The Kap Treatment Path
Serving clients virtually in California, Washington, and locally in Berkeley
The KAP Treatment Path Overview
Step 1: Intake Session: If we decide to work together, we’ll schedule an intake session to assess your mental health history, treatment goals, and collaborate on a treatment plan.
Step 2: Schedule a medical consultation to be cleared medically for KAP.
Step 3: Preparation Sessions
-We’ll meet weekly for a minimum of 3 preparation sessions (50 minutes telehealth). During this time we’ll clarify goals, customize a treatment plan, prepare for your experience, practice coping skills, and do small bodies of therapeutic work to prepare your for the medicine sessions.
Step 4: Ketamine Medicine Sessions
-KAP sessions are 1, 2, or 3 hours long depending on your treatment plan. These sessions can be held in-person in my office in Berkeley, CA or via telehealth.
Step 5: Integration Sessions
-A few days after each medicine session we will meet virtually for an integration session (50 minutes telehealth) to unpack and extract the meaning making and insight of your medicine experience.
Step 2: Medical Consultation:
You’ll then meet with my prescribing medical provider for a 50-minute consultation. In this session, they’ll review your health history and assess medical appropriateness for ketamine. If ketamine is a good fit, you’ll receive a prescription for lozenges which you will bring with you to your medicine sessions.
Step 3: Preparation Sessions
Before beginning ketamine medicine sessions, we engage in 3 or more relational therapy sessions to build a foundation of trust, emotional safety, and therapeutic connection. In these initial prep sessions, we explore core themes, false beliefs, and past traumas, while practicing grounding and resourcing techniques to support nervous system regulation. This deep preparation ensures you feel safe, seen, and ready for the work ahead.
Before each ketamine lozenge session, we’ll meet for a preparation session to help you set intentions, deepen body awareness, and regulate your nervous system for the journey ahead. These sessions create a foundation for tracking sensations and emotions, practicing grounding techniques, and clarifying what you hope to explore during your ketamine journey. Preparation is essential in maximizing the benefits of ketamine-assisted therapy, ensuring that you feel mentally, emotionally, and spiritually ready for the experience.
Step 4: KAP Lozenge Sessions
I offer 2 different types of KAP sessions:
1) Low-dose 60-90 min sessions usually paired with IFS and EMDR held virtually.
2) 2-3 hour medicine sessions held virtually or in-person.
The Ketamine Lozenge Session is where deep transformation unfolds—a space for healing, insight, and reconnection. As the medicine takes effect, you’ll relax in a supportive, therapeutic setting—reclined on a chair or sofa, with the option to wear an eye mask and listen to carefully curated music to deepen your inward focus.
Ketamine’s effects begin within 5-10 minutes, peak for 20-30 minutes, and gradually fade over the next hour. While every journey is unique, clients often describe feeling a sense of spaciousness, emotional clarity, or profound connection to themselves and the world. Throughout the experience, we may engage in somatic mindfulness techniques, safe touch (optional), Internal Family Systems (IFS), EMDR, or Hakomi to help you explore the emotions, memories, and sensations that arise.
Unlike conventional ketamine treatments that focus solely on symptom relief, KAP works with the body’s wisdom, nervous system healing, and relational attunement to integrate these experiences fully. This is not just about accessing altered states—it’s about bringing what you discover into your life, relationships, and healing journey.
The true transformation of ketamine therapy happens not just in the session itself, but in how you integrate the experience into your life. After each ketamine journey, we engage in a dedicated integration session to help you process insights, emotions, and any material that surfaced.
Through somatic therapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), EMDR, Hakomi, art therapy, and Polyvagal-informed nervous system healing, we work to anchor the shifts in your body and psyche—ensuring that what emerges can be integrated and embodied in daily life.
Many clients experience profound insights, emotional breakthroughs, and deep clarity during KAP. Integration helps you make sense of these experiences, explore their relevance to your relationships and personal patterns, and develop practices that sustain the transformation long after the medicine wears off.
Whether your experience felt expansive, challenging, or somewhere in between, integration is where healing takes root—allowing you to move forward with more ease, self-awareness, and connection to your true self.
Step 5: Integration Sessions
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