One way I like to frame my role as a KAP therapist is as a travel companion- one who walks alongside you in your life’s journey. My role is not to guide or direct your experience, but to encourage you to step into the spaces of self-discovery, healing, and empowerment that are part of your path towards getting to know who you truly are and to live with presence and integrity from that place. As a travel companion, I bring with me my experience of facing these places in my own travels, along with my experience of being a supportive companion alongside others in the multidimensional terrains they have traversed. Simply put, my core aim is to develop a trusting, collaborative relationship with those I work with so that they are optimally enabled to walk their life’s path with strength and courage. When medicines such as ketamine intersect with our work together, I like to encourage clients to consider the medicine as enabling their own agency for healing, growth, and change rather than seeing the medicine as the primary agent of change. Similarly, as we work together, it is my hope that you increasingly become the expert in your own growth and healing. My role is not to be an expert in anyone’s life, but rather to inform in a way that enables deep informed consent, a deep yes to the next step on your path, whatever that may be.

I've been practicing Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy for over 5 years, have facilitated over 300 KAP sessions, offered multiple years of KAP clinical consultation, and trained over 50 practitioners in the approach. My primary orientation is weaving KAP into long term psychotherapy with clients, but I also offer shorter term KAP (i.e. 3-6 sessions over 3-6 months). Complex trauma, bipolar, chronic pain, existential concerns and interests, and tapping into the spiritual and creative domains of life are some of my more specific areas of interest and experience in the context of offering Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy. 

Email: Scott.Ross@salishseacounseling.com