Sessions will be offered in May 2026
"Ketamine Assisted EMDR Therapy™ (KA-EMDR), developed by Danielle Ciccone & Michele Topel in 2024, is an innovative, integrative approach that combines EMDR therapy—a proven method for processing trauma—with a carefully prescribed low dose of ketamine, a medicine known to enhance emotional flexibility and neuroplasticity. This unique combination creates an ideal state for reprocessing difficult memories, allowing clients to access, explore, and release unresolved trauma more effectively." -
by Danielle Ciccone and Michele Topai and quote from their website.
They are my teachers!
The most exciting thing about being a therapist in witnessing people transform, from suffering to fully living their life, with more freedom, peace and connection.
In 2013, EMDR Therapy transformed my practice, by allowing me to treat PTSD, including Complex PTSD, effectively and quickly. I had provided talk therapy alone, for 12 years plus at that point.
EMDR Therapy changed everything, for myself and hundreds of my clients over the years.
For some people, EMDR Therapy was too intense or scary, and potentially too much for their nervous system.
I then learned Somatic Experiencing and have vastly increased my skills and tools to offer clients, and help trauma therapy to be more gentle.
Then I had a client try ketamine assisted therapy - and they were able to successfully integrate EMDR treatment where before it wasn't possible. That's what ketamine assisted therapy can do - it increases neuroplasticity, - change in the brain - which supports the change needed for successful trauma resolution and living life from a different, more adaptive perspective.
It was so profound, and led me on an educational journey to learn more.
I'm learning and integrating, and experiencing this medicine myself. I will post here when this treatment option is available!
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