Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP)

Helping you open your heart and heal your mind.

Feeling Stuck?

If you’ve been doing the work — therapy, medication, trying to stay afloat — and still feel stuck, heavy, or disconnected… you’re not broken. You’re just carrying pain that words alone may not reach. Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy offers a different kind of doorway — one that gently loosens the grip of depression, anxiety, or trauma and makes space for something new. It’s not about escaping your pain — it’s about meeting it with clarity, safety, and support. If your heart is quietly whispering “I can’t keep doing it like this”… maybe it is time to answer with something different.

When It Can Be Most Helpful

Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy offers a powerful path forward when talk therapy alone no longer feels like enough. It’s not about escaping — it’s about finally turning toward what’s been too heavy to carry alone.

Here’s where KAP can be especially effective:

  • If you've tried multiple treatments and still feel stuck in a heavy fog, ketamine may help lift the weight — often within hours — offering the clarity and relief you’ve been searching for.

  • KAT gently softens defenses so old pain can surface in a safe, supported space. It's not about reliving trauma — it's about releasing it.

  • Ketamine can disrupt obsessive patterns and allow you to experience calm, even if that’s felt impossible before.

  • Many clients describe ketamine journeys as reconnecting them to something deeper — a sense of inner truth, spiritual grounding, or emotional clarity.

  • Sometimes, even with years of therapy, a breakthrough feels just out of reach. KAT can be the bridge — helping you move through what words alone can’t touch.

How It Helps You Heal

If you're wondering how Ketamine-Assisted Therapy actually helps you heal — you're not alone. This isn’t about numbing or bypassing. It’s about unlocking what’s been stuck, and offering your mind and body a new path forward.

Here’s how it works — step by step.

  • Ketamine works on the NMDA receptors in your brain, helping to reduce the noise of self-criticism, fear, and overthinking. Many clients describe it as finally getting relief from their inner critic, or feeling “outside the usual loop.”

    🌀 Think of it as gently opening a window in a room that’s felt closed for too long.

  • Ketamine supports your brain’s natural ability to rewire. In the days following treatment, your mind becomes more open to new thoughts, emotional shifts, and deeper insight.

    This is why integration is so important — your therapy sessions during this window become even more impactful.

    🧬 It’s not just the medicine — it’s what you do with the space it opens.

  • In a ketamine session, you may revisit painful experiences — but with less fear and more clarity. The emotional charge is softened, allowing you to explore trauma, grief, or core wounds without being overwhelmed.

    Some clients also report deep joy, peace, or a renewed sense of connection.

    🪷 Ketamine can make room for what’s been buried to surface — not to re-traumatize you, but to be witnessed and released.

  • Many describe their ketamine journey as a “reset” — emotionally, spiritually, even existentially. It can offer a profound sense of clarity, presence, and reconnection to what really matters.

    🌱 For some, it feels like remembering who they are — underneath the anxiety, depression, or past pain.

  • We don’t just “do ketamine.” We walk with you through preparation, the experience itself, and integration afterward — where real change takes root.

    This is where insights become action, and healing becomes embodied.

To make this work possible, we have partnered with Journey Clinical.  They provide the medicine, and we provide the Psychotherapy. To learn more about Journey Clinical or schedule an appointment to get started click the button below and request Shawn to be your Therapist.

How We’ll Work Together

    • You schedule an initial evaluation with a clinician from the Journey Clinical medical team via zoom. They will go over your medical and psychiatric history with you, provide education on the treatment and determine if you are eligible for KAP.

    • If Journey Clinical’s medical team determines that you are eligible for KAP, they will develop a personalized Ketamine prescription and outcome monitoring plan for you. 

    • Journey Clinical’s medical staff will write a ketamine prescription for you, and a small amount of oral ketamine will be sent to your home, enough for the first 2 KAP sessions. You will be taught to take your vitals and self-administer the ketamine lozenges by Journey Clinical’s medical team in advance of our KAP sessions.

  • Once you receive your ketamine lozenges, we will schedule time together for our KAP preparation, dosing and integration sessions. Preparation session(s) will be scheduled just like regular therapy sessions prior to the KAP dosing session. The goal of a preparation session(s) is to align on the process and set intentions for our KAP sessions together.  

    • A typical ketamine dosing session lasts between 1-2 hours and can take place either in-person at my office, or remotely via telehealth. 

    • During a dosing session, you will self-administer your ketamine lozenge either in my office or in your home.  You will be in a comfortable, reclining position wearing an eye mask and listening to calming music. Although a KAP dosing session may be largely an internal experience, I will be present with you the entire time to hold space and provide support as needed.

    • After our KAP dosing session, we will meet for multiple integration therapy sessions to review the memories, thoughts & insights that arose during your dosing session, and to prepare for the next dosing session.

  • After our first KAP session, Journey Clinical’s medical team schedules regular follow ups with you to monitor outcomes and prescribe ketamine lozenge refills, as appropriate.  The frequency of follow ups depends on your unique treatment plan, at a minimum of once per quarter.

Shawn 
WHY I DO THIS WORK

I specialize in KAP therapy because I know first-hand how powerful it can be.

As a KAP client myself, I was able to access and resolve things that talk therapy alone could not fully resolve—and it’s because of my experience that I decided to get trained. This method has made such an impact on my life that I wanted to be able to bring this to my clients, too.

What Makes This Work Healing

This isn’t just about the medicine — it’s about what happens before, during, and after. With skilled support, integration, and intention, KAP can unlock healing that lasts.

You don’t need to do it alone.