Open the door to new possibilities, step beyond the boundaries of old patterns and into a realm of healing and renewal.
Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP)
In-person & Remote in Golden, Colorado
“I feel like I can finally work with my trauma in a way that doesn’t feel overwhelming”
Feeling trapped by past barriers or overwhelmed by trauma that seems to control your life? Struggling to stay present and find balance between the past and future?
Ketamine therapy might be the key to unlocking new possibilities for you. It offers a unique and gentle way to revisit challenging moments in a safe and inviting manner. This approach helps rewrite your history, build new neural pathways, and pave the way for a life filled with ease, peace, and joy.
Rediscover your rhythm and start living more fully with the transformative potential of Ketamine therapy.
What is Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP)?
Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy is a deep psychotherapeutic process that can produce rapid improvement for a number of conditions, including depression, anxiety, suicidality, eating disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder and more. Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy can be supportive for end of life care.
Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy is compatible with most other psychiatric medicines, and it can create powerful, sustained healing when all other traditional interventions fail.
Unlike the IV medical model, sessions are conducted with the support of a therapist. Sessions that include medicine last 3 hours, and the experience is focused on therapy.
We support your process throughout with integrative sessions, email and phone contact. If working with a individual therapist already, I will collaborate with them to create a team around your treatment.
Expenses tend to be more with Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy than with the IV method. The cost of treatment relates to the thoroughness of our work and the long duration of the sessions--with a practitioner attending to you for the entirety of the session.
We can provide 'Superbills' directly to you so that you can receive potential reimbursement from your insurance company
WHAT WE’LL DO TOGETHER
The Process for Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy
1.) Contact Me
Contact me to set up an appointment with my team of practitioners for a medical consultation/receiving a prescription for ketamine ready to dissolve tablets or troches.
2.) Set Up A Medical Appointment
While waiting 1-2 weeks for the medication to arrive by mail to your house, we will begin building safety and rapport by having at least 3 or more therapy sessions prior to the ketamine medicine session.
3.) The Dosing Session
We will then begin the 3 hour medicine session by setting an intention, adding ritual/ceremony, and setting up a warm and comfortable environment. Sessions can take place in office or in the convenience of your home.
4.) Integration Session
We will follow up in 48-72 hours for an integration session that will help to organize the session and express details to piece together your experience. Integration is what helps to make lasting effects that carry over into your everyday life.
5.) Ongoing Dosing Sessions
Medicine sessions will occur weekly to help create the momentum for change. Scientific literature suggests 4-6 sessions for sustained change and benefits.
Common questions about Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP)
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Book a consultation call with me. Once we begin our work, we decide together where you get to go and grow, then we come up with a treatment plan for a clear path forward.
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Your experience in therapy is uniquely yours. You may come in for coaching on certain life goals. You might come in looking for deeper, ongoing work to treat primary wounds that create anxiety, depression or trauma. With all new clients, I prefer weekly sessions. Any less frequently and it’s hard to build the necessary momentum for sustained change. Of course, we can create a customized plan to support your schedule if necessary.
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I do not accept insurance, but I provide you with a weekly statement (“superbill”) to submit to your insurance company for potential reimbursement. Please note that they generally only cover up to an hour session.
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Medical consultation is $250 and the prescription is $85.
The medicine session is $160 x3 hours for a total of $480.
Integration sessions follow the hourly fee of $160/60 minutes.
Sliding scale is offered for those in need and is taken on a case by case basis.
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Results vary for each individual person. Research shows that the therapeutic alliance is one of the most essential indicators of successful outcomes in therapy. Therapy—like life—is a journey and a process.
Come weekly, try to be open and curious as you do the work of journeying home to yourself.
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I work both in office in Golden, CO at 1204 Washington Ave Golden, CO 80401 and I also do medicine sessions in the comfort and convenience of your home. This is up to you and will be discussed in our initial session together.
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This is the sublingual form that comes in dose specific troches that dissolve in your mouth and is spit out after 12-15 minutes.
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I require 48 hour notice or the full fee will be charged. As sessions can be 3 hours in length, timely notice is essential to the practice. Thanks so much for your understanding!
Resources
1.) https://psychedelic.support/resources/how-does-ketamine-treatment-work/
2.) Goop: Ketamine Facilitated Psychotherapy
3.) Wired: Ketamine Stirs up Hope and Controversy as a Depression Drug
4.) BBC: Ketamine 'Exciting' Depression Therapy
5.) Vox: How Ketamine Saved me from Suicidal Thoughts
6.) PSYCOM: Ketamine for Depression
7.) https://psychedelic.support/resources/ketamine-treatment-guide-for-mental-health/
8.) https://psychedelic.support/resources/what-is-ketamine-treatment-for/