EMDR + Ketamine Integration Therapy in Thousand Oaks
When you’ve done the work but something still feels unreachable.
Many people in Thousand Oaks come to us after years of genuine effort toward healing. You may have spent significant time in therapy, developed insight into your emotional patterns, and practiced grounding skills, boundaries, or nervous-system tools. You may understand your story clearly.
And yet, something still feels held.
You might function well in your daily life while your nervous system remains braced. Your mind knows you are safe, but your body reacts as though something unresolved is still present. You may feel emotionally numb in places you wish you could feel more alive, or flooded in ways that do not fully make sense.
This does not mean therapy has failed. Often, it means your system is protecting material that has not yet had the right conditions to process and integrate.
EMDR + Ketamine Integration Therapy offers another doorway when insight alone has not reached the deepest layer.
At Simi Psychological Group – Thousand Oaks Therapy and Counseling Center, this work is offered slowly, collaboratively, and with deep respect for your readiness.
When Insight Is Present but the Body Still Reacts
Many clients describe understanding their trauma cognitively while still feeling emotionally or physiologically impacted by it. Others notice that when vulnerability begins to surface, their system tightens, shuts down, or becomes overwhelmed before they can stay present with what is emerging.
You may recognize patterns such as:
- EReacting more intensely than the present moment warrants
- EFeeling emotionally disconnected from painful memories
- ECycling between overwhelm and numbness
- EStruggling to access deeper emotional layers despite effort
- EDoing everything right yet still feeling stuck
These are not signs of resistance or failure. They are protective nervous-system responses that once served a purpose.
Healing at this level requires more than understanding. It requires access, safety, and integration.
How EMDR and Ketamine Work Together
EMDR supports the reprocessing of experiences that remain stored in survival states such as fight, flight, freeze, or shutdown. Through structured bilateral stimulation, the nervous system can reorganize and integrate distressing material without re-traumatization.
Ketamine, when medically prescribed and carefully supported, can create temporary emotional spaciousness. For some individuals, this reduces rigid fear responses, softens hypervigilance, and increases access to protected emotional layers without overwhelming the system.
When integrated intentionally, the combination may support:
- EReduced defensive reactivity
- EIncreased emotional access
- E Greater flexibility in processing traumatic material
- EDeeper somatic and relational integration
This approach is not about intensity. It is about access with steadiness.
A Thoughtful, Collaborative Pathway
EMDR and Ketamine Integration Therapy is one of the ways we support deeper trauma work when it aligns with your goals and what your system is ready for.
For many people, EMDR on its own creates meaningful change. In some cases, ketamine-supported work can open additional space, helping soften internal defenses and allow emotional material to become more accessible.
This approach is always integrated within ongoing therapy, not separate from it. We move collaboratively, adjusting based on your experience, your pace, and what supports real, lasting integration.
Nothing is forced. The work unfolds in a way that feels steady, supported, and aligned with you.
What the Process Looks Like
This work unfolds in stages, always grounded in relational safety and nervous-system stability.
Preparation and Stabilization
We begin by strengthening regulation, emotional grounding, and internal steadiness. Deeper work does not begin until sufficient safety is established.
EMDR-Centered Processing
EMDR sessions support the integration of memories, body sensations, and emotional responses that feel unresolved or activated.
Ketamine-Supported Sessions
When clinically indicated and medically cleared, ketamine sessions are coordinated with therapeutic support. These experiences may soften emotional barriers and allow access to material that previously felt unreachable.
Integration and Consolidation
Integration sessions help organize insight, stabilize shifts, and support long-term nervous-system change so gains are sustainable in everyday life.
This is layered, intentional work. It is not a quick intervention. It is deep restructuring at the level of the nervous system.
Meet Our EMDR + Ketamine Integration Therapist
Oriyan Maor, LMFT
EMDR and Ketamine Integration Therapy
Oriyan brings a grounded, steady presence to trauma work and specializes in EMDR, somatic trauma processing, nervous-system regulation, and ketamine integration. Clients often describe feeling safe enough to explore parts of themselves that previously felt inaccessible or too vulnerable to approach.
Medical Oversight & Safety Information
Important Notice: Simi Psychological Group provides psychotherapy services for ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP) but does not prescribe, administer, or provide medical services. All medical components-including evaluation, medical clearance, prescriptions for self-administered ketamine lozenges, and medical oversight-are provided exclusively by Journey Clinical and its affiliated medical providers. Ketamine is prescribed off-label for mental health treatment. Participation requires informed consent, medical clearance, and safe transportation (no driving for 12 hours after sessions). Individual results vary, and we make no guarantees regarding outcomes. This service is not for psychiatric emergencies-if in crisis, call 988 or 911. For more information, please review our detailed consent forms.
For additional details about safety, medical oversight, and consent, please review our KAP Legal & Safety Notices.
Online EMDR + Ketamine Integration Therapy
Care may take place in person at one of our nearby locations depending on availability and what best supports your care. If you prefer to meet from home or are located outside the area, we also offer secure online sessions throughout California.
Online sessions are often used during preparation and integration phases, where steadiness, reflection, and nervous system support are the focus. Your therapist helps you process and make sense of your experience in a way that feels grounded and connected.
EMDR + Ketamine Integration Therapy in Thousand Oaks and Nearby Communities
We offer EMDR + Ketamine Integration Therapy in Thousand Oaks and serve nearby communities, including Westlake Village, Agoura Hills, Newbury Park, Oak Park, Bell Canyon, Camarillo, Dos Vientos, and Lake Sherwood.
You can explore the additional communities we serve on our Areas We Serve page.
Your Next Step
If healing has helped but has not fully reached the root, you do not have to
determine what comes next alone.
The first step is a conversation. We can explore what you have already tried, what still feels unresolved, and whether this approach feels aligned with your readiness and goals.