Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) in New Jersey

Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) combines medically supervised ketamine treatment with expert psychotherapy to help adults manage depression, anxiety, PTSD, and trauma in a safe, supported setting available now at Insight Psychological Group’s Westfield office.

What is Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP)?

KAP is a treatment that uses ketamine along with therapy.

It’s for people who feel stuck with depression, anxiety, PTSD, or trauma, especially when other treatments haven’t helped much.

Ketamine temporarily affects how the brain processes mood and thoughts. For some people, it can make emotions feel lighter for a short time and make it easier to talk and reflect.

During KAP therapy, you are supported the whole time. There are 1-3 preparation sessions beforehand, clinician support during the ketamine session, and 1-3 therapy sessions afterward to help you understand your experience and use it in daily life.

How Is KAP Different From Traditional Talk Therapy?

Traditional therapy relies on conversation alone, built up over time. KAP adds a medically supervised ketamine session that may temporarily ease that “stuck” feeling and open things up emotionally, giving the therapy work that follows more room to go deeper.

Who Can Benefit from Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy?

KAP may help if you’ve been struggling and things haven’t improved with standard treatment.

Treatment-Resistant Depression

  • Depression that hasn’t improved with therapy or medication.

Anxiety Disorders

  • Constant worry, panic, or overthinking.

PTSD and Trauma

  • Difficult past experiences that still feel heavy today.

Repetitive Thought Patterns

  • When your mind keeps circling the same loops.

Life Stress

  • Grief, burnout, or major life changes.

Preparation, dosing, and integration are recognized as the core phases of KAP treatment.

Benefits of Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy

KAP may help with:

  • Increased neuroplasticity: A better understanding of your own thoughts and feelings
  • Enhanced emotional processing: Feeling less emotionally stuck
  • Reduced depressive symptoms: Lifting a low mood
  • New perspectives on trauma: New ways of seeing old experiences
  • Greater psychological flexibility: More mental flexibility

KAP is believed to leverage ketamine’s effects on neuroplasticity while psychotherapy helps patients integrate insights into lasting change.

Why Choose Insight Psychological Group for KAP in New Jersey?

  • Licensed therapists
  • Trauma-informed care
  • Close collaboration with medical providers
  • Care built around you

A safe, calm treatment environment in Westfield, New Jersey

If you’ve been feeling stuck with depression, anxiety, or trauma, and nothing has helped enough, KAP may be worth exploring.

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Where Is KAP Available in New Jersey?

Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy is available at Insight Psychological Group’s offices in Westfield.

What Makes KAP Different from Traditional Therapy?

Regular therapy is mostly talking things through over time.

KAP adds ketamine sessions that may help you feel less stuck and more open, so therapy work can go deeper.

Set Up an Appointment to Get Started

If you’ve been feeling stuck with depression, anxiety, or trauma, and nothing has helped enough, KAP may be worth looking into.

Schedule a KAP Consultation

Laura DiCarlo

Laura DiCarlo, LPC

Laura is a licensed professional counselor who earned her MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Fairleigh Dickinson University and offers psychotherapy to children, teens and adults. Prior to IPG, Laura had worked extensively with children and adolescents with emotional and behavioral issues in both outpatient and residedtial treatment centers. She is also trained in both Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP).

Laura’s area of specialization is complex trauma and Post Traumatic Stress syndromes. As an attachment-focused therapist who helps people to understand how early experiences contribute to current patterns, Laura helps clients achieve personal insight accompanied by a durable sense of felt change and getting “unstuck”. Her goal is to facilitate neuroplasticity (actual brain change) for the traumatized nervous system that is experienced through real symptom relief in daily life.

FAQs

KAP (Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy) pairs the ketamine experience with structured psychotherapy, in the form of preparation, dosing, and integration sessions. IV Ketamine infusions deliver ketamine intravenously in a clinical setting, typically without a therapy component. KAP is designed to produce lasting psychological change, while infusions focus primarily on symptom relief from the ketamine itself.

Yes. Ketamine is FDA-approved as an anesthetic and is legally prescribed off-label for mental health treatment in New Jersey. The ketamine taken during KAP sessions is prescribed by a licensed medical provider following a medical evaluation.

A standard course typically lasts 1–2 months and includes 2–3 ketamine sessions spaced about two weeks apart, along with preparation and integration therapy.

Preparation and integration therapy sessions are often covered by insurance plans accepted by Insight Psychological Group. Ketamine dosing sessions are typically self-pay. Medical evaluations may be covered depending on the provider and plan.

KAP is conducted under supervision with proper screening. Temporary effects could include dizziness, dissociation, or emotional sensitivity during the session.

KAP is different from regular therapy because it uses ketamine to increase neuroplasticity temporarily. This gives more emotional access and greater flexible thinking during therapy when compared to only traditional talk therapy.

No referral is required. You can just contact Insight Psychological Group directly to start the intake process.

Yes, it can. According to research, ketamine may give relief from suicidal ideation in many individuals. However, its suitability is assessed during a medical evaluation.