You’ve tried therapy. You’ve tried medications. Maybe multiple antidepressants over years. Some helped a little. None helped enough.
You’re still struggling with depression that won’t lift. Trauma that won’t process. Anxiety that controls your life. You’ve done everything “right”—you go to therapy, you take your medications, you practice self-care, but you’re still stuck.
You start wondering if anything will ever work for you. If this is just how life is going to be.
That’s when many people in Mesa discover ketamine-assisted psychotherapy.
KAP isn’t a replacement for therapy or medication. It’s a different approach for people who need it, when traditional treatment hasn’t been enough. The medicine helps your brain become more flexible and open to change. And in that window, therapy can work in ways it couldn’t before.
Relief can happen faster than with traditional approaches. Insights come easier. Patterns shift. Traumatic memories process without overwhelming you.
This isn’t about masking symptoms. It’s about helping your brain create new pathways that make healing possible.
This isn’t about masking symptoms. It’s about helping your brain create new pathways that make healing possible.
Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP) combines the use of ketamine medicine with therapy to treat conditions that haven’t responded to traditional approaches. It’s not just taking medication. It’s not just talk therapy. It’s both, working together in a specific way.
Ketamine creates what researchers call “neuroplasticity”—your brain’s ability to form new connections. During medicine sessions, your brain becomes more flexible. Emotional walls soften. Old patterns loosen their grip. Traumatic memories can be processed without overwhelming your nervous system.
This is when therapy becomes most effective. Insights that would take months in traditional therapy can happen in a single session. But those insights need to be integrated, that’s where ongoing therapy work comes in.
Medical clinics give you ketamine infusions. A nurse monitors your vitals. You sit in a chair, often with other patients nearby. The session ends, you leave. Maybe someone asks “how do you feel?” No therapy. No processing. No integration.
That’s medication treatment, not psychotherapy.
Our approach is different. You work with the same therapist. throughout your entire journey. Preparation sessions before your first medicine session. Your therapist present during the entire experience, not just monitoring vitals, but guiding you therapeutically. Weekly integration therapy after to process what emerged and apply it to your life.
The medicine opens doors. Therapy is walking through them. Both matter.
We use ketamine as a tool within therapy, not as therapy itself.
KAP helps with conditions that haven’t responded to traditional treatment. You don’t need a specific diagnosis. If you’re treatment-resistant and open to exploring medicine-assisted therapy, KAP might help.
We also work with eating disorders with trauma components, chronic pain connected to mental health, and addiction combined with trauma.
Here’s what makes ketamine-assisted psychotherapy unique: it works on multiple levels at once, your brain
chemistry, your psychological patterns, and your trauma responses.
Ketamine promotes rapid growth of new brain connections. Your brain becomes flexible in ways it hasn’t been, sometimes in years. This isn’t about “fixing” you. It’s about creating the biological foundation for change.
In this state of openness, therapy works differently. Defenses soften. Insights emerge. Traumatic memories can be processed without your nervous system going into survival mode. Things that felt impossible to talk about become accessible.
The medicine sessions are just the beginning. Integration therapy, weekly sessions between medicine work, is where lasting change happens. We help you understand what emerged, process it safely, and apply it to your actual life.
When you work with one KAP therapist at Lost & Found, you get our entire trauma-specialized team consulting behind the scenes.
Our KAP therapists are trained in evidence-based psychedelic-assisted therapy and trauma-specialized approaches:
Specialized training in guiding medicine sessions and integration therapy
Combining trauma processing techniques with ketamine's neuroplastic effects. (Only available in intensives)
Working with protective parts that emerge during medicine sessions
Helping your body release trauma during and after KAP sessions
Our entire team specializes in trauma, KAP is one tool within our trauma expertise
Weekly processing sessions to make insights from medicine sessions last
We tailor our approach based on what you need. Not a one-size-fits-all protocol.
Have a 15-minute consultation to determine if ketamine-assisted psychotherapy is right for you.
Not all therapists offering ketamine therapy have trauma training. We do. Every single one.
We offer individual sessions or groups to explore and experience with others. If KAP is not a great fit we offer other groups & intensives for a variety of reasons and people.
You're not getting an infusion and leaving. You're getting preparation sessions, therapist-guided medicine sessions, and ongoing integration therapy. The medicine is part of comprehensive treatment.
