Becoming Your Own Ally is Full Living’s flagship medicine-supported group KAP experience, offered locally every few months.
- First-timers: A supported, efficient, and economical way to have your first medicine experience. For those new to ketamine- or psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, the group offers a thoughtfully held introduction and prepares participants for optional continued KAP work with us or in collaboration with their primary therapist.
- Deep divers: For those already familiar with the power of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, this group offers a meaningful deep dive into building an alliance with the self. Working with intention matters. Exploring the theme of having your own back—together, in community—and hearing what the unconscious has to say on the medicine can be deeply transformational.
- Allies: Learning how to have your own back is a meaningful enough pursuit to engage as an ongoing commitment. Many participants return to this group regularly, tapping into the well of goodness that emerges in a communal, ritualized group psychotherapy experience. After participating, Allies may also join our monthly virtual integration group to continue the work between medicine experiences.
Groups are an ideal setting for at least a couple of medicine sessions. The small-group environment allows for ritual, community, rich intention-setting, and supported integration. Sessions are held with care and ceremony, including guided somatic grounding and communal bread-breaking (GF included!). We meet in a beautiful space with a sound bath practitioner and multiple therapists present, so each participant is well supported, with their individual needs are attended to.
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Individual Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy
First and foremost, KAP is psychotherapy. The medicine is an aid to the work you are already doing.
That means you will need to be working with a therapist: yours, ours, and likely some collaborative hybrid.
Getting a Therapist for KAP
- If you have a primary therapist: Great. You will continue to do the bulk of your therapy work with them. We will work with both you and your therapist to create a treatment plan that centers your work with them. We will help both of you know how to prep for individual ketamine medicine journeys, and how to work with the material that surfaces in integration.
- If you are not in active psychotherapy right now: We will match you with one of our KAP therapists. You might choose to work with them for just a few months of KAP treatment, of it may be the start of a long-term psychotherapy relationship. Up to you.
When/Where/How
Ketamine assisted psychotherapy is heavy on preparation and integration, which are simply therapy sessions Medicne journey experiences can be handles multiple ways.
- Live/Virtual monitored/facilitated medicine sessions, maybe in our offices, maybe in your home virtually, maybe in our group experiences. Most folx start with 2 or 3 sessions with their therapist present, monitoring and facilitating the medicine journeys.
- Dosing for ketamine sessions begins low, so clients can build familiarity with the experience.
- Most medicine sessions are conducted with the client laying down, with an eye mask. These sessions may or may not include active conversation with the therapist.
- In some models of our work, clients will use the medicine unmonitored at home in between psychotherapy sessions, relying on preparation and integration sessions to facilitate the work.
- Some folx work with KAP for a few months, in an intense way with multiple journeys. Some people with do a medicine journey once every couple months and use the weeks in-between to integrate the material. some people will come to our group retreat a couple times a year as a way to keep their lives grounded. You will design your treatment with us, based on your needs, and how you experience the medicine.