Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy in New Port Richey, Florida
A collaborative, therapy-centered approach for eligible adult clients.
Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) combines psychotherapy with ketamine treatment for medically eligible adult clients.
At Pivotra Counseling Center, our focus is not simply on the medication experience itself, but on the therapeutic work surrounding it. KAP may include thoughtful preparation, therapeutic support during the experience, and integration afterward to help clients explore insights, process emotions, and connect their experience to continued therapeutic growth.
Pivotra Counseling Center provides the psychotherapy component of KAP. Journey Clinical provides the independent medical component, including medical evaluation, prescribing, and medication oversight.
How Our Collaborative Care Model Works
Pivotra Counseling Center
KAP Consultation
Preparation
Psychotherapy
Therapeutic Support
Integration
Journey Clinical Medical Team
Medical Evaluation
Determination of Medical Eligibility
Prescribing
Medication-related Decisions
Medical Monitoring
Your KAP Journey: Five Steps
A Guided Path Toward Meaningful Change
Every KAP journey begins with a conversation and continues through individualized preparation, therapeutic support, and integration. Explore the five steps to understand how Pivotra Counseling Center and Journey Clinical work together while maintaining their distinct roles in your care.
1. KAP Consultation
A prospective client meets with Pivotra to learn about KAP, discuss therapeutic goals, ask questions, and determine whether proceeding to an independent medical evaluation may be appropriate.
2. Journey Clinical Medical Evaluation
The client completes an independent medical evaluation with Journey Clinical. Journey Clinical’s medical team determines medical eligibility and manages prescribing and medication-related decisions.
3. Preparation
The Pivotra therapist works with the client to establish expectations, therapeutic intentions, coping resources, and goals for the experience.
4. Therapeutic Support
For medically approved clients, a licensed mental health professional provides therapeutic presence and support during the KAP experience.
5. Integration
Integration sessions help the client reflect on and process the experience, explore meaningful insights, and connect those insights to continued therapeutic work and everyday life.
Why Choose Pivotra for KAP?
At Pivotra Counseling Center, we believe Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy is about more than the medication itself. Our approach emphasizes thoughtful preparation, supportive psychotherapy, and meaningful integration afterward.
Each client receives individualized therapeutic care based on their needs, goals, and treatment journey.
Pivotra provides the psychotherapy component of KAP while Journey Clinical independently manages the medical component. This collaborative model allows each part of care to remain within the appropriate professional scope while creating a coordinated treatment experience.
At Pivotra, ketamine is only one part of the process. The therapeutic work surrounding it is where meaningful integration begins.
Already Have a Therapist?
Clients who already have an established therapist may continue working with their current provider while Pivotra provides specialized KAP services. With appropriate written authorization, Pivotra can coordinate with the referring clinician when clinically appropriate so the KAP experience can complement the client’s ongoing therapeutic work.
KAP for Veterans
Veterans may bring experiences involving service, transition, loss, identity, relationships, and trauma into therapy. Dr. Jonathan Pawson is both a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and U.S. Army veteran, bringing clinical experience as well as personal familiarity with military culture to his work with veterans exploring KAP and other counseling services.
Frequently Asked Questions
1. What is Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP)?
Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) is a holistic modality in which ketamine is used as a complement to psychotherapy to help eligible patients experience more frequent breakthroughs and sustained improvement in symptoms. I take on the psychotherapy portion of the experience, while Journey Clinical’s medical team supports you on all medical aspects. This includes determining eligibility, developing a custom treatment plan, prescribing the medicine, and monitoring outcomes. Here’s a link to more information about KAP to see if it may be a good fit for you. https://journey.click/education
2. What is Journey Clinical?
Journey Clinical is a platform for licensed psychotherapists to incorporate science-based psychedelic therapies in their practice safely and effectively, starting with Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP). Journey Clinical’s in-house medical team takes on patient eligibility, prescriptions and outcome monitoring, while I take on the therapy.
Their collaborative care model is designed to deliver personalized treatment plans to meet your individual needs and improve long-term outcomes.
3. Who determines whether I am medically eligible?
Journey Clinical's medical team conducts the independent medical evaluation and determines whether a client is medically eligible for ketamine treatment.
4. Does Pivotra or Dr. Pawson prescribe ketamine?
Pivotra Counseling Center and Dr. Pawson do not prescribe ketamine. Medical evaluation, prescribing, medication decisions, and medical monitoring are handled independently through Journey Clinical's medical team.
5. What happens during a KAP session?
KAP may involve preparation with your therapist, a ketamine treatment experience for medically approved clients, therapeutic support, and follow-up integration. The specific process depends on the client's needs and treatment arrangements.
6. What is an integration session?
An integration session provides space to reflect on and process the experience, explore meaningful insights, and consider how those insights may relate to everyday life and ongoing therapy.
7. Can I continue seeing my current therapist?
Clients may continue working with their established therapist while receiving specialized KAP services from Pivotra. With appropriate written authorization, coordination with the referring clinician may occur when clinically appropriate.
8. How do I schedule a KAP consultation?
If you would like to explore the possibility of working with me on KAP, please e-mail me at jpawson@pivotracounseling.com to discuss eligibility and next steps.