Ketamine-Assisted Therapy
Esencia Retreats

For those ready to go somewhere new.

You have tried other approaches. Talk therapy, medication, mindfulness. And they have helped, to a point. But something remains. A loop that keeps returning. A heaviness that won't fully lift. A hunger for meaning that conventional treatment was never quite designed to meet.

Ketamine-assisted therapy offers something different.

In a carefully held therapeutic container, ketamine temporarily loosens the grip of the patterns that keep you stuck: the anxiety, the depression, the chronic tension that has become so familiar you've forgotten what life felt like without it. It creates an opening, a moment of genuine spaciousness where new ways of seeing, feeling, and being become possible.

For some, what surfaces in the medicine space is grief, long held, long unfelt. Here, it finally has room to move. To be witnessed. To complete itself.

But beyond the clinical, this work speaks to the seeker. The one who senses that healing and spiritual awakening are not separate paths. That what ails you is also an invitation to go deeper, into meaning, into mystery, into the part of you that knows there is more to life than managing symptoms.

This is medicine work held within a therapeutic relationship. Drawing on my depth work lens and years of experience holding ritual and ceremony, every session is grounded in deep preparation, so your intentions are clear and your body and psyche are ready; skillful, attuned presence throughout the journey itself; and integration support afterward, so what arises, the images, the insights, the places that cracked open, can be metabolized and embodied rather than left behind in the medicine space.

Available in Boulder, Colorado. Offered through Esencia Retreats in collaboration with a licensed physician.

Preparation and Integration

If your medicine work is happening elsewhere, through another facilitator, a retreat, or a different modality, you don't have to navigate what comes before and after it alone. I offer preparation and integration as a standalone service, bringing the same depth work lens and years of ritual experience into a container held just for this. Together, we clarify your intentions and ready your body and psyche beforehand, and afterward, we return to what surfaced, working it into your daily life so the journey becomes lasting change rather than a memory that fades.

 

“Absolutely incredible. I felt prepared, safe, comfortable. Our conversations were deep and very helpful with my integration. Karina is very intuitive and I felt very connected to her during the journey. Anyone who has struggled with trauma, depression, anxiety, or can feel that there is a deep change needed, this is for you. The medicine can provide the introspection, empathy and self healing in a way that you truly feel in your bones and your soul.” Nick

“Karina is kind, supportive, warm, friendly, comforting, and encouraging. She is everything you would ever want or need and has exceeded all of the expectations. I feel as though I am now able to create a safe space/feeling for myself. I don't have to rely on a therapist, family, friends, medication, etc. but instead I can offer myself a sense of safety and security, which I have not been able to do before.” Anna