Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy in Columbia, MD
An overview of Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP)
Are you exhausted from struggling with your mental health and feeling like nothing has truly helped?
Do you find yourself stuck in the same painful thoughts or emotional patterns, no matter how hard you try to move forward?
Are you struggling to feel present, connected, or engaged in your daily life?
Do past experiences continue to surface in ways that feel overwhelming or hard to control?
Perhaps your life feels muted, like you’re going through the motions rather than truly living.
If this resonates with you, you’re not alone. Many people navigating PTSD, chronic depression, anxiety, and other mental health challenges reach a point where traditional approaches like talk therapy or medication don’t provide the relief they were hoping for. This doesn’t mean you’ve failed or that healing isn’t possible. It often means your mind and body may need a different kind of support, one that works on a deeper level.
Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) helps individuals navigating PTSD, chronic depression, anxiety, and other mental health challenges. This integrative approach thoughtfully combines prescribed ketamine with psychotherapy and intentional integration practices. Ketamine can help quiet rigid thought patterns, increase emotional openness, and create space for new perspectives. Within a safe and supportive setting, this process allows you to explore difficult experiences with greater clarity and less distress, helping to unlock insights, promote healing, and reconnect you with your true self.
Unconscious material may arise during ketamine sessions that will be used in integration sessions to make sense of your patterns and habits that keep you stuck. If you have been feeling "stuck" for an extended period of time, have tried therapy and not found any progress, or are suffering from a traumatic event(s) that have left you with PTSD, chronic depression and anxiety, you may be a good candidate for KAP. Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy has shown breakthrough clinical results that can help you find the *release* you have been looking for.
What to expect
While each individual is different and results vary, the general feeling that ketamine provides is a "far from" your body effect that feels expansive in nature and allows you to explore your subconscious. With this brief change in perception, new insights can occur that can facilitate deep healing. These effects last about 45 minutes and afterwards, you will have at least an hour to relax, process and integrate your experience with your therapist.
Common Questions/Concerns about Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP)
The Cost of KAP
If you have Aetna, BCBS, Cigna, Johns Hopkins or United Healthcare, part of your Ketamine Treatment can be billed through insurance and this will be discussed with you prior. If you are out of network, we can provide a superbill for you to submit to your insurance for possible reimbursement.
How Do I Get Started?
Please fill out the Contact Form on the website and please specify that you are interested in KAP. Danielle Norkin will reach out to you to begin the process.
Danielle Norkin is a Certified Trauma Professional (CTP) and Licensed Therapist who has been extensively trained as a KAP facilitator with Soundmind Institute. She is partnered with Skylight Psychedelics who will be completing the medical intake and prescribing the medicine.
The office is conveniently located in downtown Frederick, MD. For safety reasons, clients are not permitted to drive themselves home after a ketamine session and must arrange for transportation in advance.
Evolve Counseling Group does not provide medical evaluations, prescribe or handle Ketamine. A medical provider, outside of Evolve Counseling Group, is responsible for all medical evaluations and the prescribing/handling of Ketamine.
Meet the Team
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Georgiana Avram,
LCPC -S, LMHC
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Brianna Leonard
LCPC, NCC
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Danielle Norkin
LGPC
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Toyin Fasosin
LCPC, NCC
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Matt Mazick
LGPC, NCC
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Alondra Perez
LCPC
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Aysha Wells
LGPC
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Nell Winer
LCPC
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Anna Zippelli
LGPC
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Nicole Byrd
LGPC
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Katie Pitts
LCPC
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Shuranda Allen
Ph.D, LCMFT
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY LICENSED CLINICAL MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPIST
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Diamond Johnson
LGPC
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Dr. Jamie Bailey
DSocSci, LCPC, LPCMH, NCC
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Terrace Blake
LGPC
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Foram Pare
LGPC
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Roxanne Phan
LGPC
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Jenny Dees
LGPC, NCC
Licensed Graduate Professional Counselor
