Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) is the intentional weaving of ketamine medicine sessions into an ongoing psychotherapeutic relationship. It is not a standalone treatment or a quick fix. It is a sacred container in which the medicine and the therapy work together to create conditions for genuine, lasting transformation.

Ketamine is a legal, FDA-approved medicine with decades of safe clinical use. In therapeutic doses, it creates a temporary and gentle shift in consciousness, a dreamlike, weightless state in which the usual walls of the mind soften. Patterns that feel fixed become workable. Emotions that have been held at a distance become safely and tenderly accessible. New neural pathways begin to form.

KAP may be particularly resonant if you are psychologically grounded and growth-oriented, have done meaningful therapeutic work and feel ready to go deeper, or are curious about the healing potential of expanded states of consciousness as part of an intentional inner journey.

The medicine opens the door. The therapy - the preparation, the presence during the experience, and the integration that follows - is where the transformation takes hold.

I am a licensed clinical social worker and psychotherapist. I do not prescribe or dispense ketamine. My role is to provide the therapeutic container: the preparation, the presence during your medicine experience, and the integration that follows.

All medical aspects of your care, including psychiatric evaluation, ketamine prescribing, and ongoing monitoring, are managed by Journey Clinical, a specialized medical practice focused on psychedelic-assisted treatments. Their clinicians handle everything on the medical side. My work and theirs are complementary and coordinated, so your care is held within both a rigorous clinical framework and a deep therapeutic relationship.

Every ketamine experience is unique, and part of its beauty is that it cannot be fully predicted. What most people share is a sense of gentle descent into a dreamlike, luminous state. The everyday mind grows quiet. The usual sense of self loosens its grip, not frighteningly, but with a quality of spaciousness and relief.

You may notice vivid imagery, a heightened awareness of emotion, or a feeling of floating, weightless and held at the same time. Time may feel elastic. Music may feel deeply meaningful. Insights may arise naturally, like pearls surfacing from the deep.

Some people have profoundly spiritual experiences. Others encounter emotional material that has long been inaccessible. Many describe it as the most honest conversation they have ever had with themselves.

The experience typically lasts under an hour. You will not be alone. I will be present throughout, attuned, steady, and ready to receive whatever arises when you return to the surface.

Yes. Ketamine has a well-established safety profile and has been used in medical settings for decades. It is FDA-approved, non-addictive at therapeutic doses, and short-acting, making it one of the most accessible and well-tolerated medicines available for this kind of work.

I partner with Journey Clinical, a specialized medical practice focused on psychedelic-assisted treatments, to oversee all psychiatric evaluation, prescribing, and medical monitoring. This ensures that every aspect of your care is held within a rigorous, responsible clinical framework.

Within the medicine experience itself, you remain aware and present, simply less tethered to the habitual stories and defenses that ordinarily shape your inner landscape. It is less about intensity and more about openness. Less about confrontation and more about gentle revelation.

The emphasis of this work is never the experience alone. It is how thoughtfully it is prepared for, how skillfully it is held, and how intentionally it is integrated afterward. Safety, in this container, is not just medical. It is relational, spiritual, and deeply human.

If you have worked with plant medicines or other psychedelics, you already know something about the territory. You understand, in your body, what it means to dissolve ordinary awareness and return with something new. You arrive here already knowing something about the terrain, and that wisdom is welcome.

What ketamine offers is something distinct. Think of it as small but mighty. Where other medicines may take you on a long and sometimes demanding journey - hours of intensity, emotional weight, physical depletion - ketamine is brief, contained, and gentle by comparison. The dive is short. The waters are luminous. And what you bring back is no less precious for the brevity of the descent.

Ketamine works through a different neurological pathway than classic psychedelics like psilocybin or MDMA, targeting glutamate receptors rather than serotonin, which is part of why the experience feels distinct. There is often less visual intensity, more of a soft dissolution:  a quiet opening rather than a dramatic unfolding.

And perhaps most importantly, this is not a solo journey or a ceremonial container. It is psychotherapy. Every experience is held within an ongoing therapeutic relationship, prepared for with intention and integrated with care. The medicine and the therapy are inseparable. That is what makes this work different.

Preparation and integration are not afterthoughts. They are the heartbeat of this work.

Preparation

Before we ever enter the medicine space together, we prepare, with care, with intention, body, mind, and spirit.

In addition to our comprehensive preparation sessions, you will receive the Inner Alchemy Psychotherapy preparation guidebook, a bespoke resource designed to orient you to the experience and support you in arriving fully ready. Together we will clarify your intentions, address any fears or concerns that arise, and establish how to navigate whatever the medicine space brings. Nothing is left unattended. You will not step into the water without knowing how to dive.

Integration

Integration is where the pearls become yours. In the sessions that follow each medicine experience, we return together to what surfaced: the insights, the images, the emotions, the openings. We examine each one with curiosity and care, finding its place in the larger strand of your healing. This is where the luminous becomes lived. Where what you glimpsed in the medicine space begins to reorganize the way you move through your daily life.

Integration is not a debrief. It is the continuation of the dive, above the surface now, in the full light of day, stringing each pearl into the necklace of your becoming.

Remote does not mean alone. All medical aspects of your care - psychiatric evaluation, prescribing, and ongoing monitoring - are managed through Journey Clinical, which oversees all psychiatric evaluation, prescribing, and ongoing monitoring.

During the medicine session itself, I am with you via secure, HIPAA-compliant video throughout. A designated support person (someone you trust and feel safe with) will be on site with you. Protocols for safety and communication are reviewed in advance, and you will receive detailed guidance on preparing your space to create a container that feels safe, sacred, and comfortable. The structure is intentional. The oversight is rigorous. And the experience, though remote, is fully held.

Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy is offered within the context of an ongoing therapeutic relationship. Fees vary based on the structure of your care and are discussed transparently during our initial consultation, before any KAP sessions are scheduled.

Treatment is never one-size-fits-all. Some clients engage in a focused series of medicine sessions woven into a defined arc of therapy. Others incorporate ketamine more periodically as part of longer-term depth work, when the timing feels right and the unfolding calls for it.

The structure is always individualized, always collaborative, and always in service of your unfolding.