KETAMINE-ASSISTED PSYCHOTHERAPY
Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy, or KAP, combines psychotherapy with medically supervised ketamine treatment to create opportunities for reflection, emotional processing, and new perspectives.
Susan’s approach is especially interested in what happens beneath recurring emotional and relationship patterns — and how insights from the experience can be integrated into everyday life.
Susan M. Regan, LMFT
California License #31600 · Massachusetts Marriage and Family Therapist License #1924
Psychotherapy is available to eligible clients located in California and Massachusetts.
KAP combines psychotherapy with ketamine prescribed and medically managed by a separate qualified medical provider.
For some people, ketamine may create a temporary shift in perspective or emotional flexibility that makes it possible to explore experiences, reactions, and recurring patterns differently.
Preparation, therapeutic support, and integration are essential parts of Susan’s psychotherapy work. Ketamine is not a substitute for this ongoing process, and no particular outcome can be guaranteed.
People exploring KAP may be working through concerns such as:
Whether KAP is appropriate depends on both psychotherapy assessment and separate medical evaluation. These experiences alone do not establish eligibility.
Susan’s work is grounded in the idea that relationships often reveal the emotional patterns that shape our lives.
Through preparation, ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, and integration, clients may explore questions such as:
Why do I keep repeating this pattern?
What might be underneath this reaction?
How do I relate to myself when I feel vulnerable, afraid, angry, or disconnected?
What do I want to carry forward — and what am I ready to leave behind?
How can insight become a different way of responding in everyday life?
Insight can open possibilities; practicing different responses in daily life is a continuing part of the work.
Explore the pathway that fits what you want to work on. These offerings have separate assessment and eligibility requirements.
Individual KAP combines preparation, ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, and integration in a one-to-one therapeutic process.
Depending on the treatment plan, work may include lower-dose psycholytic sessions that allow more therapeutic interaction as well as more immersive ketamine-assisted experiences.
Couples KAP is designed for partners who understand their relationship patterns intellectually but continue to get pulled back into familiar emotional cycles.
The work combines couples psychotherapy, preparation, ketamine-assisted experiences when appropriate, and integration. The goal isn’t simply to understand your relationship differently. It’s to begin experiencing each other differently.
Small virtual relationship-focused psychotherapy groups for couples and individuals working on couple relationships alongside others navigating similar dilemmas, depending on group format and clinical fit.
Monthly Group Therapy & Integration provides ongoing psychotherapy and integration support. Separate extended ketamine-assisted group psychotherapy may also be available for clinically and medically eligible participants.
Susan meets with the client to understand current concerns, history, goals, relationship patterns, and whether KAP may be an appropriate psychotherapy option.
A separate qualified medical provider evaluates medical eligibility and, when appropriate, prescribes ketamine. Susan currently collaborates with Journey Clinical for the medical component of KAP.
Preparation helps clarify intentions, expectations, therapeutic goals, and the structure of the experience. Susan provides the psychotherapy component during KAP.
Integration helps clients reflect on what emerged and consider how new awareness can translate into everyday choices, relationships, and patterns.
Susan provides the psychotherapy component of KAP. Journey Clinical or another qualified medical provider manages the medical component.
Lower-dose ketamine-assisted psychotherapy may allow clients to remain more verbally engaged with Susan during the session while exploring emotions, memories, reactions, and patterns.
Some treatment plans may include a more immersive ketamine experience with less ongoing conversation during the medication experience and greater emphasis on preparation and integration.
The medical provider independently determines medication and medical appropriateness.
A ketamine experience may bring forward emotions, memories, perspectives, or insights.
Integration creates space to understand what emerged and ask:
What feels important?
What does this reveal about a familiar pattern?
What do I want to respond to differently?
How can this insight become something I practice in my relationships and everyday life?
Susan views integration as a central part of KAP rather than an optional afterthought.
Participation in KAP requires both:
Susan determines whether KAP is appropriate within the psychotherapy process.
The medical provider independently determines whether ketamine is medically appropriate and manages prescribing and medical requirements.
No psychotherapy recommendation guarantees a prescription or medical eligibility.
Psychotherapy with Susan is available to eligible clients located in California and Massachusetts.
KAP incorporates prescribed ketamine into a psychotherapy process that also includes assessment, preparation, therapeutic support, and integration. Traditional psychotherapy does not involve ketamine.
Ketamine is prescribed and medically managed by a qualified medical provider. Susan provides the psychotherapy component.
No. Medical evaluation, prescribing, medication, and related medical services are separate from Susan’s psychotherapy fees.
In some cases, yes. Coordination of care can be discussed during the assessment process.
There is no universal number. Recommendations depend on the person’s goals, history, clinical needs, response to treatment, and medical eligibility.
Integration is the psychotherapy process of reflecting on what emerged during a ketamine-assisted experience and considering how those insights relate to everyday life, relationships, patterns, and choices.
No. Participation requires both psychotherapy assessment and independent medical evaluation.
Preparation and integration materials are discussed as part of the appropriate clinical intake and treatment process.
The first step is a conversation about what you are experiencing, what you hope might change, and whether ketamine-assisted psychotherapy may be an appropriate direction to explore.