You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.


— Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

What is Somatic-Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy?

Somatic-Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (S-KAP) is an approach, developed by Marni Levy founder of True Yang Therapy, combining the revolutionary use of a psychedelic ketamine-assisted psychotherapy with a relational, attachment-centered approach of somatic therapy. This model supports a more integrated approach to psychedelic use by bringing in foundational tools that support the body, offer regulation, and invite in relational healing. We believe that ketamine therapy is most effective when it is done in the context of a therapy container so that transformation can fully take root into ongoing, daily life.

  • Nervous system healing

    Mapping the nervous system, learning the waves of regulation and dysregulation, practicing essential tools to support regulation.

  • Intergenerational trauma healing

    Uncovering our unconscious connection to our lineage to better understand the trans-generational transmissions of trauma-based patterns and identify trans-generational behaviors.

  • Relational somatic healing

    Offering missed experiences caused by relational trauma or attachment wounding using the therapeutic relationship as well as safe somatic touch (always optional)

Why do S-KAP?

Ketamine, typically used as an anesthetic, offers many benefits, both biologically and psychospiritually. In ketamine assisted therapy, rather than concealing the wounds that are too difficult to interact with in our daily lives, there is access to go to the root of the wounds and the trauma and do therapeutic healing around the wound, rather than continuing to use that strategies that we’ve learned to use to numb it.

When taken in small doses, ketamine can bring us into a ventral vagal state - the soft and regulated place in our nervous system - creating a new template of safety, love, connection, and imprinting the autonomic nervous system with new, regulated experiences. Similar to other traditional psychedelics, ketamine allows a person to access places within them that could be too triggering without the medicine. So it could help someone access trauma and process it more easily in the medicine session.