The Kap Treatment Path
Serving clients in California, Washington, and locally in San Rafael & Oakland
This page outlines what you can expect from the S-KAP treatment path, from our first meeting through integration. Each phase of the S-KAP treatment path is designed to support your mind, body, and nervous system, helping you move from patterns of trauma and disconnection toward a greater sense of presence, resilience, and relational connection.
The KAP Treatment
Path Summary
Step 1: intake- Schedule a KAP Consultation
50 minutes (telehealth)
Step 2: ASSESSMENT-Schedule a medical Consultation
50 minutes (telehealth)
Step 3: RECOMMENDED 3-6 PREPARATION Sessions (2 required)
50 minutes (telehealth)
Step 4: KETAMINE MEDICINE SESSIONS (2 or 3 hours, 3 required)
These sessions can be held in-person in my office in Oakland, CA or via telehealth.
Step 5: RECOMMENDED 3-6 INTEGRATION SESSIONS (1 required)
50 minutes (telehealth)
Your journey begins with a required intake consultation to assess your eligibility for KAP, clarify your healing goals, and answer questions about the treatment process. This session ensures that ketamine-assisted therapy is the right fit before moving forward.
You’ll then meet with our prescribing medical provider for a 50-minute consultation. In this session, you’ll review your health history and assess medical appropriateness for ketamine. If ketamine is a good fit, you’ll receive a prescription for lozenges. Once that’s in place, we can begin our Pre-KAP relational sessions to start building a foundation of safety and connection before your first journey.
Intake & Assessment
Preparation Sessions
Before beginning ketamine sessions, we engage in Pre-KAP relational therapy to build a foundation of trust, emotional safety, and therapeutic connection. In these initial 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. (Note: Pre-KAP is different from Preparation Sessions, which are scheduled before each ketamine journey to set intentions for that specific session.)
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.
KAP Lozenge Sessions
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 massage table, 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, S-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.
Integration Sessions
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 in your session doesn’t just fade, but becomes part of your growth and healing.
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.
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I offer a free 20-minute consultation to all clients so you can ask questions, learn more about my approach, and feel out whether we are a good fit.