Rising Caps Collective: Supporting Collective Healing with KAP and IFS
Cultivate Inclusive Healing with IFS Informed KAP
Rising Caps Collective, founded in 2020 by Aisha Mohammed LMFT and Jennifer C Jones PhD LCSW, advances expansive healing for communities impacted by colonization, slavery, and capitalism. They offer individual and group ketamine assisted psychotherapy and integrate Internal Family Systems throughout preparation, medicine, and integration. Their care centers safety and financial access for BIPOC, LGBTQIA, and people with limited income.
This work is sustained by community support. Gifts to the Equitable Access Fund make low or no cost treatment possible for those who need it most.
Ketamine as a Doorway to Transformation
What is Ketamine? Ketamine is a medication that doctors have been using since the 1970s to safely numb pain and help patients sleep through surgery. In smaller doses, it can create a unique, dream-like state where the mind can feel relaxed, open, and separate from everyday thoughts. Because of its powerful ability to quickly relieve severe depression, a specific form of ketamine was approved by the FDA for this purpose in 2019. Today, it’s used in therapy to help people struggling with treatment-resistant depression, PTSD, and other hard-to-treat conditions.
What is Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP)? Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) is a type of mental health treatment that uses a carefully measured dose of ketamine to help people work through emotional challenges. It is especially helpful for those who feel like they’ve hit a wall in their regular talk therapy and need a new approach to move forward.
What Happens in a KAP Session with IFS
In a typical session you take a prescribed ketamine lozenge that dissolves under the tongue, settle in with an eye mask and calming music, and after about 15 minutes enter a relaxed trance like state for 30 to 90 minutes in which mental guards soften so emotions, memories, and thoughts can be met with less defense. Most people remain quiet during the peak, then as the effects fade they reflect with trained guides who provide a safe supportive space and help weave insights into daily life. This process pairs naturally with Internal Family Systems, a therapy that views the mind as made of many parts, since ketamine’s softening of protective parts allows gentle contact with wounded parts from curiosity and compassion which supports understanding, healing, and reintegration.
Structure and Cost for KAP
We offer KAP as a series of 6 sessions that starts with a medical evaluation with Dr. Ben Cocchiaro.
Medical Evaluation
With Dr. Ben Cocchiaro
45 minutes
1st Cycle
3 hour preparation session, in-person (if local)
4 hour medicine session
1 hour integration
2-5 Cycles
4 hour medicine session
1 hour integration session
6th Cycle
4 hour medicine session
2 hour final integration session
The treatment cost
$600 - per cycle
$3600 - for total which does not include the cost for the medical evaluation or the ketamine prescription. Can be paid via installments.
Evaluation costs
$350 - initial consultation
$150 - follow up consultations
Payable at the end of the visit by cashapp, venmo or Paypal with sliding scale available using the following guidelines:
– Income less than $12K/year: $0 per visit
– Income $12-20K/year: $50 per visit
– Income $20-30K/year: $75 per visit
– Income $30-40K/year: $100 per visit
– Income greater than $40 K/year: no discount
Cost of medication
~ $50 depending on dosage and amount
May be up to $200
An Important Consideration
Bringing up painful feelings can sometimes make you feel worse before you feel better. This is a normal part of the healing process. It’s important to discuss this with your psychotherapist beforehand and make a plan for extra support if you need it. Many people find that KAP helps them achieve breakthroughs much faster than traditional therapy alone, allowing them to finally process emotions that once felt too overwhelming and find lasting relief from their suffering.
Meet the Founders
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Jennifer C. Jones, PhD, LCSW
psychotherapist, clinical supervisor, guide facilitator and coach
who integrates harm reduction, Gestalt Therapy, Internal Family Systems, and economic human rights into healing spaces for individuals and professionals navigating complex identities and systems.
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Aisha Mohammed, LMFT
agender, queer, Pakistani-American
immigrated from Karachi to Los Angeles as a child and has spent a decade in harm reduction with Project SAFE providing direct services and advocating for the human and labor rights of people who trade sex and use substances. Trained as a family therapist at Drexel University and Level 1 in Internal Family Systems, she has worked with low income families of color, immigrants, and people who use substances and now practices privately as co founder of Rising Caps Collective where she has facilitated expanded state work for four years with Jennifer Jones.
Aisha and Jennifer completed the MAPS PBC training for BIPOC and Queer therapists in 2019 and were trained by medical providers in Philadelphia to work with ketamine and cannabis.
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