“The freer I get, the higher I go. The higher I go, the more I see. The more I see, the less I know. The less I know, the more I’m free.” -Ram Dass
Ketamine-Assisted Pschotherapy
What is Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP)?
Ketamine is a medicine traditionally used for 5 decades as an anesthetic. Ketamine is the only psychedelic that has been legally approved for medical use, outside of clinical trials. However, other psychedelics like MDMA and psilocybin are showing promising results in clinical trials.
When used in low doses, Ketamine can have a psychedelic effect, creating a distance from every day life and a deeper connection to your own inner world.
Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy is a deep therapeutic process that utilizes medication in conjunction with psychotherapy. This approach takes advantage of ketamine’s ability to promote deeper states of self-awareness, while the therapeutic integration can create optimal and sustained healing.
Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy has been proven to improve a number of conditions including trauma/PTSD, depression, suicidality, anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorders and more.
Potential benefits may include: lessening of depressive and anxiety symptoms, a “time out” from the busy mind, obsessive thoughts or negative self-talk, profound shifts in perspective on self, relationships and worldview, a more positive or fresh outlook on challenging situations, and more.
In KAP preparation sessions, we will collaborate to best prepare you for understanding the insights that typically arise during the ketamine sessions. In working with clients undergoing KAP treatment, there is a strong emphasis on the importance of therapy integration for optimal benefits. Integration sessions occur after the medicine sessions to help you to make sense of what arose for you during the ketamine sessions and apply these insights to make positive and lasting changes in your life.
Your KAP treatment team will consist of a licensed physician and myself as your psychotherapist. Both of us are authorized by our respective licensure boards to provide the gold standard of professional psychiatric and psychotherapeutic services.
You will have an initial screening session and assessment with a licensed physician to determine whether ketamine is an appropriate medicine for your healthcare needs. If KAP is appropriate for you and there are no contraindications, we will schedule sessions as needed to prepare you for the ketamine sessions.
When working with me, expect KAP sessions to run approximately 3 hours in length to make room for the therapeutic process, medicine journey and psychedelic therapy integration.
The Flow of Ketamine-Assisted Therapy at Rising Mind Therapy:
Intro Call: A brief, supportive conversation to connect, understand what you’re navigating, and answer any questions you may have about the KAP process.
Psychiatric Assessment: A comprehensive evaluation to review your history and current symptoms, determine whether KAP is an appropriate fit, and collaboratively develop a personalized treatment plan.
Preparation Session: These sessions focus on building a trusting therapeutic relationship, clarifying expectations, and offering tools to help you prepare for and navigate the ketamine experience—laying the foundation for a safe, intentional, and effective course of treatment.
Ketamine Session: Typically three-hour sessions in which ketamine is administered in a safe, supported setting. Your KAP therapist remains present throughout to offer grounding, guidance, and compassionate support.
Integration Sessions
Integration sessions support you in making meaning of your ketamine experiences and bringing insights into daily life. Together, we reflect on what emerged, deepen understanding, and gently translate inner shifts into lasting, embodied change.
Contact me for more information about Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy.
“What if the journey to being, the infinite being you truly are, is the greatest adventure you will ever go on?” -Anonymous
Contact me if you have further questions or to see if KAP may be a supportive path for you.
I am a licensed psychotherapist who specializes in KAP and have had the privilege of helping train hundreds of doctors and therapists through The Ketamine Training Center, alongside Dr. Phil Wolfson, the originator of the gold-standard protocol for ketamine-assisted psychotherapy.
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Psychedelic Therapy Integration
Psychedelic means mind-manifesting, it is a broad term applied to compounds and experiences with related subjective effects of an altered perception of one's sense of self and an increased awareness of mental processes.
Psychedelic Integration refers to taking insights, emotions, or attitudes gained from your experience and processing them into desired areas of your life. Integration as a general definition means “bringing parts together to make a whole.” Psychedelic integration helps to achieve a sense of “wholeness” through this deep therapeutic process.
Our KAP sessions together include dedicated time for integration immediately following each ketamine experience during medicine sessions.
Examples of intentions may involve speaking your truth, taking ownership of mistakes, or reconnecting with the parts of yourself that you may have disowned in the past. It is this wholeness, this ownership of all parts of ourselves, that creates the strong, sovereign, calm foundations the rest of your life can be built upon.
If you are currently undergoing KAP treatment in a different location, but do not have integration support, I am available to offer integration therapy to support your process.
Ketamine Intensives
I offer 2, 3, and 4 day “Intensives” for individuals, couples, or groups or those traveling from out of town for Ketamine treatments. Intensives are generally over the course of a weekend and involve individualized attention from my clinical team. These treatments are curated and customized for each individual’s needs.
Assessment and screening from a doctor is necessary for all medicine treatments.
Contact me for more information about Intensives.
