Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy in Fort Collins & Northern Colorado
Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy in Fort Collins and 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.
Taken medication.
Worked hard.
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.
The medicine is only one part of the process.
Preparation.
The experience itself.
Reflection.
Integration.
These are all essential.
The goal isn't simply to have an unusual experience.
The goal is helping that experience become meaningful and life-changing.
When might KAP be helpful?
Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy may be appropriate for people experiencing:
Depression that hasn't responded well to traditional treatments Anxiety Trauma and PTSD Persistent self-critical patterns Grief Existential distress Life transitions Spiritual or existential questioning Feeling emotionally stuck despite years of personal work
A thorough evaluation helps determine whether KAP is an appropriate option for your particular situation.
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're 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.
Together we'll explore:
What did you notice? What surprised you? What felt alive? What became possible? What wants your attention now? How does this experience translate 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.
A psychotherapy-first approach
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'll 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.
As a Licensed Professional Counselor Candidate, I practice under the clinical supervision required by the State of Colorado for this credential.
Inner authority and healing
Many clients discover that ketamine temporarily loosens the familiar stories they've carried about themselves.
Stories like:
"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...
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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is ketamine a cure for depression or trauma?
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 makes your approach different?
Many ketamine practices focus primarily on symptom reduction or the medication experience itself.
My work is psychotherapy-centered. Ketamine is integrated into a broader therapeutic relationship grounded in curiosity, compassion, discernment, nervous system awareness, parts work, and the cultivation of inner authority.
Serving Fort Collins & 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.