Ketamine Therapy Rooted in Safety, Relationship, and Lasting Change
Healing work goes deeper when you feel supported. I offer ketamine-assisted psychotherapy in a way that is grounded, relational, and thoughtfully paced so you can explore what is ready to emerge with care.
You do not have to do this alone. Our work centers trust, preparation, and integration so ketamine becomes part of a meaningful therapeutic process rather than a stand-alone experience
“While the medicine alone does produce results, they are inherently transient without therapeutic support and effective integration. If you are considering investing in your healing, let’s do it in a way that produces long-term benefits.”
—Charlie
The most powerful psychedelic therapy happens in the context of relationship
Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy can open new possibilities for people who feel stuck in patterns that traditional treatment has not fully shifted. We combine the therapeutic potential of ketamine with a steady, attuned clinical relationship that helps you make sense of the experience and bring insights into daily life.
This is not a rushed or impersonal model. I believe the medicine matters, but the container matters too. That means careful preparation, emotional safety, skilled support during the process, and integration afterward.
Convenient At-Home Dosing With The Support of an Experienced Counselor
At-Home Oral Ketamine $550
I offer an at-home protocol for Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP). I can connect you with a local prescriber, guide you through your session, or offer post-session integration. Each client has unique needs and different resources. I work to develop individualized treatment plans in-line with your budget and needs.
IV Ketamine Protocol
Another option is coordinated support alongside IV ketamine at a local clinic. For clients with treatment-resistant conditions, this approach can be especially effective. It typically involves infusions every three days, with same-day integration sessions to help process and apply the experience. This format often leads to meaningful, sustained change, in part because it increases the likelihood of a full psychedelic or mystical experience. I’m available to guide clients through a structured series of infusions with a focus on long-term outcomes, and I’ve been working with this protocol since 2019 in collaboration with clinics in Athens, Gainesville, and Atlanta.
Coming Soon - Spaces Limited
I am actively developing a group Ketamine (G-KAP) offering to improve affordability, access, and take advantage of the benefit of community in healing. Since the beginning of time, psychedelic healing traditions have been communal. Soon, you’ll be able to join a small local Ketamine Circle. Sign up for the waiting list today.
Why Ketamine Therapy (KAP)?
Ketamine has a long history of safe use as an anesthetic, and its new “breakthrough” potential to resolve treatment-resistant depression has created quite a buzz. Ketamine induces a non-ordinary state of consciousness, or psychedelic effect, which can be a powerful, potentially life-changing experience. This experience is the focus of Charlie’s approach to psychotherapy services while the medical aspect is managed by local prescribers.
A key feature of psychedelic medicine is its ability to temporarily shut down the Default Mode Network (your ego) so that you can experience reality without your typical filter. What we understand is the story you manufacture about who you are and how you relate to the world can become too rigid in treatment-resistant disorders and may color your reality in negative ways. Ketamine has the potential to help you step outside of beliefs that no longer serve you. It’s a big shift and one that has the potential to help you change your perceptions and thus change your reality.
This sounds wonderful, and it can be. In a recent clinical trial with cancer patients, using a similar medication, greater than 80% of participants reported “moderately or greater increased well-being/life satisfaction.” (Griffiths, et al. 2016) This study was the beginning of the current research renaissance into psychedelics and the data continues to confirm benefits. What’s important to note is that these outcomes quantify a combination of medication and psychotherapy. Though the medicine itself can have restorative impacts on the brain, the ego-based narratives that a Ketamine treatment may expose often require psychotherapy to fully resolve.
Many clients have felt trapped for years or even a lifetime by negative beliefs such as “I’m unlovable, a disappointment, a failure, it’s hopeless, or the world is a bad place.” Many report that Ketamine is able to essentially dissolve these stories for a time, but they may have a tendency to return depending on multiple biological, social, and psychological variables. That’s why it’s important to support this Ketamine-produced window of insight with cognitive and behavioral change in order to truly integrate the experience into your psyche.
In addition, Ketamine is a non-specific amplifier of internal experiences be they cognitive, emotional, or somatic. The client does not get to choose what gets amplified and what doesn’t. Those who have a strong resistance to internal experiences may try to fight the medicine in order to retain a sense of control. Opening the door on repressed feelings can be uncomfortable and a trained counselor’s job is to make the process much less challenging.
Charlie offers a clinical assessment, treatment planning, preparation and integration therapy. They want to assure your journey is transformational, long-term, and the opportunity to heal that you’ve been waiting for.
