Decolonial & Land-Centered Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy in San Antonio, TX, Texas, and California
Ground your nervous system, process intergenerational & historical trauma, and reconnect with the Earth and your ancestral wisdom.
87% of patients undergoing KAP through our medical partner Journey Clinical report significant reductions in depression and anxiety symptoms after just two medical appointments.
“Chronic stress creates deep cognitive grooves, like ski tracks down a mountain. Ketamine acts like a fresh layer of snowfall, allowing your brain to carve new, adaptive pathways of connection, agency, and peace.”
If you are living with deep complex trauma, burnout, or a persistent sense of existential dread, you have likely been told that your suffering is a personal mental disorder, a localized individual cognitive malfunction.
At Eutierria Therapy, we reject the idea that your pain exists in a vacuum. Marginalized individuals, activists, and empathetic helpers frequently carry the heavy somatic weight of race-based discrimination, institutional betrayal, and continuous systemic violence. Furthermore, as environmental crises intensify, many uniquely experience solastalgia—the existential distress caused by land displacement and climate destruction—alongside severe eco-anxiety.
Your distress is a rational, adaptive response to living in a fragmented world shaped by colonialism, land alienation, and enforced isolation. Traditional talk therapy often operates solely in the realm of logic and verbal conversation, which can struggle to reach the deep somatic layers where historical trauma, survival fear, and ancestral grief are held.
By combining decolonial narrative practices with ketamine in Texas and California, Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) provides a legal, safe, and powerful window of neuroplasticity, and it provides a moment of pause that allows your autonomic nervous system to step out of chronic fight, flight, or freeze mode so you can process what has felt unprocessable.
Beyond Internal Deficits: Unmasking the Roots of Personal and Collective Distress
Our Decolonial & Eutierric Approach to Altered States
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Dominant Western culture views learning as a purely intellectual, linear process. Indigenous worldviews historically recognize altered states of consciousness—achieved through ritual, breath, movement, and medicine—as natural pedagogical tools known as trance-based learning. Ketamine temporarily quiets the colonial ego-construct, opening a expanded perceptual field where you can receive direct somatic and intuitive wisdom from your body, your ancestral lineage, and the Earth.
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Coined by philosopher Glenn Albrecht, Eutierria describes a positive feeling of oneness with the Earth where the artificial boundary between self and nature dissolves. We utilize KAP not just for personal symptom management, but to heal the "wound of separation"—transforming eco-grief and climate panic into active ecological kinship, land stewardship, and collective purpose.
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Eutierria Therapy’s practice weaves Puerto Rican folk healing traditions directly into preparation and integration work across three core dimensions:
Ancestral & Lineage Healing: Viewing persistent emotional burdens through the lens of inherited spiritual and ancestral weight, using integration to process generational grief and transform historical distress into lineage strength.
Earth & Botanical Wisdom: Partnering with native plant allies and natural elements to support nervous system grounding, emotional regulation, and physical alignment.
Somatic & Energy Realignment: Utilizing body-centered regulation, somatic prayer, and intuitive touch to release trapped shock, deep-seated fright, and colonial tension stored in physical tissue.
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While we utilize Ketamine due to its legal accessibility and safety profile, we explicitly oppose the criminalization of traditional, naturally occurring plant medicines like psilocybin, ayahuasca, peyote, and ibogaine. We view the prohibition of sacred plants as an ongoing extension of colonial control. Furthermore, we recognize synthetic allies like ketamine as sacred tools; human science and chemistry are natural expressions of Earth-derived intelligence. Held within an intentional container, ketamine serves as an effective ally for collective liberation.
How KAP Works in Practice:
Our Three-Phase Protocol
Phase 1: Medical Clearance & Decolonial Preparation
Medical Intake with Journey Clinical: You complete a 45-minute virtual medical evaluation with our medical partners at Journey Clinical. A licensed prescriber evaluates your medical history, determines eligibility, and prescribes sublingual ketamine lozenges sent directly to your home.
1–2 Psychotherapy Prep Sessions: Together with Javier, we track your autonomic nervous system patterns, build an ancestral and ecological map, set collaborative intentions, and establish strict safety and consent boundaries.
Phase 2: The Ketamine Dosing Experience (2–3 Hours)
Self-Administration: You self-administer your prescribed ketamine lozenge under direct therapeutic supervision.
The Healing Container: You relax in a quiet space with eye shades and a soundscape. Active medicine effects last approximately 45–60 minutes, during which you may feel detached from your physical body or experience visual, somatic, or ancestral visions.
Location
Conducted remotely in the comfort and privacy of your own home across ketamine Texas and ketamine California service areas.
Phase 3: Land-Based & Somatic Integration
1–3 Integration Sessions: Scheduled within 24–72 hours following your dosing session. We harvest the insights, feelings, and symbolic imagery from your journey.
Grounding into Daily Life: We translate non-ordinary experiences into practical life changes, processing ancestral lessons, unmasking oppressive social scripts, and creating land-based daily practices.
Rooted in Lineage,
Backed by Clinical Practice
I am Javier Omar Meléndez-Vega, LCSW, a Borikua practitioner and the founder of Eutierria Therapy. My work is rooted in Indigenous American Psychology Paradigm (IAPP), decolonial narrative therapy, and land-centered somatic attunement.
