Anahita (Ana) Kashefi, LMFT, MS

Welcome

Welcome! I understand how difficult it is to be open with a stranger, and my number one goal is to create a space that allows for the natural and comfortable unfolding of your experience. I provide a safe and loving container to support individuals as they explore, grow, heal and become more of who they truly are. I welcome the opportunity to work alongside individuals of diverse backgrounds and identities and I’m interested in how this shapes the world around you. I strive to tailor my approach to your individual needs. Over the years, I have had the privilege of witnessing profound transformation through the combination of psychotherapy in concert with ketamine. I have seen clients come to treatment in deep suffering, with histories of hospitalizations and complex trauma, to reaching transformative healing and coming off of all or most of their medications. From my experience, psychedelic therapy is most effective when one is is engaged in a therapeutic process with a trusted therapist that has experience working with non-ordinary states of consciousness, and the medicine is used as a tool to aid that process. The therapeutic relationship is integral. The relief that ketamine can provide to reduce depressive and anxiolytic symptoms is immense, however the sustained change one experiences comes from the work you do after your ketamine experience. Much of the work is in how you integrate and practice the insights you gained in the "transformational space" i.e., your ketamine journey. That is the work we will be doing together, and the work that I find deep meaning and joy from.

About

Anahita (Ana) Kashefi is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Certified Couples and Sex Therapist, and Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapist. She specializes in ketamine and psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, depression, anxiety, relationship issues and issues unique to the creative field. She is also an educator in realm of Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP), and has helped train doctors and therapists in Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy through the Ketamine-Training Center and Psyd-Ed. Her approach is relational, attachment-based and in-depth, characterized by warmth, compassion and collaboration. She places an emphasis on helping individuals find and strengthen their own inner-wisdom to help make more fulfilling choices for themselves.

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