When Traditional Therapy Isn't Enough
Combined EMDR + Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy for treatment-resistant trauma, depression, and PTSD, one of the few practices in the Kansas City area offering both, together.
Helping Your Brain Reprocess Trauma
EMDR was developed by Francine Shapiro in 1987 to treat trauma. Through guided bilateral stimulation, it helps the brain reprocess distressing memories, so the things that still show up in your body and your reactions finally lose their grip.
How It Works
Trauma can get "stuck," stored with all its original emotion and sensation. EMDR helps your brain do what it naturally wants to do: process the memory and file it away as something that happened, rather than something still happening.
A Window for Deeper Healing
Ketamine is a dissociative anesthetic developed in the 1960s and FDA approved, with a strong safety profile in clinical settings. It blocks NMDA receptors in the brain and, since the early 2000s, has drawn attention for its rapid antidepressant effects, especially in treatment-resistant depression.
Unlike ketamine clinics that hook you up to an IV and leave the room, Tina stays with you every step of the way, whether your session is psycholytic or fully psychedelic, using that altered state for genuine trauma reprocessing and lasting change.
Two Powerful Tools, One Integrated Approach
Pairing the two can enhance trauma processing by leveraging ketamine's ability to reduce defenses and increase neuroplasticity, deepening emotional access, accelerating memory reprocessing, and improving outcomes for PTSD, depression, and complex trauma.
More Neuroplasticity
Ketamine opens a window where the brain is primed to form new connections, ideal conditions for EMDR to do its work.
Deeper Emotional Access
Lowered defenses let you reach material that talk therapy alone can struggle to touch.
Faster Processing
Reprocessing that might take many sessions can move more quickly (and go deeper) when the two are combined.
Your KAP + EMDR Journey
Initial Assessment
With a participating psychiatrist to confirm KAP is right for you.
Ketamine Dosing Session
1.5–2.5 hours, guided through EMDR phases 1–8.
Integrative Session
One hour processing the experience and building coping strategies.
Repeat as Needed
A personalized course of dosing sessions, paced to your healing.
Trained Where It Counts
Tina completed nearly three years of specialized EMDR training toward EMDRIA certification, and immersive KAP training under Dr. Phil Wolfson, the creator of Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy, at The Ketamine Training Center.
Investment
KAP sessions range from $200–$500 and are not covered by insurance. We'll give you the full picture up front. No surprises.
EMDR + KAP, Answered
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a psychotherapy developed by Francine Shapiro in 1987 to treat trauma. Using guided bilateral stimulation (often eye movements), it helps your brain reprocess and integrate distressing memories so they lose their emotional charge.
Ketamine is a dissociative anesthetic developed in the 1960s and FDA approved, with a strong safety record in clinical settings. It works by blocking NMDA receptors and is known for rapid antidepressant effects, especially in treatment-resistant depression. In KAP, that medicine is paired with guided therapy, not just symptom relief, but deep processing.
Ketamine can lower your defenses and increase neuroplasticity, opening a window for deeper emotional access. Layering EMDR into that window lets us reprocess trauma faster and more completely than either approach alone, which is why this combination is so powerful for PTSD, depression, and complex trauma.
Ketamine has been used medically since the 1960s and is FDA approved, with a strong safety profile in supervised clinical settings. Every KAP journey begins with an assessment from a participating psychiatrist to make sure it's appropriate for you.
KAP sessions range from $200–$500 and are not covered by insurance. We'll walk you through the full picture before you commit to anything.