Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP)
Preparation & Integration
Prepare your mind and heart for meaningful change.
Psychedelic experiences can open deep insight, emotional healing, and spiritual connection while also bringing moments of uncertainty, tenderness, or confusion.
Whether you’re preparing for a journey or seeking to make sense of an experience afterward, integration is where the real work begins.
Integration is the process of tending to what has been revealed within you. It’s an invitation to meet your inner world with compassion, curiosity, and non-judgment. All parts of you are welcome here.
What’s my role in your journey?
I offer preparation and integration support for clients working with ketamine or other psychedelics under medical or ceremonial care.
While I don’t facilitate medicine sessions myself, I collaborate with clients and, when appropriate, with prescribers to help you approach your experience with clarity and integrate it with care.
My role is to help you integrate insights from your journey into daily life, including how you relate, create, and navigate the world.
The word “psychedelic” means “mind-revealing.”
The word psychedelic comes from the Greek words psyche (soul or mind) and delos (to reveal). At its root, it means “mind-revealing.”
This captures the essence of psychedelic work: the intention isn’t to escape reality, but to see more clearly – to uncover what has been hidden, forgotten, or waiting to be met with awareness.
In this way, psychedelic therapy becomes less about going somewhere else and more about coming home to yourself.
KAP involves repairing and integrating with care
Part of our work together is preparing your mind and heart for a psychedelic journey with intention and grounded awareness.
Sometimes, the very medicine that holds the potential to ease anxiety can also be anxiety-inducing.
And sometimes, the very medicine that holds the potential to ease suffering also magnifies what’s already present. Emotions or patterns that have been beneath the surface can rise to the forefront and receive attention and care.
Together, we’ll build practices that help you feel centered and resourced, so you can meet whatever emerges with openness and compassion.
After your journey, we’ll spend time making sense of your experience – exploring the images, emotions, and themes that surfaced. Psychedelic work can touch deep layers of identity and connection; integration helps bring those experiences into daily life in a way that feels meaningful and sustainable.
Integration may include:
- Processing emotional or spiritual material that arose during your session
- Working with parts of you that felt activated or protective
- Exploring themes of identity, belonging, grief, or purpose
- Translating your insights into real-world changes and choices
The actual ceremony begins when you arrive back home – through integration.
What’s my approach?
I bring a trauma-informed, compassionate, and grounded presence to integration work. My approach combines Internal Family Systems (IFS), Narrative Therapy, and mindfulness-based practices to support the whole of who you are – mind, body, and spirit.
Together, we explore the parts of you that emerged during your experience, helping them find connection and understanding. This allows what surfaced during your journey to settle in a way that feels integrated and approachable.
I am certified in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy through Naropa University, where I received training grounded in Buddhist philosophy, mindfulness, and trauma-informed care.
My work honors both the transformative potential of psychedelic experiences and the inner capacity we all have to grow and change.
Here’s what integration feels like
We are meaning-making beings.
Integration means staying in relationship with what we’ve experienced and giving it space to shape how we live, relate, and connect. The aim isn’t to hold onto the experience itself, but to let what you discovered shape how you live – how you relate, create, and connect.
Some changes are subtle, yet profound – a shift in perspective, a softening toward yourself, and a deeper sense of alignment with what matters most.
KAP could be exactly what you’re looking for
If you’re preparing for a ketamine or psychedelic experience, or are seeking to understand what’s already unfolded, I offer a free 20-minute consultation to explore how this work might support you.
Schedule a consultation or email to get started.