Ketamine Assisted Therapy: Therapist Guided

Curious about Ketamine Assisted Therapy (KAT) and interested in speaking with one of our KAT providers at no cost? Join virtual group! This group is held last thursday of the month from 12-1pm and is open to prospective, current and former Boise Ketamine Clinic patients.

Hosted by Garret Price, LCPC and Marisa Weppner, Somatic Practitioner this open virtual support group is for those who are ketamine naive, ketamine curious and those experienced with ketamine. Group can be utilized during all phases of treatment and offers therapeutic support and guidance to those who may need additional mental health support as well as ongoing preparation and integration needs.

Ready to get started? Here is the link to our intake paperwork

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Marisa Radha Weppner

MA – KAT Facilitator

Marisa Radha Weppner (Radha) received her BA in Psychology from the University of South Florida in 2001, a Masters in Transpersonal Psychology from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in 2007 and became a Certified Life Coach in 2014 through the Life Purpose Institute. She has been facilitating transformation and self-awakening for nearly 2 decades through a variety of settings including leading yoga and mindfulness classes, wellness and spiritual retreats, community organizing, guiding psychedelic journeys, and private coaching. She is a faculty member of Esalen Institute and the co-owner Source meditation | space in Boise, ID.

At the Boise Ketamine Clinic Radha offers Ketamine-Assisted Therapy, Life Coaching, Prep and Integration Sessions.

Much of her learning has come through her personal experiences with plant medicines, psychedelics and spiritual explorations. Merging ancient wisdom with direct experience, she creates a grounded, safe and expansive environment in which to explore one’s inner world. She has extensive experience working with groups and individuals to help them heal core wounds, release limiting beliefs and create a life of depth, meaning and purpose.

You can learn more about Radha through her podcast Love, Service, Wisdom.

https://www.marisaradhaweppner.com/

At the Boise Ketamine Clinic Radha offers Ketamine-Assisted Therapy, Somatic Therapies, Life Coaching, Prep and Integration Sessions.

Watch The Short Video Below To Learn More About Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy And How It Works

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Molly Downey

PA-C – Energy Practitioner and Intuitive

Molly has worked in modern medicine as a physician assistant since 2014.  Over the past decade, she moved from primary rural practice to specialty work involving sleep and addiction medicine. Her experience working with underserved populations was both rewarding and difficult. Although grateful for this experience, she began to feel limited in her capacity to truly help patients through the modern medical system.

Simultaneously, Molly began to experience intuitive information during patient visits, feeling, hearing, or seeing information from the multi-sensory universe. This inspired her to learn more about this connection and take multiple courses to hone this incredible skill. After utilizing energy healing to cure herself of a chronic illness that was “incurable” by modern medical standards, she was inspired to offer this healing modality to patients.

She practiced energy healing for several years before she officially opened Etheric Healing in 2022. This practice provides energy healing sessions to patients combined with medical intuition and psychic connection. It is her absolute joy to guide patients on a journey of healing and connection to the universe. Molly continues to practice as a physician assistant serving addiction, sleep, and mental health patients.  She also works through Etheric Healing online or in-person.

If you would like more information about Molly or her energy sessions, please visit her website: www.etherichealing.co

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KAT Facilitator and Health & Wellness Coach
Psychedelic Assisted Therapy Certified

Matthew embodies a present and empathetic disposition, guiding clients back home to their heart. Having studied numerous healing and coaching modalities worldwide, his approach merges a deep understanding of esoteric philosophies with ongoing education in science-backed research in mental health and wellness.

He has guided hundreds of Ketamine-assisted therapy sessions for clients across the US, while also supporting many others through transformative journeys in his private practice for nearly a decade. 

Additionally, he has taught and led mindfulness, meditation, and wellness workshops and retreats globally, continuously studying and developing new tools for his practice from various cultures and teachings. He empowers individuals to align their lives, relationships, and passions to foster positive transformation, facilitating meaningful and lasting change with clarity and purpose.

Drawing from his personal experiences with plant medicines and psychedelic-assisted therapy, Matthew integrates traditional wisdom with firsthand knowledge to create a grounded, compassionate, and healing space for his clients to explore their unique paths of healing. He possesses extensive experience in supporting individuals dealing with depression, anxiety, addictive behaviors, and other mental health issues, aiding them in reconnecting with themselves and finding deeper purpose and meaning in life.

