Couples/Dyad Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy
(C-KAP)
From cradle to coffin we all need love and connection.
When we have safety and security in our relationship, we know we can turn to our person and regain a sense of balance in our world.
When the safety is not there we feel disorganized, fearful, and alone.
Ketamine has been called a “human fabric softer” as it softens a person’s habitual defenses, resentments, blocks, and walls, and opens up the heart.
In psychedelic couples therapy with ketamine, you and your partner will set an intention to focus on an area of growth in your relationship. The couples medicine session is one where each individual has an opportunity to have a light psychedelic, heart opening experience, and then to come together with their partner and the therapist to share the individual healing work and integrate the relational healing into their “couple bubble.”
This is an experiential therapy for couples to learn through doing- to create an embodied experience of warmth, affection, and care, that can serve as a mental, emotional, and body-based template to access in moments of disconnection, re-connection, and deepening connection.
If one person in the couple chooses to opt out of the ketamine piece we can still work with the couple in a format where one person uses the ketamine and the other person participates in the process of the journey and in the integration.
This approach can also be used for dyads of mother/daughter, father/son, father/daughter, mother/son, or any other dyad that wishes for healing and re-connection.
I've trained in the Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples approach which uses attachment theory as a way increase emotional responsiveness and affection. My work with couples is a compassionate and loving approach as I know the real difficulties of navigating a long term commitment. Together we honor anger and frustration as natural responses to bond-threatening situations, and transform reactive cycles into cycles of empathy, vulnerability, and repair.
Specialties
Growing empathy
Increasing emotional intimacy
Supporting physical touch/sex
Forgiveness/Repair
Polyamorous relationships
Defensiveness/Blame Cycles
Trust Building/Rebuilding
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