Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) is a growing therapeutic modality offering new pathways to healing, connection, and insight. Whether you’re a clinician providing KAP, a client preparing for your first session, or a psychonaut preparing for your 100th journey, the environment and tools you choose matter. How you prepare, how you experience, and especially how you integrate afterward can significantly influence therapeutic outcomes. How Important is Preparation? Keta

Motherhood has a way of making the past feel very present. Memories and stories we carry about our own childhood may show up as activation, tension, disconnection, and hyper-vigilance. We might literally hear our mother’s words come out of our own mouths. We may promise ourselves we will do everything differently, then discover that the effort to never repeat the past has become its own exhausting protector. Maternal legacy includes the beliefs, roles, strengths, wounds, exp

A felt sense of sanctuary is the experience of feeling held enough to show up exactly as you are, in that moment, without pressure to perform or conform. It expands beyond safety. Safety is complicated. We don't always know what will feel safe to another person, and we cannot guarantee that an experience will remain comfortable or predictable. This is especially true in trauma work, brain-body processing, ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP), and other experiential approach

Shame is often a whole-body experience. It can show up as heat in the face, collapse in the chest, a frozen feeling, an urge to hide, or a harsh inner voice that seems to take over. That is one of the reasons we are bringing Brainspotting-informed work into this month’s Mom Parts KAP Lab on Shame in Motherhood. Shame in Motherhood For many moms, mothering people, and caregivers, shame often makes itself known in the aftermath of a moment: A moment of yelling. A moment of want

When I first began exploring psycholytic work, I understood it primarily as a way of describing a low-dose approach to ketamine-assisted psychotherapy. Over time, I realized it was pointing me toward a philosophy of practice: one rooted in curiosity, spaciousness, and honoring the pace at which meaningful change unfolds. The term "psycholytic" comes from Greek roots: Psyche (ψυχή): Meaning "mind," "soul," or "spirit". Lytikos (λυτικός): Meaning "dissolving" or "loosening"...

More than one in five perinatal people are diagnosed with a mental health condition during pregnancy or within the first postpartum year (American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, 2023). Motherhood Is Not Pathology When we look more closely at the emotional landscape of motherhood, it becomes clear that so much of what gets labeled as disorder is happening inside a much larger context. Many moms are navigating inadequate social support, limited paid leave, inacce