Ketamine Therapy in Simi Valley
A different kind of healing. Helping you reconnect, reset, and rediscover yourself.
Some forms of healing do not happen through effort alone. They happen through access.
You may have done years of therapy, reflection, mindfulness, or personal work and still feel like something inside has not fully shifted.
The heaviness. The emotional loops. The sense of disconnection or numbness. It can be exhausting, especially when you have truly been trying.
Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy offers a different way forward. Not by replacing what you have done, but by opening a new internal doorway.
At Simi Psychological Group, ketamine therapy is offered with intention, structure, and deep respect for your pace and inner experience.
When You Have Been Doing the Work but Still Feel Stuck
You may understand what you have been through and still feel disconnected from it.
Or emotions may come in waves without clarity or relief.
Even when your mind knows you are safe, your body may still be holding tension, fear, or emotional weight from the past. Over time, this can feel like you are constantly managing yourself instead of actually healing.
This is not a failure of effort or insight.
Often, it is a matter of access.
Ketamine therapy can help soften the system just enough to reach places that feel protected, blocked, or unreachable through talk therapy alone.
What Is Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy?
Ketamine was originally developed as a medical anesthetic in the 1960s. In carefully administered, low doses and when paired with psychotherapy, it has become a powerful tool for emotional healing.
One of the most meaningful aspects of ketamine is how it supports neuroplasticity, the brain’s ability to form new connections and patterns. Rather than forcing change, ketamine can gently loosen rigid emotional defenses, allowing insight, memory, and emotion to emerge with less overwhelm.
At SPG, ketamine is never used in isolation.
The medicine opens the door.
Therapy helps you walk through it.
Preparation, therapeutic presence, and integration are the heart of this work.
What Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy Can Feel Like
Many people describe ketamine sessions as deeply personal and unlike anything they have experienced before.
During a session, you may enter a calm, expansive, or reflective state where everyday worries quiet down. Some people feel emotionally spacious. Others feel intuitive or contemplative. Many experience a sense of observing without judgment, as if the usual inner pressure softens.
At times, emotions, memories, or insights may surface unexpectedly. This is not something to control. It is something to be supported through, which is why your therapist is present the entire time.
No two experiences are the same.
What matters most is how the experience is understood, integrated, and lived afterward.
How People Experience Ketamine Therapy
When Anxiety Has Been Living in Your Body
For some, ketamine therapy is about quieting what never seems to turn off. Not just anxious thoughts, but the constant bracing. The tight chest. The sense of being on alert even when life feels calm.
Ketamine can create enough internal space for the body to realize it does not have to stay guarded. Many people describe a softening, a sense that their system can finally exhale.
This can be especially meaningful when anxiety feels deeper than coping strategies alone can reach.
When Depression Feels Like Disconnection Disconnection
Others come because they are functioning but feel far away from themselves.
You may be showing up and doing what is required while feeling flat, foggy, or emotionally muted. Joy feels distant. Motivation feels fragile. Hope feels intellectual rather than lived.
Ketamine therapy can gently loosen emotional shutdown, allowing moments of clarity, relief, or connection to re-emerge. Not as a dramatic fix, but as a reminder of what is still possible.
When Trauma Still Lives Beneath the Surface
Some clients understand their trauma, yet their body has not caught up.
Triggers still land.
The nervous system still reacts.
Tension, fear, or numbness remains even when life is objectively safer.
Ketamine can offer a different relationship to traumatic memory. One with distance, softness, and choice. Many people describe being able to observe without reliving and process without overwhelm.
For those navigating trauma, this work often intersects with our Trauma Therapy in Simi Valley, creating a more integrated path toward healing.
When the Pull Is About Growth or Letting Go
Not everyone comes to ketamine therapy in crisis.
Some come because they sense they are ready to release an old identity, a long-held pattern, or emotional weight they have carried for years. Others seek clarity, emotional openness, or deeper connection to their values.
This work is not about becoming someone else.
It is about coming home to yourself.
EMDR + Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (Optional Pathway)
Some individuals choose to pair EMDR with Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) when emotional material feels blocked, distant, or difficult to access.
Ketamine can help quiet internal defenses, soften hypervigilance, and create a greater sense of openness within the nervous system. In that space, experiences that once felt overwhelming or out of reach may begin to feel more accessible.
EMDR then provides a grounded, structured way to process and integrate what begins to surface, allowing insight, emotion, and the body’s responses to come into alignment.
At times, the work may feel more reflective and insight-oriented. At other times, it may move into deeper processing. Together, this creates a steady, integrated approach to healing that supports both understanding and lasting change.
This is explored collaboratively, based on what feels most supportive for you and what your system is ready for.
You can learn more about EMDR + Ketamine Integration Therapy in Simi Valley.
YourJourney With Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy
From the moment you reach out, the focus is on safety, connection, and pacing.
Most clients begin with six to eight sessions supported by therapy and integration. The process typically includes:
Preparation Sessions
You and your therapist build rapport, clarify intentions, and establish emotional safety.
Ketamine Sessions
In a calm, private setting at our Simi Valley office, you take a low-dose sublingual ketamine tablet. Your therapist remains present the entire time.
Integration Sessions
After dosing, you meet with your therapist to reflect and translate insights into real-life shifts.
This is not a quick fix.
It is a steady, supported process designed to unfold at a pace that feels respectful.
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.
Ketamine Therapist in Simi Valley
Oriyan Maor, LMFT
Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy
Oriyan offers ketamine-assisted psychotherapy with a calm, grounded presence and a deep respect for how vulnerable this work can feel. Clients often describe feeling understood and supported as they explore difficult emotions and moments of insight.
His focus is not on dramatic breakthroughs. It is on helping what opens during ketamine sessions translate into meaningful, lasting change.
Online Ketamine Therapy Throughout California
Preparation and integration sessions may be offered securely online throughout California when appropriate.
Ketamine medical components are coordinated through Journey Clinical, which provides medical screening, prescribing, and oversight. Online therapy sessions maintain the same structure, pacing, and relational support as in-person work.
Ketamine Therapy in Simi Valley and Nearby Communities
We offer 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 you are curious about ketamine therapy or sensing it may be time for a different kind of support, reaching out is simply the first step toward exploring what feels possible.
You are not broken.
You may just be ready for something different.