We're trauma therapists and coaches who use KAP as a tool, not a ketamine clinic that added therapy. Our foundation is deep trauma training (EMDR, somatic therapy, IFS). KAP enhances what we already do.
Mesa Fire Department, Gilbert Police, churches, non profit organizations and hundreds of families have trusted us with their trauma recovery since 2019. Now we're bringing the same specialized care to ketamine-assisted therapy.
We review your mental health history and treatment attempts. Build safety and grounding skills. Set intentions for medicine work. Screen for medical contraindications. Partner with a prescriber for medical clearance.
You don’t just show up and get ketamine. We prepare you properly.
You come to our Mesa office. Private room. Comfortable, peaceful setting. Your therapist stays with you for the entire 2-3 hour session.
You’ll lie down, often with an eye mask and music. The medicine effects last 60-90 minutes. You remain conscious and able to communicate. Your therapist guides you through the experience and helps you
process what emerges.
Most people start with 2-3 sessions per week, then taper to weekly or biweekly as progress stabilizes.
Weekly therapy between medicine sessions. We process what emerged. Apply insights to your life. Track progress. Adjust the plan as needed.
After an initial series (typically 6-8 medicine sessions), some people return monthly or quarterly for maintenance. Others don’t need ongoing medicine sessions and continue with regular therapy.
You control the pace. We go as slow or as fast as you need. Some sessions will feel intense. Some will bring relief. All of them move you forward.
Lost & Found has 4 ketamine-assisted psychotherapy specialists: 2 therapists and 2 coaches. This means better availability and more scheduling flexibility than practices with a single KAP provider.
Owner, Clinical Director
Internship Director, Clinical Supervisor, Licensed Professional Counselor
Certified Trauma Coach
We build safety and trust before anymedicine work begins. You’ll learn grounding techniques. We’ll map your treatment history and identify what hasn’t worked and why. This foundation is essential for safe, effective KAP.
Using ketamine in a therapeutic setting, your brain enters a state of heightened neuroplasticity. Emotional patterns soften. Defenses relax. Your therapist guides you through the experience and helps you process what emerges in real-time.
The medicine opens doors integration therapy is walking through them. Weekly sessions between medicine work to process insights, apply them to your life, and track progress. This is where lasting change happens.
The timeline varies. Some people see significant shifts after 2-3 medicine sessions. Others need 6-8. Progress isn’t linear, some weeks feel harder than others. But every step forward counts.
Yes! Once qualified by a prescribing physician and cleared from the medical doctor, ketamine therapy can be utilized and has been used in hospital settings for over 50 years to treat both children and adults regularly. Ketamine therapy was one of the first approved psychedelic therapies given the extensive research and safety protocols taken.
Having a trained therapeutic guide assist you in setting intentions, sit with you the entire session and follow up with a summary, as well as assist integrating what your experience meant, makes all the difference. The medicine is only part of the healing process, the greater part is how the healing is integrated into the therapeutic process and utilized long past the session to create lasting change.
In a manner of speaking. Ketamine is a dissociative medication, but depending on the dosage and desired intentions, most clients remember majority of the session, especially when provided with the summary afterwards. Most of our clients can hear and speak throughout the entire session and more so experience relaxation and rest in the body with letting go.
This is something that will be discussed between you and the medical provider to determine if any medication adjustment is needed and any preparation with medication regimen that may be required.
Ketamine assisted psychotherapy is considered off label use for mental health purposes, and therefore the medication itself cannot be covered by insurance. However, the counseling sessions have done with a licensed provider may be submitted for out of network reimbursement, potentially depending on your insurance benefits.
Like all substances, there is potential risk for misuse, and therefore Ketamine assisted psychotherapy is monitored and utilized within the session only. It is in a protected drug class, and prescribed accordingly, but given the nature of how Ketamine works is not like other standard addictive substances. Ketamine can often be used for substance addiction disorders as a way to get to the subconscious root of substance abuse. If there is a history of substance use in a client’s past this is something that is discussed during an intake to determine if ketamine assisted psychotherapy would be a good fit and any safety protocols that should be taken.
Free 15-minute consultation to determine if ketamine-assisted psychotherapy is
right for you.
480-359-5001
Mesa, Arizona
3048 E Baseline Rd #123 Mesa, AZ 85204
We have a dedicated team of KAP-trained trauma specialists with extensive experience in ketamine-assisted psychotherapy.
