EMDR + Ketamine Therapy in Simi Valley
A deeply integrative approach for healing, release, and meaningful inner change, offered with care, structure, and respect for your pace.
Some Experiences Don’t Resolve Through Insight Alone
They live in the body, shaping how you react, connect, rest, and feel safe.
Often, these patterns began as protection. They helped you cope, function, or survive moments that felt overwhelming or confusing. Over time, what once protected you can begin to feel limiting. Your body may still be holding something your mind is ready to release.
EMDR + Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy is designed to support healing at this deeper, embodied level.
At Simi Psychological Group – Simi Valley’s Therapy and Counseling Center, this work is offered with intention, steadiness, and deep attunement to your internal pace.
When Insight Helps But Something Still Feels Held Inside
You may be able to explain what you’ve been through clearly.
And still feel disconnected from it.
Or emotions may surface intensely without clarity or relief.
Even when your mind understands that you are safe now, your body may stay on alert. Bracing. Reacting. Shutting down. Over time this can feel exhausting. Like you are constantly managing yourself instead of actually healing.
This is not a lack of effort.
Often, it is a matter of access.
When trauma or protective responses are held in the nervous system, healing may require a pathway that reaches the body, not just the story. This is where combining EMDR with Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy can create meaningful movement.
Why EMDR and Ketamine Work Together
Healing happens across emotional, cognitive, somatic, and protective layers.
Ketamine often softens internal defenses. Many people experience a sense of calm or spaciousness where emotions, memories, or insights can arise without overwhelm. The nervous system lowers its guard.
EMDR then provides structure. It supports the brain in reorganizing how experiences are stored. Emotional intensity reduces. Reactivity softens. Internal safety begins to rebuild.
Ketamine creates access.
EMDR supports integration.
This work is not about forcing change.
It is about creating conditions where your system no longer needs to hold on so tightly.
You can learn more about EMDR on our EMDR Therapy in Simi Valley page.
You can also explore how this work connects to our broader Trauma Therapy in Simi Valley approach.
Ketamine creates access.
EMDR supports integration.
An Optional, Collaborative Pathway
For many clients, EMDR therapy begins on its own. As the work unfolds, there are times when something deeper is needed, especially when emotions feel blocked, distant, or difficult to access.
In those moments, integrating ketamine can help create more openness and access, allowing the work to move forward in a different way.
This is always explored together, based on what feels most supportive for you and your process.
Who This Work May Be Right For
You may recognize yourself in some of the following experiences:
Trauma or complex trauma
Attachment wounds
Dissociation or shutdown responses
Chronic anxiety that feels rooted in the body
Emotional numbness or disconnection
Long-held patterns that feel ready to shift
What The Process Looks Like
This process is carefully paced and deeply supported.
Preparation and Assessment
We begin with thoughtful assessment, intention setting, and grounding work. This phase creates a sense of safety and steadiness before moving deeper.
Ketamine-Supported Sessions
Ketamine sessions can help create more openness and access, allowing emotional material to surface in a way that feels more manageable and less guarded.
EMDR Integration
EMDR sessions support the processing and integration of what emerges. The work unfolds in cycles, at a pace that allows for lasting change.
This is not a quick fix.
It is depth-oriented work that honors how real, lasting change unfolds over time.
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.
Meet Our EMDR + Ketamine Therapist
Oriyan Maor, LMFT
EMDR & Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy
Oriyan offers a calm, grounded presence for deep nervous system healing and inner exploration. His work emphasizes safety and helping clients feel supported enough to approach parts of themselves that have long felt protected.
Online EMDR + Ketamine Therapy
We offer online EMDR integration sessions throughout California for clients who prefer meeting virtually or need flexibility.
Ketamine medical components remain coordinated through Journey Clinical. EMDR and integration sessions can be conducted securely online, maintaining the same depth-oriented, relational care.
EMDR + Ketamine Therapy in Simi Valley and Nearby Communities
We offer EMDR + Ketamine Therapy in Simi Valley and serve nearby communities, including Moorpark, Wood Ranch, Somis, and Santa Rosa Valley.
You can explore the additional communities we serve on our Areas We Serve page.
Your Next Step
If something still feels held inside, even after years of insight and effort,
you may be ready for a different kind of access.
Reaching out is simply a conversation.
Healing does not have to be forced.
It can be supported.