Ketamine Therapy in Thousand Oaks
When you have done the work and something still feels just out of reach.
Not all healing comes from trying harder.
Sometimes healing begins when something finally opens.
You may have spent years reflecting, processing, and doing meaningful inner work and still feel as though a deeper shift has not landed. The emotional weight lingers. Patterns repeat. You function well on the outside, yet something inside remains braced or distant.
Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy, often called KAP, offers a different entry point. It does not undo the work you have done. It helps you access parts of your experience that have not fully responded to talk therapy alone.
At Simi Psychological Group, Thousand Oaks Therapy and Counseling Center, ketamine therapy is offered with care, intention, and steadiness. It is never rushed and never forced.
When You Have Gained Insight but Still Feel Held Back
You may understand your history clearly and still feel emotionally removed from it.
Even when life feels calmer, your body may carry stress or tension.
You regulate constantly instead of settling.
You think clearly, yet something inside does not soften.
This does not mean therapy has failed.
Often, it simply means access has not been available yet.
Ketamine therapy can create enough internal space for your system to loosen so deeper emotional movement can happen without overwhelm.
What Is Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy?
Ketamine has been used safely in medical settings for decades. In low, carefully prescribed doses and when thoughtfully paired with psychotherapy, it supports neuroplasticity, which is the brain’s ability to form new pathways and perspectives.
Rather than pushing insight, ketamine softens internal rigidity.
The medicine creates openness.
Therapy helps that openness take shape.
Preparation and integration are what allow the experience to become lasting change.
What the Experience
Can Feel Like
Ketamine sessions are often described as quiet, reflective, and deeply personal.
Some people experience spaciousness or gentle distance from long held emotional patterns. Others feel more connected to intuition or memory. Many describe a softening of internal pressure and a shift from managing to observing.
Your therapist remains present throughout, offering grounding and steady containment so whatever unfolds can be met safely.
Every experience is different.
What matters most is how it is understood afterward and how it is woven into your life.
How People Often Recognize Themselves in This Work
People seek ketamine therapy for many reasons. These are not diagnoses, but lived experiences.
When Anxiety Has Become a Way of Living
A body that stays alert. A mind that rarely rests.
Ketamine therapy can help ease internal vigilance and allow the nervous system to experience safety without effort.
When Depression Feels Like Distance
You may be functioning and still feel emotionally muted.
Ketamine therapy can gently interrupt this flatness and allow clarity and connection to return.
When the Past Still Shapes the Present
You understand your story and your body still reacts.
Ketamine can support a different relationship with memory, one with more distance and choice.
When the Pull Is Toward Growth
Not everyone arrives because something is wrong.
Some feel ready to release old patterns or reconnect with something more authentic.
This work is not about changing who you are.
It is about returning to yourself.
EMDR + Ketamine Integration Therapy
For some, the openness created by ketamine invites a desire for structure.
EMDR plus Ketamine Integration Therapy offers a grounded, relational framework for working with what begins to surface. It allows experiences to organize, settle, and translate into embodied change.
This integrative approach can support:
- ETurning insight into lived shifts
- E Exploring emotional material without overwhelm
- ECreating change that feels integrated, not just understood
What the Process Looks Like
From your first conversation with us, pacing and safety guide everything.
Preparation Sessions
You and your therapist build trust, clarify intentions, and establish grounding.
Ketamine Sessions
In a calm, private setting, either at our Thousand Oaks office or from your home through secure telehealth, you take a low dose sublingual ketamine tablet prescribed through our medical partner. Your therapist remains present throughout the experience.
Integration
Afterward, you meet to reflect and translate insight into real life shifts.
Most clients engage in a series of six to eight sessions over several months.
This is not a shortcut.
It is a thoughtful process designed to unfold at a pace
your system can trust.
Meet Our EMDR + Ketamine Integration Therapist
Oriyan Maor, LMFT
Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy
Oriyan brings a calm, steady presence to ketamine-assisted psychotherapy. Clients often describe feeling genuinely understood and supported as they explore vulnerable emotional territory and moments of insight.
His work centers on helping what opens during ketamine sessions become something lasting. Reflection and experience are integrated in a way that feels grounded and natural.
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 Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy
Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy may be available both in person at one of our locations and through secure telehealth sessions throughout California. In some cases, scheduling may take place at a nearby office depending on availability and what best supports your care.
When conducted online, medical oversight, prescribing, and safety screening are coordinated through our medical partner. Your therapist provides preparation and integration support virtually, maintaining the same depth, structure, and intentional pacing.
If you’re located outside Thousand Oaks or prefer receiving care from home, online ketamine therapy may be a flexible and supportive option.
Ketamine Therapy in Thousand Oaks and Nearby Communities
We offer ketamine therapy in Thousand Oaks and serve nearby communities, including:
Westlake Village, Agoura Hills, Newbury Park, Oak Park, Dos Vientos, Lake Sherwood, Bell Canyon, and Camarillo.
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,
we are here to talk.
Reaching out does not obligate you to anything.
It simply opens a conversation.