Couples Ketamine Therapy in Salt Lake City, Utah
Healthy love isn’t about perfection—it’s about choosing growth, understanding, and connection together, even when it’s hard.
A Different Way to Heal Together
If you and your partner find yourselves having the same arguments over and over, feeling disconnected despite your best efforts, or knowing something needs to change but not knowing how to change it, you're not alone.
Many couples genuinely love one another and want to stay together, yet feel trapped by old patterns of communication, defensiveness, fear, and hurt. Over time, those patterns become difficult to interrupt. Even when you understand what needs to happen intellectually, it can feel impossible to access each other underneath the stories, assumptions, and protective walls that have developed.
Couples Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) offers a unique opportunity to experience one another from a different place. Rather than replacing the work of couples therapy, ketamine can support moments of increased openness, curiosity, and reflection that help couples engage with their relationship in new ways.
At Becoming Counseling, I provide ketamine-assisted therapy and integration exclusively for couples. While I no longer provide traditional weekly couples therapy, every couple participating in KAP must already be actively working with a couples therapist. Ketamine is not a substitute for evidence-based relationship therapy—it is a complementary tool that can deepen the work you're already doing.
What Is Couples Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy?
Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy combines the therapeutic use of ketamine with intentional preparation and integration. The medicine itself is only one part of the process. The lasting value comes from thoughtfully preparing for the experience, creating a safe environment during the session, and integrating what emerges afterward.
During a ketamine experience, many people find it easier to step outside of long-standing emotional reactions and rigid narratives. This shift can create space for greater compassion, increased self-awareness, and a different perspective on both themselves and their partner.
Couples often describe feeling less attached to being "right" and more able to see the pain, vulnerability, and humanity beneath conflict. While every experience is unique, the goal is not to fix your relationship in one session—it's to create opportunities for meaningful insight that can then be reinforced through ongoing couples therapy.
My Approach
My work is grounded in some of the most respected relationship models available, including:
Gottman Method
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Trauma-informed care
Mindfulness and somatic practices
These approaches inform every stage of the process, from preparation to integration.
Rather than focusing solely on communication skills, we also explore the protective parts that emerge during conflict, the attachment needs underneath those reactions, and the nervous system responses that keep couples stuck in repetitive cycles.
The ketamine experience creates an opportunity to approach these patterns with greater curiosity and less judgment.
A Calm, Safe, and Supported Experience
Sessions take place in a peaceful, intentionally designed therapeutic space that encourages relaxation and emotional safety. Throughout your experience, you'll be supported with either carefully selected music or live sound healing, creating an atmosphere that invites reflection and connection.
Unlike some ketamine settings where clients are left alone, you are never alone during your session. I remain present with you for the entire experience, providing support, monitoring your well-being, and helping create a sense of safety throughout the process.
Each ketamine session lasts approximately 2.5 hours, allowing plenty of time for settling in, the medicine experience, and beginning to process what emerged.
This approach may be a good fit if:
You both want to remain in the relationship.
You're actively participating in couples therapy.
You feel stuck repeating the same conflicts.
You struggle to move beyond blame, defensiveness, or resentment.
You recognize that your current ways of relating are no longer working.
You're willing to approach yourselves and each other with openness and curiosity.
This approach is not designed to convince one partner to stay in a relationship they no longer want, nor is it a replacement for ongoing couples therapy.
Instead, it offers a space where couples who are committed to their relationship can experience one another differently and bring those experiences back into the therapeutic work they're already doing.
Healing Beyond the Ego
Every relationship develops stories. We begin believing we know why our partner behaves the way they do. We assume their intentions. We protect ourselves. Over time, these stories become difficult to question, even when they no longer serve us. Ketamine can create opportunities to loosen the grip of those familiar narratives. Many couples find themselves reconnecting with empathy, compassion, vulnerability, and the deeper attachment that exists beneath conflict. The goal isn't to erase differences or avoid difficult conversations. It's to help you relate to each other from a place that feels more open, more curious, and more connected than the patterns that have kept you stuck. When paired with skilled couples therapy, these moments of insight can become the foundation for lasting relational change.
Begin Your Journey Together
If you and your partner are committed to your relationship but feel like you've reached a place where talking alone isn't enough, Couples Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy may offer a new path forward. I welcome couples throughout Salt Lake City, Millcreek, Holladay, Cottonwood Heights, Murray, Sandy, and the greater Utah area who are seeking a thoughtful, evidence-informed approach to healing their relationship. If you'd like to learn whether Couples Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy is right for your relationship, I'd be honored to connect with you.
