Ketamine-Assisted
EMDR
in Oakland, California
The shift begins within.
You may feel like you’ve been carrying the weight of past experiences for far too long. Certain memories or sensations live just beneath the surface, easily triggered but hard to talk about. You might feel flooded, dissociated, or completely shut down when you try to process what happened. Even with years of therapy, some things remain unresolved—like your mind understands, but your body hasn’t caught up. You may feel like you’re stuck in survival mode, caught in the same emotional loops, unsure how to truly move forward. When traditional therapy feels like it’s hitting a wall, it can be disheartening and isolating.
Breakthrough without the Overwhelm
What is Ketamine Assisted EMDR Therapy?
The combination of Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) and EMDR offers a powerful and effective approach to treating trauma, anxiety, and depression. Ketamine helps clients enter a more open, flexible state of mind where deeper, often unconscious material becomes more accessible. In this space, EMDR can be used to reprocess traumatic memories with greater ease and less emotional overwhelm.
While ketamine reduces emotional resistance and enhances neural plasticity, EMDR uses bilateral stimulation to help integrate painful memories, making them feel less distressing and easier to heal from. Together, these approaches can lead to faster, more profound results—especially for those with complex trauma or treatment-resistant depression.
Both KAP and EMDR are grounded in research-based methods that support healing at both the emotional and nervous system levels. As an EMDRIA Certified Therapist, I bring that clinical foundation directly into this work. This integrative work helps shift long-standing trauma patterns and opens the door to lasting change.
KA-EMDR: Faster, Deeper Trauma Processing
When traditional therapy feels like it's hitting a wall, KA-EMDR offers a more direct path forward. By combining EMDR with a low dose of prescribed ketamine, this approach reduces emotional resistance and enhances the brain's natural plasticity, making it possible to access and reprocess difficult memories with greater ease.
Sessions are intensive by design: a series of 2-4 hour sessions occurring at least once per week for a short duration. This concentrated format allows for meaningful progress in far less time than conventional weekly therapy.
Imagine being able to revisit difficult memories without shutting down or becoming overwhelmed.
Instead of avoiding the past, you feel safe enough to face it—with support, clarity, and a growing sense of inner strength. You begin to understand your story in a new way, not just with your mind, but with your whole body. The fear, shame, or numbness that once held you back starts to loosen. You feel more connected to yourself, more emotionally present in your relationships, and more able to respond rather than react. Over time, what once felt like a constant undercurrent of distress is replaced with a sense of calm, confidence, and relief. Healing begins to feel possible—not just as an idea, but as a lived experience.
Comprehensive Intake Session
Before we dive into the treatment, we meet for a longer intake session. Here, we explore your history, goals, and what you hope to gain from this experience.
Medical Consultation with Prescriber
I partner with an organization called Journey Clinical, whose medical team takes on all medical activities of KAP, including patient eligibility, prescriptions and outcome monitoring. Once I’ve assessed your appropriateness for KAP from a psychotherapy lens, we will get you scheduled for a consult for medical clearance and treatment planning.
Preparation Workbook
You’ll receive a guided workbook to complete at home between our intake and your KAP-Assisted sessions. This is not busywork, it’s a therapeutic tool designed to help you clarify goals, track past experiences, identify themes, and reflect on your emotional landscape. It lays the groundwork for more focused, effective processing once your treatment begins.
KA-EMDR Sessions
Your Ketamine-Assisted EMDR Intensive Days
A customized series of 2-4 hour sessions, occurring at least once a week for a short duration.
During EMDR processing, a low dose of prescribed Ketamine is self-administered.
What is the total investment for a Ketamine-Assisted EMDR Intensive?
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Twelve hours of focused, customized Intensive treatment sessions, completed within 1 month.
Custom Treatment Plan
Your series begins with a comprehensive consultation to map what's kept you stuck, identify target material, and design a treatment sequence built around your nervous system and your goals.
