Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy
I provide Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) to create new possibilities through non-ordinary states of consciousness.
When the mind has become both the guide and the gatekeeper.
Many of the clients who find their way to Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy are thoughtful, self-aware, and deeply committed to their healing. They have spent years learning, reflecting, reading, meditating, and trying to understand themselves.
Yet sometimes the very strengths that have helped us survive can also become limitations.
- We analyze our emotions instead of feeling them
- We understand our wounds without fully healing them
- We fall into patterns of anxiety, depression, or burnout, often as a result of an untamed or hyper-active mind
For some, the mind becomes a brilliant protector, helping us make sense of life while quietly keeping deeper emotions, memories, and truths at a safe distance.
Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy offers an opportunity to step outside of ordinary consciousness and relate to yourself from a different perspective.
Many people describe experiencing greater openness, expanded awareness, increased self-compassion, a sense of connection, or access to parts of themselves that have long remained hidden beneath habitual thinking. In this altered state, it can become easier to bypass some of the inner defenses that keep us stuck and connect more directly with the emotional, somatic, and intuitive layers of experience.
A Different Kind of Therapeutic Space
Unlike traditional talk therapy, KAP is not primarily about analyzing problems or finding the “right” answers.
Instead, it creates space for new experiences.
- Experiences of safety where there was once fear.
- Experiences of compassion where there was once self-judgment.
- Experiences of connection where there was once isolation.
- Experiences of possibility where there was once certainty that nothing could change.
These experiences often become the foundation for lasting transformation.
Accessing Different Layers of Experience
Throughout history, altered states of consciousness have been used as pathways for healing, insight, creativity, and self-discovery. While ketamine is a medical intervention rather than a spiritual practice, many people find that the experience offers an opportunity to step outside their usual patterns of thinking and relate to themselves in a new way.
Some people encounter greater self-compassion. Others experience emotional breakthroughs, unexpected perspectives, heightened creativity, or a deeper sense of connection to themselves and the world around them.
You do not need to identify as spiritual to benefit from KAP.
Whether you are drawn by curiosity, personal growth, emotional healing, consciousness exploration, or simply the possibility of experiencing yourself differently, KAP can offer a unique space to access aspects of yourself that may be difficult to reach through conversation alone.
My Approach
I view ketamine as a catalyst rather than the source of healing.
The medicine may create new openings, but lasting change happens through the integration of those experiences into everyday life.
My role is to help you prepare intentionally with safety, navigate whatever arises with curiosity and self-compassion, and translate meaningful insights into embodied transformation.
Together, we create a space where intellect, emotion, body, and intuition can work together rather than separately, allowing healing to emerge from a place of greater wholeness.
How it Works
I offer Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) in partnership with an organization called Journey Clinical.
Journey Clinical supports you on all medical aspects. This includes determining eligibility, developing a custom treatment plan, prescribing the medicine and monitoring outcomes. Here’s a link to more information about KAP to see if it may be a good fit for you. https://journey.click/education
As a psychotherapist, I collaborate with your medical provider to ensure your ketamine treatment plan works in tandem with your therapeutic goals.
Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) is a holistic modality in which ketamine is used as a complement to psychotherapy to help eligible patients experience more frequent breakthroughs and sustained improvement in symptoms and mental health.
Ketamine treatment has be shown through research to be most effective with paired with therapeutic guidance and support, rather than as a stand-alone medical treatment (such as a IV Ketamine or Spravato Clinics).
Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy often costs far less than many other Ketamine treatments. Though it is important to see it as an investment of time and resources.
The Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy sessions themselves are priced as follows:
- Preparation & Integration Sessions (55 minutes): $150 per session*
- Dosing Session: $325 (Approximately 2 hours and 20 minutes)**
Journey Clinical Medical Costs
- KAP Intake/Consultation: $250***
- Non-covered services (medication): $112 (2 doses)
- KAP Follow-Up/Consultation: $150***
- Non-covered services (medication): $208 (4-6 doses)
*covered by insurance if Premera/Blue Cross or Optum/United
**If billing insurance (or submitting for out-of-network reimbursement) the 1st hour of dosing session can be covered, lowering the cost of each dosing session to $175 per session
***Journey Clinical can bill Cigna, Aetna, United, or Regence for part or all of this fee; the cost of the medication itself will always be out of pocket
Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) consisted of 3 types of sessions: Preparation, Dosing, and Integration.
During preparation, you will spend 2-4 sessions (including an intake) building the container (therapeutic alliance), setting intentions, and preparing for dosing sessions to ensure safety, effectiveness, and best practices for KAP.
In a course of KAP treatment, 6-10 dosing sessions is often recommended, though fewer or more sessions may be warranted or helpful. During dosing sessions, you will spend 2-2 1/2 hours with the therapist while you prep for, administer the dose, experience the journey, and then land gently with the therapist’s support to begin to process what unfolded during the experience.
During active KAP treatment you typically meet with your therapist twice per week, once for dosing and once for integration, though individual treatment plans may vary.
Integration sessions are where the magic happens! These are the most important session to help translate shifts during dosing into every day life. Integration sessions may also include trauma-processing to work through material that emerged during dosing.
As a fully-remote practitioner, Telehealth sessions offer the convenience and comfort that home can offer, while also offering the support of presence, guidance, and containment during the process.
As such, since the therapist is not with you in person, a chaperone or safe adult must be present with you in your home during all dosing sessions. This is not to intrude on your therapy but to provide any tangible support that may be needed.
In-person group sessions may be offered in Tacoma area in the future. If you are interested, please let Lizz know.