Full Living

Before any medicine is taken, before any insight emerges, before any group gathers, there is the container.

The space itself matters.

Every element of a Becoming Your Own Ally retreat is designed to support safety, reflection, connection, and the possibility of meaningful therapeutic work.

This is a glimpse into the environment we create before participants arrive.

Becoming Your Own Ally is our medicine-supported group psychotherapy intensive designed for people interested in exploring healing in community.

New retreat dates are coming soon.

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Most groups require a performance.

A psychotherapy group — built deliberately, held carefully — is the exception.

When everyone in the room has gathered in pursuit of deep and honest healing, the pretense drops. What you get instead are real witnesses. People who get it from the inside.

For many people, psychedelic experiences bring up perspectives, symbolic material, and embodied truths that can be difficult to talk about elsewhere. Not everyone in your life knows what to do with what surfaces in a medicine session.

A room full of people who are doing the same work? They understand differently.

That is why we build group experiences into our KAP offerings at Full Living. Not because groups are convenient, but because healing is often richer in community.

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One of the things that makes ketamine-assisted psychotherapy different from just taking ketamine is preparation. The intention you bring into a medicine session dramatically shapes what the medicine can offer you.

Our bi-weekly Medicine Session Preparation Group exists for exactly this. A virtual drop-in group where we breathe together, curate intentions, and awaken the inner healer — and then each person goes offline to do their own solo at-home medicine session.

There is something that happens when you prepare in a group. You are not just in your own head with your own intention. You are held in a container of other people doing the same work, bringing the same seriousness to it. That collective energy is real. It changes what you bring to the medicine.

And on the other side of the session — if you want to come back and talk about what surfaced — you are not alone in that either.

Every other Tuesday. 6:30–8:00 PM EST. Drop-in. $60 or a series of 4 sessions for $180.

For folx already approved for at-home ketamine use. Link in bio

Preparation is the work that makes a medicine journey generative rather than random.

In this drop-in virtual group, we use the power of the group experience to breathe together, curate intentions, and awaken the inner healer. Then you take all of that into your own solo, at-home medicine session immediately following, or later in the week.

Every other Tuesday.
June groups: 9th & 23rd.
6:30–8:00 PM EST.
Drop-in. $60.

A note on the medicine: while this group could theoretically be used to prepare for psilocybin, M**A, or other psychedelic journeys, the medicines are different enough that preparation needs to be medicine-specific.

For instance, because of the dissociative component unique to ketamine, we will always be preparing to leverage the available observing ego. That specificity matters.

This group is for folx already approved for and comfortable with unmonitored at-home ketamine use.

If you’re not there yet and want to explore KAP, reach out and I can help connect you with prescribers, therapists, groups, resources, and retreats.

DM me or email [email protected] to make sure it’s a good fit before joining.

The ability to hold complexity is one of the most important capacities we can develop.

To sit with the fact that people, including ourselves, are neither all good nor all bad. That we can love someone and also hate them. That we can be wronged and also be wrong. That reality is rarely as simple as our most activated self insists it is.

The example I reference in this video is what Melanie Klein described through her concepts of the depressive and paranoid-schizoid positions.

That capacity to move fluidly between the full truth of a situation and the partial, split-off version of it is not a small thing. It is foundational to how we fight with our partners, raise our children, manage our disappointments, and ultimately how much of life we can tolerate and enjoy.

This is the kind of deeper work that psychotherapy makes possible.

If you are in Pennsylvania, let me connect you with a well-matched therapist.

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Good therapy doesn’t stop at your presenting issue

People come to therapy with a presenting issue. Something specific that brought them in. Relationship in trouble, a mood they can’t shake, a pattern they can’t break, a loss they can’t move through.

A good therapist helps with that. And they are also always doing something else at the same time. Because underneath most presenting issues are foundational capacities that, when developed, change everything not just the issue that brought someone in, but the whole texture of how they move through life.

This is what serious psychotherapy is building toward. Not just relief from the presenting issue. A richer, more spacious self.

If you are in PA, let me connect you with a well matched therapist.
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Ketamine can bring up far-ranging perspectives. Symbolic material. Embodied truths. Moments of revelation that are hard to put into words. And sometimes the people closest to you don't know what to do with any of it.

That is not their fault. Psychedelic experiences are genuinely unusual. If you haven't had one, it is hard to know how to hold someone else's. A group of people who have gathered specifically to do this work? They know exactly what to do with it. Because they are in the middle of their own version of it. They are the right witnesses.

This is one of the reasons we build group experiences into our KAP work at Full Living. Not just because groups are cost-effective. Because the witness of the right people, in the right container, is part of the medicine. That is one of the reasons we build group experiences into our KAP work at Full Living.

Medicine Session Preparation Group — drop-in/ virtual group happening this Tuesday. Join us!

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Doing a ketamine medicine journey is great.

Doing it in a room full of people who have gathered for the same brave reason you have is something else entirely.

In our Becoming Your Own Ally group KAP experience, each person does their own individual journey their own intention, their own inner world, their own medicine. But they do it held by the energy of a group that prepared together, breathed together, and set their intentions together.

Healing happens not just inside us but between us. Witnessed by others. Held in community. The group doesn’t interfere with the individual journey. It deepens it.

And when the medicine has brought up things that are hard to put into words, things that the people in your regular life might not know what to do with . You are surrounded by people who just had their own version of it. Who can witness what you encountered without flinching.

That is a rare and powerful thing.

Becoming Your Own Ally.
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Finding a therapist can be surprisingly complicated.

Most people are sorting through directories, insurance lists, credentials, specialties, modalities, schedules, and websites. Often without knowing which of those things actually matter for their particular situation.

At Full Living, we believe the relationship is one of the most important parts of therapy.

That’s why we start with a conversation.

A free 15-minute consultation helps us understand what you’re looking for and connect you with the therapist who is the best fit for your needs.

Therapy is personal. Finding the right therapist should be too.

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