At the Boise Ketamine Clinic, Matthew offers Ketamine-Assisted Therapy, preparation and integration sessions to mentally, physically, and spiritually prepare and integrate the medicine, along with health and wellness life coaching, providing clients with the optimal tools needed for healing and sustained growth.

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Gavin Raftery

Gavin is a Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner student at Yale University and a seasoned ICU nurse with over 13 years of experience. He has dedicated his career to the intersection of medicine, healing, and human resilience.

Gavin’s passion for dream work began with Jungian therapy, where he first encountered the power of the unconscious. This led him to further studies in Dream School, Awareness School, archetypal studies, and mythological traditions, as well as working closely with other dream practitioners.

At Boise Ketamine Clinic, Gavin offers dreamwork as a tool for integration, helping patients bridge their ketamine experiences with deeper self-awareness and healing. His approach focuses on revealing the symbolism and archetypal expressions within dreams, guiding individuals to uncover deeper meanings and connections that support personal growth. He believes that dreams serve as an invitation to transformation, and he is honored to support others on their journey toward wellness.

Outside of his work and studies, Gavin enjoys spending time in nature, beekeeping, and embracing the outdoors as a space for reflection and connection. Whether tending to his bees or exploring the natural world, he finds inspiration in the rhythms of the environment and the wisdom it offers. He is also deeply committed to his lifelong pursuit of knowledge, continuously exploring new perspectives and ways to integrate learning into his work and daily life.

Shontae Cone, MS, LPC

Ketamine-Assisted Therapist & Transpersonal Counselor

The most impactful support I can provide for my clients is through sharing the wisdom I have received from my own journey with ketamine. I started with the medicine in 2021, and there are no words to describe the dramatic transformation it has afforded me. This is a gift I want to share with you.

Through my own process, I have been able to dive deep into the spiritual and unseen world of consciousness, as well as apply clinical knowledge to the changes happening within. The more I have healed, the more insight and objectivity I’ve been able to maintain through my own treatments. Developing the observer is a beautiful path full of acute witnessing, and one I want to share.

Professional Expertise:

  • Nearly 20 years of experience in mental health and wellness
  • Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) since 2018
  • Master of Science in Clinical Psychology with specialization in counseling and sex therapy
  • Certified Hypnotherapist with advanced training in generative trance (108 hours with Dr. Stephen Gilligan)
  • Experience working with the Idaho Department of Health & Welfare, community agencies, and developing a trauma-informed wellness program for Idaho correctional employees
  • Specialized training in internal family systems, somatic work, guided meditation, shadow integration, and holistic trauma care

The healing process has given me the inadvertent gift of being able to take these visceral and spiritual, but very abstract, experiences and begin to understand the overall process from a linear perspective. For my clients, this manifests in many ways. The first is with practical application: tools that deeply integrate certain topics, themes, and activities that are mindfully chosen to drive and direct your experience.

The second is in supporting you through holding space and cultivating an intentional experience for you. Based on my own experiences, I choose our therapeutic methods mindfully, carefully, and with conscious awareness of where you are in the evolution process.

I believe true healing requires us to face both the light and the shadow, and my role is to hold compassionate space for both. By weaving together art, ritual, movement, storytelling, and clinical science, I help you engage your whole self—body, mind, and spirit—throughout this sacred unfolding.

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How Can Ketamine Assisted Therapy Help You?

For decades Ketamine Assisted Therapy (KAT) has proven to be a safe and highly effective modality for the relief of treatment-resistant depression, chronic pain, anxiety disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, end of life care, suicidality, OCD, and a variety of other mental and physical disorders.
Ketamine is the only psychedelic that can be legally prescribed in the United States. The non-ordinary state of consciousness created by Ketamine offers a unique opportunity for healthy individuals to experience transpersonal states of consciousness, have psycho-spiritual breakthroughs, resolve limiting beliefs and unconscious patterns while discovering new perspectives for creative solutions.

Group KAT Is a Unique Opportunity To:

  • Give + receive support
  • Understand you are not alone
  • Experience a safe environment to share your story
  • Gain mindfulness skills
  • Embody deeper dimensions of Self
  • A cost-effective approach to Ketamine Assisted Therapy

Pricing

Group KAT

Each Group session will last approximately 2 hours, though the total recovery period may vary for each patient. The first 2 sessions will be at the BKC under the guidance of our facilitator. The last 2 Group sessions will be in-home on zoom and also facilitated.

