Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
―Rumi
Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy in Fort Collins & Northern Colorado
Thoughtful, trauma-informed therapy integrating ketamine with deep psychological and contemplative approaches.
Sometimes healing requires more than trying harder. Many people come to therapy after years of doing everything they know to do. They've read the books, practiced mindfulness, reflected deeply. They understand their patterns intellectually, yet still find themselves returning to the same places of anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, or emotional stuckness.
Sometimes our minds understand long before our nervous systems do. Ketamine-assisted work can create conditions that make deeper healing possible—not because the medicine does the healing, but because it can soften the patterns that have kept healing just out of reach.
What is Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy?
Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy combines carefully prescribed ketamine with psychotherapy before, during, and after the medicine experience. While ketamine can create conditions that make healing more accessible, meaningful change develops through the therapeutic process itself — through preparation, the medicine session, and the integration work that follows. Without that container, even profound experiences tend to fade. With it, they can become catalysts for something lasting.
Thoughtful Assessment
We begin with an extensive conversation about your story, your hopes, your health history, and what has led you to consider this work. Together we'll explore your current supports, discuss the potential risks and benefits, and discern whether this approach feels both clinically appropriate and personally aligned with what you're seeking. Not everyone is a good candidate for ketamine, and part of my role is being honest about that. Taking time to establish a thoughtful foundation isn't a formality — it's essential to the therapeutic process itself.
Preparation
Healing doesn't begin with the medicine. It begins by creating the conditions for meaningful therapeutic work. During several preparation sessions — typically three to five, though sometimes more — we'll develop a trusting therapeutic relationship, clarify your intentions, and gently explore the patterns, questions, and places in your life that are asking for attention. We'll also discuss what to expect during the medicine session and cultivate practices that help you approach the experience with curiosity, openness, and a sense of grounding. Rather than trying to control what unfolds, the work of preparation is to build enough safety and trust that you can meet the experience with greater freedom and presence.
Medicine Sessions
Medicine sessions take place in person in a carefully prepared, private setting and typically last two to three hours. Throughout the session, I remain present and attentive — offering a steady therapeutic presence while respecting the wisdom of your own inner process. Every ketamine experience is different. Some people encounter clarity or emotional release, while others experience spaciousness, imagery, or a different relationship to long-held patterns. Some sessions raise more questions than answers. There is no right way to experience ketamine, and my role is not to direct or interpret what unfolds — it is to provide a safe, compassionate environment in which you can meet your experience with curiosity and care.
Integration
Integration is where psychotherapy becomes essential. The medicine experience may soften familiar patterns, open new perspectives, or bring something important into awareness — but lasting healing comes from how those experiences are understood and lived in the days and weeks that follow. During our integration sessions, we'll reflect together on what felt meaningful, what surprised you, and what may now be asking for your attention. We'll explore how the experience relates to your relationships, your daily life, your sense of self, and the ways you've learned to move through the world. The goal isn't simply to understand what happened during a ketamine session. It's to thoughtfully weave what emerged into sustainable ways of living, relating, and caring for yourself. Over time, healing becomes embodied — not because the medicine changes who you are, but because you begin living from a deeper relationship with yourself.
My approach
What draws me to Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy isn't the medicine. It's what becomes possible in the therapeutic relationship. Many of us develop protective patterns that once helped us survive but now keep us disconnected from ourselves — we become organized around fear, perfectionism, people-pleasing, hypervigilance, control. These patterns aren't failures. They are intelligent adaptations. Sometimes ketamine allows us to relate to those protective parts with greater curiosity, compassion, and openness than has previously been possible. Rather than fighting ourselves, we begin listening. Rather than trying to force change, we begin creating the conditions where change can emerge. My role isn't to interpret your experience or tell you what it means — it's to accompany you with careful attention, clinical skill, and deep respect for your own inner process.
Healing isn't in the medicine. It's in the integration. Some of the most meaningful work happens after a ketamine session, as we explore together what you noticed, what surprised you, what felt alive, what became possible, and how the experience translates into your everyday relationships, choices, and way of living. Without integration, profound experiences often fade. With thoughtful integration, they can become catalysts for lasting change.
As both a Licensed Professional Counselor Candidate (LPCC-C) and a Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP), I bring two complementary perspectives to this work. My nursing background allows me to thoughtfully evaluate medical considerations, medication safety, and whether ketamine is an appropriate treatment option. My identity as a therapist shapes everything that follows. I don't see ketamine as a stand-alone intervention — I see it as one tool within a larger process of psychotherapy. The focus is never simply symptom reduction. It's helping you cultivate a different relationship with yourself. Throughout our work together, we continue developing the same capacities that guide all of my therapy: curiosity instead of certainty, compassion instead of self-criticism, discernment instead of living only from external authority, participation instead of trying to control everything. Ketamine doesn't replace that work. It sometimes makes that work more accessible.
Many clients discover that ketamine temporarily loosens the familiar stories they've carried about themselves — "I'm broken," "I have to keep everyone happy," "I'll never change," "I can't trust myself." These stories often soften just enough for something quieter to become visible. Not new information, but a different relationship with yourself. My hope isn't that ketamine gives you answers. It's that it creates space for you to hear your own deeper wisdom more clearly. Over time, therapy helps you cultivate what I call inner authority — the capacity to remain connected to yourself while staying open to relationship, community, and the realities of your life. The medicine may open the door. Psychotherapy helps you walk through it.
Imagine relating to yourself with less fear. Imagine experiencing your thoughts without immediately believing them. Imagine feeling more connected to your body, your emotions, and your deepest values. Imagine discovering that healing isn't about becoming someone new — it's about returning to the person you've always been beneath years of protection.
As a Licensed Professional Counselor Candidate (LPCC-C), I practice under the clinical supervision required by the State of Colorado for this credential.
FAQs
Is ketamine a cure for depression or trauma?
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No.
While ketamine can be a powerful therapeutic tool, lasting change comes through the combination of medicine, psychotherapy, and thoughtful integration. My approach emphasizes the whole process rather than the medication alone.
What if I’ve never used psychedelics?
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Most people who come to this work have no prior experience with psychedelics, and that's completely fine. Ketamine is a legal, FDA-approved medication that has been used safely in clinical settings for decades. You don't need any particular background or preparation other than a willingness to approach your inner experience with some openness. We'll spend meaningful time before any medicine session helping you understand what to expect, clarifying your intentions, and building enough therapeutic relationship that you feel held when you enter the experience. Novelty is normal here. We move at your pace.
What is there to be worried about?
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It's totally reasonable to come in with concerns, and I'd rather you name them than carry them silently. Ketamine does alter your perception, your sense of time, and sometimes your relationship to your usual thought patterns — that's part of how it works therapeutically, and it's also what can feel disorienting if you're not prepared. We discuss all of this in depth before any session. Not everyone is a good candidate, and part of my role is being honest about that. If ketamine isn't the right fit for you we can talk about what else might serve your healing.
Serving Northern Colorado
I provide Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy for adults throughout Fort Collins, Loveland, Windsor, Timnath, Wellington, and across Northern Colorado through in-person care and, when clinically appropriate, telehealth components.
Whether you're exploring ketamine because traditional approaches haven't been enough or you're seeking a more integrated path toward healing, my goal is to provide thoughtful, ethically grounded care that honors both the medicine and the deeper work of psychotherapy.