Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy
Transform Your Trauma Healing Journey with a Proven, Holistic Approach
Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) combines the power of ketamine, a safe and effective medicine, with psychotherapy to help individuals achieve breakthroughs and long-term healing.
Partnering with Journey Clinical, I provide the therapeutic support for your sessions while their medical team handles the medical aspects, including eligibility, prescriptions, and monitoring.
Why Choose KAP?
KAP can be life-changing for those struggling with trauma, depression, anxiety, PTSD, and emotional blocks. It’s particularly effective when traditional therapies have plateaued. Benefits include:
Relief from symptoms within hours to days.
Improved emotional regulation and clarity.
Deeper access to unconscious patterns and healing.
What is Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy?
KAP is a cutting-edge therapeutic method that uses ketamine as a catalyst for deeper psychological work. Ketamine enhances neuroplasticity, allowing the brain to form new connections that regulate mood, reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety, and improve overall emotional resilience.
To learn more about KAP and get detailed pricing info, you can visit the Journey Clinical KAP Education Center.
How Does it Work?
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1. Initial Consultation with Journey Clinical
Get assessed. If eligible, receive a treatment plan & prescription for ketamine
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2. Preparation Sessions
We meet to discuss your background, goals, and set intentions for your ketamine journey
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3. KAP Dosing Sessions
This is where you take the ketamine, and I guide and support you while you explore your inner experience
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4. Integration Sessions
After each dosing session, we’l meet to process insights and apply them to your life
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5. Follow-Up with Journey Clinical
Regular check-ins with the medical team to ensure you’re on track and adjust treatment as needed
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6. Therapeutic Follow-Up
From this point on, you can check in with me for ongoing therapeutic support
FAQs
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Ketamine is a legal, safe and effective medicine used to treat a variety of mental health conditions, including depression, anxiety and PTSD. Ketamine has rapidly-acting antidepressant and mood-enhancing effects, which can begin to take effect within 1-2 hrs. after treatment and last for up to 2 weeks. It works by blocking the brain’s NMDA receptors as well as by stimulating AMPA receptors, which are thought to help form new synaptic connections and boost neural circuits that regulate stress and mood. Ketamine has also been shown to enhance overall neuroplasticity for lasting symptom improvement.
Ketamine can be administered in a variety of ways, including IV infusion, intramuscular injection, via nasal spray and using sublingual lozenges. In my work with Journey Clinical we only use the sublingual lozenge form.
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Unlike standard therapy, KAP leverages ketamine’s ability to enhance neural flexibility and quiet the ego, creating space for transformative breakthroughs. Paired with my expertise in Soul Mapping, somatic techniques, and Jungian psychology, this method addresses both the root causes of your struggles and your unique potential for growth.
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The effects of ketamine, which most patients find pleasant, last for approximately 45 minutes. These effects can make you feel “far from” your body, and facilitate shifts in perception that can often feel expansive in nature. Your motor and verbal abilities will be reduced, so you’ll be lying down in a comfortable position during the experience. Once these effects subsided, we’ll spend the remainder of our appointment giving you space to process and discuss your experience. While it may feel hard to articulate what happened during the experience, patients feel like the insights gained are none-the-less clear. Studies have shown that the benefits to mood and neurological growth can last up to two weeks after the Ketamine experience.
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Yes. Ketamine is FDA-approved and widely used. Journey Clinical’s team carefully monitors your treatment for safety and efficacy.
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Not at all! KAP is one tool among many. We can explore other modalities like Collective Reprocessing, IFS, dream work, mindfulness, and somatics.
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To learn more about KAP, see if it’s covered by your insurance, and view pricing details, please visit the pricing page in the Journey Clinical KAP Education Center.
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In-person KAP sessions are held at counseling centers in and around Vancouver, WA, or I can arrange for a home visit.
I also offer group KAP retreats, both 1-day or several, to reduce cost. These retreats will be held in the Vancouver area as well.
Alternatively, you can do KAP from the comfort of your own home, and I can assist you via Zoom, so long as you have a chaperone with you. -
Journey Clinical is a platform for licensed psychotherapists to incorporate science-based psychedelic therapies in their practice safely and effectively, starting with Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP). Journey Clinical’s in-house medical team takes on patient eligibility, prescriptions and outcome monitoring, while I take on the therapy. Their collaborative care model is designed to deliver personalized treatment plans to meet your individual needs and improve long-term outcomes.