Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy

Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP) is a safe and legal treatment modality.

Ketamine complements psychotherapy to help initiate breakthroughs, improve mental health symptoms, and develop new patterns.

Ketamine therapy can alleviate symptoms of depression, anxiety, PTSD, and CPTSD - particularly when other treatments haven’t seemed to work. It can offer a much needed sense of hope and wonder in the healing process.

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KAP can be especially helpful for people who feel stuck in life.

Ketamine therapy can also support healing from difficult experiences.

Clients appreciate incorporating creative art activities during ketamine therapy sessions to help facilitate shifts in thinking and behaviors.

A smiling woman in a green and blue striped shirt sitting on a wooden bench next to a person lying on a couch with headphones, in a room with large windows and green plants.

I partner with Journey Clinical, who handles the medical portion of ketamine prescribing.

Journey Clinical accepts the following insurance plans in NY:

  • Aetna

  • Cigna / Evernorth

  • UnitedHealthcare / Optum / UMR

Journey Clinical trained Ketamine-Assisted Therapy KAP Provider

My Training and Experience

With 4 years of experience providing KAP, I have facilitated hundreds of individual and group dosing sessions. Most sessions have included a creative arts experience to enhance the expansiveness of ketamine therapy.

I design my own playlists for clients to utilize during the ketamine experience, and can provide live sound healing for group medicine experiences.

In 2022 I completed a year long Psychedelic-Assisted Therapist training with IPI, and have additional trainings with Fluence and Journey Clinical.

I’ve attended Psychedelic conferences, participated in supervision groups, and maintain connections within the NYC psychedelic community. I also provide supervision to ketamine therapists in training.

Laura Foxx provides ketamine therapy to queer and neurodiverse adults. The ketamine therapy office pictured is a serene space with a grey couch, pillows, artwork on the wall, and gentle light streaming through the windows.
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You May Have Some Questions about Ketamine Therapy…

  • This is the million dollar question! While it’s a bit different for everyone, most people describe pleasant, calm, and/or fun sensations. The usual mental noise and rumination often melt away and are replaced by some mental distancing from one’s default thought patterns. Some people experience enhanced visualizations.

    You’ll remain conscious and will be able to move the entire journey if you choose, but generally clients appearing still and peaceful for around 45 minutes.

  • Experiential aka dosing or medicine sessions are the sessions where the ketamine magic actually happens under my supervision. These cost anywhere from $250-450 depending on insurance coverage and sliding scale availability.

    Preparation or Integration sessions occur before or after your ketamine experiential. These are covered by Cigna as a regular therapy session, or cost $175 out of network.

    Medical costs are handled separately by Journey Clinical and include: intake or follow up appointment with the prescriber and cost of medicine. Journey Clinical accepts several insurance plans in NY: Aetna, Cigna/Evernorth, and United Healthcare/Optum.

  • I do accept Cigna, which can help offset some of the cost of the ketamine therapy experience.

  • You will be prescribed ketamine in the sublingual form - a rapidly dissolving tablet (RDT) that disintegrates quickly into saliva and is swished around the mouth for up to 13 minutes. The medicine is absorbed through the oral mucosa in the gums.

    These are different from waxy lozenges or troches. I will be the first to admit that they do not taste great!

    These tablets are prescribed specially for each person and have different dosing amounts based on factors like weight, experience, and comfort with the medicine. I don’t handle this part and it is not within my scope of practice to make dosing recommendations. Journey Clinical maintains responsibility for dosing and utilizes a trusted pharmacy to compound the ketamine.

    For the nerds: ketamine has different bioavailability based on ROA. So IV or intranasal ketamine prescription amounts are not comparable to oral ketamine dosing amounts.

  • Ketamine dosing or medicine sessions - aka experiential sessions - are when you actually take the ketamine medicine. You will self-administer the medicine under my supervision, often in-person at my office to start. Many of my clients move to virtual sessions once familiar with the medical effects because they prefer to be in their home environment. I am a Zoom screen away, and this requires a chaperone to be home.

  • A lot of people ask this and I don’t want to create and expectation for the “right” or “wrong” way to do a ketamine journey.

    You might want to talk, or you might want to relish in the specialness of a ketamine experience without words.

  • This is also really subjective. Some people find it’s meaningful to describe in detail what happened immediately after the journey. Others need process time, and we’ll utilize our Integration session to process several days later.

    To keep the learnings and experience fresh, I encourage clients to journal immediately after a dose in my office.

  • Yep! Think of the ketamine as any other medicine you’d get from a pharmacy. It’s yours and you will take it for the benefit of your health. But because it’s…special…I will essentially be your trip sitter.

    Maybe you’ll want to discuss harm reduction if addiction has been a factor for you in the past. In fact, ketamine therapy might not be the best choice for you if that’s the case. Some people pursue ketamine therapy at an actual medical clinic so the ketamine is never in their possession.

    I would love to discuss this further with you. I am passionate about informed consent and following recovery models that are client-centered.

  • Let’s chat ;-)

Testimonials from KAP Participants:

  • "I hope to experience another round of this in the future! I could see it being so beneficial to repeat during different seasons of life. Thank you so much!"

  • "Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy has changed my life significantly. I set out to change my behaviors immediately after dosing in order to build new habits, such as working out regularly, eating a more balanced diet, cutting out alcohol, stopping my OCD checking, meditating, etc. As time has progressed, I have become more understanding and self-aware."

  • "The difference after the second KAP group dosing session was absolute night and day. I experienced more feelings of acceptance, curiosity, and neutrality, and was not having the same negative emotion/thought spirals."

  • "My group experience showed me the insight that there is always hope, there is always light, no matter how dark everything seems."

  • "The music and art activities leveled up the therapy experience so much for me! I don't think I would have known how to properly prepare and integrate on my own to the same extent."

  • "Feeling the presence of like-minded people and preparing for the journey as a group provided a unique opportunity to open pathways for clarity. Holding space for each other was a spiritual experience and I feel honored to have shared this with my group."

  • "In the weeks following the group, I've noticed positive growth in my ability to acknowledge my emotions and learn from how I feel."

  • "I uncovered parts of myself that had been hidden for years and began a beautiful journey of reconnecting with my feminine energy. This process brought healing, perspective, and a deeper sense of compassion for myself. Laura’s presence—gentle, kind, and deeply curious—was exactly the support I needed to feel safe and seen throughout."