Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) is a powerful therapeutic process that combines the benefits of ketamine with intentional, guided mental health therapy. Ketamine possesses unique properties that temporarily soften the rigid patterns of the mind, facilitating emotional healing by opening access to deeper emotional layers. This allows insights, release, and healing that often surpass what traditional talk therapy can achieve.
In our collaborative work, ketamine is administered solely through sublingual troches (dissolvable tablets placed under the tongue), ensuring a gentle and controllable experience. You remain conscious, aware, and supported throughout the process, with therapy intricately woven into every step.


Ketamine alters consciousness in a way that can facilitate emotional healing by helping you step outside your usual mental loops — the anxiety spirals, depressive narratives, trauma imprints, and internal defenses that keep you stuck. In this softened, expanded state, the mind becomes more flexible, open, and receptive.
This can lead to:
- Insight into long-standing emotional patterns
- Reduced reactivity and nervous system overwhelm
- A sense of spaciousness around difficult thoughts or memories
- Deep emotional release
- New perspective on identity, relationships, and purpose
- Gentle access to parts of yourself previously blocked or protected
Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP) doesn’t replace traditional mental health therapy — it enhances it. By pairing the medicine with trained psychological support, the experience becomes meaningful, grounded, and integrated into lasting change.

KAP is especially helpful for individuals navigating various challenges related to emotional healing, including:
- Depression (including treatment-resistant patterns)
- PTSD and trauma-related symptoms
- Anxiety and chronic worry
- Emotional numbness or disconnection
- Identity loss and major life transitions
- Spiritual or existential distress
- Patterns of avoidance, fear, or self-protection
- Persistent stress stored in the nervous system
While ketamine-assisted psychotherapy can create rapid relief, it is the combination of therapy, medicine, and integration that fosters lasting transformation in mental health therapy.
Before any ketamine-assisted psychotherapy session, we spend time clarifying your intentions, understanding your history, and strengthening nervous system safety to enhance your emotional healing. This preparation helps create a solid foundation for a meaningful, grounded mental health therapy experience.
During your ketamine-assisted psychotherapy session, you take a sublingual troche in a calm, supportive setting. You remain conscious and aware while shifting into a more open, introspective, and often spacious inner state that promotes emotional healing. I guide you through the process with presence, skill, and emotional safety, ensuring a beneficial mental health therapy experience.
This is where emotional healing takes root. After your ketamine-assisted psychotherapy session, we process what emerged — the insights, emotions, somatic experiences, and shifts in perception — and weave them into your daily life. Integration is where new patterns become real, sustainable, and embodied, enhancing your overall mental health therapy journey.
Ashlea Dillard

Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy enhances the brain's capacity for emotional healing by forming new pathways, which makes change easier within the context of mental health therapy.
It disrupts rigid thought loops associated with depression, trauma, and anxiety, promoting emotional healing through innovative approaches like ketamine-assisted psychotherapy in mental health therapy.
It quiets the default mode network, creating space for clarity and introspection, which is essential for emotional healing during ketamine-assisted psychotherapy as part of mental health therapy.
Clients often describe a softening of tension and a shift out of survival mode during their emotional healing process, particularly with ketamine-assisted psychotherapy as part of their mental health therapy.

We explore your history, symptoms, medications, medical considerations, and goals to ensure that ketamine-assisted psychotherapy is safe and appropriate for your emotional healing. Additionally, you will be referred to a medical doctor for a specific ketamine medical evaluation and prescription as part of your mental health therapy.

We build a therapeutic foundation for emotional healing, clarify intentions, strengthen nervous system safety, and create an individualized plan for mental health therapy, including ketamine-assisted psychotherapy.

In a supportive setting, you take the medicine as part of ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, while I guide you through the experience. This process facilitates emotional healing, helping you explore insights, feelings, memories, and new perspectives within the context of mental health therapy.

We process your experience through emotional healing, anchor your insights, apply them to your daily life, and support long-term transformation with the help of ketamine-assisted psychotherapy and mental health therapy.

We continue strengthening the new patterns, identity shifts, and emotional freedom that emerge from ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, which plays a vital role in our approach to emotional healing and enhancing mental health therapy.

Your experience is unique, and your therapy—whether it's emotional healing through mental health therapy or ketamine-assisted psychotherapy—should honor that.
*Prices do not include prescription or medical evaluation, which are essential components for those seeking emotional healing through ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, a form of mental health therapy.

This 90-minute preparation session is a vital foundation for your ketamine-assisted psychotherapy journey. We take intentional time to clarify your goals, explore your personal history, and cultivate a sense of nervous system safety, ensuring you feel supported and grounded. Through thoughtful conversation and guided preparation, we help your mind and body feel ready for the experience ahead. This preparation fosters emotional healing and creates the conditions for deeper insight, integration, and a more meaningful mental health therapy journey.

This 3-hour dosing session is designed to support a safe, intentional, and deeply supported therapeutic experience focused on emotional healing. We begin with a vibroacoustic session, followed by progressive meditation and relaxation to help the nervous system and prepare the mind and body for ketamine-assisted psychotherapy. You are then guided into the ketamine experience, accompanied by curated, specialized playlists selected to enhance your journey. After the session, you’ll have time for recovery, a nourishing snack, and an initial integration conversation to support your mental health therapy.

A 90-minute session is where transformation truly takes root, especially in the context of emotional healing. We begin with a grounding vibroacoustic session to support nervous system regulation and help the body settle as insights come into focus. From there, we process what emerged—emotions, sensations, memories, and shifts in perception—exploring how these experiences connect to your everyday life. This approach, integral to ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, allows us to translate insight into action, making new patterns embodied, sustainable, and meaningful long after the mental health therapy session ends.

This all-inclusive ketamine-assisted psychotherapy program is thoughtfully designed to support deep, sustainable emotional healing from start to finish. The package includes five 90-minute preparation sessions, six 3-hour KAP dosing sessions, and six 90-minute integration sessions, providing comprehensive mental health therapy before, during, and after each experience. Every phase is intentionally structured to build safety, deepen insight, and support meaningful integration, ensuring you are fully supported throughout.
*Medical evaluation and prescription not provided for emotional healing through ketamine-assisted psychotherapy or other mental health therapy.
*Hypnotherapy is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. For any medical, psychological (dependent on situation), or dental conditions, a referral, prescription, direction, or supervision from a licensed healthcare provider is required. Always consult your healthcare provider regarding your health, and never disregard or delay seeking professional medical advice because of something you have read or heard about hypnotherapy.
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