Psychedelic Somatic Therapy

Ketamine & Cannabis-assisted therapy to resolve anxiety & trauma in Los Angeles

Has talk therapy failed you and left you feeling more lost than before?

The truth is talk therapy doesn’t work for most people most of the time when dealing with depression, panic attacks, and trauma. Talk therapy primarily focuses on coping mechanisms and management techniques, which can be helpful, but does not resolve your core wounds. You might function better, but you won’t necessarily feel better.

Psychedelic Somatic Therapy does not focus on the coping mechanisms, but targets the root of your trauma that leads to symptoms like anxiety, depression, and relationship issues. The goal is to resolve the root so you can stop coping, managing, meditating, self-medicating your trauma away. With the help of Ketamine or Cannabis, you’ll be able to touch & heal the core traumas that drive your life that seem impossible to reach in normal waking life.

You are not broken. Healing is possible.

Psychedelic Somatic Therapy can help.

Finding the right support is difficult, so
your first session with me is free.

Psychedelic Somatic Therapy resolves the root of your trauma, so that your past will stop preventing you from enjoying your current life & relationships.

  • Our wounds are buried deep in our subconscious mind making it difficult to access in normal waking life. Psychedelics create an altered state that softens the mind, allowing the material underneath to finally be seen, processed, and healed within a therapeutic setting. Our past wounds and trauma shapes what we believe about ourselves and the world around us. It programs our subconscious mind and directs the way we move, act, and feel in our lives and relationships without our control.

    I work with Psychedelic Somatic Interactional Psychotherapy (PSIP) which targets these core programmings we hold in our nervous system, body, and minds. It is very interactional and relational, processing the wounds within the therapeutic relationship while on Ketamine/Cannabis, not after. We are intentionally and mindfully bringing the trauma into the space, rewriting the memory by providing what was needed & missing at that moment of your life. We are not looking to build more coping mechanisms, but looking to resolve the root so you don’t have to cope or manage your wounds away anymore.

    This is very different than the classic form of Psychedelic Therapy, the “sitter” model, which consists of the client having their own psychedelic experience with an eye mask and music as the practitioner holds space for their experience. There is minimal interaction and engagement from the therapist during this process, leaving a lot of opportunities to heal on the table.

  • Both of them can take you into the altered states that make MDMA and Psilocybin-assisted therapy so effective. Most people are not aware, but Ketamine and Cannabis can be even more effective in processing relational wounds and singular event traumas within the right context - and they’re completely legal in California.

    Your internal state, intention, and environment highly impact your experience with these medicines. Even recreational Cannabis & Ketamine users can fully benefit from this type of work.

  • Your Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) helps maintain the body's homeostasis. It's what allows you to feel calm, connected, anxious, enraged, scared, shutdown, or numb.

    It manages your survival responses that are always present in trauma - Fight/Flight/Freeze/Fawn, operating underneath your conscious awareness and without your direct control.

    • It's what allows you to relax into the arms of your partner

    • react quickly when a car suddenly cuts you off on the freeway

    • brings energy and tension into your body during a conflict

    • manages your digestive system, heart rate, and breathing patterns

  • There is clear evidence that symptoms of anxiety, depression, PTSD, and other mental health conditions are actually autonomic nervous system responses. To heal the wounds left in your nervous system, you need a technique that works with the nervous system.

    Your past & trauma leaves behind a trace in your nervous system. There's memories that you can't see in your mind, but can feel in your body as sensations, feelings, and emotions - implicit memory.

    They profoundly affect your body, thoughts, and actions today, by what they predict is going to happen, rather than what is actually happening.

    • Your life situation may be different now, but your nervous system is working off of previous experiences, including trauma. This can create a mismatch between how you feel inside and what your current life situation is.

    • Your memories create a distorted lens of what you think is going to happen based off your past. All of this happens without your choice or control…and all of this affects the way you feel, think, and act. This can be very confusing because you might know things are okay, but still feel like something bad is going to happen.

  • The truth is, talk therapy (CBT) does not work for most people, most of the time. In a large scale study conducted by the National Institute of Mental Health looking at CBT for depression…

    • CBT had an effectiveness rate of 17% - 24% under the most ideal situation

    • Under real-world conditions, this rate dropped down to 5%

    • This rate has been consistent from that early trial to the most recent studies

    On the other hand, the data around Psychedelic Therapy is showing something very different…

    • 67% of a treatment resistant population no longer qualify for the PTSD diagnosis after 3 MDMA assisted treatments

    • 94% of cancer patients report a significant decrease in anxiety and depression symptoms after a single therapeutic psilocybin session

    • The National Institute of Mental Health found 79% of people with bipolar depression responded well to ketamine even after ECT and antidepressants failed.

  • Trauma is any overwhelming experience that doesn’t allow your body to return to homeostasis. This includes singular events and/or a continuous stream of stress in your environment, especially during your childhood.

    Trauma is more common than you think…over 70% of the population has experienced at least one traumatic event in their life. You’re not alone.

    • neglect, emotional abuse, or physical abuse

    • raised in a stressful or anxious home

    • a sudden loss

    • car accidents

    • witnessing or experiencing violence

    • sexual assault or violations

    • medical procedures

    • any many more...

  • Trauma is usually the underlying cause for

    • panic attacks

    • depression

    • feeling unsafe when “nothing is wrong”

    • feeling you’re “too much” or “never enough”

    • feeling “on edge” or “shutdown”

    • functional, yet disconnected or numb

    • it can even impact your health (autoimmune disorders, digestion issues, insomnia, restless leg, and many more…)

    Trauma can get in the way of...

    • connecting with your partner

    • focusing at work

    • sleeping at night

    • establishing healthy boundaries