Preparation
We build trust and clarify intentions long before any medicine is involved, so you feel ready and grounded.
Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy
Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy in Austin
A careful, therapy-led approach where the relationship and the integration matter as much as the medicine.
A clinical standard, not a barrier
I offer ketamine-assisted psychotherapy only to established clients I've already been working with in traditional therapy. It isn't a standalone service or a first appointment. This page is here to explain the work, not to book it. If it's something you're curious about, the path always begins with booking a consultation.
What is Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy?
Ketamine is a medication that, under medical supervision, has become part of mental-health care. In 2019 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved esketamine — a form of ketamine — as a nasal spray for treatment-resistant depression, available only through certified clinical settings.1
Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP) pairs that medical treatment with therapy. The ketamine itself is prescribed and overseen by appropriately licensed medical providers. My role is the psychotherapy that surrounds it: preparing you beforehand, helping you feel safe during, and making sense of the experience afterward so it can lead somewhere in your everyday life.
In other words, the medicine may open a door. The therapy is how we decide what to do with what's on the other side of it.
How I approach it
My approach centers preparation, safety, relationship, and integration — not just the medicine itself.
Safety
A calm, held environment and a therapeutic relationship you already know are what make this work feel safe.
Relationship
This isn't work I do with strangers. We already have a shared history and a way of working together.
Integration
What surfaces only matters if it changes something. We turn insight into everyday, livable change.
Why it starts with therapy first
Because I only offer KAP to people I'm already working with, there's nothing to book here directly. That's intentional. The preparation, the trust, and the integration that make this work meaningful all take time to build.
If you're new and curious about this work, the honest first step is ordinary individual therapy. We get to know each other, do the work in front of us, and if and when KAP genuinely fits, we can talk about it together.
Not sure it's for you? That's completely fine. Many clients never pursue ketamine or psychedelic work at all, and their therapy is no less complete for it.
References
- American Psychiatric Association, Psychiatric News, "Esketamine Approved for Treatment-Resistant Depression" (2019). psychiatryonline.org
This page is educational and is not medical advice. Whether any treatment is appropriate for you is a decision made with qualified medical and mental-health providers.