The work that happens between sessions.
Ketamine can open something real. Integration is how you make sure it stays open.
Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy is the most accessible legal psychedelic treatment currently available in Seattle. Clinics and prescribers offer ketamine for depression, anxiety, PTSD, and chronic pain. The medicine itself can produce powerful shifts in perspective, mood, and self-understanding. But the medicine alone is rarely enough.
What happens between ketamine sessions, and after the course of treatment ends, often determines whether the experience produces lasting change or a temporary lift that fades. That between-space is where integration therapy lives.
What integration adds to ketamine treatment
Most ketamine clinics focus on the medical administration of the medicine. Some offer brief check-ins or guided sessions. Very few offer the kind of sustained, depth-oriented psychotherapy that allows the material surfaced by ketamine to be fully metabolized.
That is what I provide. I work alongside your prescriber or clinic as the therapeutic partner in your treatment: the person who helps you make meaning of what the medicine opens, process the emotions and memories that surface, and integrate the shifts into your daily life and relationships.
What this looks like
We typically begin before your first ketamine session, exploring what you are bringing to the treatment, what you are hoping for, and what your history with this kind of vulnerability looks like. This preparation matters. The more the psyche is prepared to receive the experience, the more the experience can offer.
Between sessions, we work with what surfaced: the images, the emotions, the body sensations, the insights, the confusions. I am not looking for a neat narrative. I am looking for what your psyche is trying to show you, which is often messier and more meaningful than a list of takeaways.
After the course of treatment, integration continues. This is where many people are surprised. The ketamine sessions end, but the material they opened keeps unfolding. Having a therapeutic relationship to hold that unfolding makes the difference between an experience that changes your life and an experience you had.
Finding the right fit
If you are currently in ketamine treatment or considering it and want a therapist who can hold the depth of what the medicine surfaces, I welcome a conversation. I work with clients at ketamine clinics throughout Seattle and can coordinate with your prescriber when appropriate.
The medicine provides the opening. The therapy provides the staying.
If something here is resonating, I would welcome a conversation.
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