Ketamine-Assisted Therapy in Lakewood, CO
Ketamine-assisted therapy is a therapy-centered approach that combines the use of ketamine with intentional psychotherapy to support healing, insight, and emotional regulation. At Intima Couples and Sex Therapy, ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP) is guided by a licensed therapist and thoughtfully structured around preparation, dosing, and integration sessions. This approach supports adults experiencing depression, anxiety, trauma, and periods of emotional “stuckness” by creating safety in the body and space for new perspectives to emerge. Ketamine-assisted therapy is offered in person in Lakewood, Colorado, with virtual therapy services available statewide.
A therapy-centered approach to ketamine for depression, anxiety, and emotional healing — in-person and virtual across Colorado
Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy may be especially helpful for individuals navigating depression (ketamine-for-depression) or anxiety (ketamine-for-anxiety), particularly when traditional therapy has felt limited or insufficient.
“The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.”
— Nikos Kazantzakis
Our bodies are so beautifully organized to ensure our safety and survival. We develop skills and tools to survive our environments in times when we are unable to escape them—such as in childhood. Often in adulthood, these same protective patterns can become barriers to healing, especially when the nervous system remains on high alert.
Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy offers a way to gently work with these patterns by creating safety in the body while supporting insight and emotional processing.
Ketamine-Assisted Therapy with Psychotherapy
Ketamine-assisted therapy with psychotherapy is a collaborative, therapy-led approach that combines ketamine with intentional psychological support. Ketamine can help quiet habitual patterns and increase neuroplasticity—the brain’s capacity to form new connections—making it easier to access insight and emotional material that may feel out of reach in traditional therapy alone. While ketamine on its own may offer temporary relief, research and clinical experience consistently show that its benefits are deepened and sustained when paired with psychotherapy. Through preparation and integration sessions, therapy provides a grounded space to explore, organize, and meaningfully integrate the perspectives that emerge, supporting lasting emotional and relational change.
The Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) Process
Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP) is an intentionally structured, multi-step therapeutic process designed to support safety, insight, and meaningful integration. Rather than focusing on ketamine alone, this approach emphasizes preparation and integration as essential parts of the healing journey. Each phase plays a distinct role in helping experiences become understandable, grounded, and supportive of lasting change.
Preparation and integration sessions are essential components of this work, helping create safety, meaning, and long-term integration before and after ketamine experiences. You can learn more about preparation and integration in ketamine-assisted psychotherapy here.
Preparation Sessions
Preparation sessions focus on creating emotional and psychological safety before a ketamine experience. In these psychotherapy sessions, we explore intentions, personal history, current symptoms, and nervous system responses while building tools for grounding and self-regulation. Preparation helps clarify mindset and setting, supports trust in the process, and ensures that the ketamine experience unfolds within a supportive therapeutic container.
Dosing Sessions
Dosing sessions are the experiential phase of ketamine-assisted psychotherapy. During these sessions, ketamine is used to support altered states of awareness that can allow new insight, emotional access, and perspective to emerge. The therapist’s role is to support emotional safety and containment while honoring the client’s internal experience. Dosing sessions are offered in person in Lakewood, Colorado, as well as through guided virtual options, and follow a private-pay model.
Integration Sessions
Integration sessions provide space to reflect on and make meaning of the ketamine experience through psychotherapy. These sessions focus on organizing insights, processing emotions, and connecting emerging awareness to daily life, relationships, and patterns of behavior. Integration supports emotional regulation and helps translate insight into sustainable change, allowing the benefits of ketamine-assisted psychotherapy to unfold over time.
Together, these phases create a process that prioritizes safety for insight, allowing healing to emerge with intention, care, and support.
Who is this for?
Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy may be helpful for adults experiencing depression, anxiety, trauma, emotional numbness, or a sense of feeling stuck despite prior therapy.
Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy in the Denver Area
Intima Couples and Sex Therapy understands the importance of affordability and accessibility for ketamine-assisted psychotherapy. Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy can be a lengthy commitment and costly. With this in mind, Intima has worked hard and diligently to offer multiple different modalities with different price models to meet a wide variety and needs. Learn more about our pricing model and options. We offer ketamine-assisted psychotherapy for individuals and couples to aid in many different symptoms such as anxiety, depression, general “stuckness”, sex therapy, and so much more.
Connect for Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy in Lakewood, CO
Are you ready to begin your ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy journey? Intima is conveniently located in Lakewood, CO, and offers in-person visits. Virtual visits are also available to accommodate the needs of Colorado statewide.
Scheduling is easy: Use the request button at the top of the page or contact the office via the submission form, email, or phone. Schedule your first full, free 50-minute session today!
We offer ketamine therapy to Lakewood, Golden, Morrison, Littleton and the greater Denver area from our office in South Lakewood, CO.
If you’re curious about beginning with therapy before dosing, or about making sense of experiences afterward, you can explore our preparation and integration sessions as part of ketamine-assisted psychotherapy.
Three Ways to Access Ketamine - Assisted Therapy Dosing Sessions
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In Person (Lakewood, CO)
Where a supportive, intentional environment is provided for your individualized ketamine-assisted psychotherapy dosing session.. Sessions are 2-4 hours rate is $150/hour.
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Virtual
Where you create the environment in the comfort of your home and I provide the space to guide your ketamine therapy dosing journey. Sessions are 2-3 hours rate is $150/hour.
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Self Guided
Where you create the environment and the space for your ketamine treatment dosing journey. You’ll check in with me before and after your ketamine journey via quick text. The flat rate is $50 (texts must be sent within a 2-hour timeframe).
FAQ Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy
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Ketamine-assisted therapy combines the use of ketamine with psychotherapy to create a space for deeper insight, introspection, and self-awareness.
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Yes! Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy can be effective in treating depression, PTSD, and anxiety. By reducing the body’s natural protective response, ketamine helps create a safer space for deeper insight and healing.
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Yes, ketamine-assisted psychotherapy is safe. Ketamine has been used in medicine since the 1970s. With minimal risks, its potential benefits can be profound.
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While each case is unique, the recommendation is 6 -8 dosing sessions combined with preparation and integration sessions.
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The cost of ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP) depends on the type of session involved. Preparation and integration sessions are psychotherapy sessions and may be eligible for insurance coverage, depending on your plan and benefits. These sessions focus on emotional safety, intention setting, and integrating insight into daily life.
Ketamine dosing sessions follow a private-pay model, as insurance typically does not cover the medication itself or the experiential dosing portion of treatment.
If you plan to use insurance for preparation or integration sessions, benefits can be reviewed in advance to help you understand coverage, copays, or deductibles. Please note that insurance coverage varies by provider and plan.