Offering a sound bath during a ketamine-assisted psychotherapy experience
Here's what it looks like to work with me.
Screening
As soon as we agree we would like to work together, I will send a release of information for you to sign so I can speak with your primary mental health provider, such as a therapist or naturopath. This can be a quick and effective way for us to screen whether psilocybin is appropriate for you. We can pencil a date on the calendar for your journey, but that’s contingent on the screening.
If you don’t have a primary provider, we’ll need to set up 1-2 appointments so that we can get to know each other better, and so that I can learn little about your history. Sometimes, due to trauma history, recent grief, or other mental health concerns, we may need to book additional sessions as well. These are 1 hour appointments. My fee is $180, and these additional sessions are not included in the pricing below.
Service Centers
I work with the PNW Integrative Center in Southeast Portland and Chariot in NW Portland. They provide the space and sell the mushrooms.
Pricing $1625
The pricing is not fixed, as the service centers can change prices for room rentals and mushrooms. Here’s a recent breakdown from a real client experience:
$1000: my facilitation fee
$500: room rental
$125: 25 mg of psilocybin product. Most clients use between 25-40mg of psilocybin product, and it’s generally priced around $5/mg.
What my fee includes
Our work together would include 90 minutes of preparation, the 'administration' or journey session, which is when you take the dose at the service center and have the journey, and 60 minutes of integration therapy.
The 90 minutes of preparation includes the screening process, reviewing the state's intake forms, figuring out your dosage, and making plans to assure you are as physically and psychologically safe as possible throughout the journey session.
On the journey day, I'll meet you at the center around 9, and I will be with you throughout that day. Depending on dose, some folks are done by 2pm, others take until 4 or 5. My job that day is to take notes, be a nonjudgmental, caring witness for your process, and intervene if things start to get challenging.
The integration session is about 1 hour, and we'd book that for a few days after the journey session, to work through whatever you experienced.