Ketamine Therapy in Porter Ranch
A different kind of healing for moments when insight alone hasn’t been enough.
Some forms of change do not come from trying harder. They come from accessing parts of yourself that have been guarded, protected, or just out of reach.
You may have spent years in therapy, reflection, or personal growth. You may understand your patterns and your story, and still feel like something inside has not fully shifted. The emotional weight lingers. The nervous system stays tense. Relief feels temporary.
Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy offers another way in. Not by replacing the work you’ve done, but by helping your system open to it differently.
At Simi Psychological Group – Porter Ranch Therapy & Counseling Center, ketamine therapy is offered with care, pacing, and deep respect for your inner experience.
When You’ve Been Doing the Work and Still Feel Stuck
You might know what you’ve been through and still feel disconnected from it. Or emotions surface in waves without clarity or resolution.
Even when life looks steady on the outside, your body may still be holding tension, fear, or heaviness from the past. Over time, this can feel like constant self-management instead of true healing.
This is not a failure of effort.
Often, it is a matter of access.
Ketamine therapy can create just enough internal space for your system to soften, allowing insight, emotion, and memory to emerge without overwhelm.
For individuals whose stuck places are connected to trauma, this work may overlap with deeper approaches like EMDR Therapy, especially when integration is needed after medicine sessions.
What Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy Is
Ketamine has been used safely in medical settings for decades. In low, carefully supported doses, and when paired with psychotherapy, it can support meaningful emotional shifts.
One of ketamine’s unique qualities is how it supports neuroplasticity, the brain’s ability to form new pathways. Rather than forcing change, it can gently loosen rigid emotional defenses so your inner world has room to reorganize.
At SPG, ketamine is never used on its own.
The medicine opens the doorway.
Therapy helps you walk through it.
Preparation and integration are central to this process. Without them, the experience remains incomplete.
What a Ketamine Session Can Feel Like
Each experience is personal.
Many people describe sessions as calm, spacious, or reflective. Some notice emotional openness. Others feel a sense of observing their thoughts without being overwhelmed by them.
At times, memories or insights arise unexpectedly. Your therapist remains present throughout, offering grounded, non-directive support.
What matters most is not just what happens during the session. It is how what opens is understood, integrated, and carried into daily life.
How Ketamine Therapy Can Support Different Experiences
Anxiety
Anxiety often lives in the body. The bracing. The urgency. The constant scanning for threat.
Ketamine can help soften that loop, creating distance from fear-based thinking and calming the threat response. Many clients notice a pause where there used to be urgency, a sense of responding instead of reacting.
Depression
Depression can feel like heaviness, fog, or disconnection from meaning.
Ketamine therapy can help lift that weight enough for possibility to return. When paired with depth-oriented therapy, those shifts can become something steady rather than temporary.
Trauma and PTSD
Trauma is not stored as a story alone. It lives in the nervous system.
Ketamine can create emotional space around memories that once felt overwhelming, allowing them to be approached with more steadiness. When appropriate, this work may be integrated with EMDR Therapy for deeper trauma processing.
This is not about reliving what happened.
It is about changing your relationship to it.
Personal and Spiritual Growth
Some people seek ketamine therapy not because something is wrong, but because they feel called toward deeper alignment or clarity.
When held intentionally, ketamine-assisted psychotherapy can support emotional openness, intuition, and meaningful self-reflection.
This work is not about fixing you.
It is about accessing what is already within you.
What the Process Looks Like
From your first conversation with us, the focus is on safety and pacing.
Most clients begin with preparation sessions before any medicine is introduced. The process typically includes:
Preparation
You and your therapist build rapport, clarify intentions, and strengthen emotional grounding.
Ketamine Sessions
In a calm, private setting, you take a low-dose sublingual ketamine tablet. Your therapist remains present throughout the session.
Integration
Afterward, you meet to reflect, process, and translate insight into lived change. This is where deeper shifts begin to stabilize.
This is not a quick fix.
It is intentional work that unfolds at your system’s pace.
Meet Our Ketamine Therapist
Oriyan Maor, LMFT
Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy
Oriyan offers ketamine-assisted psychotherapy with a calm, steady presence and deep attunement to each person’s inner world. Clients often describe feeling genuinely understood and emotionally safe enough to explore what has long felt guarded or unreachable.
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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.
Ketamine Therapy in Porter Ranch & Nearby Communities
We offer ketamine-assisted psychotherapy in Porter Ranch and serve nearby communities, including Chatsworth, Granada Hills, Northridge, West Hills, Canoga Park, Woodland Hills, Reseda, and Tarzana.
You can explore additional nearby communities we serve on our Areas We Serve page.
Your Next Step
If you sense it may be time for a different kind of healing, we are here to talk.