

Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy for Moms
I provide safe support for transformative healing with ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP), specifically for mothers.
I combine ketamine with IFS therapy and my deep knowledge of Mom Parts to hold you in a nurturing, nonjudgemental space where we can incorporate insights that emerge with your ketamine journey and access deep layers of healing.
All moms welcome, including bereaved moms, those who are trying to conceive, postpartum moms, moms of littles, moms of bigs, step-moms, foster moms, adoptive moms and grandmothers.
Therapy with Ketamine
How Can KAP Help?
Ketamine-Assisted Therapy is a powerful tool and offers numerous healing benefits. Here's how it can help:
Rapid Relief from Symptoms
For many folks, KAP provides quick relief from severe symptoms of depression, anxiety, and PTSD. Traditional antidepressants can take weeks or months to become effective. Ketamine has rapidly-acting antidepressant and mood-enhancing effects, which can begin to bring relief within1-2 hours after treatment.
Enhanced Neuroplasticity
Ketamine stimulates the growth of dendritic spines. It also promotes new neural connections, fostering greater neuroplasticity. This enhanced brain connectivity encourages adaptive thinking patterns and healthier emotional responses - healing at the source.
Expanded States of Consciousness
KAP opens up expanded states of consciousness, which helps clients process exiled psychological content. This unique aspect of KAP leads to deep insights and long-lasting changes in mental health.
Improved Quality of Life
KAP alleviates severe mental health symptoms and promotes new ways of thinking. It helps individuals engage with their lives with more courage, clarity and calm (Self-energy).
Goals go beyond symptom relief and include increased psychological flexibility, curiosity, observing ego functions, ability to grieve and mourn, experience spaciousness of mind. Restoration of dignity/self-respect/integrity. Coming into one’s own healing intelligence. Returning to wholeness. Making use of internal resources. Increased: discernment, creativity, problem solving, improved relationships, joyfulness, relief of existential distress, meaning, purpose.
Healing with KAP

Under the influence of ketamine we can observe our thoughts and emotions (our parts) with less resistance. As our protective parts relax, we contact our wounds, but now in the presence of increased courage, clarity and calm (Self-energy).
Ketamine helps us experience a softening of our usual reactive and protective states while still maintaining conscious awareness. It helps us engage more fully with formerly ostracized parts of ourselves, creating an opening for personal discovery, growth, healing and lasting change.
Ketamine’s biological mode of action is understood to be an NMDA antagonist working through the glutamate neurotransmitter system - but it also works as a psychedelic medicine, inducing non-ordinary states of consciousness. Insight and long-lasting change is born from these experiences.
I offer KAP in partnership with an organization called Journey Clinical. I take on the psychotherapy portion of the experience, while Journey Clinical’s medical team supports you with all the medical aspects. This includes determining eligibility, developing a custom treatment plan, prescribing the medicine and monitoring outcomes.
Ketamine for Moms Groups & Retreats
Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy experienced in community with other moms is a wonderful way to:
-
Reduce shame - connect with other women in a healing environment
-
Reduce expense - group sessions are less expensive than individual work
-
Enhance healing - sharing the transformative experience with others deepens integration and helps anchor changes and insights.


Where do we begin?
1. Set up an appointment for an Assessment with me.
2. Connect with Journey Clinical if we determine KAP is a good fit.
3. Attend one or more Prep Sessions with me to explore the parts you are bringing to the medicine as well as housekeeping tasks related to your journey.
5. Journey day.
6. Meet for one or more Integration sessions to explore your journey and all that you're taking from that experience.

