Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy

Ketamine-Assisted Therapy (KAT/KAP) combines the therapeutic effects of ketamine with skilled psychotherapy to support emotional healing, trauma integration, and meaningful personal growth.

Unlike traditional talk therapy alone, ketamine can create a unique opportunity to step outside familiar patterns, access difficult emotions with greater ease, and explore experiences from a new perspective. When combined with thoughtful preparation and integration, this process can help clients gain insight, process unresolved experiences, and reconnect with themselves in profound ways.

Ketamine works differently than most psychiatric medications. Rather than simply reducing symptoms, it can create a temporary shift in awareness that allows individuals to relate to their thoughts, emotions, and life experiences with greater openness and flexibility.

In a therapeutic setting, ketamine may help individuals:

• Gain perspective on long-standing patterns and beliefs
• Reconnect with emotions that feel distant, overwhelming or difficult to access
• Cultivate greater self-compassion and psychological flexibility
• Process difficult experiences in a supportive environment
• Experience relief from depression, anxiety, OCD, and trauma-related symptoms

Research also suggests that ketamine may enhance neuroplasticity, creating a window of opportunity for new insights, behaviors, and emotional patterns to take root. At Thriving Mind, the medicine is never viewed as the treatment itself. Rather, it serves as a catalyst for the deeper therapeutic work that supports meaningful and lasting change.

Feeling Overmedicated or Disconnected From Yourself?

It doesn't have to be this way.

Many people remain on psychiatric medications for years without ever having the opportunity to thoughtfully reevaluate whether those medications are still serving them.

If you're longing for a more intentional, grounded approach to mental health care, you're not alone. Together, we'll explore your relationship with medication, address underlying contributors to distress, and create a path that aligns with your goals and values.

I do not pathologize the use of psychiatric medication. For many people, medication can be an important part of healing.

At the same time, I believe psychiatric medications should be periodically reassessed rather than assumed to be lifelong necessities.

Deprescribing doesn't mean abruptly stopping medication.

It means thoughtfully evaluating whether your current medications continue to serve you and, when appropriate, creating a gradual, individualized plan for change.

This process may include:

• Comprehensive medication reassessment
• Collaborative taper planning
• Withdrawal education and support
• Nervous system regulation
• Psychotherapy and emotional processing throughout the transition

This approach may be a good fit if:

• You've been taking psychiatric medication for years and wonder whether it's still helping.
• You've tried multiple medications but still don't feel like yourself.
• You feel emotionally flat, disconnected, or stuck.
• You're interested in exploring alternatives to long-term medication reliance.
• You want support from a provider who values collaboration, curiosity, and individualized care.

The goal is not simply to reduce medication. The goal is to help you make informed decisions, reconnect with yourself, and create a foundation for lasting healing and growth.

Many people spend years understanding their struggles intellectually yet still find themselves repeating the same patterns, feeling emotionally stuck, or living in a constant state of stress and overwhelm.

At Thriving Mind, I combine psychotherapy with somatic healing, mindfulness, and nervous system regulation to help clients create meaningful and lasting change. Together, we'll explore not only your thoughts and emotions, but also the deeper patterns held within the body and nervous system.

Healing is about more than symptom reduction.

Anxiety, depression, burnout, emotional overwhelm, and relationship struggles often arise for understandable reasons. Rather than viewing symptoms as problems to eliminate, we can learn to understand what they may be communicating and address the underlying factors that keep them in place.

This work invites curiosity, self-compassion, and a deeper connection to yourself.

Somatic healing recognizes that our experiences are not only stored in the mind, but also reflected in the body and nervous system.

By combining traditional psychotherapy with body-based awareness practices, we can begin to:

• Increase emotional resilience and self-awareness
• Develop greater nervous system flexibility and regulation
• Process difficult experiences more fully
• Create new patterns of responding, rather than simply reacting

The goal isn't simply to feel better. It's to cultivate a deeper relationship with yourself and create lasting change that extends beyond the therapy room.Transformative Psychotherapy is not just about symptom relief, it’s about root healing.

This approach may be a good fit if:

• You feel stuck in patterns that insight alone hasn't been able to change.
• You experience chronic anxiety, stress, burnout, or emotional overwhelm.
• You feel disconnected from yourself, your emotions, or your body.
• You've done therapy before but want to explore a deeper level of healing.
• You're seeking a thoughtful, holistic approach that integrates mind, body, and nervous system.