Grounded in 9 years of therapy practice and 3 years of facilitating Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy, I added KAP to my practice to serve as a somatic catalyst, bringing medicine allies into a decolonial framework. I don’t approach ketamine as a sterile biomedical 'quick fix'. Whether delivering ketamine in San Antonio or virtually across Texas and California, I offer a grounded, non-judgmental container where your historical pain, ancestral grief, and desire for deep liberation are fully honored and held. Together, we use this medicine to help you step out of survival mode and return home to yourself, your cultural lineage, and the Earth.
Investment & Fee Breakdown
| Care Component | What Is Included | Fee & Payment Structure |
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| Journey Clinical Medical Management | Medical evaluation, eligibility screening, prescriptions, and quarterly follow-up care. |
Introductory Bundle (First 2 Dosing Sessions): $362 total ($250 medical eval + $112 prescription for 2 doses). Full Treatment Bundle (6 Additional Sessions): $720 total ($400 for 2 medical follow-ups + $320 for 8 doses total). (Paid directly to Journey Clinical. May be eligible for partial commercial insurance coverage).
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| Individual Psychotherapy Sessions | 1-on-1 Sessions: 60-min Preparation, 3-hour Guided Dosing, and 60-min Integration. |
Standalone Rates: $145 – $230/hr based on tier. Introductory Package (2 Dosing / 10 hrs total): $1,450 – $2,020. Full Treatment Package (6 Dosing / 30 hrs total): $4,350 – $6,060. |
| Small Group Psychotherapy Sessions | Small Cohort Sessions (Capped at 4 participants): 90-min Prep, 3-hour Guided Dosing, and 90-min Integration. |
Standalone Rates: $90 – $145/hr per person based on tier. Group Introductory Package (2 Dosing / 12 hrs total): $1,080 – $1,740 per person. Group Full Treatment Package (6 Dosing / 36 hrs total): $3,240 – $5,220 per person. |
| Estimated Total Combined Investment | Combined Medical Care (Journey Clinical) + Psychotherapy (Eutierria Therapy). |
Individual KAP Total: • Intro Care: $1,812 – $2,382 • Full Treatment: $5,070 – $6,780 Small Group KAP Total: • Intro Care: $1,442 – $2,102 per person • Full Treatment: $3,960 – $5,940 per person |
Financial Accessibility & Insurance Reimbursement
Sliding Scale: Eutierria Therapy offers a limited number of sliding scale rates to keep therapy accessible. No proof of income is required. Paying at a higher tier directly subsidizes reduced-cost slots for clients with lower incomes or financial hardship. You can inquire about the sliding scale during your free 30 minute consultation.
Out-of-Network Insurance Reimbursement: Eutierria Therapy operates on a self-pay basis to protect client autonomy and avoid mandatory diagnostic labels. Detailed superbills can be provided upon request for potential out-of-network reimbursement through your commercial insurance provider.
Medical Insurance Eligibility: While therapy services are private pay, your medical evaluation and follow-ups with Journey Clinical may be eligible for partial coverage depending on your specific insurance carrier and plan.
FAQs
How does the medical partnership with Journey Clinical work?
Journey Clinical is our specialized medical platform partner handling all psychiatric and medical aspects of KAP. Their licensed prescribers conduct your medical intake via telehealth, evaluate contraindications, prescribe your ketamine lozenges (shipped directly to your home), and monitor your progress quarterly. This ensures board-certified medical safety while you do your somatic, decolonial, and integration work directly with Javier.
What does a Ketamine session actually feel like? Will I lose control?
Ketamine is a dissociative medicine, meaning it temporarily softens your analytical mind and physical self-awareness. You may experience a floating sensation, visual imagery, emotional processing, or felt ancestral connections, but you remain in a safe, held container. You are never forced into an experience; we build deep somatic grounding and consent boundaries during preparation so you feel supported every step of the way.
Why use synthetic Ketamine instead of natural plant medicines like mushrooms or ayahuasca?
Ketamine is a legal, Schedule III medication that allows us to engage in altered-state therapy safely without exposing you or our practice to legal risk. While we honor and advocate for the decriminalization of sacred plant allies (such as psilocybin, peyote, or ayahuasca), current legal restrictions create barriers to care. Human chemistry and scientific synthesis are expressions of Earth's intelligence. When held in a sacred, land-centered container, synthetic ketamine acts as a reliable ally for unarmoring the nervous system.
How can ketamine help with social justice burnout, systemic oppression, or climate grief?
Systemic oppression, institutional betrayal, and climate crises keep your autonomic nervous system in permanent, high-alert survival mode. When trapped in fight, flight, or freeze, processing grief or imagining new ways of being becomes difficult. Ketamine interrupts these chronic stress loops, opening a neuroplastic window. In this space, you can safely release stored anger and exhaustion, unmask colonial scripts of productivity, and reconnect with a deep sense of belonging to your cultural lineage, community, and the Earth.
Ready to Ground Your Nervous System and Reconnect with Your Roots?
Take the first step toward deep psychological healing, ancestral reconnection, and somatic liberation through ketamine in Texas, California, or locally in San Antonio. Schedule a free 15-minute consultation to discuss whether Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy is right for you.