Ketamine - assisted psychotherapy can offer a slow, supported, safe break from trauma.
-
What is ketamine?Click here to read more about Ketamine and the Brain Ketamine is a legal, safe, effective medicine with rapid antidepressant and mood-enhancing effects, often noticeable within hours and can last for weeks. It is one of the most extensively studied psychedelic medicines. It is in every hospital around the world. It’s on the WHO’s list of top 10 essential medicines and has a high safety profile. For this reason, it’s used in pediatrics. As a mental health treatment, unlike typical antidepressants, ketamine helps by targeting the neurotransmitter glutamate, which influences mood and thought patterns. It promotes neuroplasticity—the brain's ability to form new connections. This process allows for a "reset," helping you break free from stuck patterns of thinking.
-
How does ketamine feel?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 subside, 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 happens during the experience, patients feel like the insights gained are clear.
-
What are the benefits of KAP?Faster Progress: KAP often accelerates the therapeutic process compared to traditional talk therapy. Some of our members have described it as “the express elevator” Emotional Release: Many patients report feeling lighter, with a sense of relief from deep pain. New Perspectives: Ketamine helps uncover insights and address patterns that were previously difficult to access.
-
Is ketamine safe to use postpartum?Moms who are suffering from postpartum depression and anxiety may benefit greatly from KAP. Consulting with a prescriber will help rule out any concerns and determine eligibility. Moms are often concerned about KAP and breastfeeding. According to the Infant Risk Center, withholding breastfeeding for 8 hours after a treatment session would reduce exposure to the drug significantly. The following articles offer more information about research with postpartum women and ketamine: Is Ketamine an Option for the Treatment of Postpartum Depression? In summary, this study demonstrated that a single dose of esketamine administered intravenously to women with mild depressive symptoms at delivery was associated with reduced depressive symptoms at week 1 postpartum. In addition, those who received esketamine had a 75% lower risk of experiencing significant depressive symptoms at 6 weeks postpartum. Can Intravenous Ketamine Reduce the Risk of PPD? The Pharmacokinetics of Ketamine in the Breast Milk of Lactating Women: Quantification of Ketamine and Metabolites Glamour: How Some Women Are Using Ketamine to Treat PPD
-
What is Journey Clinical?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 the therapist takes on the therapy. Their collaborative care model is designed to deliver personalized treatment plans to meet the client's individual needs and improve long-term outcomes.
-
How does Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy work?Eligibility: I collaborate with Journey Clinical, whose expert medical team ensures safe and personalized care. You’ll begin with an in-depth virtual intake appointment to assess your medical and mental health history. If eligible, they’ll prescribe 2 doses of sublingual ketamine (a rapidly dissolving lozenge) for use during our therapy sessions. Preparation Therapy Sessions: Before the dosing session, we’ll meet to set intentions and prepare for the experience. We will review all the steps that go into the dosing session so that you feel confident going in. We'll take our time with prep, sometimes meeting several times before dosing. Dosing Session: Sessions last just over 2 hours and can be in-person or remote. You’ll self-administer your vitals using a blood pressure monitor. You'll also self-administer the ketamine lozenges. Then you’ll lie down in a cozy, comfortable setting with an eye mask, listening to music. Your journey will present you with thoughts or emotions that we will explore together. I’ll be present to support you, ensuring you feel safe and grounded. After the session, we’ll process your experience and identify insights to carry forward. Integration Session: We will schedule an integration session within 24-72 hours of the dosing session, when your neuroplasticity will be most enhanced, which will give you the chance to deepen the insights gained and start applying them to your life. Integration is the most important part - it’s where the most lasting changes happen. Follow-Up Sessions: as needed/desired.
-
How do you administer ketamine during a session?During a dosing session, clients self-administer their ketamine lozenges. The lozenges dissolve in your mouth, and are held and swished in your saliva for around 10 minutes as they absorb. At that point clients are prompted to spit into a cup and begin their journey. Typically, the patient will be in a comfortable, reclining position wearing an eye mask and listening to inspiring music.
-
What is the general cost of treatment?Pricing consists of two components: medical and psychotherapy. KAP Medical Fees (Journey Clinical) Initial Evaluation and Medication: $338 Ongoing Treatment: Follow-up Medical Consultation and Medication: $298 KAP Fees for Individuals KAP Intake Assessment for New Clients: $245 (50 minutes) KAP Preparation & Integration Sessions: $245 (50 minutes each) KAP Experiential Dosing Session (2 hrs 15 mins): $650 KAP Fees for Groups KAP Intake Assessment for New Clients: $245 (50 minutes) KAP Group Preparation & Integration Sessions: $150 (60 minutes) KAP Experiential Dosing Session (2 hrs 15 mins): $350
-
Is this covered by insurance?I do not accept insurance but can provide a superbill. Journey Clinical does accept some insurance. Contact them for more information.