Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy
A doorway into deeper healing
Some experiences of healing require more than words. At STILL, Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) is not “talk therapy with medicine.” It’s a whole-person healing process — blending neuroscience, somatic work, guided therapy, and the intelligent use of medicine to help the nervous system remember how to feel safe, connected, and alive again.
This is where science and soul meet: a carefully supported experience that can help the brain rewire, the body release, and the heart return to wholeness.
What makes our approach different
At STILL, we don’t simply administer ketamine — we engage it as part of a deeply guided, evidence-based psychotherapeutic process. The STILL Method™ for ketamine assisted psychotherapy (KAP) is rooted in neuroscience, blended with skilled therapeutic presence, nervous-system attunement, and real-time emotional processing. Each journey is intentionally supported before, during, and after the dosing experience, ensuring that insights become embodied change. Unlike experiences that focus mainly on the medicine, our approach treats the whole person — mind, body, and nervous system — creating a structured, compassionate space where healing can unfold rather than be rushed.
Coaching as a Continuum of Change
In addition to standard integration, the STILL Method ™ offers a personalized coaching program designed specifically to work in rhythm with the heightened neuroplasticity created by KAP. These coaching sessions translate post-journey clarity into new thought patterns, daily practices, and relational shifts — extending the window of transformation long after the medicine experience itself. The process gently rewires the inner architecture of belief and behavior, helping patients anchor new neural pathways through lived experience, rather than fleeting insight. It’s where science meets soul — a true continuum of care that transforms temporary breakthroughs into lasting growth.
A Tailored Process
Every KAP journey at STILL is individualized. Dosing is adjusted carefully by your provider based on your clinical history, nervous system, and therapeutic goals.
Some sessions involve lighter dosing that allows you to remain engaged and reflective throughout the experience — supporting emotional processing, trauma work, or guided dialogue. Other sessions invite a deeper, more immersive state of consciousness, opening access to expansive insight and embodied release.
Both approaches can be profoundly healing when held within a supportive, trauma-informed framework — and your clinician will determine what’s most appropriate at each stage of your care.
Integrating multiple healing modalities
KAP at STILL doesn’t exist in isolation. Depending on your needs, sessions may be complemented by additional therapeutic modalities such as:
• EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing) — to help the nervous system reprocess traumatic memories with greater safety and integration.
• Somatic therapies and breathwork — to support emotional release and embodiment.
• IFS-informed parts work — gently exploring the protective and wounded aspects of self that surface during or after a session.
• Mindfulness and nervous-system mapping — strengthening regulation and self-awareness over time.
This multimodal approach helps translate the insights from your ketamine experiences into sustainable, real-world healing.
Why Ketamine?
Ketamine is an FDA-approved medication with a decades-long record of safety in medical settings. In recent years, a growing body of rigorous research has demonstrated its effectiveness in rapidly reducing symptoms of depression, anxiety, PTSD, and suicidal ideation — particularly when combined with psychotherapy and integration support.
Studies suggest that ketamine helps stimulate neuroplasticity — the brain’s ability to form new connections — which allows for greater emotional flexibility and healing.
When paired with skilled therapeutic guidance, this state of openness can help interrupt cycles of suffering and catalyze meaningful, lasting change.
At STILL, your sessions are led by licensed psychiatric providers who are trained and certified in Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy and psychedelic-informed care. We follow established safety protocols, individualized dosing, and medical monitoring to ensure the experience remains both clinically sound and deeply restorative.
Honoring the Medicine & Its Sacred Origins
Ketamine is most widely known as a synthetically manufactured medication, and in clinical settings it is produced in laboratories to meet strict safety, purity, and dosing standards.
However, scientific understanding continues to evolve.
In 2020, researchers reported a surprising discovery: a naturally occurring fungus, Pochonia chlamydosporia, was found to biosynthesize ketamine. This finding revealed that ketamine is not only a modern pharmaceutical creation, but also a molecule that exists in nature — bridging ancient biological intelligence and contemporary medicine.
Long before modern science had language for this, humans across cultures worked ceremonially with plant and fungal medicines to access non-ordinary states of consciousness — states that soften rigid identity, quiet fear-based cognition, and open pathways for insight, emotional healing, and meaning-making.
Modern neuroscience now recognizes that ketamine reliably facilitates access to these same classes of inner experience. While we use the FDA-approved, laboratory-manufactured form of ketamine to ensure safety and clinical integrity, we hold the medicine with deep respect for both its natural origins and its sacred potential.
At STILL, ketamine is approached not merely as a pharmacologic tool, but as a sacred medicine in practice — held with intention, reverence, preparation, and careful integration — within a trauma-informed, medically supervised, and ethical clinical framework.
Sacred does not mean unsafe.
Clinical does not mean disconnected.
At STILL, ancient wisdom, modern science, and responsible care are intentionally woven together.
The Still Difference
• Medical & functional expertise — your care is guided by licensed psychiatric and functional medicine clinicians trained in psychedelic-assisted therapy.
• Whole-system integration — blending psychotherapy, EMDR, somatic work, and nervous-system regulation.
• Safe, sacred space — sessions are structured, evidence-based, and heart-centered.
• Depth & continuity — our work continues through integration, embodiment, and long-term nervous-system healing.
Who it’s for
KAP may be supportive if you:
- Feel emotionally “stuck” despite therapy or medication
- Live with depression, anxiety, or PTSD that hasn’t fully responded to traditional care
- Are seeking a deeper, body-based path toward healing
- Value a clinical approach that honors both neuroscience and the soul
- Each candidate is carefully screened for medical and psychological safety before beginning.
A Word on Transformation
Healing is not about escaping your pain — it’s about meeting it in a new way.
KAP may offer an opening: a shift from surviving to truly living. For many, it’s not the end of their healing journey, but the beginning of a more honest and embodied one.
Part of Your Larger Care Pathway
Like all care provided at STILL, Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy is not a standalone service— it’s one component within your individualized Care Pathway, designed in collaboration with your clinician to meet your specific goals and support your healing at every level.
Each pathway may include functional lab testing, integrative medical management, somatic therapies, nutritional and nervous-system support, and integration work — all orchestrated to move you toward lasting transformation, step by step.