Your Intensive Sessions
Each session is structured around where you are in the process. Your series includes a customizable combination of psychedelic journey sessions, EMDR processing sessions, psycholytic (low-dose) KA-EMDR sessions where both modalities work together in real time, and integration sessions. At the beginning and end of each day, you'll receive guidance to help what shifts in the room land in your daily life.
Total investment is $3,600
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Fourteen hours of focused, customized Intensive treatment sessions, completed within 1 month.
Custom Treatment Plan
Your series begins with a comprehensive consultation to map what's kept you stuck, identify target material, and design a treatment sequence built around your nervous system and your goals.
Your Intensive Sessions
Each session is structured around where you are in the process. Your series includes a customizable combination of psychedelic journey sessions, EMDR processing sessions, psycholytic (low-dose) KA-EMDR sessions where both modalities work together in real time, and integration sessions. At the beginning and end of each day, you'll receive guidance to help what shifts in the room land in your daily life.
Total investment is $4,200
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Sixteen hours of focused, customized Intensive treatment sessions, completed within 1 month.
Custom Treatment Plan
Your series begins with a comprehensive consultation to map what's kept you stuck, identify target material, and design a treatment sequence built around your nervous system and your goals.
Your Intensive Sessions
Each session is structured around where you are in the process. Your series includes a customizable combination of psychedelic journey sessions, EMDR processing sessions, psycholytic (low-dose) KA-EMDR sessions where both modalities work together in real time, and integration sessions. At the beginning and end of each day, you'll receive guidance to help what shifts in the room land in your daily life.
Total investment is $4,800
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Eighteen hours of focused, customized Intensive treatment sessions, completed within 1 month.
Custom Treatment Plan
Your series begins with a comprehensive consultation to map what's kept you stuck, identify target material, and design a treatment sequence built around your nervous system and your goals.
Your Intensive Sessions
Each session is structured around where you are in the process. Your series includes a customizable combination of psychedelic journey sessions, EMDR processing sessions, psycholytic (low-dose) KA-EMDR sessions where both modalities work together in real time, and integration sessions. At the beginning and end of each day, you'll receive guidance to help what shifts in the room land in your daily life.
Total investment is $5,400 Total
Last reviewed: June 2026
FAQs about Ketamine-Assisted EMDR
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Yes, ketamine is an FDA approved drug, legal in all 50 states and used in hospital settings for surgery and pain management since 1970. It is a top 10 essential medicine according to the WHO. It is widely prescribed off-label for mental health.
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Ketamine is generally very safe but not suitable for everyone (e.g., those with uncontrolled high blood pressure or certain personality disorders). A medical doctor will conduct a thorough screening process to ensure safety, and if needed, work with your other doctors or medical professionals.
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Most clients experience primarily positive effects, but some may feel temporarily emotional or drained as they process deep emotions. It is common to feel tired after a KA-EMDR session. These effects are usually short-lived and part of the healing process.
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KAP and EMDR each have strong evidence as effective trauma- and mood-focused treatments. Early-stage studies and clinical guidelines suggest their combined use amplify benefits, offering faster relief and deeper, sustained healing, especially for complex trauma, treatment-resistant depression, and anxiety.
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I partner with an organization called Journey Clinical, whose medical team takes on all medical activities of KAP, including patient eligibility, prescriptions and outcome monitoring.
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KAP and EMDR are distinct therapies, but they can be thoughtfully combined as part of your overall treatment plan. Sometimes we may focus on one approach first and add the other later, and in other cases we may weave them together depending on your goals and needs.
You don’t need to decide this in advance. During our consultation, I’ll help guide you in choosing the sequence or combination that feels most supportive for you.
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No, I provide therapy for clients who have been prescribed sublingual ketamine formulated to absorb under your tongue.
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KA-EMDR is itself an intensive approach. Sessions are typically 3 hours and occur at least once per week for a short duration, allowing for deep, concentrated processing that standard weekly therapy can't replicate. The addition of ketamine helps reduce the emotional overwhelm that often slows trauma work, so more healing can happen in less time.