KAP Protocols
I offer a therapeutic modality called Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) in partnership with local prescribers who only provide medicine in conjunction with therapy (KAP). Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) is a holistic modality in which ketamine is used as a complement to psychotherapy to help eligible patients experience more frequent breakthroughs and sustained improvement in symptoms. I take on the psychotherapy portion of the experience, while local prescribers support you in all medical aspects. This includes determining eligibility, developing a custom treatment plan, prescribing the medicine and monitoring outcomes. Below is more information about KAP to help you navigate if it may be a good fit for you.
What is Ketamine?
● Ketamine is a legal, safe and effective medicine used to treat a variety of mental health conditions, including depression, anxiety and PTSD. Ketamine has rapidly-acting antidepressant and mood-enhancing effects, which can begin to take effect within 1-2 hrs. after treatment and last for up to 2 weeks. It works by blocking the brain’s NMDA receptors as well as by stimulating AMPA receptors, which are thought to help form new synaptic connections and boost neural circuits that regulate stress and mood. Ketamine has also been shown to enhance overall neuroplasticity for lasting symptom improvement.
● Ketamine can be administered in a variety of ways, including IV infusion, intramuscular injection, via nasal spray and using sublingual lozenges. In my work with Journey Clinical we only use the sublingual lozenge form.
How Does Ketamine Feel?
● The effects of ketamine, which most patients find pleasant, last for approximately 45 minutes. These effects can make you feel “far from” your body, and facilitate shifts in perception that can often feel expansive in nature. Your motor and verbal abilities will be reduced, so you’ll be lying down in a comfortable position during the experience. Once these effects subsided, we’ll spend the remainder of our appointment giving you space to process and discuss your experience. While it may feel hard to articulate what happened during the experience, patients feel like the insights gained are none-the-less clear. Studies have shown that the benefits to mood and neurological growth can last up to two weeks after the Ketamine experience.
How Does Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy Work?
1. Your therapist connects you with a local prescriber (IV, Esketamine, Oral Lozenges)
● You schedule an initial evaluation with a physician. They will go over your medical and psychiatric history with you, provide education on the treatment and determine if you are eligible for KAP.
● If a physician I partner with determines that you are eligible for KAP, they will develop a personalized Ketamine prescription and outcome monitoring plan for you.
2. Preparation sessions:
● Once you receive your ketamine lozenges, we will schedule time together for our KAP preparation, dosing and integration sessions. Preparation session(s) will be scheduled just like regular therapy sessions prior to the KAP dosing session. The goal of a preparation session(s) is to align on the process and set intentions for our KAP sessions together.
3. KAP Dosing Session:
● A typical first oral ketamine dosing session lasts 3 hours and takes place remotely via telehealth. Subsequent sessions can be done alone or with virtual sitting depending on the clients needs and preferences. IV and Esketamine dosing takes place in a medical facility and I provide virtual integration therapy that day when you get home. I am available to sit for clients using these methodss.
● During an oral dosing session, you will self-administer your ketamine lozenge in a safe setting in your home. You will be in a comfortable, reclining position wearing an eye mask and listening to calming music. I will be present with you the entire time to hold space and provide support as needed.
4. Integration Sessions:
● After our KAP dosing session, we will meet for multiple integration therapy sessions to review the memories, thoughts & insights that arose during your dosing session, and to prepare for the next dosing session.
5. Follow-up consultations With Local Prescribers:
● After our first KAP session, a local prescriber schedules regular follow ups with you to monitor outcomes and prescribe ketamine lozenge refills, as appropriate. The frequency of follow ups depends on your unique treatment plan.
Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy
■ My typical hourly rate is $150/hr. There is no difference in cost between different types of sessions eg. dosing, integration, or assessment. We will generally meet once or twice per week and you can stop your protocol at any time. The psychotherapy portion of the protocol includes:
Full clinical assessment to determine the root cause of your suffering and the mechanisms that keep you stuck.
2 Preparation sessions to teach you how to be with the medicine and identify intentions.
Oral Ketamine Options: 3 hr initial dosing session with KAP. Additional dosing sessions are typically 2 hrs and include brief preparation and integration. You may also choose post-session integration only. Plans are flexible.
IV Ketamine Option: These generally do not include sitting services and I only provide preparation and integration sessions. Clients cost for IV ketamine is about $400 per session and is paid directly to the IV clinic.
1 hr integration sessions after each subsequent medicine session. For best results, 6-8 sessions are recommended.
Closing session to identify ongoing integration strategies. Additional session are always available. Integration is a longterm process of practicing a new way of being. It is easy to fall back into old patterns. Integration is there to help you manage this and stay on track. It can take some practice.