The benefit of in-home KAT is that you may extend the length of the experience beyond the group session. Once we have completed 2 in-clinic sessions and 2 in-home sessions you will be able to create your own set and setting for personal in-home sessions.

We recommend every 2 to 3 weeks. You will also be given playlists, a Guide for In-Home KAT, a Mindfold, and anti-nausea medication.

Integrated Session: Ketamine + Energy Work

This integrative therapeutic session offers a combination of Ketamine therapy paired with energy healing for a unique and transformative experience. This type of session can be utilized by any patient, at any time. Patients that are new to Ketamine therapy as well as those who have had many sessions can equally benefit from this enhanced experience.

Energy work promotes deep relaxation and healthy flow of energy within the body, which allows the patient to more easily receive the healing that is being offered. Our energy practitioner, Molly, who is trained in both modern and alternative medicine, guides you through the experience.

Using her skills in energy medicine and intuition, she will connect with your energetic body and send light and healing energy to where it is needed most. This technique promotes a feeling of deep relaxation and peace within the patient which allows them to connect to their higher self.

From this safe and grounded space, they can begin the inner journey to self-healing.

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What to Expect During Your Ketamine-Energy Session

After you schedule an appointment for a ketamine-energy session, Molly will work with you one-on-one to find healing and wholeness. She’ll gently guide you through three simple steps to dip your toe in the water of psychedelic medicine combined with energy work. 

  • Molly will map your energy and receive a sense of both your chakra and aura fields. Sharing your mental health, spiritual, and other struggles with Molly, she’ll compare what you shared with her energy findings, reviewing the correlation between the two. (60 minutes) 
  • The next step is to receive a safe ketamine dosage and relax on the patient beds provided at the clinic. Molly will use light touch to move energy across your body, similar to Reiki. She will connect to the multisensory universe for your guidance and relay any messages (60 minutes) 
  • Session complete. Molly ends with a peaceful grounding technique for reintegration. Experience the joy that comes with living in this present, awakened moment.

Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy

For decades Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) has proven to be a safe and highly effective modality for the relief of treatment-resistant depression, chronic pain, anxiety disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, end of life care, suicidality, OCD, and a variety of other mental and physical disorders.

During a KAP session, one of counselors will be present during the session to help guide you through the experience as you engage in the therapeutic process. While under the effects of Ketamine, you and the counselor will explore some of the core wounds and limiting beliefs that hold you back from thriving while traveling the inner psychic space of your own consciousness.

During KAP sessions patients may experience relaxation and states of heightened awareness, mindfulness and self-acceptance, antidepressant effects, out-of-body and dissociative experiences, and potential increased insights about undesired behaviors.

Our counselors facilitate individual and group KAP, prep, and post-integrative sessions. Their work integrates practices of loving awareness, self-love/compassion, and insight meditations with psychological interventions and consciousness sciences.

Meet Our KAP Counselors

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Sean Brosnan

LPC- Licensed Professional Counselor

Sean Brosnan earned his Bachelor of Arts in London, England at The Royal School of Speech and Drama and a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University in Los Angeles. He also studied Psychoanalysis at the prestigious Valley Community Counseling Clinic.

He has worked in addiction treatment for over a decade, starting as a residential advisor and sober companion to eventually starting his own sober living facility. He aims to help those dealing with addiction, trauma, grief & loss and those seeking a higher meaning and a more powerful sense of purpose in their life. 

Sean has worked with many non-ordinary states of consciousness and is a skilled therapist providing preparation, integration, and Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) sessions with Boise Ketamine Clinic.

More detailed information about Sean can be found on his website, which is www.thecounsouler.com

Nykol Bailey Rice

LCPC- Licensed Professional Counselor

Nykol Bailey Rice is a psychiatric nurse practitioner with over a decade of ketamine and non-ordinary states experience. She completed her second masters at University of Cincinnati in Psychiatric Nursing. She then went on to complete additional training including, Integrative Psychiatry Institute year long therapist training, MAPS (MDMA) provider training, Conscious Encounters & IPI Psilocybin Training and Psychedelics Today.

