Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy
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How It Works
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What It Helps
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How It’s Legal.
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What It’s Like
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Ketamine-Assisted Relationship Therapy
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the five phases of KAP with life on earth
groundwork
The very beginning. First your eligibility for KAP is assessed through an intake and initial psychotherapy session with me, as well as an evaluation with and, if you are eligible, prescription from, a psychiatric nurse practitioner. If it is determined that you are a candidate for KAP, you and I will spend another few sessions creating a treatment plan unique to who you are, where you are at in life, and what you’re needing. During this initial phase we also focus on deepening our relationship and moving forward at the speed of trust. Somatic interventions may be introduced at this time as well. This foundation of shared understanding, intention, and relational safety sets you up for the best possible KAP outcome.
preparation.
In this second stage we begin actively preparing for your ketamine work, through sessions that focus on experiential, in-the-moment awareness. I follow your lead into exploring your growing edges, utilizing somatic approaches and including dream work if relevant. If you are coming to KAP as a relationship, this is where we get into the underlying currents of your dynamic. This stage is at minimum three sessions, up to 8.
disorganizing.
This phase encompasses the ketamine journeys themselves, and is often experienced as a disorganizing or disassembling of old behavioral patterns, ways of being or seeing yourself. Contacting buried strengths and self-compassion often occurs. You will be resting with an eye mask on, and music will be included in the session. Ritual to open, close, or mark transitions in the session may be included as well if requested and agreed upon ahead of time. Each journey is a 4-5 hour experience, with a preparation session ideally the day before and a follow-up session as soon as possible afterwards. To see the full potential benefits of ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, a minimum of three ketamine sessions are recommended.
reorganizing.
After the active journey work has come to a close, it’s time to find a new way of organizing yourself that makes room for the changes that have occurred. Digesting psychedelic experience takes time and space. This stage can involve, for example: practicing new somatic realities that came through during the journeys, grief work, or creative expression. I often encourage clients not to move into meaning making too quickly, so as to allow the medicine sessions to work you rather than you working them. This is also not a time to make any big life decisions! We wait to move into more direct action until you have settled into a new experience of yourself. We spend a minimum of four sessions here.
moving forward.
After you’ve digested your experience and come to a new experience of yourself, it’s time to put into action any changes needed to be made in your life. In this phase I support you in making meaning from your KAP journeys and using that to chart a course into a new future. We also look back and get clarity on what you accomplished, and what might still need attention. This phase can be 2-3 sessions to close our work together, or we can move into ongoing psychotherapy from here. The option for ongoing maintenance KAP journeys, as needed, is available from here as well.
