewed Growth
Ketamine may enhance neuroplasticity—the brain’s ability to form new connections—creating space for new ways of thinking, feeling, and being.
Deeper Access
In a supportive setting, the experience can help you reach emotions or insights that are often difficult to access through talk therapy alone.