She also served a full term on the Board of Directors for the American Society of Ketamine Practitioners helping to draft standards and ethical guidelines for therapeutic ketamine administration.

She specializes in two main approaches: Short Term Solution Focused Therapy & Inner Directed Approach.

Short Term Solution Focused:

This approach attempts to maximize actionable items and solutions in a client’s life. Working together we identify small steps and changes that can be implemented during the ketamine series to promote overall wellness. This is a more hands on approach and is a good fit if you like a more involved and directive approach.

Inner Directed:

Recognizing ourselves as the best authority on our own human condition an Inner Directed approach involves less hands on therapeutic guidance by the therapist and a focus on introspective work. The goal is to find, within the non-ordinary state ketamine creates, what your Inner Healer needs. You have the capability to heal yourself and this approach helps you find those insights and make meaning of them in your day to day life. This focuses on you being the expert in you, and is more of a supportive space holding approach.

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Nykol has been fascinated in non-ordinary states work and altered states of consciousness which led first to a career in anesthesia and then to a second career working with therapeutic ketamine. In her free time Nykol enjoys reading, spending time with her husband and four children and being out in nature.

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Michael Sapiro

PsyD – Clinical Psychologist

Michael Sapiro, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist, psychedelic-assisted therapist, writer, meditation teacher and researcher, and a former Buddhist monk. He is a transformational coach for world-class and world-renowned musicians, athletes, former special operations veterans, scientists, authors, and playwrights. 

He is trained by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), is on faculty at Esalen Institute, is a Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, and is core faculty in the Psychedelic’s Today Vital psychedelic certification program.  He recently completed a study on time travel, hope, and love with Dr. Julia Mossbridge of The Institute for Love and Time. Dr. Sapiro teaches nationally on the art and science of transformation, expanded human capabilities, and futuremaking. He is the integrative psychologist at the Boise Ketamine Clinic, offering Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (individual KAP and group KAT) sessions for first responders and community members.  

He is an integrative coach and consultant with Seal Future Foundation and Sabot Foundation, helping former Navy Seals and other special operations team members recover from combat exposure with psychedelic-assisted therapy and integration coaching. He also works therapeutically with first responders (Police, SWAT, and Fire). He hosted a syndicated radio program on expanded human potential called Radio Awakened out of KRBX, now found on Soundcloud. His work is dedicated to personal awakening for collective and planetary transformation. 

He can be found at michaelsapiro.com.

Garrett Price

LCPC- LICENSED PROFESSIONAL COUNSELOR

My name is Garrett Price and I firmly believe that individuals are much more than the titles or summaries of their chapters. You are not confined to your diagnosis, loss, trauma, or prevailing thoughts, feelings, or actions. Imagine life as a continuously evolving book. Some chapters bring a smile to our faces, while others evoke tears. Yet, it’s the blend of these experiences that shapes our unique stories.

In my specialized work with ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, I employ techniques that champion organic, inside-out healing. This involves reshaping self-perception and reinforcing robust neural connections among the prefrontal cortex, default mode network, limbic system, and brain stem, ensuring an enduring transformation.

A bit about me: I’ve called Idaho home for over four decades, cherishing a joyful 20-year marriage and the blessing of two daughters. My commitment to service was forged in the crucible of personal experiences, including caring for my ailing grandmother in my early 20s and the profound impact of the birth and loss of our cherished son.

Central to my mission is guiding individuals from states of suffering to lives filled with meaning and purpose. This involves honing their minds, strengthening their neurological pathways, teaching emotion regulation, and guiding actions rooted in core values. Together, we can craft a narrative that resonates with strength, growth, and purpose. 

Let’s co- author your next chapter.

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Aubrey Hooley

LCPC, MSN

Aubrey is a strength-based psychotherapist in private practice, with over 15 years of extensive experience in individual, family, and couples therapy. With a deep expertise in trauma-informed practices, Internal Family Systems and Parts Work, Mindfulness, and other eclectic tools of therapy, she takes an integrative approach tailored to each client’s needs.

Certified in MDMA and Ketamine Psychedelic Psychotherapy, she also has specialized training in integration work with MDMA, Ketamine, and Psilocybin. She is passionate about the transformative power of non-ordinary states of consciousness collaborating with therapy and personal transformation. She believes in the magic of this type of healing, and is dedicated to sharing personalized support, knowledge and experience to support others on their journey toward well-being.

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