Lauren Going, LCSW-C
I am the founder and clinical director of Expand Your Self Wellness, a trauma-informed psychotherapy practice specializing in ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP), integrative therapy, and expanded states of awareness.
At Expand Your Self Wellness, we help people who feel stuck move beyond patterns of trauma, depression, anxiety, and disconnection by combining clinical expertise with the healing potential of expanded states of awareness. While ketamine can be a powerful catalyst for change, we believe psychotherapy, preparation, and integration are what transform meaningful experiences into lasting healing.
Our work is grounded in the PATH Approach™, which integrates expanded awareness with evidence-based and experiential therapies including EMDR, Internal Family Systems (IFS), somatic therapies, mindfulness, and other embodied approaches. We offer individual and group KAP, immersive retreats, and training and consultation for clinicians seeking to integrate ketamine-assisted psychotherapy into their own practices.
We believe healing happens through reconnecting with ourselves, our bodies, our relationships, and a deeper sense of meaning. Our goal is not simply symptom reduction, but helping people live with greater presence, flexibility, authenticity, and connection.
I welcome collaboration with referring therapists and enjoy supporting clients whose healing may benefit from integrating ketamine-assisted psychotherapy into ongoing therapeutic work.
At Expand Your Self Wellness, we believe that much of suffering stems from disconnection, from ourselves, our bodies, one another, the natural world, and a deeper sense of meaning. Our work is grounded in the belief that healing happens through reconnection.
Whether through ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, somatic therapies, Internal Family Systems, EMDR, mindfulness, or other approaches, we help clients access expanded states of awareness that allow them to move beyond habitual patterns and reconnect with their embodied intuitive intelligence. From this place, people often experience a renewed sense of connection to themselves, greater openness in relationships, a deeper appreciation for nature, and an expanded sense of belonging within something larger than themselves.
These values also shape how we teach and train clinicians. We emphasize ethical practice, humility, community, preparation and integration, and approaching expanded states with respect and reverence. We believe these experiences are most transformative when they are held within safe, trauma-informed relationships and integrated into everyday life with intention and care.