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Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy and Psychedelic Somatic Therapy

 Psychedelic medicine for healing

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Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy for Anxiety, Depression, & PTSD

Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy is a psychedelic healing modality that helps you cultivate powerful change, move through stuck patterns, and has the potential to create profound shifts in your life. Research has shown that Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy is beneficial for treatment-resistant depression, anxiety, OCD, trauma, stuck patterns of behavior, thought rigidity, and personal growth.

KAP involves the administration of ketamine in conjunction with psychotherapy. Working with a therapist is an essential (and beautiful!) aspect of treatment, as it allows you the ability to be intentional about your healing as well as to process and integrate any insights that arise during your treatment. 

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Ways to work with me for KAP

1:1 Ketamine assisted psychotherapy

KAP Intensives

Couples therapy with ketamine

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When you decide to enter psychedelic work with Mind Body Wellness, you can expect a safe and non-judgmental space.  It is my belief that one of the most important tenets of psychedelic work is trust in each person's own Inner Healing Intelligence. This means that our therapeutic work together will allow space for trust in the process, with the knowledge that whatever needs to arise for you will do so. I will provide you with present, mindful and compassionate care throughout your experience.

While each individual's experience is different, this treatment modality provides the potential to deepen your relationship with yourself and gain powerful insights about your patterns of behavior so that you can release the behaviors that may feel stuck or maladaptive. One of the reasons that integration is essential to this work is to help you maintain the insights that arise for you during your KAP session. Often, clients will experience profound insights and new ways of understanding themselves during their experience. Afterwards, integration sessions allow for intentional space to hold on to those insights so that they can become part of your day-to-day understanding.

I feel particularly passionate about engaging in this work with individuals who are working in healing professions. I believe in the importance of doing our own work as we walk beside others in theirs, and wholeheartedly endorse the value of this deep work. If you are a therapist, coach, body worker or healer and are interested in ketamine assisted psychotherapy, please reach out via the screening form. You can also make sure that you are on my email list if you would like to hear about future Healing for Healers KAP Groups. 

Mind Body Wellness is a LGBTQIA+ affirming/celebrating space. 

Psychedelic Somatic Interactional Psychotherapy

Using low dose psychedelics (cannabis and ketamine), we explore the unwinding of old narratives and patterns through the use of somatic therapy. The body stores memories, patterns, traumatic experiences, and relational wounding that overlays itself onto our present moment experiences. We often think we have an objective view of reality, yet the repeating patterns in our lives and relationships say otherwise. Our past experiences often color our present relationships without our conscious awareness, most of the time without our consent. 

If you find yourself ending up in the same relationship over and over, or recreating old patterns in your long term relationships despite years in therapy, it’s likely healing on a nervous system level is required. This work speaks to the inner child, the inner infant whose needs weren’t met with as much love and care as you deserve, and whose essence is influencing your adult behaviors. 

Low dose psychedelics help us to work directly with the primary consciousness (inner child/lizard brain/trauma response) without the thinking mind getting in the way quite as much. 

Over time, you’ve developed management strategies that have kept you alive and safe in relationships that may have not been as safe as you needed them to be. When we pause or inhibit your management strategies, unresolved patterns and wounding come forth. Using the container of whole and healthy therapeutic relationship, we revisit past wounding within the bounds of healthy attachment so that the wounds can be excavated and reprocessed with care.

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Meet Nicole Sparrow, LCPC (she/her)

My name is Nicole and I am a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor located in Frederick, Maryland, which is the unceded territory of the Piscataway and Susquehannock peoples (want to learn more about this?). I offer a holistic, down-to-earth, and approachable lens to therapy that holds space for you to create lasting change within a safe and collaborative container. 

Over the past few years, my interest in psychedelics has grown from a curiosity to a passion as I witness the profound healing that can occur in connection to psychedelics and plant medicine. At this time, I am accepting new clients for Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy, Psychedelic Somatic Therapy, and also offer psychedelic integration sessions.

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Qualifications & Education

Qualifications:

  • Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor in Maryland 
  • Licensed Professional Counselor in Virgina
  • Usui Holy Fire III Reiki Master Teacher
  • Yoga & Meditation Teacher

Education:

  • B.A. in Psychology and Conflict Analysis & Dispute Resolution from Salisbury University
  • M.S. in Counseling with a concentration in School Counseling from Johns Hopkins University
  • Certificate in Advanced Graduate Studies in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Johns Hopkins University
  • Psychedelic Assisted Therapy Certificate from Naropa University 
  • Ketamine Apprenticeship Training with Naropa University
  • MDMA-Assisted Therapy Education Program with Naropa University and Lykos Therapeutics (formerly MAPS PBC).
  • Psychedelic Somatic Interactional Psychotherapy (PSIP) Certificate from the Psychedelic Somatic Institute
  • Clinical Trauma Professional Certificate from PESI (CCTP)
  • EFT/Tapping Training with PESI

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Resources for you to continue learning

 

Free Information Session by Nicole Sparrow, LCPC

Ketamine Overview by ThirdWave

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