psychotherapy+ Ketamine STUDIO
A New Pathway Into Healing & Self-Connection
Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) at Higher Ground is a guided, clinically supervised process that uses ketamine as a catalyst for transformation. It helps soften the protective layers that keep you stuck in old patterns, so you can meet yourself with clarity, compassion, and possibility.
Guided by therapists with specialized training in psychedelic-assisted treatment and the science that informs it, KAP sessions combine precise medical dosing with deep psychological work. Rooted in attachment theory, our process is intentionally structured, safe, and low-volume, allowing for careful preparation, intention-setting, emotional processing, and integration. The medicine opens the door; the therapy provides the support and direction to move through it.
Each session is followed by dedicated integration, where we anchor what emerged and work intentionally within the neuroplastic 'afterglow' window that follows ketamine administration. Using this biological window of openness helps insights consolidate more quickly and deeply than in typical weekly therapy. This is therapy-driven psychedelic work—a grounded, evidence-supported route back to your inner life.
Here, medicine supports the mind in remembering how to heal.
Who Is Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy For?
KAP is ideal for those who feel stuck in patterns of overwhelm, emotional shutdown, or chronic self-criticism. It offers a clinically supported way to break through what traditional talk therapy alone hasn’t fully reached.
High-achieving individuals experiencing burnout or depletion
Chronic anxiety, looping thoughts, or internal pressure that won’t quiet
Depression or emotional flatness that feels resistant to change
Trauma survivors seeking a gentler entry point into deeper work
Individuals feeling disconnected from their inner world, partner, or purpose
People curious about psychedelic-adjacent healing in a safe, therapeutic setting
Key Benefits
Access to Deeper Emotional Insight
Ketamine helps quiet rigid defenses and inner noise, making it easier to access the emotions, memories, and truths that are often guarded.
Relief From Mental & Emotional Overload
By interrupting the brain’s familiar loops like rumination, self-criticism, and catastrophizing—ketamine can create a temporary sense of spaciousness.
A Supported Pathway to Lasting Change
Our KAP model isn’t about chasing a “peak experience,” but pairing the neuroplastic window opened by ketamine with intentional psychotherapy and integration. Insights become practiced habits and relief becomes a sustainable shift.
The Ketamine-Assisted Therapy Experience
A Quiet, Inward Journey
KAP sessions are intentionally slow, private, and deeply supported. Soft music, eyeshades, and your therapist’s steady presence create a protected space for the mind to turn inward. Most people move between calm observation, emotion, and insight as the experience gently unfolds.
Routes That Shape the Experience
We offer two therapeutic pathways: IM ketamine, a contained and immersive dose ideal for symbolic or emotional depth; and oral lozenges, a gentler, slower-onset route often used in multi-session series or intensives. Each option is chosen based on your goals, comfort, and clinical needs.
Structured Therapeutic Formats
Clients engage through a range of thoughtfully designed formats, including ongoing KAP, multi-session series, and immersive intensives or retreats. Each pathway blends medicine, psychotherapy, and integration to support sustained emotional and nervous-system change.
Integration & Nervous-System Support
We integrate immediately to anchor what arose and help you use the neuroplastic “afterglow” window for deeper change. Many clients pair KAP with wellness or IV infusions, such as magnesium, NAD⁺, or glutathione, to support regulation, recovery, and emotional clarity.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy?
Ketamine has biological & emotional benefits that are used as a tool for transformation. KAP combines low-dose ketamine administration with therapeutic support before, during, and after the experience. The medicine creates a state of openness and reduced emotional rigidity; therapy helps make meaning of what emerges and integrate insights into daily life.
How does Ketamine-Assisted Therapy Help?
KAP helps interrupt cycles of avoidance- whether that looks like overworking, emotional numbing, perfectionism, or substance use. By pairing medicine with therapy, clients gain both the biological reset and the psychological tools to build new patterns of regulation and connection.
Many notice:
• Reduction in symptoms of depression, anxiety, and trauma
• Decreased reliance on old coping or escape routes
• Renewed capacity to feel and express emotion
• Clearer perspective and increased motivation in therapy and daily life
Clients are often surprised by how grounded they feel afterward, less like they had a “trip,” more like they finally came home to themselves.
Will I lose control or “trip”?
No. KAP uses low doses that create a softened, introspective, dreamlike state—far from a full psychedelic trip. You remain aware, supported, and guided throughout, with your therapist present the entire time.
What can I expect with Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy?
Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy sessions are quiet, private, and intentionally paced. Music, eyeshades, and your therapist’s steady presence support an inward focus as the experience unfolds—sometimes gently meditative, sometimes more vividly psychedelic—with moments of emotion, clarity, and insight.
Afterward, we move directly into integration, helping you make sense of what arose, anchor it in the body, and use the neuroplastic “afterglow” window for continued healing.
We offer both IM ketamine (a contained, immersive journey) and oral lozenges (a slower, gentler unfolding), available as a single session, two-day intensive, or 4–6 session therapeutic series.
Many clients choose to complement their KAP work with IV ketamine or wellness infusions to support nervous-system recovery and deepen clarity during integration.
Session length: ~3 hours | Therapist + medical provider present throughout.
What Is Ketamine? Is it safe?
Ketamine is a dissociative anesthetic that has some psychedelic effects. It activates the glutamate system and increases neuroplasticity, allowing the brain to form new connections and loosen the grip of old patterns. It quiets the Default Mode Network (DMN), the circuitry tied to rumination and rigid self-stories, opening space for emotion, memory, and perspective to surface.
When administered in a controlled clinical environment with trained professionals, ketamine is considered safe and is well-researched for treatment-resistant depression, anxiety, and trauma-related symptoms. We thoroughly review your medical and psychological history before moving forward.
Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy is the first and only current legal form of psychedelic therapy in Connecticut. This innovative therapeutic modality combines the healing potential of psychotherapy with the non-ordinary state of consciousness induced by ketamine.
What if I’m nervous or unsure?
Many clients feel this way at first. Part of the process is preparing your mind and body so you feel grounded and informed. We move at your pace, and you’re never pushed into anything you’re not ready for.